Aliens: Colonial Marines sees you take on the role of Colonial Marines, investigating an alien infestation on the Sulaco. As expected given its source material, CM is an action-focused Alien game, with an emphasis on consistent gunplay and waves of Xenomorphs and other enemies to gun down. To keep it short, I am a massive fan of the Alien franchise, so despite all the negative sentiment surrounding this game, I had to check it out for myself anyway. And unfortunately I have to report that people are right, Aliens: Colonial Marines is really underwhelming. On a single positive note, I can say that you do in fact to get shoot lots of Xenomorphs, so if that's your goal then it will be fulfilled. But other than that there's just consistent disappointment. Overall gunplay feels jank and unsatisfying, the story is nothing memorable and the cutscenes with it are dated even for when it was released. There's still a modest amount of gameplay bugs abound, and for a game and a franchise so focused on fighting Xenomorphs, you spend an insane amount of game time fighting human enemies, nearly 50%. Even with its regularly-discounted sale price, I can't recommend Aliens: Colonial Marines even for the most diehard fan. If you're looking for the Aliens action-horror in game form, I'd recommend you instead check out Aliens: Fireteam Elite, an overall higher quality entry in the Aliens franchise compared to this.

This is a game that has all the right ideas, but completely fumbled the execution. I thought 10+ years later this would be corrected, but no such luck.

I remember playing this game on my Xbox 360 and having a blast. I couldn't tell you how happy i was to find it on steam ( with DLC's too!). This game is amazing, even if you not a big alien franchise fan this game is a great first person shooter. ♥♥♥♥ i even gifted this game to a few friends to play with, i can't wait to play it with them and share this amazing game. But in all, this game is amazing and i recommend it to everyone to try out.