This review contains spoilers
Excellent gameplay and music - alongside welcome additions of an entire new series of weapons for you to use.
Level 1 - Very Good! Harder than base game, and you feel it. It's excellent, especially the mystery of what is killing the Xenomorphs.
Level 2 - Finally revealing what is killing the Xenomorphs, I enjoy the different types of Pathogen Xenomorphs. The Blight is good. The Brute is good. The Stalker returns.
However - their underuse of them is what it falls into, which applies to the base game as well.
The underuse of specialized enemies, instead falling back on basic Xenomorphs, is a gigantic issue within the game. They do not want to reveal their hand, but even when they reveal their hand, they never full reveal it.
The same applies to the cover mechanics, which are used once or twice (in only three missions total!) against enemies which are excellent yet, once again, underused.
What I would like to see is maybe fighting Weyland-Yutani commandoes, or Three World Empire soldiers. Or perhaps UPP agents?
Level 3 - Good, but the boss fight is an undercooked bullet sponge. Bad enough to knock an entire star off.
Nonetheless, a good DLC.
Level 1 - Very Good! Harder than base game, and you feel it. It's excellent, especially the mystery of what is killing the Xenomorphs.
Level 2 - Finally revealing what is killing the Xenomorphs, I enjoy the different types of Pathogen Xenomorphs. The Blight is good. The Brute is good. The Stalker returns.
However - their underuse of them is what it falls into, which applies to the base game as well.
The underuse of specialized enemies, instead falling back on basic Xenomorphs, is a gigantic issue within the game. They do not want to reveal their hand, but even when they reveal their hand, they never full reveal it.
The same applies to the cover mechanics, which are used once or twice (in only three missions total!) against enemies which are excellent yet, once again, underused.
What I would like to see is maybe fighting Weyland-Yutani commandoes, or Three World Empire soldiers. Or perhaps UPP agents?
Level 3 - Good, but the boss fight is an undercooked bullet sponge. Bad enough to knock an entire star off.
Nonetheless, a good DLC.