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  • AcidSnake 6 Feb 2013 14:24:21 6,692 posts
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    I have, though only once, and not yet in blu-ray (even though I have it)...
    A quick google confirms you're right though, definitely blood...I just thought that if someone took off part of my head with a pipe I'd shout out in pain instead of talking Ripley down...

    This does mean that AVP is even more non-canon...

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  • -cerberus- 6 Feb 2013 14:29:17 817 posts
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    Watch the blu ray! It's stunning :)

    "You see it too? For me, it's always like this..."
    (Angela Orosco - Silent Hill 2)

  • bitch_tits_zero_nine 6 Feb 2013 14:35:14 5,113 posts
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    I think if the Aliens are much easier to take down than in the films, this is a decent compromise for the sake of the game.

    CVG criticised this.

    Also, +1 to whoever said the pulse rifle sound effect is a plus point. Absolutely awesome.
  • onestepfromlost 6 Feb 2013 14:41:05 1,521 posts
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    AcidSnake wrote:
    I have, though only once, and not yet in blu-ray (even though I have it)...
    A quick google confirms you're right though, definitely blood...I just thought that if someone took off part of my head with a pipe I'd shout out in pain instead of talking Ripley down...

    This does mean that AVP is even more non-canon...
    It depends on what version of A3 you watch, i think one he is an android and one he is human IIRC
  • -cerberus- 6 Feb 2013 14:49:42 817 posts
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    @onestepfromlost There's only one true version of Alien³ and it's not the one FOX butchered for a theatrical release ;)

    "You see it too? For me, it's always like this..."
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  • Gruff 6 Feb 2013 21:54:45 2,311 posts
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    @Ultrasoundwave From Wikipedia (believe if you will)

    Aliens: Colonial Marines features a campaign with dynamic drop-in/drop-out cooperative multiplayer for up to 4 players online or 2 players locally via split screen.[17] Competitive multiplayer has been confirmed, and Gearbox has shown Aliens vs Marines team deathmatch 6 v 6 gameplay, as well as a 4 v 4 objective mode called Escape, where the marines team must reach an evac point while the alien team must hunt and stop them. Gearbox has said that there are other multiple "objective based modes" that have not been announced yet

    Apparently a "Hoard" mode kinda confirmed to follow at some point according to the Gearbox guy in the IGN vid

    Edited by Gruff at 21:57:18 06-02-2013
  • Oh-Bollox 6 Feb 2013 22:03:49 5,048 posts
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    Horde.

    /weeps
  • Gruff 6 Feb 2013 22:06:50 2,311 posts
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    I know, can't see it being great in hoard mode myself, but I like beers and gears modes co-op with your mates, rather than the L4D modes.

    You never know they might be innovative (lives in eternal cloud cuckoo land)

    Edited by Gruff at 22:09:02 06-02-2013
  • Kill_Crazy 7 Feb 2013 08:11:49 2,220 posts
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    Just pre-ordered this on Steam and hope it's not a mistake. I did enjoy AvP multiplayer but the SP was a bit poor, okay but not great. The main thing that worries me is the Tuesday morning review embargo. Call me cynical but i always expect the worse when a review comes out on the day of release. I'll still enjoy it as it's Aliens but i think we deserve another great Aliens game.

    I want to play AvP now....
  • Ultrasoundwave 7 Feb 2013 08:37:04 2,862 posts
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    @Gruff

    Cheers mate.

    I think the key phrase when it comes to this game is "hope for the best, prepare for the worst".

    Really hope its good but early indications are worrying.....

    "Look at banner Michael!"

  • itinkuravinalaff 7 Feb 2013 09:35:15 191 posts
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    I just can't bring myself to preorder this until I see positive rewiews. Hope it's not one of these better playing co op garbage, I'm a one man army.
  • jellyhead 7 Feb 2013 09:52:04 24,348 posts
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    I'll be waiting anyway because i want the Wii-U version. Works out well for me. Read the reviews while i wait for the release and then when it's time to decide there may be a sale on the PC version to tempt me.

