#Alien colonial marines multiplayer movie

In essence, playing a round of Aliens: Colonial Marines multiplayer is like taking part in a sort of 'what if?' scenario that never made it to the movie screen, with a dirty great nest of Xenomorph eggs to tread carefully around, an eye-catching exterior zone of Hadley's Hope to draw out the aliens into a more open area, and various interior storage rooms and hangars where you and your squad can mount a brave last stand against the opposing team as they lash or charge at you. You're still likely to be pounced upon with a flanking pincer movement, an unexpected drop from the ceiling or a leaping, drooling death from the shadows. Chances are you won't last all too long on your own anyway, even if you manage to mow down several aliens in one gung-ho rampage. Xenomorphs can ambush you from almost anywhere, whether it be vents or the ceiling, so sticking together is a far preferable strategy compared to going lone wolf. Teamwork is vital to survival during a multiplayer match in Colonial Marines, as we quickly find out during our hands-on. You can also acquire weapons out in the field, including the M56 smart gun, which packs the same kind of punch it does in the movie, with a scope that tracks your targets. You have several loadouts to choose from as a colonial marine, giving you a selection of classic aliens weapons, including the M41A pulse rifle (yes), Corporal Hicks' Itchaca M37 12-gauge shotgun (for close encounters), a double-barrelled combat shotgun and others, with a standard issue pistol as your secondary weapon.

The Hadley's Hope facility is spot on, with claustrophobic, brilliantly lit interiors open to Xenomorph attack from all angles ensuring you're usually watching your teammates' backs as well as your own. Set in and around the inhospitable colony of Hadley's Hope on LV-426 on a map fittingly titled 'Last Hope', our experience with Colonial Marines' multiplayer borders on the movie-like, as our team of six marines face off against an opposing team of six aliens controlled by a group from the Gearbox dev team. Most importantly, the atmosphere and sense of tension seems to have been nailed, which in multiplayer makes for some fraught encounters with the toothsome, acid-blooded killers.

Every detail from the 1986 movie is fully accounted for, from the iconic sound of a rasping pulse rifle to the shadows of scuttling Xenomorphs flashing across your line of sight. Almost everyone knows the score when it comes to Aliens, and so too does Gearbox, as Aliens: Colonial Marines is quite clearly a real labour of love for the studio. On the Left 4 Dead inspiration, Eurogamer quote Randy Pitchford at the Gearbox PAX panel thusly: 'The last awesome asymmetrical game I really enjoyed was Left 4 's really cool to have a franchise which really lends itself and almost demands us to bring asymmetrical gameplay back, so I'm really excited that we're doing that.Game over man! They're coming out of the walls! And so on. Maybe I'll be excited later today, in which case the idea of being hunted by acid-spewing claw-beasts might well be responsible. I like Aliens (although a great deal less than Alien) and I like Left 4 Dead, so is this the game mode that finally makes me excited about Colonial Marines? I don't know, because it's Monday morning and I'm incapable of feeling anything other than vague anxiety at the speed with which the weekend passed. A trailer skitters in the darkness below. Four marines must escape, booking it through a level while player-controlled aliens, some with special abilities, attempt to eviscerate them. Shown at PAX Prime, Colonial Marines is bolstering its multiplayer offering with a mode which is inspired by Left 4 Dead. I have fond memories of Aliens vs Predator 2 multiplayer, in which I most often played the part of a terrified marine, a coward really who should never have signed up, abandoning my team and shooting wildly at shadows whenever anything resembling an alien jittered across the screen.

Alien colonial marines multiplayer