Quick Look: Aliens: Fireteam Elite

Looks like a competent game made by professionals.

I feel like GTFO does this 1000% better. Maybe some kind of fusion of that and this could result in something interesting.

Old AVP games got it right decades ago when motion trackers tracked motion. It wasn't just a perfect radar of enemy positions.
If something harmless in the level was flapping around, it would get picked up and beep at you.

This game felt like such a slog.

I've enjoyed my time with this game so far - the later levels introduce more enemies/etc than the game lets on with in the early missions. Feels like Outriders to me in a sense, probably worth messing around with friends in for a couple of weeks but may not hold you past that.

Jeff was coming into the quick look with a lot of good energy

It feels like you've seen everything the game has to offer in the first couple of levels. Having said that, it looks and plays pretty solid, and that's not something we've gotten from an Aliens action game in a long time. They really seem to have forgotten about the acid blood, though. Would love to see a game where that's a systemic thing and it eats holes in the environment.

Has anyone played solo? Is the AI useless?

@mattchops: It seems acceptable from what I played.

The person who said this looked like a 360 game is pretty spot on. Looks so bland and lifeless, thank you for playing it Jeff. Now I can get back to forgetting everything about it.

Sounds to me like Jeff wanted an "Alien" game, but they made an "Aliens" game. Those are very different things.

I think reliable multiplayer is the best way. Feel free to add me and each other!! I am rustyramclam on playstation. Be excellent to each other.

@stuewe: Exactly. As someone who has only recently just seen the original classic movies (Resurrection being my only introduction to this series until now lol) I understand the distinction now.

This.

Jeff was clearly looking for another survivor horror type of Alien game. Aliens is what this game is accurately portraying. Like the movie, massive amounts of Aliens attack at once and a small team of soldiers have to fend them off.

Alien/Predator fan; I subject myself to every major media appearance and understand the consequences for these choices.

This game... character animations... everything is flat. Feels like the production goal was "functional," not creative or technical risk.

These aliens don't seem terribly frightening. Like, even the way they flutter to the ground after being shot off the ceiling is anticlimactic.

@furiousjodo: More enemies meaning weird non canonical alien variants like the old arcade game? Lol.

Alien: Isolation is the perfect horror game where this game is f&%*ing over the franchise for a goddam percentage.

@coldwolven:Don't worry, i think no one will remember this existing in a few years.

This game looks quite shit to be honest.

Jeff's new set up looks like it will be pretty sharp when it is complete.

I'm not sure you can make a game that really captures what made Aliens work. Sure, you can do the bit where a team goes in and fights a bunch of acid-blooded aliens, but unless you make it GTFO-hard you miss the point of the movie where the soldiers fail. This game looks like it lacks tension because everyone's mowing the enemies down without much thought. Your buddies aren't getting picked off left and right while you're running out of ammo and they still keep coming.

Maybe if you had a Mr. X kind of enemy constantly following you who is nigh-indestructible and you had to achieve your objectives and get out before it either picks off your whole team or you get overrun by its accompanying hordes? You'd probably have to have way shorter levels, though, or else people would be inclined to leave as soon as they die... Dunno, still think you can't make an game that gets Aliens right.