The biggest reasons why people hated Colonial Marines are: 1.) Pre-release footage didn't properly represent the final product 2.) Randy Pitchford kept lying about what happened during development It's a shame because the fallout from this game may have hurt Alien:Isolation's sales
And that´s probably the most tragic thing because Isolation was AWESOME and deserves a sequel, in fact Creative Assembly paid for the crimes that Gearbox and his "don" Randy SHITford committed.
I don't think it can be dismissed as "it looked different to the E3 trailer" either. There was a massive Ubisoft-tier downgrade in the graphics, and the game was a buggy, unbalanced mess on release.
Not to mention the litany of horrible design choices, terribly implemented mechanics, shit writing and characters, dull gameplay that does nothing to stand out, the massive focus on human soldier enemies thus leaving the iconic monster to the wayside (you have no idea how much I fucking despise this aspect in games - Lost Planet 2 did the exact same thing and sucked hard because of it) and near gamebreaking bugs up the wazoo. There are worst games out there for sure but in to paraphrase Jim Sterling, it's one of the most pathetic games ever made.
Unfortunately Alien: Isolation won't see a sequel anytime soon because of rather poor sales, which is a shame because it's the best Alien game ever made IMO.
Honestly who gives a damn. He argues that the game is worth it if you're a fan which is a god damn lie. Its more likely to rape your fanhood than add to it positively with its cheap design. These patches managed only to make the game cheaper and aliens act like a god damn Risen / Gothic AI. Charge location spam attack spam attack. This game is worth a look if you want to die from cancer brought on by stress.
He's the kind of guy who constantly smells his shit over and over and thinks its the best smelling shit ever and then has a massive temper tantrum every time someone says his shit stinks. Shit is shit Randy, get over it.
I’m not a die hard 40k fan and I know exactly what you’re talking about. The ammo they use is massive. It should decimate all but the hardest of enemies.
Hey, Bolter discussion! Chaos Gate kinda got it right. There's small explosion effect whenever a shot hits, only Heavy bolters can go auto (or well, sustained fire) and these bolters decimate unarmored opponents though has bit of problem against power armors which sound a-okay.. after all, I recall the default ammunition was HE anti personnel kind of deal.
"mostly have an ok time" for 5 bucks, after multiple patches. Sounds like a 4/10 at release wasn't that unreasonable. Also, what Randy Pitchford/Gearbox did wasn't your (sadly) typical E3 graphics downgrade and for that alone they deserved all the shit they got. The stuff Randy said later to defend himself and the game didn't help either. Obviously it is not "the worst game of all time", but a lot of the other candidates for that title didn't have the name and hype behind them that this game had.
Well, people should have said what they really meant then - "most disappointing game of all time". People don't make the distinction there where there needs to be one.
The developer wasn't the problem mate it was the fact when gearbox gave them the game there was no game just a collection of unfinished assets and concept art. Gear box contracted a 3rd party to make the game and kept the money Sega was giving them to develop it instead of giving it to the 3rd party. There's much more to this story than that of course I had friends who lost their jobs because of this debacle gearbox can go fuck themselves
Well, almost any AAA game at 1/6th the price can be a decent experience. I got Mass Effect Andromeda for $6 and had a good time, but I'm glad I refused to buy the piece of shit at launch for full (or inflated EA prices for a bundle).
The Wanderer Aliens Colonial Marines is another Hayes game I got for $3 on a steam sale... I was late to the game and didn’t know anything about the history and hype so for $3 It was absolutely fantastic. It was cheaper and a lot of the bugs everyone was complaining about must have gotten patched out. Lesson is maybe wait a little while before buying a game especially at $60
@@haruruben There was a lot more too it back then. Back then on release the AI was the worst AI I've ever seen released in a video game (they would either just run straight at you, or would walk around in circles or into a wall), but that was recently fixed if I recall (believe it or not, it was one line of code that broke it for years), and there was the whole randy pitchford controversy shit aswell about all the bugs and how the stuff in the trailer was absolutely nowhere to be seen in the game. Isolation was honestly the game we all should've gotten back then, but I could see how for a couple bucks this could be an entertaining few hours. I ALWAYS wait for a review by angry Joe and others before I buy my full price games, so to me, if you pre-order or buy at release, you get what you deserve if you don't wait for a good review to come out.
The Wanderer yes, it’s a good idea to wait for the reviews. I got snookered by Fallout 76 because I liked Fallout 3 & 4 I trusted them to make a decent game. I thought 76 was going to be a spin-off like New Vegas... so I didn’t mind it using the same engine and reusing assets etc... but then, we’ll we all know how that turned out...
I always loved how in AvP 1 the shotgun was a SPAS-12, as if we'd be using guns way in the future that aren't even in production now, then again those old school computer monitors... XD
All that can be said, is thank fucking christ for Alien: Isolation. That one game is the best thing to come out of the franchise for years, that's including covenant
I remember getting this game like a year after release, when it was on sale for $5 - and I was pleasantly surprised how OK it was. Even the criticisms outlined in the video - despite them all being valid, I just couldn't be mad at the game.
Same It got some aspects of the Colonial Marines right and having a game dedicated to them is something I've always wanted but the game doesn't do the Colonial Marines justice
Ocean Man Understandable, but was it a misunderstanding or did someone else claim it and Fox didn't really look over the case and just approved of it's takedown?
If you want to block every video that shows a 2 second clip from a 30 years old movie there won't be much on youtube left, or on the internet in general.
My dad got me a copy for Christmas. I looked him dead in the eye and told him "You didn't see all the terrible reviews this one got?" Well we ended up playing it one day and, despite how much I hated using the guns, we had a lot of fun with it! The levels were decently done, and the progression wasn't all that bad. Turns out, thirteen year old me was just an ungrateful dick!
I would love to see that - I personally thought it was really enjoyable despite the mechanics I hate like regenerating health and two weapon limit; it was just a fun game.
I actually loved Syndicate 2012. Yes it had its problems (short campaign, bad ending, characters you didn't care much about) but everything else was fantastic. The graphics were and still are great, the game isn't afraid to be brutal and violent (killing civilians with no penalty, good death animations) unlike CoD, the weapons were done really well (god bless the laser rifle), and the soundtrack was also amazing. All it needed was a formula closer to the original game, better use of the DART, and a much better story and campaign.
