Anyone who knows me knows two things about these films: 1) I love A's 1-3 and 2) I freakin' hate the AVP films..oh god I hate them. I hate them more than I hate non-M TV which again says a lot (I've written a thesis paper establishing my hatred of non-M TV). Before I begin this let me write a short preface to maybe offload a modicum of the degree of disappoint I had with this title. When I went to Gamestop to pick up my copy admittedly I had a totally realistic expectation given the trailers, the previews, etc for this game...especially since that dreadlocked pile of idiotic stupidity was not making an appearance and it was immediately following "Aliens".
In fact I had looked forward to this game for months- the almost inexplicable lack of quality titles for an obviously talented, rich, multi-genre creature (survival horror, squad-based, action/survival horror) the product has potential. Not to mention it is a nearly empty universe...aside from the Aliens and the humans/androids (we can now add the Engineers) there really is a lot of fill-in that could be done and A:CM seemed like it was primed and ready to fill-in what happened after the "Sulaco" left for its journey into Ripleyacide. I even set aside my misgivings about the xenomorph and FPS for this. Seriously though, I was pumped and took the game home (people knew not to call me on its release night..my girl knew better, even my 15 year old dog seemed to know I was in do not disturb mod) and then the game totally sucked. I'm not so much bothered by the lack of technical capability (after all, I really loved DA:O's look when most reviews didn't) but the story was to the ninth level of hell awful. Nothing was implimented well, the characters were boring and even the motion detector (the best thing this title had going for it)was poorly utilized and the Aliens were zerg rushing morons- no suspense. There was only one effective emotional moment in the game and none of the iconic weapons were implimented well, they seemed grafted in....At best the game was in the 'meh' category and at worst it was woodchipper bad...and I cannot figure how it became so terrible. This title was so bad I felt Gearbox themselves had lied about it and have decided to stop buying their products even though I loved Borderlands I and II...that's how bad this game was-it destroyed my affinity for its developer...
AVP: R was only slight worse- which says a lot
Anyone who knows me knows two things about these films: 1) I love A's 1-3 and 2) I freakin' hate the AVP films..oh god I hate them. I hate them more than I hate non-M TV which again says a lot (I've written a thesis paper establishing my hatred of non-M TV). Before I begin this let me write a short preface to maybe offload a modicum of the degree of disappoint I had with this title. When I went to Gamestop to pick up my copy admittedly I had a totally realistic expectation given the trailers, the previews, etc for this game...especially since that dreadlocked pile of idiotic stupidity was not making an appearance and it was immediately following "Aliens".
In fact I had looked forward to this game for months- the almost inexplicable lack of quality titles for an obviously talented, rich, multi-genre creature (survival horror, squad-based, action/survival horror) the product has potential. Not to mention it is a nearly empty universe...aside from the Aliens and the humans/androids (we can now add the Engineers) there really is a lot of fill-in that could be done and A:CM seemed like it was primed and ready to fill-in what happened after the "Sulaco" left for its journey into Ripleyacide. I even set aside my misgivings about the xenomorph and FPS for this. Seriously though, I was pumped and took the game home (people knew not to call me on its release night..my girl knew better, even my 15 year old dog seemed to know I was in do not disturb mod) and then the game totally sucked. I'm not so much bothered by the lack of technical capability (after all, I really loved DA:O's look when most reviews didn't) but the story was to the ninth level of hell awful. Nothing was implimented well, the characters were boring and even the motion detector (the best thing this title had going for it)was poorly utilized and the Aliens were zerg rushing morons- no suspense. There was only one effective emotional moment in the game and none of the iconic weapons were implimented well, they seemed grafted in....At best the game was in the 'meh' category and at worst it was woodchipper bad...and I cannot figure how it became so terrible. This title was so bad I felt Gearbox themselves had lied about it and have decided to stop buying their products even though I loved Borderlands I and II...that's how bad this game was-it destroyed my affinity for its developer...