I can't believe I got the collector's edition of this game, day one, what was I thinking? At least the statue is nice...
Supposedly money that was given to this was siphoned off to go to the production of borderlands 2, and it SHOWS.
The story goes against everything in the alien franchise (Phased plasma rifles?? And I guess Hadley's Hope can survive a nuclear blast? That's one strong facility! And look at all these alien types, spitters, exploders, where have these come from? Fallout from the nuke?)
It's hard to tell some stuff with this game, because of it's age and because of nostalgia for the original property. For instance, is some of the art design, such as the environments, nice, or is it just Aliens? Are the aliens AI terrible or were they slightly less terrible at the time? It's hard to tell, and when I first played this I was still new to gaming, so it completely went over my head.
I do remember, though, getting this game day one, sitting down with it, and playing it through in one sitting (as I have today), and the credits rolled, and even fifteen year old me, with no knowledge of gaming, felt empty, felt unfulfilled. Little did I know that my brain had taken in the boring combat, atrocious level design, bugged out (no pun intended) enemies and complete lack of any characters or interesting story, and I was none the wiser.
The long-story-short is; You've done it again Randy, you've fucked me over.
Supposedly money that was given to this was siphoned off to go to the production of borderlands 2, and it SHOWS.
The story goes against everything in the alien franchise (Phased plasma rifles?? And I guess Hadley's Hope can survive a nuclear blast? That's one strong facility! And look at all these alien types, spitters, exploders, where have these come from? Fallout from the nuke?)
It's hard to tell some stuff with this game, because of it's age and because of nostalgia for the original property. For instance, is some of the art design, such as the environments, nice, or is it just Aliens? Are the aliens AI terrible or were they slightly less terrible at the time? It's hard to tell, and when I first played this I was still new to gaming, so it completely went over my head.
I do remember, though, getting this game day one, sitting down with it, and playing it through in one sitting (as I have today), and the credits rolled, and even fifteen year old me, with no knowledge of gaming, felt empty, felt unfulfilled. Little did I know that my brain had taken in the boring combat, atrocious level design, bugged out (no pun intended) enemies and complete lack of any characters or interesting story, and I was none the wiser.
The long-story-short is; You've done it again Randy, you've fucked me over.