I think the biggest failure of Syndicate the FPS was a fundamental misunderstanding of what Syndicate is. In short: They put in a story of good guy versus bad guys. Syndicate isn't about that. It's about an evil corporation taking over the world and gleefully putting you, the player, in control of it's agents waging war on it's behalf against other corporations with the same goal. There are no good guys and there shouldn't be. The co-op mode got this across much better and was/is actually pretty fantastic, although awfully lacking in content.
I wouldn't get be this game 'a go'. Tried to Coop with a friend, but even that could help. You forgot to mention the biggest problems: 1) Guns do not fire accurately. even with burst 2) AI is impressively bad and often forget you are even there. 3) The story has more holes than a cheese grater.
By the way. The Law suit was valid. Randy didn't say that the footage shown could or would change. He billed it as this is it, this is what you're getting. That is why you always see those warnings in early footage and screen shots. This warning was never shown.
I don't disagree with your assessment that Wey-Yu are more of an actual antagonist than the Xenomorphs, but the issue with me regarding the humans is that humans are dull to fight unless you give them really good AI like FEAR. It felt like Call of Duty.
wrong about the pulse rifle: it's two weapons, 10mm rifle with over under 30mm. it's two weapons. ANY weapon except pistols could've caused the chain reaction in the environmental unit.
@@Gggmanlives you found the shutgun bad ? I think there are very strong especially compared to the rifle, like you said you need a lot of bullets to bring the enemy down with the shutgun aliens and mercenary´s die with one shot in close areas and two on distance and you also get a grendel launcher underneath the barel. And Hicks legendary Shotgun is in the game too and rocks.
Absolutely agreed. I'm a huge fan of the films and this game is fine by me. Not a masterpiece, but at least it's competent and gets the job done. Unfairly judged, I'd say. And I love to launch the Bug Hunt mode and customize my character and weapons. Besides, what other game lets you play as Bill Paxton (with the DLC)?
This is one of your best reviews by far. I love how you edited clips from the Aliens film into the review. Also "as useful as a hat full of dog shit" cracked me up. Keep up the good work, SonnyJim
I have my disagreements with some parts of the review, but I appreciate that you're reviewing the game as it is rather than as it was. I'd like to see more games revisited after their updates from lots of reviewers.
I can confirm that it still does the restarting thing in 2018. Went through the bloody task manager to sort that out. Found that out when I fixed the Teather.
What the fuck?! I played through this game like a month after release and the gunplay wasn't nearly this tight or responsive. Audio was sometimes de-synced from the weapons, animations weren't smooth, hit-detection felt wrong and there were a bunch of other problems. From the footage here the game actually looks kinda fun now. Bland as fuck but looks somewhat satisfying.
DemonGrenade274 I know right? The pulse rifle sound was a badly looped sound sample from the movie, and the pulse rifle couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. Implementing mayor gameplay changes after release shouldn't be called a patch.
I wouldn't say it's "bland". "Old school" is a more fitting word, IMO. It really plays like a game from an oldera era. And it's quite cool at that, IMO. I had a lot of fun.
you know what i would love? a wave based xenomorph fps like killing floor, but with a giant wave because in that one comic, the human predator states they come as a tsunami, that would be scary..
I enjoyed the game from day one and I still enjoy it. Actually had another playthrough last week. Yes it had glitches, but almost every game released these days has glitches. I couldnt care what they showed at E3 and what was actually released. If what was shown at E3 was actually release, I can almost guarantee you that everyone would have been pissed too. I enjoy the game for what it is... A damn good time blowing away Xeno's with a pulse rifle.
Same here too been playing since day one countless enjoyment. Same attitude with the E3 thing showed off being inside Hadley's Hope what we all did get to be inside Hadley's Hope!!
Generally speaking, if a game is commonly listed by the mainstream as the worst of all time, it's probably not. I'll put my faith in the opinions of people like Clint from Lazy Game Reviews or Guru Larry, people who have seen the height and breadth of gaming over the years, rather than just the past decade.
@ Jacob Smith - You're right, man. Normally, the mainstream and the fandoms blow stuff out of proportion. _Grand Theft Auto V_ for example is often labeled by many of the fandom as the worst game in the series yet when it's not even close. Sure, it's not the best, but certainly not the worst. That title would actually have to go to either the first game given how badly it has aged or the one title for the Gameboy Advance given the technical limitations and the jarring frame rate it had.
Am I the only person who genuinely liked this game? Sure, it had some problems but overall I rally don't think it deserves all the hate. Can we not just be happy we got a game focused on the Colonial Marines?
Nope, I liked it too. I used to tell people, I never played a bad game until I started reading reviews. You just learned to play with the glitches. Except 5th Element on PS1 that game was bad.
I really liked this game. I like many games that most people hate on because unlike most people nowadays i dont let reviews decide if i like somthing or not and can think for myself. Before the internet became big people usually made up there own minds if they liked movies, games and other stuff
Gggmanlives I've been subscribed for 2 years now, remember when I asked you why you weren't bigger since your reviews are pretty good (for the most part)? Well you seem to be improving. I love you man.
I really love how you can take any game and at least find the good in it and enjoy it for what it is... not like some other reviewers.. *cough cough dwterminator cough cough*
Mate I think you definitely got the best reviews on youtube. All of your videos are pleasantly non-biased and you go through a lot of detail in them. Also it's pretty obvious that you don't say what people simply want to hear. Keep doing the good work
I must say I disagree about the shotguns being weak... The pump shotgun is great, but the auto, well spam it and that means instadeath, its a life saver in multiplayer.
Okay, i know the game is bad (Decker Shado did a nice Lets Play if you wanna see). But one thing tons of "reviews" did always pissed me off. They would show the bild Xenos, don´t mention they´re blind and then complain that the AI because they ignore the player. I thinki this one is the only honest review of this game i´ve ever seen.
The Boilers very new and fresh designs pretty cool for the Prometheus era. Yes your right how badly the critics didn't understand they were blinded was clearly said by Peter O'Neal himself before you encounter the first one!!
I'm really pissed! Not because it turned to be broken, because no one wants to repair it or have a second chance with a Aliens game! AVP were ok, Alien Isolation was a MASTERPIECE (ok, had bugs but when you see the xenomorph it's completly understandable, the AI in Isolation is amazing!) and Aliens is one of my favourite movies of all time! Someone really needs to repair Colonial Marines and i mean it! It has ton of potential, but HOW DID IT FAIL????
