Aliens: Colonial Marines Bombed with Negative Reviews

Posted on Feb 12 2013 - 10:18am by Matthew Bomer

Aliens-Colonial-Marines-6Aliens: Colonial Marines has been released worldwide by Sega and Gearbox Software and already both players and professional reviewers have started bombarding the game with lots of critiques and negative reviews on website such as Metacritic.

The current user review score on Metacritic is at 5.0/10 for the PC version and 4.3/10 for the Xbox 360. For other editions like the PS3 or Wii U ones, reviews haven’t been submitted just yet.

“The singleplayer prides itself over pretending to be a multiplayer match from Call of Duty. You got your hitmarkers and accompanied sounds, kill streak notifications, along with achievements popping up all the time and most notably, weapon/attachment unlocks in Singleplayer. That’s not where the similarities to CoD ends however,” another user complained.

“The entire experience is heavily scripted, having you move through linear corridors, and before you know the word of it, you’re shooting at other sentient human beings in an Alien game. Their AI, along with your teammates’ and even the Xenomorphs’ are broken to say the least. They’ll run past you, they’ll stop up and stare at you, and apart from scripted events they’ll act as turrets that do nothing but shoot/jump at you.”

gamesTM – 4/10
Eurogamer – 3/10
OXM – 6/10
Polygon – 3/10
OPM – 6/10
– 6.2/10
Gamespot – 4.5/10
El33tonline – 2/5
Edge – 5/10
Gamestalker – ‘Bad’
LaPS3 (Spain) – 58/100
Konzolista.cz – 5/10
Lazygamer – 4.9/10
GamerZines – 58/100
IGN – 4.5/10
Destructoid – 2.5/10
Kotaku – ‘No’
The Escapist – 3/5