Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection

I simp hard for alien games and this one is AWFUL. Barely playable at all.

decent graphics love the capmaign and love the refrences plusa i got this for like 8 dollars with every DLC so love this thing

Runs fine on Linux with Proton, but had lots of problems due to failed attempt to download some file. Finally installatin worked with Proton 8 after repeated tries with different verrsions. The game itself is very so-so. Rather tedious and uninspired. Kinda good idea with bad execution.

Once you fix the spelling error in the config, this game becomes a very enjoyable experience.

Much better than 99% of modern games released today - glad I tried this now.

Pretty cool, Alternate story line is kind of neat. Has that "Alien" feel to it.

actually genuinely does not work on machines/OSes newer than windows 7 *maybe.* there's some fanmade overhaul that only works for some people. not possible to recommend this game.

I’ll start by saying Aliens: Colonial Marines had a lot of potential, but unfortunately, it feels like much of it went to waste. The voice acting is one of the first things you'll notice—it feels almost robotic, like it was generated by an AI. There’s no emotion, no real connection to the characters. Same goes for the animations. They’re stiff and lifeless, with no real feeling behind them.

The story is also a letdown. It plays out like a third-rate action movie, with no real depth or intrigue. It’s clear that this game was made with more of a focus on meeting deadlines and fulfilling contractual obligations than out of genuine passion or creative drive.

As for the gameplay, it's... meh. There’s no satisfying hit feedback when you’re shooting enemies, and the enemies themselves are just bullet sponges—there’s no real sense of challenge or tension. The combat lacks impact, and you never really feel like you're using a weapon in any meaningful way.

The graphics are another issue. For a game released in its era, the visuals feel outdated and underwhelming. The textures are flat, the environments are uninspired, and everything has a noticeable lack of polish. It feels like the game was designed with technology a few years behind what should’ve been expected at the time.

The physics in Colonial Marines are also worth mentioning—they feel completely inconsistent, almost as if the game doesn’t follow any of the usual rules of physics. Things just don’t behave in a believable way, making it hard to immerse yourself in the experience. Objects float unnaturally, and certain interactions don’t make sense, which breaks the overall flow of the game.

Let me give you an idea of what was released the same year to put this in perspective: Grand Theft Auto 5, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Tomb Raider, BioShock Infinite, The Last of Us, and Batman: Arkham Origins. These games not only had far better graphics, mechanics, and storytelling, but also a deeper sense of polish and creativity. Aliens: Colonial Marines feels like it belongs to a different generation entirely.

Overall, Aliens: Colonial Marines doesn’t leave much of an impression, good or bad. It’s a game that feels like it could’ve been so much more, but ends up falling short in nearly every area.

The Alien franchise has been a favorite of mine ever since I was younger and first discovered it. This game released shortly after I discovered video game walkthroughs on YouTube, so this game holds a bit of nostalgia for me. I want to mention this because my view of the game comes through a rose-tinted glass.

I love this game, because I love the Alien franchise and I love its continuation of the story after Alien 3. If you love the franchise too and just want to fight xenomorphs as a colonial marine, then this is your game, but if you're looking for a fleshed out first-person shooter with a fleshed out story, then you will be disappointed. You will fight most enemies alone, as friendly AI often does little to no damage if they can hit their shots. Human enemies are incredibly punishing as they deal a lot of damage but are sometimes immune to shots if in the right position, an error with the hit-boxes I assume. The story has its moments, but there's little character development and the voice acting will make you laugh from how out of place it can be. Also O'Neal is the worst character in the game, you cannot change my mind, he needed to die lol.

What this game excels at is the helplessness of a marine fighting the xenomorphs as they climb through the dark and the environment itself. The graphics are meh but the attention to detail to the environments, especially when going to areas from the movie Aliens, is incredible.

I do recommend this game if its on sale. I haven't tried the DLC yet but I will be starting it soon.

I still love the game but for some reason... everytime I enter and I can't play like I just press play but suddenly the stop button turns back into play like I'm banned or something? It would be better if this game got a Remake and kept the multiplayer as I hoped for Aliens: Fireteam Elite didn't promise because they are done, I think?

The game is great, but unfortunately no players online at all, so had to return it.

Esse jogo é a verdadeira definição de L I X O, um desserviço a todos os jogos da franquia que vieram antes dele, se você gosta muita da série mesmo com o mod Overhaul fica difícil jogar esta coisa.

I cannot recommend this game enough!

Sure, there are probably a couple of factors contributing to my controversial opinion: for example my love of the franchise, me growing up in the age of jank games, my ability to fully immerse myself in an experience and the additional install of TemplarGFX's ACM Overhaul Mod V6.2 (must-have to fix core game issues).