I hope someday that companies like Activision or DICE will make a better "Aliens" game that can make you play as a marine fighting xenomorphs and maybe make one that can be more like the film and maybe make a DLC where you can play and relive the events from "Aliens."
Well in the movie when Ripley asks what they fire Gorman says "10mm explosive tip caseless, standard light armour piercing rounds, why?" So looks like everyone is getting mixed up. Greetings from the future btw.
Vampires Crypt it can be loads of fun if you play coop with others, I'm picking up a copy soon, it's fun and quite cheap used. I'm really not surprised people still play co-op online, it also has a progression system too, not very bulky but enough to add to the fun :)
You're acting as if Fallout 4 didn't get shit on. Only the critics praised it. It's 2018 at the time I'm writing this and I still get shit for having the audacity of loving the game.
Just as a silly pedantic correction, the M41A Pulse Rifle shoots 10x24mm rounds, so 10mm in diameter with a case length of 24mm. Most all cartridges have a similar naming schema like 9x19mm or 7.62x39mm or 5.56x45mm.
This game is pure shit, no matter how many patches they release to fix the glitches. They even had to fix the whole damn video aspect, the audio, the glitches.....their game demo and trailers are NOT in the game. This game really looks like an upgraded PS2 game. The graphics, the environment.....it looks like crap. This game is 5 years old, and it looks like 10 years old. Alien Isolation, on the other hand, is 3 years old, and it looks like it was released TODAY. This is by far the WORST alien game ever released. It was crap for the day's standards. Alien Trilogy looks like crap today, but in the day was awesome and very fun. Even the AVP 2 game is better than colonial marines. The team players are not only stupid, and useless.....they can't receive friendly fire (one aspect of the movie which was also why the creature is dangerous......even in Alien, with Parker saying "get out of the way!! Move!!") you can blown an alien next to them, burn them, shot them, and nothing happens. Also....WTF is that of the alien jumping to you, and you pushing it back like if it was a 20kg potatoes bag? And specially doing it 20 straight times, if you please.......that's totally unrealistic and against the idea of the alien. The REAL problem of the game is you are not facing the alien. You are facing a "target practice" (which is not, because having auto-target then makes the game a simple "press a button" issue) with the shape of an alien. There is no strategy here, just press the button and wait.......they could have shorter ammo, to make it harder to plan (use a rocket to kill 20, but then dont have more rockets until 3 missions later......etc.....). This is BORING after 2hs. Another CoD ripoff. It looks like they created garbage to please 10yo fans of the second movie, doing the less effort possible. (that "Bella" design......geee....looks like a Cosplayer, not a real character....all female marines looked like lesbians with male shoulders....Bellla looks like an Anime character). Also, when reading about the production issues (8 years of production!!), you will learn why the game is a piece of shit: they received some millions to make this game, and they SPENT IT on Borderlands. And since they didn't had enough $$ to finish it, they released it totally unfinished, and started to work on the final stages of polishing and fixing glitches with the sales revenues. Next to No Man's Sky, this is one of the most overhyped, worst advertised, and worst produced pieces of shit ever made.
probably you played the latest version......it was overfixed with patches. In fact, did you know from the original release till the 2nd or 3rd upgrade, they remade the WHOLE graphic levels? The first release was a complete garbage. I don't know if you bought the 1st normal edition, probably not.
I don't deny it was a shitshow when it was released, and no, I don't buy games without seeing reviews so knew to stay away until it was fixed. But seeing as you used the term "is shit no matter how many patches" etc I'm presuming you're referring to the game as it is now, as GG was.
and this is why I mentioned those other things, like marines looking like cosplayers in order to please 12yo kids, or the fact the friendly fire doesn't affect the team, or the ridiculous push-all-the-time alien
Well a lot of games could do with changing the way they present their women for sure. You know what I'd like to see? Dead Space 4 done by the team that gave us Isolation...
The lawsuit was because the AI levels, graphics and levels in the E3 demo were absolutly different to the end product. Not because of a simple graphical downgrade
Aliens might not be Citizen Kane, but as far as action movies go it's honestly one of the best ones ever made. Comparing it to other movies in the genre, it clearly stands out. I don't think think people hold the games to an impossible standard though, I think they just want a game that is fun to play, relatively faithful to the source material, and a story that isn't completely stupid. Colonial Marines is pretty faithful to the movie, but it completely fails in those other two departments.
Thanks for the honest review. I have been playing this since day one on Xbox 360. Fun game and not as bad as everybody said on release. Honestly what other game let's you play as a colonial marine running around on the sulaco or Hadleys hope firing a pulse rifle? love it, my favorite game.
The Armat M41A Pulse Rifle is an American-made pulse-action assault rifle chambered for 10×24mm Caseless ammunition.[1] It was notably employed by the United States Colonial Marine Corps and the United States Army as their primary infantry weapon during the late 22nd century.[1] Through its use with the USCM, it saw regular use in various engagements with the Xenomorph and
Slight corrections. One: the m41a pulse rifle fires a 10mm caseless, explosive-tipped armor-piercing round. Two: the spitter xenos actually are in the films. Specifically, Alien 3. Granted, it only spits acid at one guy at point blank range in a ventilation shaft, but hey! Maybe they could use it as a ranged attack.
Multiplayer fun can be had by joining: steamcommunity.com/groups/ACM-BH aka Aliens: Colonial Marines | Bug Hunt That's an active Steam group that despite the name also play the other modes ;) Back to the game. You're practically the Star in a B-Movie. Don't expect intelligent AI (duh) or good facial animations and it can be an enjoyable playthrough. And there are definitely worse games out there.
Gearbox sucks balls. Brother In Arms is all I can really commend them for. They lied like scum to their customers about this game and all while having EXCLUSIVE access to the director and his knowledge of the film universe and original cast members and props from the film and they squandered it.
+KvltKommando It's easy to be angry and call people scum, mate. In fact there are people on the internet who make a living out of doing just that. At the end of the day, we don't know what happened during the development of CM. I think we can all agree that it would have been good practice to let customers know that what they were buying wasn't identical to what was shown in the trailers, but you try telling that to your shareholders when they are breathing down your neck demanding a return on their investments. If you do, i doubt you'd have a job afterwards, let alone be in any position to make games. I'm not saying Gearbox didn't screw up with this game, i'm just not willing to throw people under the bus without knowing exactly what happened from credible sources. Escpeically not considering that Gearbox HAS made good games before.
