Solid squad level RTS that does a good job of capturing the Aliens world feel, the game for me was basically bug free and mostly enjoyable. The game does a good job of not flooding you with micromanagement tasks to play through, and getting all the cool gun + etc upgrades was fun. Story was decent and would like more.

The save system however was a bit of a PITA - you can't just save anywhere and you can go long stretches where you will lose time/progress. You save automatically at set points which can be very far apart, or can force a save by creating a safe room in some rooms. Creating a safe room requires using resources that you will be short on, and can only be done in certain rooms too. Considering that you can get wiped out pretty quick by a facehugger or even hitting the reload key (which is one key from the camera controls) and using up all your ammo when you cannot afford it, this sucks. I mainly play single player games and really don't like it when games decide I can't just save and deal with RL issues as needed.

The last mission was a large change of pace and kind of a let down, but oh well. Parts felt like a bad Dragon's Lair knock off, but it was short. You are probably looking forward to a big shoot out with the big bad boss, that ain't what you get.

The stress/trauma mechanic was a bit overdone, and it seems weird that a medkit can either fully heal a nearly dead marine or slightly reduce their stress levels. But once you get a couple of Sarges up in level and they can use reprimand, it isn't much of an issue. Again kind of weird that you can either:
a) have your Sarge yell at your grunts to stop them from freaking out
b) shoot a rocket
c) shoot a shotgun
d) etc
as they all use the same Command Point resource, but oh well.

Still, mostly fun and entertaining, so worth a play.

I played on medium difficulty and I wish I just played on the easiest mode.

The story, visuals and world are fantastic. I just don't enjoy the stealth mechanics that the game is heavily based on. I think the game would have been more enjoyable if the aggressiveness level bar didn't exist, but it forces you to play into the stealth mechanics. I get it. I just don't enjoy it.

I'm still playing through it, but I've seen enough to leave a review. Don't pay full price for this and it's worth it.

It's fun enough, but you run into bugs fairly early on that should've been patched in the year+ since release.
-loading from a saved game after rest, your stress levels have dropped, but you can rest again. i don't know if this was intentional, but it's hard to believe that it is. easily exploitable bug.
-tutorial hanging. got to the part of the game where a tutorial pops up explaining how to sneak around sleeping xenomorphs where i kept dying trying to figure out how to get through the warehouse. specifically the second one that tells me to get to cover to get out of the line of sight. that's when i discovered that occasionally it would bug and prevent me from clicking on anything or exit to the menu to reload. only fixed by a game restart. unacceptable when the warehouse was already making me mad enough to get through

unrelated to bugs
-the concept of how you can save is cool and all, but if you're going to limit it to that, give me options for rest spaces that DON'T require my very limited amount of tools, that are actually closer to important checkpoints. that way i'm not getting more and more annoyed at having to run back after a reload, and hearing the same boring one liners over and over again every time
-i'm way over recommended spec, and at transitions it chunks up noticeably for a split second
-the sense of urgency seems way over what you're capable of doing per day. i haven't gotten far enough to see exactly what happens if you let it get too far, but it just seems grossly overstated

that said, the game is interesting enough, but i'm only gonna play through this once and never again. the devs didn't care enough about this game.

GREAT GAME!
+ mechanics (great!)
+ story (v. good)
+ gameplay (fantastic!)
+ graphic, art & design!

- too short

Good game. Hope they make a sequel

It's intense, it's fun, it captures the mood of the movies well. I really liked the challenge.

A great concept, just not well executed. A lot of the classes are quite redundant, and after the initial quite open missions, becomes railroaded. Also, the cast are buffoons.

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Fun tactical game. A good fun level of difficulty that is not too challenging that it puts you off.
The story I thought was 10/10. It expands on the Alien lore without doing anything too dramatic.
A little buggy at time but if you can look past that you will have a amazing time.

Every character has really intense brows and if I play this game for long enough I start to hear the motion tracker beeps after I take my headset off

The story is bland, the characters are predictable, and you'll be hearing the same marine lines over and over, but it presents it all with this oo-rah earnestness that makes it actually rather endearing. The maps are all huge and well designed, and the gameplay is good and tense. If you like other tactics games like XCOM or Dawn of War 2's campaign then you'll probably like this one too.