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disolitude on 19 February 2010
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Barozi said:
disolitude said:
Barozi said:

Well I only played an hour as the marines and about half an hour as the Alien, but I would say it's a pretty average game.

The graphics aren't even that bad, but the sound of you radar makes you want to puke, the flashlight is useless and they fucked up the console controls IMO.
Alien was alright so far, but also nothing impressive. You miss your target quite often even though you're pointing exactly at him and the jumping/running across all the walls makes you dizzy.


What are you comparing it to when you say its pretty average? 

Do you find the shooting mechanics bad? I find them pretty intense and tight... there are many set pieces which involve holding ground until an eleveator comes or till a door is hacked. Those parts are intense as hell I find...which is good.

Its a corridor shooter, does that make its ambitions average? I don't understand.

Also, I find the radar sound awesome cause it creeps me out any time it picks up anything and is straight out of the movie...

I'm comparing it to Doom 3, Quake 4, Starship Troopers, Halo (The Flood levels) and some others.

I thought the sound was a game glitch until my brother told me it comes from my radar. It's horribly unnecessary when there are no enemies around.

The shooting mechanics are not bad but average. I recall you preordered the PC version because of 3D ? Because on the 360 the auto-aim is ridiculous (haven't tried if I can turn it off).

I also find it hilarious that you can block their attacks and punch them to the ground over and over again.

As a game it's maybe not average, but as a FPS it certainly is. With the amount of awesome available shooters, this one doesn't stand out at all.

For my first impressions I'd give it something around 7.5

Better than King Kong and maybe as good as Turok (this gens version of course).

Yeah had to cancel PC version cause 3D is not supported with this game. fucking Nvidia...no mass effect 2, no Bioshock 2, no AVP...but we got support for Dark Void YAY!

So im playing it on the 360 version.

I like the nice mix of melee with shooting and those aliens have some decent AI. They are not super intelligent to flank you but at the same time they are not supposed to be. The xenomorphs are animals and thats how they should behave...

Auto aim that the game has is welcome to me to be honest cause those aliens are very spaztic and go all over the place.