That being said, I absolutely loved the experience, both the base campaign and the DLC. I had such a blast. Encounters with xenomorphs feel tense, the atmosphere is on-point, gameplay is varied and the story is fun. Pack you popcorn and rounds and kick ass marine. A definite must-play for any Aliens fan or person who enjoys old-school FPS campaigns!

Absolutely love this game

Pretty good despite what people said about it over the years i still enjoy an alien game!

Very conflicted game that has many great creative ideas, but largely fumbled due to file issues that didn't get caught before release breaking the game, unless one manually corrects typos.

I remember this having a very fun survival mode with friends called Bug Hunt, unfortunately it seems that this game's DRM is tripped in some way that the game no longer launches if you run it on the 2024 builds of Windows 11.

Not working anymore

Despite its shortcomings and flaws...I find it to be a really fun game. Especially with a good group of people. Campaign is fun and the horde mode is fun too. I recommend highly

Best game of the generation

im having alot of fun this this game i remember playing it when i was a young lad on my xbox 360 and when i stumbled accross it on steam i was a happy happy boy

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A great classic of the Alien franchise had fun n it really nails the adrenaline of movie

aliens,outerspace and shoot guns...whats more than that?

I wouldn't say there is a lot of stuff wrong with Colonial Marines, it's just generic Call of Duty styled gameplay. I think that's what most people have an issue with when discussing this game. So why does Call of Duty get a pass and this game still has bad review stigma attached to it so many years later? It's because CoD's generic gameplay is what defines the genre meanwhile the Alien franchise had always a special signature attached to it and you always expected something different when playing a new game or even watching a movie. All the other Alien games in the franchise felt always different in one way or another, for better or worse, but Colonial Marines just feel too much like CoD. The bugs, some awfully cringe characters and the not so much amusing quick time events don't help either.
But as a canonical addition to the franchise I like it. The game looks and feels like it's from the ALIEN universe. The environments and the atmosphere are the main positives - if you get bored from the gameplay then atleast you have the environment which you just have to explore, because of how spot on it is. The environments and some story elements sometimes are inconsistent with what happened in the Aliens movie, but if you don't have crippling OCD then you could easily give this issue a pass. The game doesn't feel scary or at least tense and as it should since were in horror genre territory. I would say the motion tracker is the coolest part of the game, but you'll be barely using since the threats are just waves of xenomorphs marching straight towards you with no sense of environmental awareness.
The key to liking this game is simply immersing your self into the world. If you are not a fan of the series then I wouldn't even bother playing this, but if you're a fan you definitely need to try this game out. I would recommend (if you're playing the campaign for the first time) to watch ALIENS right before starting the game to keep those film emotions intact while playing the game.

I played it for twenty minutes back in 2012 and apparently got bored or something.

Wanted to boot it up again on Windows 11, the game does NOT work.

There are some friendly souls who have made something Templar GFX mod, which works for some people. Didnt work for me, so have to leave a negative reply because the game is simply just not playable in 2024.

Do not buy in 2024. Steam will just say "updating executable" as it says its "launching" the game and it will not launch. There is no existing fix for this issue. Frankly valve needs to remove the game from the store as their policy states now that games have to work to be on steam

Garbage game which ruined the spirit of Aliens and doesn't even start these days.
You always were an asshole, A:CM!

Not really sure why there are so many negative comments about this game. I think it's actually pretty awesome. A bit freaky and stressy at times, but fun. Only wish people were more active for coop play.

Fun first person shooter set in the Alien universe. Set right after the end of the second movie in an alternate reality. Not the best Alien game but a fun one if your looking for something to pass the time.

This game aged well. fun and awesome story.

Which they would make all the aliens games like this...even the new one is turn based blahhhhh

fun

this game is trash. I'd rather play AvP anyday.

yes yes

After playing and beating the game on Ultimate Badass, I can safely say that this is my favourite Alien game. The mechanics are smooth, the game runs great (had to put it on Windows 7 compability mode) and, although the shipped AI is a bit messy, a simple two-letter fix in the files fixed it.

Colonial Marines is great. I love the characters, it's super 80s-90s action movie cool, and it's a perfect tribute to the Alien trilogy (alien 3 was better than you gave it credit for.)

Oorah to ashes!!

I couldn't believe the reviews that claimed this game was so bad. I really love aliens and thus I was really patient with this game, but it is a wasted opportunity from developers. They had the money, they had the copyright, they even had Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen, but still they FUCKED IT UP!

this is a first person shooter. had issues with launch, found solution in one of the forums and was a good fun. if you want a clean view then change settings in the view from grain to normal. DLC added more prequel missions. still dont know how to play as the alien. BTW only mod available and working is the health mod.

