IF you decide to play this game here on PC, whether its the old Disc Version or the Steam version, do this after you install the game.

- Launch it once
- Create a profile
- Start the game
- Quit to Desktop after the first sequence
- Go to your "My Documents" or "Documents" Folder depending on your Windows version
- navigate to "My Games\Aliens Colonial Marines\PecanGame\Config"
- Use a text editor like notepad and open PecanEngine.ini
- Press CTRL F and search for "teather"

This is a misspelled word, mistaken by the developers. It is literally the one thing that screwed up the Aliens A.I. making the game bland and canny.

- once the misspelled word is located, change it to "tether" and the lines should look like this

"ClassRemapping=PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachMarineToTether -> PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachPawnToTether
ClassRemapping=PecanGAme.PecanSeqAct_AttachXenoToTether -> PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachPawnToTether"

- Save the file and launch the game.

The experience will be night and day from the Vanilla version over correcting a single typo.

Vanilla Experience - 6 out of 10
Fixed Typo Experience - 8 out of 10

This game feels like a comedy theme park ride in Alien's universe ;p

The Marines are absolute morons, getting themselves into deeper and deeper hole, acting like under-developed kiddos trapped in adult bodies - it makes them pretty much unlikable from the very beginning.

In the first mission you will find your buddy glued to the wall, helpless, begging you to save him. So you do it and he immidiately starts a radio-argument with the higher ups, acting like an arrogant idiot completely unaware of his situation, then decides to NOT listen to orders and do things his own way... because that's what elite soldiers do, right? XD

Two minutes after that the same dude throws a granade destroying the ship that we were supposed to use, and locks the whole unit in room full of aliens; So everybody starts to shout at each other, agresively over-dramatizing the situation, while defending their positions.

Another two minutes later stupidity strikes again, our dude-bro-marine suddenly remembers that he has an alien inside him, and decides to blow up himself with grenade... in the glass corridor hanging in space between 2 spaceships XD
You probably seen that moment on yt, it was pretty in-famous when the game came out :D

And all of these situations are presented in totally serious manner, but all characters act really loud and overly dramatic, which makes the whole thing look like unintentional comedy.

Few short fights against the aliens - and human enemies show up.
That was a major complain in all reviews I watched - too much human bad guys in the alien game. And yep, unfortunately it's true.
The mercenaries don't do alot in combat, usualy it's only:
respawn > go to pre-scripted cover > peek and shoot from there
Ok, to be 100% fair - they can also walk in your direction whlie shooting or just randomly run around :)
Once I reached their spawn point and killed 4 of them as they were re-spawning in front of me :)
And we have only 2 enemy models! Yep - masked dude with cap and heavy dude with gasmask. lol.
Ok, sometimes later in the game a heavy bulletspongey juggernout will come at you, but that's (fortunately) few and far between.

Combat against humans is serviceable at best, boring and tireing at worst.
And that's because few reasons:
- your main rifle is underpowered and very innacurate. And this is pretty bad combination, very often you will find yourself shooting 3-4 bursts from your rifle into 1 enemy wondering why he's still not dead.
- feedback from combat is barely there. Alot of the time it feels like your bullets just fly through the enemies and game doesn't even count them. For exapmle - you shoot long burst of 8-10 bullets from the pulse rifle and game doesn't 'count' the first 2-4 bullets. Then the rest actually hits the target and you see the hitmarker. It's weird and irritating.
- Most of the time enemies don't show any hurt animantions, so your only feedback is the hitmarker that appears on your crosshair.
- Majority of the levels are very restrictive, tight corridors. You don't have enough space to manuver or flank enemies, the game just wants you to duck behind a box and shoot them one by one.

Combat against aliens is... not that bad? It's not great either, but more interesting than fighting these copy-pasted mercs ;p
At the beginning there is 1 alien type, he will run around on floors, walls and ceilings, sometimes clip through walls - but that's so rare, it basicly doesn't matter.
Maybe a bit bulletspongy... but c'mon it's the legendary alien monster from the movie, I can't be mad they gave him a bit more healthpoints :)
Sometimes when alien gets to you - you can use meele to slap him in the face.
I told ya - this game is a comedy :)
If it wasn't you wouldn't have a chance in hell to survive a meele encounter with the alien :)

There's a level in the sewer, where you will sneak around the blind aliens - you must crouch all the time, or they will kill ya... It's pretty nice break from standard shooty-shooty levels, but also - it's so simple it hurts :) You can immediately see through the scripting of these blind aliens and even play with them by standing up to wake them up, and then quickly crouch when they approach you - it's hilarious too see, they have very funny, bouncy walking animations :)

Soon after that you will fight the boss - Big alien with even bigger head :) It's the same weightclass as your powerloader and - coincidentaly - you will find that powerloader just when the fight is about to happen!
That boss-fight is also a comedy - you will bitchslap the big alien with your powerloader's claws so many times that he will start to clip through the walls, because there's no more space to take a step back...
In return the boss will... headbutt you! XD
The weaponized alien headbutt knocked away any doubts I still had about the game being even half-serious.

The game works on Unreal Engine 3 - and you know what - visually it's one of the best games made on that engine.
Yep, really. Check it out yourself, instead of listening to the biased gaming-journalists.
After that famous fake marketing gameplay, everybody judged visuals very harshly - and fair enough - game doesn't look nearly as good as on that fake presentation. But, if you look at it without any prejudice - It's around the same quality level as e.g. Bulletstorm (also UE3). The same game-journalists who were singing praises about Bulletstorm's visuals trashed Colonial Marines.
Imo the game can look very impressive, especially outdoor levels where the game pretends really well to have vast, huge space around you :) Scenes with destroyed spaceship have a very good sense of scale - and that's something that was very difficult to achieve on UE3.

Ok, this is getting a bit too long. In general game is really hard to judge, it does some thigs well, looks very nice, can be enjoyable at times... but also has so many issues across the board that I would be unfair to so many other games if I gave it a positive review.
Aliens Vs Predator 2010 by Rebelion was much better game in every aspect. Better shooter, better story, better levels, better visuals. Go play AvP 2010.
Cheers :)

yk what, we didnt know how bad it would get and we called this game bad :(