Bio-readouts are all in the green, looks like she's alive.

[MarkuzR]

Yeah, I have to admit... at E3 it was a bit ropey in terms of it just being really jaggy looking, too bright in a lot of areas, the aliens just weren't scary like they should be... it was more like a horde mode attack from Moxxi's than anything else. Certain areas of it looked GOOD though, admittedly, and when it wasn't just a fuck tonne of creatures running at you then the atmosphere was building up nicely BUT it was broken up all too easily by a bunch of shiny bastards bursting through the ceiling and so began yet another horde mode.

It's one of the reasons I didn't end up covering it for the E3 stuff... I just couldn't think of anything to say that would warrant an entire article. Shame though, as I was really pumped by it initially.

[Blucey]

I'll go you one further, Marquis. Aliens should never be in games.

1. Facehugger, chestburster, alien warrior, queen alien. That's it. Anything else is a corruption. Predalien? Fuck that bullshit.

Problem is, four enemies makes for a shit game.


2. You cannot simulate alien movement in a game. At best they look like exuberant puppies bounding along the ceiling and usually their AI involves them coming straight at you, which is shit in a game.


3. Dark rooms, red emergency lighting, the occasional strobing bulb, sampled pulse rifle sound effect, alien elephant squeals. Seen it all before. The game looks like that. I'd rather go with a brightly lit Sulaco and an alien that is stalking you.

[ZeroMark]

If they made it more like a survival horror, rather than just an first person shooter, it would work only having the 4 aliens in it.

The way they do it, with you standing with the huge rifle firing into waves and waves of aliens running at you head on is rubbish. Wouldn't happen. Don't think it happened in the original film. But because they have to pander to the kids who play modern warfare or whatever its all run and gun nonsense.

I want to be going through a ghost ship with nothing but a flickering torch, a motion tracker and a knife...in my teeth

[Sketch]

Graphics weren't that hot at E3, but the fidelity to the second film was nice, with many familiar places mentioned and explored. Motion trackers were great and proper use of them by the devs will undoubtedly crank up the tension. Aliens spilling out of hatches and over the ceiling was cool, and they looked suitably slick, but hopefully the rest of the graphics will have been yanked up by the socktops as they weren't that wonderful. The marines utilising the loaders as seen at the end of Aliens, however, was a nice touch, so that will (hopefully) be fun providing the controls aren't shitty.

Expect much shoehorned in multiplayer crap and the game being a magnet for teenage bastards with a shitty little repertoire of homophobic/sexist/racist/singing crap.

[SimonJK]

I'm calling it. This is going to be shit.

?... so very short coma then? Still you can always get over it when Borderlands 2 comes out, lol.

[Toffer]

Just watched a teaser trailer. They make it look so good.... *sigh*