Get the game on sale and install the ACM Overhaul mod and it's a pretty good game. Boss fights still suck (only so much the mod can do) but there are some cool bits. Also the single player DLC Stasis Interrupted is good.

Extremely fun with a friend in co-op altough it is very janky sometimes (crashes and some glitches)

Should be played with TemplarOvehaul mod

I am using the Templar Overhaul mod and the game is still not fun to play. It's EXTREMELY difficult to see and shoot the aliens even with the motion tracker and light. By the time I see an alien it is already on top of me and I watch my life drain while mashing X to get it off me. Playing this game makes me want to play Aliens Fireteam Elite or Alien Isolation or literally any other Aliens game instead.

I can't lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies

Honestly? Kind of a flop. I'll go over the game in numbered sections, so get ready to read about a generally bad game.
1. The plot. Oh, the plot. To put it simply the game is 'get to queen alien and kill queen'. If a game's plot THAT simple, is it really worth playing? And also? No plot twists. Even AVP has plot twists. I'll talk more about AVP later.
2. The gameplay. Look, if you're gonna play as a marine in the alien games, go play Aliens Versus Predators. That campaign may not have ADS (Aim Down Sights), but it is at least better than a bland game with no fun and basically just shoot aliens. You can only get so much enjoyment from shooting aliens and humans.
3. The multiplayer. The multiplayer could've saved this game. If there was multiplayer now. This game, and sadly AVP too, had no end-of-life plans for multiplayer. So what do they do for both the games (but mainly Colonial Marines)? They ditch the multiplayer! Yeah, that's what they did to this! Horrible, at least to me.
4. Conclusion. This game sucks, don't buy it, and most of all, go outside and touch grass every once in a while, okay?

Copacetic

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WINTER, MOVE!

Downloaded the mod (we all know which one) and this game was instantly enjoyable. If you loved Aliens, you'll definitely get a kick out of this!

If the Alien franchise went steeply downhill after the second part, that was probably not enough for 20th Century Fox. And Gearbox, the legendary development studio behind beloved and well-received hits such as Half Life, Borderlands, Brothers in Arms and Duke Nukem, secured an inglorious place in the history of probably the worst licensed-games of all time with its 2013 Aliens: Colonial Marines. What was finally presented to the audience there can perhaps only be described as a glorious mess. Even for its time of release, poor graphics and andrepetative gameplay as well as a shocking lack of detail and an overall loveless, rushed presentation. The allied AI is mostly useless, the alien AI stupid and easy to predict after a few minutes in the game. The background story, which is set after Alien 3, is not very interesting, neither scary or fun and surprisingly listless. However, there are some good ideas in the game, approaches that suggest that the developers had more in mind, but for some reason did not even begin to imply and exploit them in a meaningful way, such as the motion tracker or the possibility to hide in lockers - a feature that would only return years later in Alien: Isolation. Weapons can be modified as experience levels increase, but they make little difference. A feature error that fortunately was not made in Alien: Fireteam Elite. The locations are all too familiar and offer absolutely nothing new or surprising, only the DLC is a bit better, but it looks like it was cut out of the main game. All in all, again one of those licensed games that had the potential to print money like crazy but were completely screwed up instead. Why they didn't manage to deliver a kind of updated Alien vs. Predator game like back in 1999, especially with such a good and talented studio as Gearbox Software, will probably remain a mystery of the video game industry.