E3 2012: Aliens: Colonial Marines Hands-on Preview

Alien ass-kicking at E3

by Nicholas Laborde

©2012 Nicholas Laborde

“Game over, man, game over! What the [use your imagination] are we supposed to do now?!”

I imagined that Bill Paxton’s famous line from Aliens (1986) was going through the heads of the Xenomorph players during my time with Aliens: Colonial Marines at E3 2012.

I was MVP and had gone on a kill streak that ended the lives of nine happy Xenos, but better still I had also achieved a quadruple kill, which illicited quite the positive response from the people in the line behind me.

Aliens: Colonial Marines isn’t just a one-trick pony, hyping itself as being the canonical sequel to the film Aliens. It’s also got a multiplayer component that, while being able to stand up on its own, can only be accurately described as “kick-ass.” (more…)

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