Will you consider looking into and reviewing the I believe it's called Templars gfx colonial Marines mod. Allegedly it fixed the visuals, AI and weapon handling to be more of what you expect. I only know of it because I saw it be featured on Kotaku once.
I enjoyed this review. The little humour taken from the film added in to your video was great dude. Mostly - was a good ending to the review lol. If not game over man game over !
Talking about Alien 3. If you want to learn about the the major changes Alien 3 had, and it originally was going to have Ripley, Newt, and Hicks. You should check out Chris Stuckman's (almost) hour long discussion with one of his friends. I was blown away, when I found out that Fox and even Sigourney Weaver made serious changes to the movie.
![BLACK BAG - Official Trailer [HD] - Only in Theaters March 14](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Du0Xp8WX_7I/mqdefault.jpg)
Original video was taken down by copyright claim for those wondering.
I was so pissed off. I was like "HELL YEAH I WANNA WATCH THIS", and FOX raped me :p
Thanks a lot for quick reupload though!
What happened? I clicked on the original vid like 3 minutes after it was posted.
I only have three things to say.
FUCK OFF FOX
I'm watching it right now, and it's so good that I feel raped byfox even more.
The biggest reasons why people hated Colonial Marines are:
1.) Pre-release footage didn't properly represent the final product
2.) Randy Pitchford kept lying about what happened during development
It's a shame because the fallout from this game may have hurt Alien:Isolation's sales
And that´s probably the most tragic thing because Isolation was AWESOME and deserves a sequel, in fact Creative Assembly paid for the crimes that Gearbox and his "don" Randy SHITford committed.
Isolations is that game that deserves a sequel more than the other games.
I don't think it can be dismissed as "it looked different to the E3 trailer" either. There was a massive Ubisoft-tier downgrade in the graphics, and the game was a buggy, unbalanced mess on release.
Not to mention the litany of horrible design choices, terribly implemented mechanics, shit writing and characters, dull gameplay that does nothing to stand out, the massive focus on human soldier enemies thus leaving the iconic monster to the wayside (you have no idea how much I fucking despise this aspect in games - Lost Planet 2 did the exact same thing and sucked hard because of it) and near gamebreaking bugs up the wazoo. There are worst games out there for sure but in to paraphrase Jim Sterling, it's one of the most pathetic games ever made.
Unfortunately Alien: Isolation won't see a sequel anytime soon because of rather poor sales, which is a shame because it's the best Alien game ever made IMO.
Fox keeps taking the video down
"It's pathetic"
Fucking RUclipsrs over for a goddamn percentage!
Honestly who gives a damn. He argues that the game is worth it if you're a fan which is a god damn lie. Its more likely to rape your fanhood than add to it positively with its cheap design. These patches managed only to make the game cheaper and aliens act like a god damn Risen / Gothic AI. Charge location spam attack spam attack.
This game is worth a look if you want to die from cancer brought on by stress.
James Salvatore Thank you for sharing your opinion
“I don’t know what species is worse. You don’t see them fucking up franchises over a goddamn percentage”
Randy Pitchford's proudest scam yet.
DrearierSpider1 and then karma payed him back with Battleborn
Zeno Blues a dead mans overwatch
The most disgusting thing was his lack of admittance that it was bad and was a massive downgrade from released prior videos
that's the biggest problem i have with this game. fuck pitchford.
He's the kind of guy who constantly smells his shit over and over and thinks its the best smelling shit ever and then has a massive temper tantrum every time someone says his shit stinks. Shit is shit Randy, get over it.
I know how you feel about the Pulse Rifle. Most Warhammer 40k games don't seem to get the Boltgun right either.
MrHP25 The bolt gun is a nail gun, goddammit, not a machine gun!
I’m not a die hard 40k fan and I know exactly what you’re talking about. The ammo they use is massive. It should decimate all but the hardest of enemies.
thing is that everything else in 40k is so overpowered the bolter is quite piddly in comparison despite being completely overpowered
Ironically fire warrior made the bolt guns into bolt guns.
Hey, Bolter discussion! Chaos Gate kinda got it right. There's small explosion effect whenever a shot hits, only Heavy bolters can go auto (or well, sustained fire) and these bolters decimate unarmored opponents though has bit of problem against power armors which sound a-okay.. after all, I recall the default ammunition was HE anti personnel kind of deal.
"mostly have an ok time" for 5 bucks, after multiple patches. Sounds like a 4/10 at release wasn't that unreasonable.
Also, what Randy Pitchford/Gearbox did wasn't your (sadly) typical E3 graphics downgrade and for that alone they deserved all the shit they got. The stuff Randy said later to defend himself and the game didn't help either.
Obviously it is not "the worst game of all time", but a lot of the other candidates for that title didn't have the name and hype behind them that this game had.
...mostly..
Well, people should have said what they really meant then - "most disappointing game of all time". People don't make the distinction there where there needs to be one.
Angry Joe is Puerto Rican matey :)
Also, he's put on so much weight lately, he's now Hungry Joe.
It's not a reference dude, it was just a joke.
for real ?
Larry Bundy Jr lmao
Lmao, I just watched your video Larry.
Really? He doesn't look THAT much weightier than he did before imho. XD :P
Randy pitchford: "We love the alien film franchise"
ships off the game to a third rate developer.
Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Al Matthews, Mark Rolston, Travis Willingham, Derek Phillips, Ashley Burch, Kimberly Brooks, Liam O'Brien, Stephanie Lemein, Khary Payton, Matthew Mercer totally awesome casting that Gearbox got in.
The developer wasn't the problem mate it was the fact when gearbox gave them the game there was no game just a collection of unfinished assets and concept art. Gear box contracted a 3rd party to make the game and kept the money Sega was giving them to develop it instead of giving it to the 3rd party. There's much more to this story than that of course I had friends who lost their jobs because of this debacle gearbox can go fuck themselves
Some Mexican gave it a 4
hahaha
+Jake Nash, I'm sure it was just some everyday Joe who got angry.
Doomreb XD
Doomreb that has a show
Jake Nash was it also 4 hours long?
Doomreb Joes not Mexican.
Gearbox: No one can ruin the Alien mythos more than us!
Ridley Scott: Hold my beer.
Salokin Sekwah cmon, Covenant wasn't that bad
James Cameron: Where the hell have you lot been?!
Queen? What Queen?
