

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. Ten millimeter with over-and-under thirty millimeter pump action grenade launcher." quote.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.

The ammo counter on the M41A is also on the wrong side in the game, being on the left of the Pulse Rifle (although this is likely for gameplay reasons, to ensure it is visible to the player). The iron sights, tally marks and skull and crossbones design are clearly not on the weapon in Aliens the skull and crossbones design is based on a similar design painted on the front of Hudson's M3 Pattern Personal Armor in the movie.
