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#1 aphex79
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No. All he's done is made a new account to bash the game he's never played. Play the game and judge for yourself. What he's doing is spamming every forum or article that says "Aliens: Colonial Marines". He's not doing anything productive, just being a waste of CNET bandwidth and giving false accusations. 

billlabowski
so the verdict seems to be in, and one of us was right. can you guess which one? funny, you flagged my comments and followed me all around the board, but i haven't heard from you in a while? metacritic score of 3.9 (missed by .1, but pretty close hey?) I would really like to know if you bought the game and what you thought. I got my money back by the way, and i warned a few people off wasting theirs. I'd say i've done my good deed for the week. don't worry about the apology, i'm happy just to have helped.
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#2 aphex79
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I was just about to pre-purchase this game AND the Season Pass on Steam (total £48), in preparation for Tuesday's UK PC release, but thought I would check out any online previews first. I am glad that I did. It sounds as though I should hold off buying this for now, to see if it really is as terrible as some people are saying. When I first heard that there was going to be four player co-op in this game, I thought to myself "Wow, it should be like Left4Dead with aliens...fantastic!". Can anyone comment specifically on the co-op mode?hedgehog1965uk
thanks man, i told myself if i can just get one person to wait for a week i'd be happy, i can now rest, knowing at least one person was spared what i went through, i'm still so angry at myself, i will never buy a game on release again.
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#3 aphex79
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[QUOTE="aphex79"][QUOTE="skipper847"]

Had this preorded for PC for last month but just cancelled it. £24,99 it was going to be but will wait for it in the cheap bin sometime or midweek madness sale on steam.

OmenUK

good for you man, i wish i had just waited one more day and done that. after you see the absolute panning this game will get from every corner i'd be surprised if you even buy it from the bargain bin.





The problem I have right now is that I have ordered the collectors edition (£69.99), and so am trying to weigh up if the figure and extras are worth the money, and make it still worth purchasing despite the game being complete and utter crap. On the one hand the game is rubbish, but on the other hand it is like paying £30 for all the extra stuff (taking it that the game rrp is the usual £39.99)

get the pack, hang around at the game shop, resell the game for 30 quid to someone else, there'll be plenty of buyers.
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#4 aphex79
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co op is way too onesided. xenos just tear up marines. also has the simplistic gameplay, if anyone can play it for longer than 15 minutes before bored **** i'would be very surprised. the boards will be empty in two weeks, I would rather reboot half life, or any multiplayer since then. no variety, terribly balanced and repetitive, that makes it a fail i'd say.
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#5 aphex79
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completely scripted and predictable. you have a motion tracker but it isn't accurate, they just jump out and run at you. you shoot somewhere near them an indeterminate amount of times and then they fall down and fade out, like in doom, you remember doom? you have an npc friend who runs ahead of you, gets in the way of your bullets (without seeming to take any damage, or any reaction of any kind). then while you're shooting one, another appears from nowhere (not even on your motion tracker) and kills you. you don't get anything that tells you which direction you're taking damage from, so you have to keep turning in random directions until you die. then you remember this pattern for the next run through. repeat. completelely linear gameplay, nothing organic, not even anything you can interact with but doors. this is not just last generation gameplay, this is last century gameplay. really sorry if you've been waiting for this, so was i, i wish i kept waiting and held onto my money, every trailer and playthrough you've seen is just marketing, they have protected this for a reason. hope this is helpful
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#6 aphex79
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Had this preorded for PC for last month but just cancelled it. £24,99 it was going to be but will wait for it in the cheap bin sometime or midweek madness sale on steam.

skipper847
good for you man, i wish i had just waited one more day and done that. after you see the absolute panning this game will get from every corner i'd be surprised if you even buy it from the bargain bin.
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#7 aphex79
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[QUOTE="billlabowski"]

Poor kid. Makes an account just to bash one game. I'll just leave this here for you.

 

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4-Legged-Shark
ouch.... maybe he is telling the truth and actually trying to warn us?

thanks for the belief by the way, i know it's hard not to discount any criticism as some sad idiot with the complainy-pants on, but you are spot on, I played the game and just felt i had to warn people. I'm not bothered by the disbelief, i expected it. I scoured the internet for some kind of review before i bought it, I was picking up xcom, saw it had been released early and just grabbed it as a reflex. i have been regretting it all day. anyway, cheers mate.
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#8 aphex79
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nope, i live in Australia, game was released at eb games this morning, definately played it. will i get an apology when you play it and see I was right? I have never posted a thing on any forum, ever, until this morning. this is not some sad little kid being anti, this is a real person trying to warn you. you can believe the crud put up by the company trying to sell you this game or someone who's played it, up to you. i understand the internet is basically just people pissing on things, i understand you want to think that's what this is. one of us will be vindicated when your hard-earned money is in the pocket of the people who produced this lie and you are either happy with what they gave you or not. let me know either way, just trying to stop people wasting their money like I just did. you'll go "oh, the graphics aren't bad" then "I like the atmosphere" and "they are using the music and sounds from the movie, so it must be good". I was genuinely scared of my first alien run-in, then the true game mechanics kicked in and I was shocked, not by the aliens but by the fact this game plays like quake 2 at best. anyhoo, all I'm saying is wait, save your money, look at metacritic in a week, if the user score is higher than 4 i will give you a great big humble apology and say i was a great big anti douche.
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#9 aphex79
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I have just played it and it will be less than 4. maybe a demented fanboy could give it the odd 7 or 8 due to complete denial but the masses of completely dejected and angry real people will give it 0. not because it's the worst game ever, but the disappointment of the final product will blind us with fury and we will FEEL like it's the worst game ever. The graphics are so bad it feels retro, the story and writing are so bad they hurt. but the gameplay; the gameplay is shocking. I could sit here telling you funny things like how this game hurts my ass or something, but there is nothing funny about the depths this game reaches. In 25 years of gaming I have never seen anything as fraudulent as this game. I will give everyone on this forum a Bangkok handshake if this game scores over 4. It shouldn't score over 1, this is my pick for worst game ever.
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#10 aphex79
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I have just played this game and I am as angry as I have ever been. I have signed up just to be able to warn people about this game. It is unplayable, don't believe any trailer or marketing **** The graphics are pure 2003, the story and writing are pain inducing and the gameplay mechanics are so absolutely terrible it actually takes a while for it to sink in; you're playing thinking "a game cannot possibly be this bad, I must be having a stroke or an acid flashback" then you realise, to your horror, that it's that bad, and worse. Then the anger builds. How could they manipulate this into okay-looking trailers, how can they charge top level price for what is below-bargain-bin gameplay? And how could I fall for it? I hate everyone who is involved in the making and selling of this perversion of technology, and I hate myself for buying it. My mommy always said there were no monsters, no real ones, but there are, and this is one of them.