This could and should have been so much more. But sadly, it is just a broken game. Game over man, game over.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There was a lot of hope for Aliens: Colonial Marines but it seems the gaming world is let down with another attempt to make a successful film tie in. The review should give you a few good reasons why the game suffers but other aspects such as the overused catchphrase ‘Stay frosty!

Lots of fun weapons and equipment; Extensive multiplayer which can be fun with a group of friends; Four player co-op

Awful graphics that belong in the last generation; Even the toughest difficult setting provides no challenge; Over use of franchise catchphrases

Has the Alien franchise become cursed when it comes to telling a good story? Released a full 27 years after the iconic film Aliens hit theaters, Colonial Marines is intended as the movie's true sequel.

+ The superior multiplayer modes may be worth the cost of admission alone; + Cooperative mode lets you tackle the story campaign with up to three pals

? If Weyland-Yutani had its own strike team; why'd they send in the marines in the first place

The Alien franchise deserves better than this. Aliens: Colonial Marines is a disappointing exercise in bland corridor shooting, dragged down by laughable dialogue and cooperative play that makes the game worse than when you adventure on your own.

Online multiplayer offers some fun; anxious moments; Interesting stealth level brings some suspense to the single-player campaign

Campaign is mostly devoid of tension and challenge; Static pace and lack of variety lead to boredom; Tacked-on cooperative play completely negates the narrative; Dated visuals and assorted bugs

With Aliens: Colonial Marines , developer Gearbox Software and publisher SEGA attempted to revive a classic franchise that has yet to see a video game release that could help propel the series to a new height in popularity with a new generation of gamers.

Aliens: Colonial Marines boasts one of the most iconic and evocative landscapes in cinema - but what's the use if there's nothing interesting to do there? If Colonial Marines were a film it would be one of those quiet indiscretions sent directly to video, but instead it's a game, one in which every...