Platforms
- PCFeb 12, 20135.1playscore4.225 Critics5.47.46K Players
- PlayStation 3Feb 12, 20135.4playscore4.524 Critics6.41.64K Players
- Xbox 360Feb 12, 20136.1playscore4.731 Critics8.336.2K Players
51 critic reviews · 1 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- It has some replayability, with dog tags, audio logs, and legendary weapons to find, but the core gameplay is so dreary that it's unlikely that you'll be lured back for a second round. If anything positive can be said about the game, it’s that it has made us want to watch the Aliens films again – primarily so that we can contemplate what could have been.
Ben Potter · Mar 01, 2013 Reviewed on PS3Read full review - All in all, Aliens: Colonial Marines is a missed opportunity. The game feels disappointing. Some fans may enjoy the nostalgia the game instills in them, but it suffers so severely from a lack of optimization on the console that most people will be turned off. Fundamentally, it is flawed with poor design and weak content. Colonial Marines feels dated, and fails to capture any essence of what an Alien game should be.
Daniel Kozlowski · Feb 24, 2013 Reviewed on X360Read full review - Gaming owes a lot to James Cameron's Aliens films, but despite having its DNA present in just about every science fiction game ever made, Aliens has struggled to get a proper one of its own in the past decade. Aliens: Colonial Marines continues this disappointing trend, making for an experience that's more Aliens: Resurrection than it is Aliens.
Hollander Cooper · Feb 19, 2013 Reviewed on PC, X360Read full review - Aliens: Colonial Marines is not the bad game that most reviewers have made it out to be. With the reviews it's been getting, you would think it was unplayable! However, the hoax that Pitchford sold with his video demo two years ago has clearly poisoned the well. Everyone seems to want to know: Where is that game? With Colonial Marines supposedly outsourced, all the talent went to Borderlands 2, I guess.
Blake Peterson · Feb 16, 2013 Reviewed on X360Read full review - Reading through this you might think that ACM really has no redeeming qualities, and you would probably be correct. Other than the fact that it is using the Alien IP, the game fails to bring any tension even in the simplest of ways, as it trips over its own feet at every step. It feels like a rushed product in almost every aspect of its design, and for something that could have been so great, it is now little more than a black mark on Gearbox Software’s track record.
Dan Oravasaari · Feb 15, 2013 Reviewed on PS3Read full review - The first tactic smacks of relatively harmless publisher cynicism. The second is shockingly insidious. After playing Aliens: Colonial Marines, I’m no longer scared of aliens, or Weyland-Yutani. But I’m a little more worried about real life.
Ben Richardson · Feb 14, 2013 Reviewed on PC - Aliens: Colonial Marines is a fully functional FPS title that can be enjoyable. I just turned down my expectations, ran around and shot the hell out of my targets. It definitely reminded me of my time with Quake 4 and Doom; an experience I look back on fondly. Still, for a full retail-priced game, Aliens: Colonial Marines is not up to snuff with the competition.
Alex Keen · Feb 14, 2013 Reviewed on X360Read full review - Instead of the properly reverent Aliens sequel Gearbox supposedly set out to make, they've shoved this awful, grotesque thing into the chest cavity of the very franchise that they purported to love. I kind of hope that disappoints them, because it sure as hell disappointed me.
Alex Navarro · Feb 13, 2013 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Aliens: Colonial Marines looks like Aliens, and sounds like Aliens, but unfortunately it just doesn’t feel like Aliens. Instead, it feels indistinguishable from almost every shooter you’ve played in the past twenty years.
Tristan Ogilvie · Feb 12, 2013 Reviewed on PC, PS3, X360Read full review - Aliens: Colonial Marines is deeply underwhelming. Neither staged carefully enough to be scary nor dynamic enough to be exciting, it succeeds only where other players are capable of breathing life into it. There are better linear shooters, better asymmetrical multiplayer games, and better Aliens sequels, and your love of the motion tracker and pulse rifle would need to be profound to surmount those obstacles.
Chris Thursten · Feb 12, 2013 Reviewed on PCRead full review
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About the game
Trailers & Screenshots:
Aliens: Colonial Marines is a First-Person Shooter set in the Alien movie franchise universe in which the player takes on the role of a member of a squad of colonial marines sent to the planet LV-426. The game is designed as a true sequel to the 1986 movie, Aliens, done in video game format, and features iconic locations, weapons and alien varieties from Aliens and other movies in the series. Additional features include: four-player co-op functionality, a new alien type, and customizable weapons.
Developer: Gearbox Software