Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2

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.

This game should have been a DLC for AFTE 1, not a seperate game with a 80$ price tag.

Decided to refund it after seeing that I had to manually select Private match every time. This is the developer's way to push and nudge people into public Matchmaking to make up the numbers. I have no intention of doing that, and at this point I'm allergic to poor developer decisions which are so cynical and so obviously designed as anti-player, so it's refund time! Edit: Things I forgot to add... The unlocks have been vastly reduced (you used to get three items from a Bonus Crate, now you only get one). The various sections of the weapon shop are now individually locked behind certain missions, to push the player into playing further to unlock a section of the shop to see how else they can customise their loadout. And the conversations required to unlock the next mission go on forever, even skipping through them. All of the things mentioned in this paragraph are a cynical attempt by the developers to push up the player's playtime, whether that is for their precious engagement statistics, or in the hope of the player losing track of time and playing over two hours and thus disqualifying themselves from getting a Steam refund. Absolutely cynical padding which was not needed and absolutely nobody asked for.

This is a rough one. I enjoyed the first one despite it being quite bland. The sequel feels more like a version 2.0 instead of a second game, kind of like the Fifa/Madden/NHL games. The game crashed within seconds of launching the game and changing my controls, not worth it right now.

I played the first game, this one is pretty much the same thing a few improvements but not enough to justify this price. It's not a AAA game. It's fun but not at this price they didn't change / add that much to justify the price.

Who came up with the idea of forcing players to complete missions just to unlock basic things like muzzle attachments, optics, cosmetics, and other equipment? What is the reasoning behind this? It feels like pointless progression padding designed to keep people playing longer rather than actually making the game better. Are you seriously that worried about people refunding the game that you need to lock basic content behind missions? What makes it even worse is that this is supposed to be an online co-op game, yet there isn’t even a proper in-game chat system. How do you release a cooperative multiplayer game without one of the most basic communication features? That should have been an obvious requirement from the beginning. And then you charge this much for the game as if you're delivering AAA-quality production. The current quality does not justify the price at all. I have played free browser games on Y8 that felt more complete and better thought out than this. At this point, the best feature of the game is that it is available on Steam, because at least Steam gives me the option to refund it.

My god this is bad, I didn't even finish the first mission and I am refunding the game 21 minuets is all it took. Firstly it's 2026, the game looks terrible and it actually looks worse than the first game. You'd think the graphics would have been better. The gameplay is okay, run around shoot aliens and place down different items like turrets ect in different rooms while clearing waves and waiting for doors to open, I looked at gameplay it seems that is a common thing in most missions. First mission just did not grab me, then I got to an in game cut-scene and it looked terrible, I turned off motion blur, yet this cutscene had a blur effect around the character that was moving around. It also had crap dialogue and my character was doing stuff like throwing a phone at this woman off screen. Again it's 2026, it should have been able to render my character into the cutscene, with the limited customization that can't be hard. Wait for a heavy discount to play this guys, honestly just not worth it right now. 20 minuets is all it took for me to just realize the rest was going to be a rough ride.

If you liked the first one, you'll love this one.