Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2

It's certainly an Aliens game - the buildcrafting is pretty good although once you unlock everything for the Specialist you learn that there's a few choice abilities that stand above the rest. The story...kinda meh to me. The interesting parts weren't expanded upon at all. The writing/acting was annoying after the third mission. Especially when the dialogue options are all un-skippable and you just have to keep spamming buttons until you get through it. Not to mention you are forced to talk to 2-3 NPCs between each mission. Unfortunately, my setup is very old and out-of-date, so I can't really say anything about the graphics or performance. Even on the lowest settings I was getting stuttering, lag, and frequent disconnections. I'd give the game a 6.5/10 overall.

I love the first game but Jesus ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Christ, what happened? Major performance issues aside, and trust me there are a lot, I don't think this game will get much better with patching. The Dialog, for the most part, is ass. The characters are stupid and quirky... that's their entire personality. Ko, so far, is the only one that's okay, but she'll still whine about my dialog options. I'm sorry that Hotshot was written to be a dumb ♥♥♥♥... I don't have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ choice there. Also, the head of the ship is named Shipp and the head of the armory is Wrench... I'm glad everyone has a nickname based on their job. Dumb. Voice Actors sound bored as ♥♥♥♥ in tense situations. Music is... okay. I fell like it's not as good as the first game but it is what it is. Sound effects are mostly fine, though some feel weak and some are +10db compared to everything else. The AI is all over the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ place and I really don't know if they're bugged or what, but damn. Take them off the meth and give them brains please. Level design doesn't make sense. For example, why would we go down a single file double stairwell, through a double door, into a down slope double wide stairwell, into a barracks (from the Bomb Squad mission, fyi)? Why is every mission go to point 1, hold out, go to point 2, hold out, rinse and repeat? I haven't gotten to the end, so hopefully there's more variety later on.

Had a great time from the get go playing this with my squad. Im not into conversing with the NPCs so much so they could have toned that down. But the actual game play is solid and fun. Great atmosphere and sound. Solid AI. Learnng curve is low. No major issues from me. Looking forward to playing through this. Solid price point as well.

Cannot recommend this game right now in its current state. I have lost count on the amount of times a door has failed to open/locked itself before the entire team walks through (yes people still explorer or don't stick with the group, or run ahead). Only to run into a the inevitable "everyone needs to be here" to progress. Additionally, the amount of times an FMV plays that leads to to a black unrecoverable screen that has sounds, subtitles, noises... Which leads to me forcing a close, re-open, sit through all that opening garbage, to try and reconnect (maybe it does, maybe it doesn't) for the FMV to play again and end with with several possibilities, A) Let me resume playing, B) Let me stand still unable to move, C) Lets the enemy kill me. D) Goes back to a black screen. A couple other of things that happen from time to time, swapping armor swaps the gender of the character/look of the head. The head vanishes randomly and I need to re-customize the character. Makes this a regret buy at this point in time.

Friend bought me this game to play together. We watched Aliens (1986) right before. Game was a blast, story was perfect for the universe, in my opinion. Skill tree for the classes feel cool and fun to play with. Plenty of guns to pick from. WillContinueToPlay/10 oh, and +2 for having a horde mode

Constant DC, Host crash, Map Resets to BEGINNING, Some weapons useless, Paid weapons behind DLC stronger than some base weapons. AI are completely useless will not shoot at targets near them, solo mode has nodes to increase there damage/hp etc means nothing if they do not shoot and constantly block you playing. Recoil on some guns to such a level where you are just constantly pulling down for hundreds of rounds to counter, i gave up and just use smart gun (auto aim) on all classes with damage modifier, who the hell wants to hold multiple mouse buttons while pulling down for 500 rounds as each one does 3/4 damage per shot. Hidden stat, that is not explained apart from in a tool tip menu over 4 pen prevents shots bouncing of SOME, that's right SOME have more than 4 resistance, so you need MORE pen than tooltip states. So either maximize the pen or just not use 60% of the weapons. ( Important on higher difficulties as there are more elites, less so on IGN or Standard skill levels ) I played the original, never felt this much grief while playing, spend most of my time inside the HUB shooting walls to try and make some guns playable, such as maxing recoil reduction just to reduce the amount of pulldown on most guns or simply give up and just install the auto-aim augment. Do not even get me started on friendly fire, people seem to miss the part where above standard it states "friendly fire enabled"

Fun game, builds upon the first. It has occasional bugs, but nothing game breaking yet. Definitely recommend.

its bad in every way other than visually. 1. locking certain basic things like cosmetics or challenge cards behind game progression feels like a lazy way to forcibly pad out hours played. 2. enemies jittering or even outright teleporting is a constant issue, especially during the second-half of the campaign. 3. the audio is dog water to be frank. the aliens sound like theyre halfway across the room from you even if theyre up in your face, voicelines can and will repeat with an echo, the guns are only passable. 4. the dialogue is terrible. if they were intending to make an obnoxious 'so quirky lol' character then they did raptor well. ko has the personality of easily forgettable cardboard even for someone supposed to be the hardass type. shipp. piper i feel as though could have had better development other than 'i spoke once on the comms now im learning :)' esther and wrench i like simply because they feel more natural compared to the rest. 5. i struggled to pay attention to the storyline on account of the fact that it was so bland and samey. the prologue had me hooked, i was excited. the 2.x missions managed to keep that excitement building up until 3.1 even if there were fair leaps of escalation. the more you start to learn about the big evil doctor, however, and the further you progress into that arc the worse it gets until it becomes nothing more than a 'big scary scientist is doing EVIL and playing GOD.' 6. the ai clearly has a few screws loose as very frequently from what ive played, they would do things such as conga lining or get themselves stuck on nothing in an open space (an issue especially prevalent with the droid enemies). the only ai that seems to work decently well and kind of erratically are the synths, which is bad, because youd also expect that the xenomorph enemies would be able to do more than walk in singular straight lines at you. 7. semi infrequently (in my experience) the interaction key would either take one-two seconds delay or outright stop working. really just a nuisance compared to everything else. 8. the difference between the pre-rendered cutscenes, in-game cutscenes and the actual gameplay itself is utterly jarring to such a degree that it can pull you out of the immersion; going from wonderful to look at immediately into grainy 80s footage. this game is ultimately just fireteam elite 1 with prettier graphics and DOZENS of issues which one wouldve hoped wouldnt have been stuffed into a game that costs a whole 50 dollars. i love that they made challenge cards infinite, added new weapons and systems for said weapons, and abilities. but when i can count how many new things theyve added to 2 on both of my hands while the issues that persist infinitely, constantly grinding against you, its really just not worth it to purchase this game at full price. at best this is a game that you wait a year or two before buying, or buy it when its at a 15-20 dollar discount.