Looks and sounds great/authentic, but that's about the best you can say for it.
First and probably least importantly, calling this "Alien Trilogy" as though it is an adaptation of the films is extremely funny. At best, it gestures towards them, lazily and incompetently. This isn't really a problem with the game as a game, per se, but just more of a headscratcher/pet peeve for me. It does Aliens first and even struggles with that one - you know, the one that's essentially been the basis for a significant percentage of all video games ever made? If you can't manage to make ten FPS levels out of big Jim Cameron's "ALIEN$" without having the player fight infested humans and androids or having them blow up contraband cargo containers for some reason, I'm sorry, but try fucking harder.
Anyway, one of the bigger problems is that it is just boring. Quite straightforward, structure-wise, and that's especially disappointing given how good the Marine campaign from ALIEN VS. PREDATOR on Jag just was. And this has actual movies to go off of! But nah, it's just normal-ass levels where you have to get the exit. There are other stated objectives you're supposed to do along the way, but they are completely optional for some reason, so who cares? And there's very little grace to the enemy placement or level design. Just rooms and halls and packs of enemies. Buttons to press to make elevators go. Yawn!
This would probably be fine if the FPS fundamentals were in place, but they aren't. Some accomodation should be made for this being a pre-GOLDENEYE console shooter, I guess, but the aiming and the shooting and the hit detection just suck. For the non-shotgun weapons, your bullets are actually modeled and fly through the air about as fast as a Nerf dart, meaning you end up having to lead enemies than are any more than two feet in front of you. You're also shooting down at the floor most of the time for some reason, I guess to be able to hit face huggers by default? I dunno, it just doesn't feel good.
Given the great graphics and atmosphere, making this a bog-standard corridor shooter is a waste, and especially given the conceit that it's supposed to be capturing what made the movies special. Do better!
First and probably least importantly, calling this "Alien Trilogy" as though it is an adaptation of the films is extremely funny. At best, it gestures towards them, lazily and incompetently. This isn't really a problem with the game as a game, per se, but just more of a headscratcher/pet peeve for me. It does Aliens first and even struggles with that one - you know, the one that's essentially been the basis for a significant percentage of all video games ever made? If you can't manage to make ten FPS levels out of big Jim Cameron's "ALIEN$" without having the player fight infested humans and androids or having them blow up contraband cargo containers for some reason, I'm sorry, but try fucking harder.
Anyway, one of the bigger problems is that it is just boring. Quite straightforward, structure-wise, and that's especially disappointing given how good the Marine campaign from ALIEN VS. PREDATOR on Jag just was. And this has actual movies to go off of! But nah, it's just normal-ass levels where you have to get the exit. There are other stated objectives you're supposed to do along the way, but they are completely optional for some reason, so who cares? And there's very little grace to the enemy placement or level design. Just rooms and halls and packs of enemies. Buttons to press to make elevators go. Yawn!
This would probably be fine if the FPS fundamentals were in place, but they aren't. Some accomodation should be made for this being a pre-GOLDENEYE console shooter, I guess, but the aiming and the shooting and the hit detection just suck. For the non-shotgun weapons, your bullets are actually modeled and fly through the air about as fast as a Nerf dart, meaning you end up having to lead enemies than are any more than two feet in front of you. You're also shooting down at the floor most of the time for some reason, I guess to be able to hit face huggers by default? I dunno, it just doesn't feel good.
Given the great graphics and atmosphere, making this a bog-standard corridor shooter is a waste, and especially given the conceit that it's supposed to be capturing what made the movies special. Do better!
HerrDirector
8 months ago