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Finished the campaign last night. Overall it’s an ok game but a bit forgettable too. The campaigns for the most part were rather dull regardless of what character you picked and your options always felt sort of limited, perhaps because of the limited arsenal each one had (Alien especially). That and the interlocking story, while interesting, meant that each successive campaign felt more predictable and there was a distinct lack of memorable set pieces.

I guess one of the issues is that in the game there is never more than about two different enemies you will come up against so combat really becomes pretty dull pretty quick. The other one is there is no sense of a team. Both Marines and Aliens are only effective hunters when in a pack (at least when the opposition is heavily armed). The game instead makes you solo most of it for each species and both the human and Alien feel like they have increased health to compensate for the lack of AI assistance.

Still, as a huge fan of Aliens it held my interest just long enough. I wouldn’t replay it but. Wait until it’s cheap.

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