Well, the game was really great. However, even starting at medium level difficultly, it seemed abit competive seeing how it only takes two hits to kill you, so I had to start the game again and lower it and yet it seemed like the game as the previous.

Sci-fi shooters have borrowed elements from the Alien movies for as long as I can remember. Gearbox's Alien: Colonial Marines started off looking like it had potential.  Unfortunately, the final product leaves much to be desired.  The game feels empty, clunky and dated.

I am a fan of the alien movies and to enter into this world while not the game of the century was still fun for me and the figure and bonus items packaged here were worth having to add to my game and video collection. It pleased me.

Overall decent game nothing amazing or unique but did give a different aspect of the aliens movie... the ai is stupid the game is short but the online is alot of fun so it compensates for the short campaign but the campaign is also intended for more then 1 person so you have to actually play online...

If you look at any top 100 movie list, universally and without fail you'll see the James Cameron-fueled scarefest Aliens.  It represents the highest point in the franchise, it's the go-to movie when you think about the series, and it has the most memorable characters, environments, and quotable...

All movie-specific sounds are represented; Multiplayer is a lot of fun – we'll see if it sticks; Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen lend authenticity to the game

Muddy graphics and bland textures across the board – clearly all released screenshots were from the PC version; (including the ones in this review!, Jagged shadows and lighting, Spastic and inconsistent voice work from supporting cast, Very dated gameplay mechanics, Poorly-placed challenges, No...

It's difficult to think of another concept that's spawned so many spinoffs from just two good movies. Alien 3 and 4, Prometheus, the AVP series, not to mention the games that have hit the shelves in various formats, have all gestated our hopes before exploding them like a gory chest burst.

The biggest problem with Aliens: Colonial Marines is simply that it isn't fun. Not at all. You could play the game from beginning to finish, laugh at its many faults, and finish it without too much trouble, but at no point would you really enjoy yourself, unless you're the blindest of hardcore...

+ Cool soundtrack; + Plenty of Aliens references

- Nothing is fun; - Looks awful; - Combat is generic and boring; - AI imbeciles

Played the demo at a Games Expo in Sydney against professional gamers. They played as the aliens and we played as the marines – it was wild – very fast action and those aliens were tough. It was one of the few games I was willing to get straight back into a queue for.

The graphics do look a bit dated, and there are better shooters out there, but I'm enjoying this game more than COD. Why? Because of the atmosphere. The gameplay is not bad (unlike Duke Nuken which I had to give up on after an hour) and the music, sound effects, story and voice acting here are a joy...

Though not the first, this latest narrative discrepancy was just staggeringly inept. Did the writers each spend the last six years in isolation, only meeting up a few weeks ago to stitch together their disparate ideas?

It's mostly Aliens , all right … mostly Like Rebellion, the studio that created the first and most recent Aliens vs; Predator games, Gearbox gets many of the small details right with Colonial Marines.