George Lucus: man no one can fuck up a prequel of a beloved series like I can.
Ridley Scott: oh really... hold my beer.
+Salokin Sekwah, Gearbox: No one can ruin Duke Nukem like we can!
I got this game for ten bucks and was blissfully unaware of the hype leading up to its release so I quite enjoyed it
Especially for ten bucks
Well, almost any AAA game at 1/6th the price can be a decent experience. I got Mass Effect Andromeda for $6 and had a good time, but I'm glad I refused to buy the piece of shit at launch for full (or inflated EA prices for a bundle).
The Wanderer Aliens Colonial Marines is another Hayes game I got for $3 on a steam sale... I was late to the game and didn’t know anything about the history and hype so for $3 It was absolutely fantastic. It was cheaper and a lot of the bugs everyone was complaining about must have gotten patched out. Lesson is maybe wait a little while before buying a game especially at $60
@@haruruben There was a lot more too it back then. Back then on release the AI was the worst AI I've ever seen released in a video game (they would either just run straight at you, or would walk around in circles or into a wall), but that was recently fixed if I recall (believe it or not, it was one line of code that broke it for years), and there was the whole randy pitchford controversy shit aswell about all the bugs and how the stuff in the trailer was absolutely nowhere to be seen in the game.
Isolation was honestly the game we all should've gotten back then, but I could see how for a couple bucks this could be an entertaining few hours. I ALWAYS wait for a review by angry Joe and others before I buy my full price games, so to me, if you pre-order or buy at release, you get what you deserve if you don't wait for a good review to come out.
The Wanderer yes, it’s a good idea to wait for the reviews. I got snookered by Fallout 76 because I liked Fallout 3 & 4 I trusted them to make a decent game. I thought 76 was going to be a spin-off like New Vegas... so I didn’t mind it using the same engine and reusing assets etc... but then, we’ll we all know how that turned out...
10MM Explosive-Tipped Caseless
There he is.
10×24mm Caseless designated M309.
it's still just a Thompson M1A1 with a Spas 12 attached to it
I didn't know ggg was such n00b. lololololol
(j/k btw)
I always loved how in AvP 1 the shotgun was a SPAS-12, as if we'd be using guns way in the future that aren't even in production now, then again those old school computer monitors... XD
All that can be said, is thank fucking christ for Alien: Isolation. That one game is the best thing to come out of the franchise for years, that's including covenant
Alien: Isolation. Gaming's second biggest Apology.
And what was first?
I wholeheartedly agree.
Ma77 TheTinTanman yeah, what was the first?
Deus Ex from Daikatana.
0:53 I was expecting you to say "Well lets find out shall we"
He dropped that part long ago.
I remember getting this game like a year after release, when it was on sale for $5 - and I was pleasantly surprised how OK it was. Even the criticisms outlined in the video - despite them all being valid, I just couldn't be mad at the game.
Same It got some aspects of the Colonial Marines right and having a game dedicated to them is something I've always wanted but the game doesn't do the Colonial Marines justice
It's a fun shooter and with patches and the Overhaul mod for the PC version it's even better.
"Some Mexican guy" lmao
Angry joe maybe lol
Josh Martinez na angry Afro
Good old Perturbed Pedro.
It makes sense. Not entirely racist if true
"what did they facehug to make them spit acid" Dude,they literally have acid for blood
I mean there are reptiles on earth that can spit their own blood to distract or blind the Predator (heh).
Marek Zombo nice
some Mexican guy are you talking about angry joe?
lol, duh
he is an alien
SmogAhab Yea that jackass lol
how is he a jackass?
angry joe is a cringeworthy douche, how did he even gain any kind of a following?
Wait, so what was that copyright claim?
Generic white kid the second Fox took it out because Fox owns aliens, even though he literally showed in total one or two minutes of movie footage
Ocean Man Understandable, but was it a misunderstanding or did someone else claim it and Fox didn't really look over the case and just approved of it's takedown?
Was likely automatically flagged.
I have a strong suspicion all those "It's pathetic!" are there for a reason.
If you want to block every video that shows a 2 second clip from a 30 years old movie there won't be much on youtube left, or on the internet in general.
My dad got me a copy for Christmas. I looked him dead in the eye and told him "You didn't see all the terrible reviews this one got?"
Well we ended up playing it one day and, despite how much I hated using the guns, we had a lot of fun with it! The levels were decently done, and the progression wasn't all that bad.
Turns out, thirteen year old me was just an ungrateful dick!
I was getting ready to call you an ungrateful dick until I clicked "read more" and saw that you did it yourself :)
@@Toolness1 Oh yeah, nah. I'm glad we gave it a shot, the memories we made with that game are some of the best
Wish you can review Syndicate 2012 soon.
I second that
I would love to see that - I personally thought it was really enjoyable despite the mechanics I hate like regenerating health and two weapon limit; it was just a fun game.
It would be cool if he reviewed both Syndicate 1993 and 2012.
I actually loved Syndicate 2012. Yes it had its problems (short campaign, bad ending, characters you didn't care much about) but everything else was fantastic. The graphics were and still are great, the game isn't afraid to be brutal and violent (killing civilians with no penalty, good death animations) unlike CoD, the weapons were done really well (god bless the laser rifle), and the soundtrack was also amazing. All it needed was a formula closer to the original game, better use of the DART, and a much better story and campaign.
I think the biggest failure of Syndicate the FPS was a fundamental misunderstanding of what Syndicate is. In short: They put in a story of good guy versus bad guys.
Syndicate isn't about that. It's about an evil corporation taking over the world and gleefully putting you, the player, in control of it's agents waging war on it's behalf against other corporations with the same goal. There are no good guys and there shouldn't be.
The co-op mode got this across much better and was/is actually pretty fantastic, although awfully lacking in content.
I still enjoyed it after the massive patch on the steam version, also the DLC its actually fun.
I wouldn't get be this game 'a go'. Tried to Coop with a friend, but even that could help.
You forgot to mention the biggest problems:
1) Guns do not fire accurately. even with burst
2) AI is impressively bad and often forget you are even there.
3) The story has more holes than a cheese grater.
You forgot about the fucking autistic call of duty hit markers and the aim down sights feature lmao
Wh.. what?
@@Brissles ?
By the way. The Law suit was valid. Randy didn't say that the footage shown could or would change. He billed it as this is it, this is what you're getting. That is why you always see those warnings in early footage and screen shots. This warning was never shown.
