GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Alien franchise deserves better than this. Aliens: Colonial Marines is a disappointing exercise in bland corridor shooting, dragged down by ...

I found Aliens: Colonial Marines on the shelf, unloved and unwanted (and only £5). Every gamer knew about her past: the multiple homes, how she looked nothing like she did a few years earlier.

Sega and Gearbox’s Aliens: Colonial Marines is a 2013 first-person shooter utilizing the Alien license. The game takes place shortly after the events of the franchise’s first sequel ...

A brief look at Borderlands and Aliens: Colonial Marines developer Gearbox and its peculiar place in the video game business. Plano, TX based game developer Gearbox has been in the game-making ...

Back in 2011, there was every reason to look forward to Aliens: Colonial Marines. Sure, it was a licensed game, and games adapted from movies and TV shows were seldom classics, but Colonial ...

12 years, 9 months - In Aliens: Colonial Marines, players are part of a United States Colonial Marine squad and must prepare to face an Aliens assault more intense and horrific than ever before.

Speaking of marines, you have at least one NPC companion with you, so it’s not as lonely as playing a marine was in Aliens vs Predator (the 1999 game. We don’t talk about the 2010 one).

Corporal Hicks sends out a distress call and the Marines answer by sending in the troops in this opening to Aliens: Colonial Marines. Keys is encrusted into an Aliens retrofitted section of the ...

sounding a bit like an Aliens movie' is the alpha and omega of Colonial Marines' narrative ambitions. It's a tiny example of an instance where the game sells its own story short in order to ...

If James Cameron ever built his own theme park, Aliens: Colonial Marines would be its haunted house. You’d visit it after you’d taken a spin on the Titanic Teacups and stopped in at the Termin ...

Right? Nope. Aliens: Colonial Marines mucks that up too. At times while playing this game it was tough to let go of the fact that this is a title that was originally announced back in 2008.

"Look," Aliens: Colonial Marines is saying. "Just like the film!" That, it transpires, is the best trick in the arsenal of a game that understands that its success rests not on innovation or ...