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02/20/13
Are you growing tired of all the Aliens: Colonial Marines stories yet?
To be frank we are, but here’s a final one (no, really) from Destructoid:
‘It’s fair to say the Aliens: Colonial Marines story has been a fascinating one. From the years of hype, to the negative reviews, to the later confusion over who actually developed the game, there’s a lot of mystery and controversy afoot. Here’s Destructoid to add a little more.
We’ve recently been chatting with a developer who — as you might have guessed — wishes to remain anonymous. Under this condition, he agreed to let us publish the things he’s witnessed personally and learned from fellow project members in the time he spent working on Colonial Marines.’
February 20th, 2013 at 9:55 pm On this i don’t blame sega at all. I think its gearboxes fault. The outsourced the most of the work to TimeGate studios & other studios too. The should fix the game with a large patch if possible. It seems to me gearbox was mote interested in there own ip’s rather than the one the were paid alot of money to do for sega. They did the same thing to 2k (take two) with duke nukem….
February 25th, 2013 at 11:33 pm Wow, i just read a story on a supposed whistle blower saying that gearbox actually lied to sega’s face & it goes on to say that gearbox used sega’s money to hire new personal from a closing studio to work on borderland’s 1 & 2 then it goes on to say they actually used sega’s money to do all this even using the money that should have been used for A:CM but they used it on borderland’s game. So pretty much sega financed the borderland’s franchise. They also kept taking more & more personal of the A:CM to work on other ip’s while on sega’s dime. Sega should be outraged. For what they they did to them and most of all the gamers who were expecting to get a great game liked they showed to the public. What a mess!!!!
February 27th, 2013 at 10:12 pm Just played the game recently, Not as bad as i thought it would be due to the criticism it received. Would have been much better with a lil polish on the graphics,longer story & - the conflicting story line. Oh yeah, fix the dumb A.I. I personally give it a 5.75 out of 10.
March 8th, 2013 at 1:21 am Aliens colonial marines gets it 2nd update. It address many problems in the game play. The graphics & lighting look sooo much better. I only seem the first 3 levels. In my opinion it actually looks like a game that was made in this generation. Download the update and check it out. Oh yeah, the aliens on wii u is still coming out and a new studio is working on it & TimeGate has been fired essentially.
March 8th, 2013 at 9:56 pm FYI the patch is only for xbox 360. They said they are working on a patch for the PS4 & PC. They didn’t state a ETA yet.
March 10th, 2013 at 9:52 pm The 2 update is now available. My rating was a 5.75.out of a 10. I played with the new patch & where they fixed some area in the the lighting & graphics. Much better. My new score is 7.75 out of 10. If they come out with a 3rd patch it could go higher. What they did with both patches make the game playable with much better graphics. If you beat the game without the 2nd patch i urge you to download the update and play through again. So check it out.i think you’ll enjoy it a second time around with the new updates.