I really enjoyed the main collectibles being weapons from the film, that was a nice touch
Shame you have to get them to get a half decent assault gun
@@stolenname94 standard Pulse Rifle disagrees
Question, did you ever try the modded version, it in a way fixes the game to a better standard.
Review a mod that fixes this game.
Complextro thats what I was expecting this review to be lol
Complextro so this
Complextro there's a mod that does that?
ye, TemplarGFX's ACM Overhaul :)
Complextro huh cool
I don't disagree with your assessment that Wey-Yu are more of an actual antagonist than the Xenomorphs, but the issue with me regarding the humans is that humans are dull to fight unless you give them really good AI like FEAR. It felt like Call of Duty.
Timegate Studios did make the F.E.A..R. expansions. Weyland-Yutani Commandos had the power weaponry they gave out the epic taunts.
wrong about the pulse rifle: it's two weapons, 10mm rifle with over under 30mm. it's two weapons.
ANY weapon except pistols could've caused the chain reaction in the environmental unit.
Thank you for clarifying. This is important.
Hicks had a Shotgun for close encounters
@@Gggmanlives you found the shutgun bad ? I think there are very strong especially compared to the rifle, like you said you need a lot of bullets to bring the enemy down with the shutgun aliens and mercenary´s die with one shot in close areas and two on distance and you also get a grendel launcher underneath the barel. And Hicks legendary Shotgun is in the game too and rocks.
Absolutely agreed.
I'm a huge fan of the films and this game is fine by me. Not a masterpiece, but at least it's competent and gets the job done. Unfairly judged, I'd say. And I love to launch the Bug Hunt mode and customize my character and weapons.
Besides, what other game lets you play as Bill Paxton (with the DLC)?
Pretty sure Angry Joe is puerto rican...
He's Seegson's line of Working Joes, but he malfunctioned and now is more agressive than he should be xd
angry mexican
Oh Pissed Pablo still does videos?
Lu Puerto Rican’s are Americans guy
Mexicans on a island ye mean
Boiler xenomorphs are just really old xenomorphs I think, not created via specific hosts.
The A.I. overhaul mod actually makes this game kind of scary. Xenos actively use the environment and flank like no tommorow.
Yeah definitely not easy for a casual player
mexican gave it a 4/10 lol
He's referring to RUclipsr Angry Joe.
.."10mm explosive-tip case-less, standard light armour piercing round, why?"...
Also the magazine count bothered me and the fact you see cases bullets in the magazine
This is one of your best reviews by far. I love how you edited clips from the Aliens film into the review. Also "as useful as a hat full of dog shit" cracked me up. Keep up the good work, SonnyJim
I have my disagreements with some parts of the review, but I appreciate that you're reviewing the game as it is rather than as it was. I'd like to see more games revisited after their updates from lots of reviewers.
I can confirm that it still does the restarting thing in 2018. Went through the bloody task manager to sort that out.
Found that out when I fixed the Teather.
What the fuck?!
I played through this game like a month after release and the gunplay wasn't nearly this tight or responsive. Audio was sometimes de-synced from the weapons, animations weren't smooth, hit-detection felt wrong and there were a bunch of other problems.
From the footage here the game actually looks kinda fun now. Bland as fuck but looks somewhat satisfying.
DemonGrenade274 I know right? The pulse rifle sound was a badly looped sound sample from the movie, and the pulse rifle couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. Implementing mayor gameplay changes after release shouldn't be called a patch.
I wouldn't say it's "bland". "Old school" is a more fitting word, IMO. It really plays like a game from an oldera era. And it's quite cool at that, IMO. I had a lot of fun.
Did you know that the reason the Xenomorph AI is so simple is due to a typo in the .ini files? When corrected, the Xeno AI is much more complex.
"10mm explosive tipped ceaseless. Standard armour piercing round, why?"
Adios muchachos.
you know what i would love? a wave based xenomorph fps
like killing floor, but with a giant wave
because in that one comic, the human predator states they come as a tsunami, that would be scary..
I enjoyed the game from day one and I still enjoy it. Actually had another playthrough last week. Yes it had glitches, but almost every game released these days has glitches. I couldnt care what they showed at E3 and what was actually released. If what was shown at E3 was actually release, I can almost guarantee you that everyone would have been pissed too. I enjoy the game for what it is... A damn good time blowing away Xeno's with a pulse rifle.
Same here too been playing since day one countless enjoyment. Same attitude with the E3 thing showed off being inside Hadley's Hope what we all did get to be inside Hadley's Hope!!
Eddy D opinions are like assholes. everyone has one. it's just my opinion
You two have a shit taste in games
Another great video Triple G. Watching your new videos each week is the highlight of my week
Generally speaking, if a game is commonly listed by the mainstream as the worst of all time, it's probably not. I'll put my faith in the opinions of people like Clint from Lazy Game Reviews or Guru Larry, people who have seen the height and breadth of gaming over the years, rather than just the past decade.
Dr.Ph0b0s I do. It's an overrated game that at its best plays as a shitty episode of Walking Dead(or any episode of WD from the last two years).
it's REALLY bad.
@ Jacob Smith - You're right, man. Normally, the mainstream and the fandoms blow stuff out of proportion. _Grand Theft Auto V_ for example is often labeled by many of the fandom as the worst game in the series yet when it's not even close. Sure, it's not the best, but certainly not the worst. That title would actually have to go to either the first game given how badly it has aged or the one title for the Gameboy Advance given the technical limitations and the jarring frame rate it had.
Screw that, the game is one of the worst because of it's PR fraud.
GGGman i love your reviews. long time lurker please keep it up i appreciate you.
Am I the only person who genuinely liked this game? Sure, it had some problems but overall I rally don't think it deserves all the hate. Can we not just be happy we got a game focused on the Colonial Marines?
Nope, I liked it too. I used to tell people, I never played a bad game until I started reading reviews. You just learned to play with the glitches. Except 5th Element on PS1 that game was bad.
loki I still have fun playing this game to this day. So no bud your not alone.
I love it. For the fun and accurate Aliens environments alone.
I really liked this game.
I like many games that most people hate on because unlike most people nowadays i dont let reviews decide if i like somthing or not and can think for myself.
Before the internet became big people usually made up there own minds if they liked movies, games and other stuff
Gggmanlives I've been subscribed for 2 years now, remember when I asked you why you weren't bigger since your reviews are pretty good (for the most part)? Well you seem to be improving. I love you man.
