Naturally the campaign gives players plenty of opportunities to shoot guns at snarling aliens and over the eight hour campaign they'll get their hands on some of the iconic hardware from Cameron's movie. The plot is populated with some pretty interesting characters, who are both deeper and more complex than the usual military types who populate shooters these days. The action continues at a clip, with the player descending to the planet LV-426 and the colony of Hadley's Hope. As Winter as his mates try to survive against the alien onslaught, they start to uncover some shady practices involving their dead comrades, the xenomorphs and a corporation called Weyland Yutani.Īs if on cue, corporate troops enter the fray, intent on putting bullets through the Marines, to make sure none of the information they've discovered ever leaves the Sulaco. That may sound like a pretty thin premise, but the story of Alien Colonial Marines is one of the best things about the game.

Once aboard, Winter and his fellow soldiers find the Sulaco has been overrun by xenomorphs and, after grabbing the flight recorder, they wisely decide to get the hell out of there.īecause nothing is that easy in the Aliens universe, they soon find their escape route cut off and themselves trapped aboard the Sulaco with a lot of murderous aliens closing in on them. The single-player campaign puts players in the boots of a Colonial Marine – OOORAH!! – called Winter who is part of a team dispatched to find out what happened to the Marines aboard the Sulaco (the ship in Aliens). However, once you remove the millstone of cinematic history from its neck and attempt to take it for what it is – a consistently fun FPS in which you get to blast HR Geiger's nightmarish brainchildren – you might find yourself addicted to it. Aliens isn't just one of the best horror films ever made, it's an iconic cultural touchstone and one of the only sequels to ever improve on its (already brilliant) source material.Īlien Colonial Marine can't – and doesn't – live up to that legacy.

Alien: Colonial Marines is being billed as the sequel to James Cameron's seminal 1986 film Aliens, and to be honest, that's more weight than this game can shoulder.

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