    Win-Win :)

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  • neilka 7 Feb 2013 10:09:40 12,596 posts
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    You can already get the PC version for £21.85

    EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE FINE

  • Quixz 7 Feb 2013 11:52:17 20 posts
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    Pre-ordered my copy on Tuesday, how cool am I! :D
  • bitch_tits_zero_nine 7 Feb 2013 11:57:58 5,113 posts
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    Yeah I'm sticking with it. Fuck it, the graphics look ok. And the description of the game, backtracking over the same section sounds a bit like doom 3 to me, which didn't review well, but I still enjoy.

    I've budgeted the thirty quid now anyway so in a way it's a free game.
  • oldschoolsoviet 7 Feb 2013 12:07:33 4,931 posts
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    Oh-Bollox wrote:
    Horde.

    /weeps
    At $15, weep some more.

    You can read this ? You've helped ruin the place. :(

  • SomaticSense 7 Feb 2013 12:17:31 6,263 posts
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    bitch_tits_zero_nine wrote:
    I think if the Aliens are much easier to take down than in the films, this is a decent compromise for the sake of the game.

    CVG criticised this.

    Also, +1 to whoever said the pulse rifle sound effect is a plus point. Absolutely awesome.
    I can't remember what they were like in Resurrection, but in Aliens it literally took only a couple of AR rounds to down them.

    So that's a really strange criticism from CVG, unless we can actually now kill them using harsh language...

    Edited by SomaticSense at 12:18:04 07-02-2013
  • bitch_tits_zero_nine 7 Feb 2013 12:50:06 5,113 posts
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    I think the main criticism was that the game didn't achieve the same tension that the films did. So the aliens aren't as perceptively dangerous.

    I remember that in Aliens they weren't allowed to use the weapons because of the reactor; I wasn't aware that they ever engaged with the pulse rifle?

    Not that I know the films religiously well so I could be wrong tbh.
  • Deckard1 7 Feb 2013 12:55:54 19,224 posts
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    Erm yeah.
  • SomaticSense 7 Feb 2013 13:15:11 6,263 posts
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    They flouted the 'don't shoot' orders as soon as the xenos started peeling from the walls.

    The Pulse Rifle firing noise was mostly the only memorable sound effect from the whole film. Mostly. So it was definitely used a lot to kill xenos.
  • bitch_tits_zero_nine 7 Feb 2013 13:18:22 5,113 posts
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    heh; wrong it is then
  • Whizzo 7 Feb 2013 13:22:56 41,271 posts
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    Frost had the pulse rifle mags and he accidentally got set on fire, most of the gunfire when they're escaping from under the reactor is from Vasquez and Drake with their smart guns (Vasquez has a couple of mags stashed and she gives one to Drake) and Hicks's shotgun.

    Most of the pulse rifle versus xeno action is in the control room.

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  • onestepfromlost 7 Feb 2013 13:24:36 1,521 posts
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    the pulse rifle is used in the fight in operations, the evac from there through the vents, then ripley uses it going after newt, but i know what you mean, I dont think one is even fired until the fight in operations. Maybe one of them fires one drake fires at newt.

    EDIT: and as whizzo said the fight under the reactor is almost exclusivly smart gun fire, as all the ammo clips went boom

    Edited by onestepfromlost at 13:25:43 07-02-2013
  • LeoliansBro 7 Feb 2013 13:28:15 35,927 posts
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    Hudson fires at Newt, I think.

    LB, you really are a massive geek.

  • SomaticSense 7 Feb 2013 13:29:03 6,263 posts
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    Yeah I think you are both right!
  • bitch_tits_zero_nine 7 Feb 2013 13:30:10 5,113 posts
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    I think they could still be fun enemies to fight, In my mind they would work like Skags in Borderlands 2.
  • SomaticSense 7 Feb 2013 13:36:58 6,263 posts
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    Hopefully not Rabid Skags though.
  • neilka 7 Feb 2013 13:43:44 12,596 posts
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    I hope there's a Harsh Language skill where you can just call the aliens cunts until they run away crying.

    EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE FINE

  • bitch_tits_zero_nine 7 Feb 2013 13:47:56 5,113 posts
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    SomaticSense wrote:
    ... Mostly.....
    This wasn't lost on me btw.
  • Progguitarist 7 Feb 2013 13:49:35 8,950 posts
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    neilka wrote:
    I hope there's a Harsh Language skill where you can just call the aliens cunts until they run away crying.
    I hope there's a playable character called Wierzbowski that you never actually see in game.

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