What is porm? OH did you mean prom? Are you asking me to prom? Oh my gosh im so embarrassed
I really love how you can take any game and at least find the good in it and enjoy it for what it is... not like some other reviewers.. *cough cough dwterminator cough cough*
There's absolutely nothing good about this game. Before Fallout 76, Colonial Marines was the worst game ever made.
there finding the good in a game and then there is leaving out very big facts thag colored peoples opinion of this game at launch.
Before we got blessed with the masterpiece that was 76 . Colonial Marines was the worst offender
Alien 3"A massive slap in the face"
A die hard Aliens fan..Can't get enough.
Thanks a lot for the review. :)
Mate I think you definitely got the best reviews on youtube. All of your videos are pleasantly non-biased and you go through a lot of detail in them. Also it's pretty obvious that you don't say what people simply want to hear. Keep doing the good work
Thanks!
Hell yeah! Probably the review I most wanted to see from Gggman.
Haha the amount of shade thrown at Angry Joe is glorious
How many sonny's could a Jim sonny if a Jim could Sonny a Jim
I must say I disagree about the shotguns being weak... The pump shotgun is great, but the auto, well spam it and that means instadeath, its a life saver in multiplayer.
my new favorite channel to visit when I need something to watch while eating something
why was this taken down
caleb copyrighted by FOX
caleb it said FOX took it so yea lol
caleb copy rights
Copyright claim. Let this be the last time anyone asks that question.
agreed
I love Colonial marines even dlc about the colony ship how it wasn't hicks in the hypersleep chamber. Wish they'd bring it to the xbox x
Okay, i know the game is bad (Decker Shado did a nice Lets Play if you wanna see). But one thing tons of "reviews" did always pissed me off.
They would show the bild Xenos, don´t mention they´re blind and then complain that the AI because they ignore the player. I thinki this one is the only honest review of this game i´ve ever seen.
The Boilers very new and fresh designs pretty cool for the Prometheus era. Yes your right how badly the critics didn't understand they were blinded was clearly said by Peter O'Neal himself before you encounter the first one!!
Best pulse rifle was in Aliens vs Predator 1999 imo
I'm really pissed! Not because it turned to be broken, because no one wants to repair it or have a second chance with a Aliens game! AVP were ok, Alien Isolation was a MASTERPIECE (ok, had bugs but when you see the xenomorph it's completly understandable, the AI in Isolation is amazing!) and Aliens is one of my favourite movies of all time! Someone really needs to repair Colonial Marines and i mean it! It has ton of potential, but HOW DID IT FAIL????
I hope someday that companies like Activision or DICE will make a better "Aliens" game that can make you play as a marine fighting xenomorphs and maybe make one that can be more like the film and maybe make a DLC where you can play and relive the events from "Aliens."
Can you do a review of the Angry Mexicans review of Aliens: Colonial Marine.
The pulse rifle fires 10mm caseless armor piercing rounds, not explosive tips. Might be confusing it with the underslung pump action grenade launcher.
Well in the movie when Ripley asks what they fire Gorman says "10mm explosive tip caseless, standard light armour piercing rounds, why?" So looks like everyone is getting mixed up. Greetings from the future btw.
wow watching your review this game looks actually pretty awesome !!
Been awesome since the first day came out. Players are still playing online on PS3, 360 & Steam.
Vampires Crypt it can be loads of fun if you play coop with others, I'm picking up a copy soon, it's fun and quite cheap used. I'm really not surprised people still play co-op online, it also has a progression system too, not very bulky but enough to add to the fun :)
R.I.P. Bill Paxton you're a legend. Game over man, game over.
You're acting as if Fallout 4 didn't get shit on. Only the critics praised it. It's 2018 at the time I'm writing this and I still get shit for having the audacity of loving the game.
i could never get past the section, where you are inside a powerloader and you fight the tank alien thing...
That's rage quit material indeed. Somehow I managed to beat it.
I heard if you install TemplarGFX mod it becomes better.
Humam Eastrawan a polished turd is still a turd
No matter how much you "clean" it up, it still stink like shit
One can appreciate the attempt.
Just as a silly pedantic correction, the M41A Pulse Rifle shoots 10x24mm rounds, so 10mm in diameter with a case length of 24mm. Most all cartridges have a similar naming schema like 9x19mm or 7.62x39mm or 5.56x45mm.
Some Mexican guy. Do u mean Angry Joe?
Hey, that's pretty good yup
you always know a ANGRY joe!
Did you check out the TemplarGFX Overhaul mod? Seems like it vastly improves on the experience, pretty much agreed to be the way to play this game.
This game is pure shit, no matter how many patches they release to fix the glitches. They even had to fix the whole damn video aspect, the audio, the glitches.....their game demo and trailers are NOT in the game.
This game really looks like an upgraded PS2 game. The graphics, the environment.....it looks like crap. This game is 5 years old, and it looks like 10 years old. Alien Isolation, on the other hand, is 3 years old, and it looks like it was released TODAY.
This is by far the WORST alien game ever released. It was crap for the day's standards. Alien Trilogy looks like crap today, but in the day was awesome and very fun. Even the AVP 2 game is better than colonial marines.
The team players are not only stupid, and useless.....they can't receive friendly fire (one aspect of the movie which was also why the creature is dangerous......even in Alien, with Parker saying "get out of the way!! Move!!") you can blown an alien next to them, burn them, shot them, and nothing happens.
Also....WTF is that of the alien jumping to you, and you pushing it back like if it was a 20kg potatoes bag? And specially doing it 20 straight times, if you please.......that's totally unrealistic and against the idea of the alien.
The REAL problem of the game is you are not facing the alien. You are facing a "target practice" (which is not, because having auto-target then makes the game a simple "press a button" issue) with the shape of an alien.
There is no strategy here, just press the button and wait.......they could have shorter ammo, to make it harder to plan (use a rocket to kill 20, but then dont have more rockets until 3 missions later......etc.....). This is BORING after 2hs. Another CoD ripoff.
It looks like they created garbage to please 10yo fans of the second movie, doing the less effort possible. (that "Bella" design......geee....looks like a Cosplayer, not a real character....all female marines looked like lesbians with male shoulders....Bellla looks like an Anime character).
