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Aliens: Colonial Marines on 360

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Aliens: Colonial Marines is a Singleplayer,firstperson game available on the 360.

Aliens: Colonial Marines is a Singleplayer,firstperson game. Mini games come in a variety of shapes and sizes. What unites the genre is the speed with which players can pickup the games and the relativley short time requried to complete a level or two.

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Dressup Gamer review Tue, 23 Aug 2011

Aliens: Colonial Marines 360 is a squad based shooter that promises the most well-realised depiction yet of marine versus alien. The role of a space trooper on something other than just another bug hunt fills me with dressup anticipation.

Since watching the Aliens films in the 80's, the terror of colonial marines facing xenomorphs has fascinated me, and I've been intrigued about opportunities to join them in their struggle. Obviously, that would be from the perfectly safe interface afforded by video games. No other science fiction film since has ever quite captured that same feeling of standing against the seemingly unstoppable horde with only their combined courage giving them any hope.
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Scared Gamer review Sat, 23 Jul 2011

Aliens: Colonial Marines returns to LV: 426 after the Aliens film. Local and online cooperative modes sound like great fun, but are in danger of undermining Gearbox's ability to gnaw away at and disempower players to match the celluloid experience.

Aliens: Colonial Marines has me scared, but my fear is one of contradiction - simply put I am worried it will not be scary. The irony doesn't escape me, but my reasoning is sound. I loved the three Alien movies (lets make a deal to ignore forth one), each looked at a different kind of disempowerment.
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