SEGA has released an eleven minutes-long gameplay video of Aliens: Colonial Marines that was shown to the press at E3. Here it is now for everyone.
Loakum @Driftwood Awesome! I’m loving it! It does show a much crisper picture and the frame rate looks good! I was playing Stella Blade and Dragonball Soarkling Blast! :) (6 Days ago)
Driftwood @Loakum: enjoy, the one Sony sent us will be there on launch day. Coverage will follow asap. (1 Week ago)
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What a utter disappointment. The visuals and the atmosphere with the lighting and rain are spot on. It's captured the look of the film, but something is off here. Badly off. Two things: the voice acting is extremely cheesy and BAD! There's no sound of fear in the marine's voices. They should be swearing all over the place, but instead it's like Halo, which is just the wrong kind of vibe to give off in a game with the Alien universe as it's premise. Where's the dread and tension? It's been substituted with set pieces and scripted events that just make you feel far too safe. I mean, look at the turret event. It tells you where to set the thing, for fuck sake. An Aliens game should keep you guessing and on your toes fearing for your safety. You should be using the tracker at all times and wondering where the aliens are going to spring from next. No. Instead, let's be TOLD where they are going to come from. I'd high hopes for this game. Not any more after seeing this. Shame.
Will keep an eye on it still but with Sega the hopes for it are pretty low anyway. You just dont get many decent games with them attached.
Also the shooting seems odd, just sort of stand on the spot and spray, no need to move or any sense of danger or urgency to it.
Need to see more, but maybe expectations for an Aliens game can never be met, after AvP and this maybe nobody will ever get it right.
It just seems that developers are getting confused about wanting to make a game and the design choices that should come with that, or a film, because they seem to concerned about making the action in this far too cinematic and "cool" looking, which in turn completely takes you out of the experience and does the opposite of what they probably intended.
This game really looks like nothing spectacular, which is a shame since series has always had great potential but has always been wasted by shitty developing companies such as the company making this game.
"just look at the detail of this room!"
if you call that detailed then this game is really going to suck. Also, whats with the music? why is there upbeat, adrenaline pumping music? shouldn't it be dark and suspenseful?
It is nice to see them ignore tha goddamn predator for once though. I never liked the crossover.
Don't know why so much negativity about this game.
Sure it's not Perfect,but it's better then many other Games out there !
And for sure it's a better game then some of the other Aliens Games.
Sure a few things like placing the Gun Turret hand holding is out of Place,
but this and what we saw is just a short frame from a bigger picture.
Looking at the amount of Detail they already have put in here to build up this Aliens experience,I am sure there will be many of the things the people complaint about not being in ,later in the game in !
Dont forget ,this is just a small portion of the Campaign,and you need to Design well and not all in one place !
For me,I can't wait to see more...looks promising !
The set piece with the queen looked great, I thought.
lols.
This game really looks like nothing spectacular, which is a shame since series has always had great potential but has always been wasted by shitty developing companies such as the company making this game.
"just look at the detail of this room!"
if you call that detailed then this game is really going to suck. Also, whats with the music? why is there upbeat, adrenaline pumping music? shouldn't it be dark and suspenseful?
So yes, acting is a lot better over time. The 90s had great films as well, but was also a time when action movies became very popular due to new special effects. Thats a reason why actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger were able to be in movies, because the movie was action oriented, not actor/dialog focused. Arnold just had the look of a stonecold killer, and that was what casting directors were looking for. I'm a huge film geek if you haven't noticed, I can go on all day about this but I am sure by now you understand my point.
So yes, acting is a lot better over time. The 90s had great films as well, but was also a time when action movies became very popular due to new special effects. Thats a reason why actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger were able to be in movies, because the movie was action oriented, not actor/dialog focused. Arnold just had the look of a stonecold killer, and that was what casting directors were looking for. I'm a huge film geek if you haven't noticed, I can go on all day about this but I am sure by now you understand my point.
Aliens is still a good movie, but it's far from as great as the original. The difference is that the original had inspiration, while the sequel was just that...a sequel. They can't compare and it has NOTHING to do with when it was made or anything like that. It's a monetary thing, as usual. What was real popular in the 80s? Action movies, so let's take a brilliantly executed horror movie and turn it in to an action flick for all the ADHD-kids to enjoy. And it worked. It's the usual hollywood idea that more is better and it's fucking wrong.
My imagined boardroom meeting:
"Ok so Alien was awesome, how do we make the sequel more awesome? I know! Let's add a shitload of Xenomorphs, they were pretty cool right? Yeah, but throw some Bill Paxton in there too, just in case! Shit man, this stuff is DYNAMITE!"