Also, when reading about the production issues (8 years of production!!), you will learn why the game is a piece of shit: they received some millions to make this game, and they SPENT IT on Borderlands. And since they didn't had enough $$ to finish it, they released it totally unfinished, and started to work on the final stages of polishing and fixing glitches with the sales revenues.
Next to No Man's Sky, this is one of the most overhyped, worst advertised, and worst produced pieces of shit ever made.
It's really not THAT bad. Not sure which PS2 you owned
probably you played the latest version......it was overfixed with patches. In fact, did you know from the original release till the 2nd or 3rd upgrade, they remade the WHOLE graphic levels?
The first release was a complete garbage. I don't know if you bought the 1st normal edition, probably not.
I don't deny it was a shitshow when it was released, and no, I don't buy games without seeing reviews so knew to stay away until it was fixed. But seeing as you used the term "is shit no matter how many patches" etc I'm presuming you're referring to the game as it is now, as GG was.
and this is why I mentioned those other things, like marines looking like cosplayers in order to please 12yo kids, or the fact the friendly fire doesn't affect the team, or the ridiculous push-all-the-time alien
Well a lot of games could do with changing the way they present their women for sure. You know what I'd like to see? Dead Space 4 done by the team that gave us Isolation...
One of those hyped up games that made most of us far more choosy what we bought after that
Better play Alien Isolation tbh, its so much better
The lawsuit was because the AI levels, graphics and levels in the E3 demo were absolutly different to the end product. Not because of a simple graphical downgrade
I never said the graphical downgrade was the only reason.
While I personally didn't like this game, I admire you giving it a somewhat fair review.
Aliens might not be Citizen Kane, but as far as action movies go it's honestly one of the best ones ever made. Comparing it to other movies in the genre, it clearly stands out. I don't think think people hold the games to an impossible standard though, I think they just want a game that is fun to play, relatively faithful to the source material, and a story that isn't completely stupid. Colonial Marines is pretty faithful to the movie, but it completely fails in those other two departments.
Alien Isolation is the greatest game of all time, a masterpiece of a game tribute to a masterpiece film.
How do you feel about the game Dark Sector?
Haven't played it.
Thanks for the honest review.
I have been playing this since day one on Xbox 360.
Fun game and not as bad as everybody said on release.
Honestly what other game let's you play as a colonial marine running around on the sulaco or Hadleys hope
firing a pulse rifle?
love it, my favorite game.
Throwing Sonic Electronic Ball Breakers alongside with Corporal Dwayne Hicks himself inside the Derelict Ship!
Your FAVORITE game??
@@cosmosofinfinity ....yip. still my favourite game in 2020.
@@CplDwayneHicks11 Oohraaa marine.
The Armat M41A Pulse Rifle is an American-made pulse-action assault rifle chambered for 10×24mm Caseless ammunition.[1] It was notably employed by the United States Colonial Marine Corps and the United States Army as their primary infantry weapon during the late 22nd century.[1] Through its use with the USCM, it saw regular use in various engagements with the Xenomorph and
nowhere near the worst game ever made however compared to avp2 it is garbage.
That beutifal pulse rifle in avp2 nuff said.
Slight corrections. One: the m41a pulse rifle fires a 10mm caseless, explosive-tipped armor-piercing round.
Two: the spitter xenos actually are in the films. Specifically, Alien 3. Granted, it only spits acid at one guy at point blank range in a ventilation shaft, but hey! Maybe they could use it as a ranged attack.
Multiplayer fun can be had by joining:
steamcommunity.com/groups/ACM-BH aka Aliens: Colonial Marines | Bug Hunt
That's an active Steam group that despite the name also play the other modes ;)
Back to the game. You're practically the Star in a B-Movie. Don't expect intelligent AI (duh) or good facial animations and it can be an enjoyable playthrough. And there are definitely worse games out there.
Gearbox sucks balls. Brother In Arms is all I can really commend them for. They lied like scum to their customers about this game and all while having EXCLUSIVE access to the director and his knowledge of the film universe and original cast members and props from the film and they squandered it.
+KvltKommando It's easy to be angry and call people scum, mate. In fact there are people on the internet who make a living out of doing just that. At the end of the day, we don't know what happened during the development of CM. I think we can all agree that it would have been good practice to let customers know that what they were buying wasn't identical to what was shown in the trailers, but you try telling that to your shareholders when they are breathing down your neck demanding a return on their investments. If you do, i doubt you'd have a job afterwards, let alone be in any position to make games. I'm not saying Gearbox didn't screw up with this game, i'm just not willing to throw people under the bus without knowing exactly what happened from credible sources. Escpeically not considering that Gearbox HAS made good games before.
you gave gearbox credit for fixing enemy AI but iirc a modder found a typo and fixed it
DLC never was talked about in a future video and hicks is in it, should do a follow up for the four DLC missions
You gona do an review for The Surge?
Nope.
k
Hey GGG, how does the graphics compare between the latest patch and the first version?
I know there are some Doom mods regarding the Aliens film. Are there any that you've played and would recommend?
Will you review the Alien Resurrection PlayStation 1 game? (you can use the mouse addon btw).
Will you consider looking into and reviewing the I believe it's called Templars gfx colonial Marines mod. Allegedly it fixed the visuals, AI and weapon handling to be more of what you expect. I only know of it because I saw it be featured on Kotaku once.
The Pilot is also called Space jockey for anyone who is wondering. Not mocking or anything, just telling. Great vid btw, keep it up.
Will you ever review bungies marathon series or the metroid prime trilogy on your channel?
What do you think about E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy? Have you played it?
For all of 15 minutes.
I enjoyed this review. The little humour taken from the film added in to your video was great dude. Mostly - was a good ending to the review lol. If not game over man game over !
On the weyland yutani people complained because nobody plays an alien game to fight humans its like a predator game were you fight ants half the time
Funny thing is we've fought humans in every alien game - avp2 and 3, alien trilogy, alien resurrection. Hell, we even fight them in isolation.
Could you review Templar GFX's ACM Overhaul? I'm considering getting the game and playing it with that mod.
I'm sorta disappointed that you didn't mention the ACM Overhaul Mod by Templar GFX.
Talking about Alien 3. If you want to learn about the the major changes Alien 3 had, and it originally was going to have Ripley, Newt, and Hicks. You should check out Chris Stuckman's (almost) hour long discussion with one of his friends. I was blown away, when I found out that Fox and even Sigourney Weaver made serious changes to the movie.