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Old 16th Feb 2013, 21:34   #41
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Being UE3 I'm sure there are plenty of tweaks through the .ini's. With the inevitable price drop in the near future I shall pick this up purely 'cos it has aliens with acid in their veins.
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Being UE3 I'm sure there are plenty of tweaks through the .ini's. With the inevitable price drop in the near future I shall pick this up purely 'cos it has aliens with acid in their veins.
Yup, THX555 on moddb has done a load of tweaks to add DX10 effects if you can't be bothered to experiment yourself. It does improve the visuals quite a lot.
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this aliens games is an example of Brand licensing, ergo the OP is correct.
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Yup, THX555 on moddb has done a load of tweaks to add DX10 effects if you can't be bothered to experiment yourself. It does improve the visuals quite a lot.
Any links for this?
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I gotta say, I see nothing wrong with this game, it is atmospheric, the graphics are absolutely fine on the pc , the music is intense, playing on ultimate badass without a HUD makes it even more challenging and you constantly feel like there is something breathing down your neck.

I am not really sure what else was to be expected, it feels and looks like aliens to me

I think review sites have been incredibly unfair on this game, it seems like you've all just spam copy and pasted each others review and no one has actually really played it.

Why are we getting PS3 reviews anyways, surely a PC review would be more apt for this site.
Most sites review console copies for most games as that's what publishers like to distribute for reviews. It sucks, but better this than nothing.
I agree that in a lot of ways it feels like Aliens, the soundtrack is great, the atmosphere feels right & there are a lot of really nice references for fans of the series.
But the graphics are pretty poor for a new "AAA" title, just dated, like something that might have impressed 6-7 years ago. That in itself wouldn't bother me, but with all the other holes in the game you'd hope at least it had stunning visuals to fall back on, but it doesn't... The plot is truly awful & the xenomorph AI is shockingly terrible. Like the review said, THAT last point is the thing that ruins the game, their just not scary, not sneaky, there's no variation in their tactics (bar a few scripted sequences they pretty much beeline straight for you), no variation in move speed, no rapid spiralling down corridors, they're boring.

The multiplayer goes the other way, having much more entertaining gameplay due to avoiding the AI problems by pitting players against each other but holds lots of canonical annoyances for Aliens fans (for me anyway); all the new xenomorph classes that they completely made up, the spitter they could just about get away with canonically, but the rest are ridiculous & entirely new fabrications that make little sense, created just to fill a hole in the game. I think everything that's good about the mp exists in a better form in Left 4 Dead.
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This makes me a sad panda. Why is there so much fail associated with this franchise these days/
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Really wish this was bought on console, so I could trade it in, instead it is linked to my steam account. I will be very selective with what I buy in download only future. Gearbox (and the other developers that were farmed out to create this alien acid) it is absolute crappppppp, even a free season pass would not convince me otherwise....
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Try this one http://www.moddb.com/mods/aliensdx10...afik-and-light.

The co-op is kind of fun, it gets a little hectic though as they more or less double up the enemies for two of you and the AI "assistance" is still a touch lacking (remember the Oblivion AI that steps in front of you just as you fire? It's like that).
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