UPDATING EXE SOLUTION, close steam and logout completely, go to the drive the game is on, then steam library, steamapps, common, alien colonial marines, binaries, redist, then click and download UE3redist file, then reopen steam sign back in launch game like normal. the first time you do it it may ask you to download the file again. i did it and now it opens whenever i open it from the steam app. NOTE: the first time it did not launch but after that it launched normal after first failed attempt.

I was expecting less from this but I got the total opposite, so now actually playing this game I will say I really enjoyed it. I've seen people say this game is bad and honestly everything under the sun about it. HOWEVER! The game really wasn't that bad, they were spot on with the movie lore such as the ship with Bishop's body split in half, and the dog tags and even the DLC fits so well. Environment storytelling wise on par, the controls were a bit odd like "F" for grenade launcher where I blew myself at the start of the game was kinda funny. But the controls are hard to figure out & the upgrade systems for weapons is pretty fine. This game can be HARD on difficulties past easy but it's a good challenge though I can get behind. My girlfriend & I played through both the Campaign & DLC, we had a blast the Characters were good as well funny dialogue. We really enjoyed pretty much everything about it, after playing this my girlfriend who never watched the movies. So we did just that and after seeing all of them she said she appreciates the game more since it really included everything from the first two movies. Now multiplayer is kinda dead at this point but you could still host one with friends or sometimes find one or so people playing it, I wasn't really into that section, I'm more into story based games. So I don't think it really deserves a lot of hate it gets, This game is really funny with friends for campaign especially and I'm happy this game can exist unlike some of the newer games today.

As much as I love The Alien series to death to the point where I have a tattoo reping the series, unfortuantly everything everybody says about this game is true. Sorry guys. We got 3 other great ones tho. Just starting playing Dark Descent, money well spent there, not here.

Tons of carnage! Go for it!

Absolute garbage of a game !

The game is fun even though it is a 2013 game. The sound effects and back ground music reminds me a lot of the Movie: Aliens. Love that movie.

Fun game that stand the test of time! Love the Alien franchise, and this is a well executed add-on to that :D

Frankly, even with the deservedly well-loved Overhaul mod that makes this game at least functional, the game is still is still not fit for purpose. It certainly isn't worth $30 in 2024, much less with a bunch of DLC included that mostly consists of multiplayer maps for a game which almost no-one is playing and whose multiplayer is almost completely dead (though I imagine there are probably Discord servers where you can find a game somewhere, there always are for games that got a sizable amount of public attention like this one). And don't get me wrong, there's a reason it got the attention it did.

There are standout moments here and there, shreds of the potential that this piece of dreck once promised. The aliens, with their AI fixed, are incredibly lethal (especially with their ability to sneak up on you), and the introduction in particular does an excellent job of creating tension, especially before and during the first Xenomorph encounter. While the characters are mostly cliches and the story is, quite frankly, badly-written Aliens fanfiction, I did genuinely like O'Neal as a character and the protagonist Winter was inoffensive for a 2010s FPS protagonist who isn't silent (you could certainly do worse). Bella, though, I hated with the fury of a thousand suns, and the story, as far as I made it, was frankly dreadful. As someone who didn't watch the original movies, I actually had difficulty understanding what was happening and why, as the plot itself seems to mostly be an excuse to visit as many iconic locations from the Aliens franchise as possible without regard for logic or substance. Hicks and Bishop are just here now, the Selaco is in orbit around LV-426 for some reason, it gets shot down so you have to take shelter in Hadley's Hope, your entire crew knows nothing about the Xenomorphs despite the events of the entire Aliens trilogy (so that the writers can make the characters blatantly ignore the dangers of facehuggers) and so on.

I'll be frank: I don't really mind that the game plays like Call of Duty. The Colonial Marines are already basically the U.S. Marine Corps in space (complete with open-faced helmets and no space suits), if they wanted to make an action-horror title, leaning into shooter tropes of the time made sense given how a Colonial Marine is supposed to operate. The Aliens franchise had already made stupid action games, particularly in arcades (Aliens: Extermination and Capcom's Alien Vs. Predator beat 'em up come to mind, along with Aliens Vs Predator 1999). Call of Duty's fast-paced rocket-tag gunplay where everyone has an extremely low health pool makes a lot of sense for a franchise where both the heroes and villains are relatively fragile. Colonial Marines go down to a light tap from a Xenomorph, but a few accurate bursts downrange kills a Xenomorph just as dead. It creates gunplay that's fairly accurate to the source material (at least as far as I know). Of course, you do get an extreme amount of breaks (facehuggers can be fought off with QTEs, acid blood barely seems to affect you, and so on), but again, this is a franchise where Capcom made a cybernetic marine wrestle with these fuckers, I can accept something like this on its own merits.

