Aliens: Colonial Marines Back in the Picture
But with Aliens: Colonial Marines, there's no "stealing" or "borrowing" of ideas. He's full-on with the franchise, a dream come true perhaps, and he's quite possibly the happiest he's been in a long while. Why? Because he's once again knee deep in alien and human fodder.
"We have an Aliens game with Sega and 20th Century Fox which we're really excited about," he told MCV. "It’s the thing I've been stealing from all my career. Now I'm really working on it, but we've been quiet about that so far."
Although Aliens: Colonial Marines was slated for 2009, the game fell off the radar. Pitchford fell silent. Even the supposed Aliens-based RPG disappeared from sight. It seemed that Sega was waiting on the success of Rebellion's Aliens vs. Predator, putting all projects on hold until the numbers defined consumer interest. Now that the game has taken off, proving that the Aliens franchise still has some gamer ass to kick, Pitchford is coming forward with a hint that the Colonial Marines aren't dead.
So why the hush? "Borderlands took over Gearbox,” he added. “We had so much fun working on that and when we finished we wanted to carry on. And the DLC – we've launched two so far and there’s a third to come which take us to a new level in every way.”
Aliens: Colonial Marines is scheduled to hit the PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS sometime in 2010... for now.
Negatives I've seen so far:
-The single player campaigns are pretty short
-There is no Predator net like the 2nd Predator movie had
-The marine flame thrower is useless in multiplayer
-The Alien is useless against the Predator 1 on 1, Predator can just throw the disc constantly and run away
-Predator disc might be a little overpowered
-Voice communication in game is echoey and stutters
-No dedicated servers yet, if the person hosting the game leaves it kicks everybody
-You can't spit acid as the Alien in multiplayer
-You can't mute voice spammers in multiplayer, so if somebody wants to be an ass they can and you can't mute them
Positives:
The game is still fun to play
I bet it will not be released this year!
i have to wait until fermi comes out so i can get some sweet price-drops on a 5870.
A game cannot cause your system to bluescreen. You are either unstable (be it from bad hardware, bad/weak PSU, overheating, etc) or your drivers are really, really bad. What was the BSOD error, exactly? Just curious.
I believe since XP, software could not cause BSODs anymore because of the way the kernel runs in its own memory space... you are left with hardware error, or hardware interface error (drivers).
If a "lot" of people are experiencing this problem with this DX11 game, I'm sorry, but I have to point at ATI's drivers (for DX11 at least) as the first culprit, and their hardware as the second most likely.
The game is just extremely buggy.
Doesn't play well with a 64bit OS or DX11. But even on x32 and DX9, the game still crashes.
But I played the game for ~1h, and just really didn't feel like starting it again.
I'm hoping for great things from you Gearbox.
And... haven't you released three DLC's for Borderlands already? (Zombie Island, Underdome, Secret Armory)
I can see a day where these developers start tying games to consoles too. You buy your crapbox 360 game and put it in the first time, whammo, it sends a code of your hardware out and installs. Try and put it in another console and SOL.
PC..mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I've completed the Marine and Alien single player campaigns and I do agree they're shorter than I expected so my comments are for the AvsP single player campaigns.
I guess that's what you get for a 3 in 1 game package though they are three independent packages in one, what is strange to me is that all features you see used with different species through the game are not available as you play the actual character.
For example as the Marine you have to contend with the Alien spitting acid, but when you play as the Alien that feature is not available.
Also there are features from past games that would have been great to have carried to this release, for instance the Alien tail whip in the older games could destroy the robot sentry guns from behind, but not in this release.
And the Aliens tail whip if on target should be a one hit kill if that tail cuts through an opponent they shouldn't be able to struggle to their feet, that's lame IMO.
To address one previous comment about the Alien being useless against the Predator, well I slaughtered all three Predators in the single player campaign but the trick is to use the Aliens speed and what ever you do, don't stand still for a second keep moving, that is your true advantage over the Predator you're twice as fast as him.
Seeing as how you have no distance firing weapons as the Alien you have to use hit and run tactics, or you're dead plain and simple.
For me I've been addicted to Aliens vs Predator since it was first released on PC, however IMO the best AvsP ever released was the Atari Jaguar release, no one has touched that IMO.
And hopefully this upcoming Colonial Marines release will be worth it, for all of us addicted to the series, my 2 cents.
A game CAN NOT cause your system to BSOD. That ended in the Windows 98 days (not just games, programs in general).
I'm sorry so many of you have instability issues and want to rate down the reality of it to cover it up. If the BSOD only happens in DX11 mode as stated above, it's a driver problem.
I'm not saying the game can't crash, that seems to be what others are defending, of course a game can crash, but it can not cause the entire system to crash unless there is a hardware problem (such as the video card no longer responding), that is a DRIVER problem.
Now go ahead and rate me down again, quick! Before you get another BSOD because of a game... lol.
I mean it ended AFTER the win98 era. Around 2000 to XP. To the above: Why would I have to have tested every possible hardware combination to know a BSOD can't be caused by software (except drivers)? Your argument seems to actually support me since you're admitting that the BSODs happen in certain hardware setups.