Aliens: Dark Descent

кусок говна вылетающий когда сохранение было пол часа назад

love it

Only a few hours in and I can tell this is one of the good ones. Typically RTS games reveal their true colours after a the first hour and a bit, normally leaving much to be desired and in rare cases ones that almost feel right but still lack something. This however, hits all the right boxes, made better I had stopped following the Aliens series and accidentally discovered this, it is a game that gives me nostalgia to the AVP Extinction game that came out all those years ago just focused on Marines and at a smaller scale. I don't often find myself enjoying these types of squad based RTS games either, but this one was love from the moment the game opened up. It is everything I wanted Aliens Colonial Marines to be in terms of feeling and atmosphere layered with more than I could have expected from an Aliens based RTS game, the world building is really good and the squad customisation is perfect, the attention to detail on the aesthetic is great, unlike Aliens Fire Team, and AVP 3 it has respected the designs of James Cameron, Ron Cobb and Syd Mead, and any new additions feel like they fit in with the old, unlike the mentioned games which modernised the appearance of things to todays military equpment losing that charm. The only nitpick I would have is the camera control not being able to use the map for move commands and not being able to queue move commands. Face Huggers can be a little bit gamey, and perhaps the intro to bosses at the start of the game is a bit jarring/results in lessons learned from meta gaming re-loads, I don't mind losing squad mates for good when it's fair but some of the deaths have felt a little cheated, but only some. Maybe the dialogue/animations in cutscenes can be a bit stiff, but other cutscenes and reveals are amazing! Overall it is a game that kept me playing for a few missions straight, forcing myself to take a pause, which with age has become increasingly rare, especially at the first playthrough point. But this one has a lot to learn but is really easy to get into and is addictive. TLDR, look I am a few years late, but it's good at worth the price at retail even, not often does a movie IP game go hard, and the Aliens games have been hit and miss, this could have easily been a miss, the dev's could have done half of what they did, done a turn based 30 minute extraction missions game and it probably still would have been engaging and positive, but the level they have gone to with combat playing out in real time is great, buy it!