Editing Alien (section)

===Aliens: Colonial Marines (sigh)===
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Where as the above two games are considered masterpieces, Aliens: Colonial Marines is at best considered a massive disappointment. After all fans were hyped, the Colonial Marines are always awesome, and the trailer was amazing.

Colonial Marines problem lies in part due to bad programming, and that unlike the 2010 Aliens Vs Predator, it acted more like Call of Duty: Alien Warfare than it did an Alien game. People die, but not enough to really zero in on that oppressive terrifying feel the franchise is notorious for, and you rarely even connect with some of the characters in the game meaningfully. The worst part is that the developers had at least a rudimentary understanding of what made AVP work so well, as it made it into an entire level where you have to run unarmed from a darned mutated ugly super-xenomorph.  

You have like 3 or 4 characters who survive throughout, which isn't a problem for Tequila in AVP, but is for literal combatants as it lowers the stakes of whether or not they will live. The ending reveals that Hicks, who allegedly died in Aliens, actually didn't die, and in DLC it's revealed it was some other guy who died in the pod who was misidentified, which was somewhat skubby. The plot was overall ok, but the sheer awfulness of the graphics and the boring repetitiveness of gameplay made the game controversial.

It wasn't the worst game, but it was far from what it was supposed to be. Unlike No Man's Sky(See the internet historian video), this game never got better. It's bugs and issues remained for players to fix.

In 2018 the folks at ModDB discovered that the Alien AI wasn't falsely advertised but rather broken because Gearbox can't fucking spell the word tether and instead spelled it as "teather." This ability for the Aliens to tether onto walls and ceilings seen in the trailer was suddenly made possible, but only because the fans actually put in the work.