Aliens: Colonial Marines

Aliens: Colonial Marines is a first person shooter game developed by Gearbox and published by Sega in 2013. The story of the game is set 17 weeks after the events of Aliens. In it you play as corporal Winter, who is send together with a full battalion of Colonial Marines to investiate a distress call from corporal Dwayne Hicks.

The campaign can be played either in singleplay or cooperatively with up to 3 other players. Additional to the campaign the game offers also a mutliplayer with modes like team deathmatch, a king of the hill style and 3 more modes. After the release of the game got a few expansions, which added more maps, weapons, skins, an additional multiplayer mode and a new short campaign.

Where can I get it?
The best place to buy this game is on Steam. If you wait for one of the many Steam sales, you can get a complete edtion for around 6€. Alternatively, you can buy it from Amazon or Ebay.

Issues with the Game?
The game released with a lower quality in graphics and broken artificial intelligence. To fix both problems, you can download the Aliens Colonial Marines Overhaul Project. The project is still a work in progess, but it already improves the graphics, AI and gun play immensely.

Trivia

 * The original game trailers looked a lot better than what we got at the release. Which led to a law suit agained the developers and publisher
 * The majority of the achievements are dialogue references from Aliens
 * The developers were invited to speak with Ridley Scott and view the script for Prometheus, which lead to speculations that there is a connection between the game and the movie. A short dialogue, a scan probe and an easter egg supports this speculations
 * The story retcons what happend with corporal Hicks in Aliens 3

Links

 * A video with all the easter eggs
 * Overhaul Project