I was severely disappointed. I
really wanted it to be good too. See my previous
thread on ACM.
What about the 2nd visit through the "umbilical cord". Why for the love of Pete does that guy release a grenade when he falls to his knees and the chest burster hatches from his chest? Did he think to just kill all the other marines too because he was going to die?
Or when whats her name pops the questions at the beginning, about how the Sulaco got back over planet LV426... Its like they stuck that in there simply because all the fans were curious and debating about it prior to the game's release?! I cringed! What's more is you get to the end of the game and you still never find out anyway!!!
The boss fight with the loader against the big alien was atrocious, as was every single boss fight thinking about it.
ALIENS DID NOT VAPORISE INTO MATRIX STYLE PARTICLES IN THE MOVIES WHEN THEY DIED!!! I didn't like it in DOOM3, I didn't like it in Quake 4, I don't like it now!
Sure, homage to the original ALIENS movie is good, but lets be realistic about it! After the final fight in the movie, Bishops bottom half would not still be on the ground (as you find in the game), it would have got sucked out of the cargo bay doors into space along with the Loader, the huge queen alien and the hefty metal boxes flying past Lt Ripleys head as shes about to close the doors. Things like this began to mount up the "oh no"s.
The game is just full of stupid.
Hicks is alive? No... He died, we saw his mangled carcass in the status pod at the beginning of ALIEN 3.
The ending?...
And this was supposed to be the official seal of approval from Fox, sequel to the movie? The only bit i truly enjoyed, was the mission where you have no weapon, and you have to navigate through alien husk infested murky sewage areas where aliens went to die off naturally. Not all of them were properly dead.
And, they got the sound and atmosphere almost down to a T. Kudos to the audio team. I remember this especially where in both separate occasions your holding out in the very same area of 'Hadley's Hope' as they did in the movie.
Multiplayer?... Well i just logged out off that as soon as i saw its match-making windows. Im sick of that too... Infact every game like that i don't play online.
Glitches, if it wasn't aliens standing around doing nothing, the game makes it so they jump from behind you, to right infront of your reticle! The game makes it also that if you let your AI team mate fight an alien, it takes considerably longer for the alien to die unless you chip in a few rounds yourself. And vice versa, punch a few rounds into an alien, let your AI team mate do the rest. Save a few rounds... Boring AI.
Where was the suspense and fear from using the motion tracker? There was none. Infact just before aliens popped out, the game gives you a blip to let you know anyway... That was REALLY disappointing.
So yep. Still to this day
ALIENS ONLINE (footage) is still my all time favourite aliens game. A game from a small gaming company from Virginia (Mythic Entertainment) got it far further down to a T and that was with doom style 2D graphics back in the 90s! (Game is no longer playable. Twas online based pay to play they shut the servers down because Fox took the rights to the game off them back in 1998... I cried.)
Nice job developers... Nice job Fox... I was just glad I could navigate my way around a keyless keyboard and put the keys back in their correct slots.