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Aliens: Colonial Marines

Gearbox Software · Feb 12, 2013

PC · PS3 · Xbox 360

Mature

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Aliens: Colonial Marines is a First-Person Shooter set in the Alien movie franchise universe in which the player takes on the role of a member of a squad of colonial marines sent to the planet LV-426. The game is designed as a true sequel to the 1986 movie, Aliens, done in video game format, and features iconic locations, weapons and alien varieties from Aliens and other movies in the series. Additional features include: four-player co-op functionality, a new alien type, and customizable weapons.

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Scores by platform

PC

Critic 4.1 (25 critics) · Gamer 5.4

5.1

PlayStation 3

Critic 4.5 (24 critics) · Gamer 6.4

5.4

Xbox 360

Critic 4.7 (31 critics) · Gamer 8.4

6.1

Critic reviews

  • Push Square

    Ben Potter · Mar 01, 2013

    3.0
    It has some replayability, with dog tags, audio logs, and legendary weapons to find, but the core gameplay is so dreary that it's unlikely that you'll be lured back for a second round. If anything positive can be said about the game, it’s that it has made us want to watch the Aliens films again – primarily so that we can contemplate what could have been.
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  • COGconnected

    Daniel Kozlowski · Feb 24, 2013

    4.4
    All in all, Aliens: Colonial Marines is a missed opportunity. The game feels disappointing. Some fans may enjoy the nostalgia the game instills in them, but it suffers so severely from a lack of optimization on the console that most people will be turned off. Fundamentally, it is flawed with poor design and weak content. Colonial Marines feels dated, and fails to capture any essence of what an Alien game should be.
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    Hollander Cooper · Feb 19, 2013

    5.0
    Gaming owes a lot to James Cameron's Aliens films, but despite having its DNA present in just about every science fiction game ever made, Aliens has struggled to get a proper one of its own in the past decade. Aliens: Colonial Marines continues this disappointing trend, making for an experience that's more Aliens: Resurrection than it is Aliens.
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  • Game Revolution

    Blake Peterson · Feb 16, 2013

    6.0
    Aliens: Colonial Marines is not the bad game that most reviewers have made it out to be. With the reviews it's been getting, you would think it was unplayable! However, the hoax that Pitchford sold with his video demo two years ago has clearly poisoned the well. Everyone seems to want to know: Where is that game? With Colonial Marines supposedly outsourced, all the talent went to Borderlands 2, I guess.
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  • PS Lifestyle

    Dan Oravasaari · Feb 15, 2013

    2.5
    Reading through this you might think that ACM really has no redeeming qualities, and you would probably be correct. Other than the fact that it is using the Alien IP, the game fails to bring any tension even in the simplest of ways, as it trips over its own feet at every step. It feels like a rushed product in almost every aspect of its design, and for something that could have been so great, it is now little more than a black mark on Gearbox Software’s track record.
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  • Game Front

    Ben Richardson · Feb 14, 2013

    4.0
    The first tactic smacks of relatively harmless publisher cynicism. The second is shockingly insidious. After playing Aliens: Colonial Marines, I’m no longer scared of aliens, or Weyland-Yutani. But I’m a little more worried about real life.

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Gamer reviews

  • Shadow

    Sep 4, 2020 · PC

    7.4

    I would recommend wait for any sale, and grab a copy of this game if you are going to play campaign in coop only.

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