Man, I gotta say, it looks terrible. It's walking through corridors while paper mache aliens run at you slowly so you can shoot them with a gun that sounds like a water pistol. There's no tension, no strategy, no horror just shooting weak-ass aliens.
Remember when this game was meant to be a survival-horror strategic shooter? Where you were supposed to be shitting your pants in fear because that killing machine with acid blood was making it's way towards you through the vents? Now it looks like some castrated mindless shooter. The AI companion is even just an invincible dude that spouts directions.
The graphics look bad, the gameplay looks worse, hell even the box art looks bad. How did they fuck this up so much?
Ummm, are you sure you're not talking about Alien Trilogy from the PSX/Saturn days of gaming? Because that's how it reads to me. LOL!
The graphics look fantastic and it looks exactly like the movie, even going so far as to match Adrian Biddle's lighting. The sound effects sound as if they were ripped straight from the movie. The presentation so far looks and sounds quite faithful. From the gameplay footage I've watched -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R8rek4WU1s - there is some strategy to it. It's just that the marketing and a lot of these online critics are trying to push the action, thinking that's what everyone wants to see.
The only complaint I may have, though this may have something to do with the difficulty setting, is that the Alien A.I. looks too simplistic. In Aliens vs Predator, those fuckers will stealth your ass. Often times, I felt like they were pulling the raptor trick from Jurassic Park. It was irritating, but scary as Hell.
Two SOLID complaints I have as of now are 1) It's another fuckin' FPS! Seriously, between Alien Trilogy and countless versions of Alien vs Predator, from Jaguar to now, it's little tired. I would have liked it had they made a third-person survival horror/shooter. Think Uncharted, but with fuckin' ALIENS! 2) The story erases Alien 3 and Resurrection from the narrative. Granted, Alien 3 is flawed and Resurrection's an atrocity, but they still count. It's revisionist history bullshit. It's like H20. "Well, Halloween 5 and 6 were shit, so we're gonna' forget they happened and pretend it's a sequel to Halloween 2." I dug H20, but that's just lazy writing in my opinion.