So why is this still a negative review? One reason, mostly: Level. Fucking. 4. The infamous corridor on Hadley's Hope where the aliens are bugged to spawn infinitely and you don't have nearly enough ammo or health to deal with them. Your first instinct in such a situation would probably be to run for the exit, but only the Xenomorph AI was fixed by the Overhaul mod, NOT the human AI. They're better than they were in the original game, I suppose, but they still get stuck on terrain, run off and kill random Xenos far, FAR away from the ones currently trying to eat your face, and most importantly, are still required to complete required objectives in the single-player campaign. But the problem is, the door you need to open in order to get to the next checkpoint is locked. The only way to open it is to wait for O'Neal to leisurely mosey his ass down there while bumping into walls and barely following you, so that he can cut it open for you (never mind that you have YOUR OWN LASER CUTTER AND SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO IT YOUR GODDAMN SELF). This means that your only option is to plant your ass in front of that door and pray you last long enough for O'Neal to get there and for the event flag to trigger. The problem was that after what had to be at least a dozen attempts, I finally got O'Neal to the door...only for him to START RUNNING AWAY FROM IT BECAUSE HE'S PROGRAMMED SO THAT NEARBY ALIENS, WHICH ARE INFINITE, TAKE PRIORITY OVER THE DOOR-OPENING EVENT. This means that, if a Xenomorph HAPPENS to be near you when he gets there, that door is NEVER getting open, because by the time you kill the first alien in a short chokepoint of a corridor that dropped from the vents right in front of you, another will appear because they constantly spawn, and eventually you WILL die, because even on the Normal difficulty level they're absurdly lethal and against an infinite army of them you'll eventually make a mistake. You'd think the overhaul would fix this, but apparently the OVERHAUL WAS WHAT CAUSED THIS BUG IN THE FIRST PLACE, or at least left it in after the developers patched it out. And since the game is *already* unplayable without the overhaul, why the actual fuck would I remove it?!

This game is still SO fucking buggy that even with all of the enhancements and AI fixes it's already received, it's still quite nearly unbeatable. It wasn't even the first nearly game-breaking bug I encountered in that level alone! I just do not want to put in the effort for this by-now obscure pile of shit, and you shouldn't either.

And frankly? If you want a 2010s-style Aliens FPS with some Call of Duty DNA, play the Marines campaign in Aliens vs Predator 2010. It's infinitely better in every conceivable way despite releasing two years earlier: the AI isn't trash, the plot is somehow more coherent than this waste of code, Xenomorphs are given their full level of danger (acid blood puddles kill you and facehuggers are an instant kill) yet they're still possible to overcome with intelligence and good aim, and so much more. And there's two extra campaigns! And it costs half as much! AND THE DLC ISN'T A REQUIRED PURCHASE! Seriously, go play that instead, it's a far better use of your time.

P.S: One of the death sounds the aliens make is actually a boar sound effect from World of Warcraft. I couldn't unhear it and it's hilarious every time. One of this game's few redeeming qualities, in a so-bad-it's-good way.

good quality meat for sandwitches

Aliens, oh Aliens... when am I not going to love you, guys? Should make a sequel to this game...

The game honestly isn't that bad. Would definitely wait to buy it on a sale tho, not worth £25. Story is okay and the game play is good. The Friendly AI are so bad, pretty much the whole story i was wondering where my team was and they would just spawn as i got to a certain point or if i pushed a button. Definitely not the best alien game but wouldn't say it was the worst.

play the dlc. it's the only good part of the game.

One of the worst fps games I've ever played. Everything about it is just imbalanced, not to mention the infamous downgrade.

Truly the peak of the Allen cinematic experience. Fear and anxieties lie around every corner, and the allen, much like the films (my favorite is Allen 4) is a terrific enemy to have seen. The unpredictable nature of it's AI helps greatly in this regard. Sometimes it sits seemingly doing nothing...This is but a genius ploy by the developers to lull you into a false sense of security. This is instantly shaken by the creature emitting a screech and continuing to sit idly by. Mindgames like these perfectly capture what sort of entity we're dealing with... A perfect game, much superior to the horrible slop known as ALien Isolation. I cannot wait for ALiens Colonial Marines 2. I wish everybody and their sons to experience this mountainous game. This deserves to be revered and referenced to generations to come. A new religion is the only acceptable way for this game to be honored properly.