Aliens: Fireteam Elite - Angry Review

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a disaster right away [Music] you [ __ ] it up i've brought oj and alex my fellow uh marines who uh played the whole game with me it is an oddly three player cooperative game uh i wish it was a four-player cooperative game so we could have had some of our community members join us but i guess i would have been too busy on the screen cuz you don't want the healing oh god god damn it you [ __ ] watch my line of fire god damn it joe [ __ ] because of the words you're the worst joe you're the only one that's gone down cause it gets pretty crazy especially when oj is using his freaking flamethrower just hold the button hold the button all over my screen who gave you a flamethrower they gave it to me for free i was like yes this is amazing could you imagine three flamethrowers at once it would have been we had three at one point i had a point through a turret and you both had your normal flamethrowers running around it was great she's a bad idea sir uh i know i'm fine i'm fine joe don't worry about it all right i'm all right burn everything flamethrowers are awesome i'm not gonna blame you joe um anyways i really like this game guys uh it has some obvious shortcomings um but i'm a huge aliens fan so you have to take that into account because i'm willing to forgive some things i'm an alien casual because you do need to forgive some things but as a survival game where you're fighting waves and waves of enemies the alien's license turns out to be perfect for it and uh that's what this game is the aliens license works extremely well come on you [ __ ] you want something yeah you like it die die get away from me you'll never get me alive i wanna go in the corner [Music] what did you guys think i thought this was a good game um the thing that i didn't really like it's like there wasn't a lot of variation in some of these modes or some of these chapters i kind of wish it was like a boss fight or something and they didn't really utilize the horror element i don't think until the very end the last chapter was way better because i kind of wanted like a cool scene like you have to like sneak through like oh yeah a whole bunch of eggs trying not to wake them up if they do chaos ensues something right like there's no scripted sequences like that that really amp up the [ __ ] what about you alex i i am a huge aliens fan uh one of the first online games i ever played like all the time was a game called aliens online store it was incredible it had game it had features that this game needs so desperately but i really did enjoy this game it has massive shortcomings and there's i don't i don't care about the excuses well it's a small studio it's like look you've got a license that this big you could have had a lot more help brought in you could have done a lot more things here so there's a lot of things missing yeah that's just let's show it some tough love here yeah and so it's like i do i do love it but at the same time it's like look you've got one of my favorite ips and you yeah it's my favorite movie of all time and you didn't do enough like on it like you did a lot really really well the atmosphere was incredible the sound design was incredible three of the four missions are good and then well okay hold on alex you did that too much we're gonna go into some of the points here uh my main concern initially was that the aliens license didn't have enough content right it's restrictive there's only a certain amount of weapons we've seen in the movie um and it kind of you know is a little restrictive because they did have to make up some new stuff here and what they did create though uh i think was just enough for it to be uh for it to make a customization system where you're able to select from different weapons and attachments and even abilities uh yeah where you could kind of slot in different skill modifiers i liked that system right you have different classes um there's four different classes at first i think it's gunner demolisher dock technician uh recon opens up at the end of the game and there's another class coming as free dlc but so they did have to create some new weapons and all the new stuff that they created fits perfectly in with the aliens license they did a good job there this is set 20 years after the film so it gives us a little bit newer technology and stuff like that like the colonial marines know about the xenomorphs and all these other things and some certain things have happened in the lore um and that's not to say that there aren't some you know flaws with the game mine was that there is literally no boss fights yes that was a big one for me just aliens with more health right oh that pistol mud off [Music] trauma station's down her nape i mean we there's really but those aliens with more health you we all go oh [ __ ] there are everybody focused it feels so good yeah and and that could be heightened even more with multi-layered boss battles in that sense but because right now there's no difference between a warrior and a praetorian but health you know armored to stun him and shoot and the dawn of shoot the crusher bull like alien stunning and the praetorian and warrior they all function exactly the same unfortunately unidentified zeno where's that oh [ __ ] what the [ __ ] is that grenade launcher go boom it's a crusher cool what is it oh [ __ ] praetorian hit him hit him with the grenade he's cute as [ __ ] oh [ __ ] [ __ ] i can't believe you nailed one of them yeah we did give me that petroleum jelly the royal jelly uh if they were boss battles they could have multi phases different attacks they would you know throw other aliens at you and stuff like that as it creeps into the walls and you have to stay but you know it doesn't really do that and the first sort of time it you think it does that is with this alien called monica but i mean we monk is a warrior we we will slap his ass just slaps me and goes running right and then goes away that's missed opportunity there because it's a gray alien you're like what is this there's something going on with the pathogen all this other stuff but it was again a very disappointing boss battle [ __ ] monica monica's down it's over i got her ass so about every single boss battle in this game is disappointing and it lacks boss battles the real ones um and worst of all is you don't even fight the queen what happens in the queen mission you're going you're just right yeah i mean you're right yeah you're right i mean this isn't a movie review joe this is a game review people need to [ __ ] know the name of the the mission that you can see is called regicide like you know that you're going to fight you know the queen but you don't if you don't if you make an aliens game and you don't [ __ ] put the queen in it you're done [ __ ] up okay yeah it doesn't do anything so like this is a huge miss opportunity where look i'm not expecting three colonial marines to fight a queen not saying that you have to kill the queen fend off the queen use the environment do something this is just a oh i say you have to kill the queen well you do nothing you do nothing with to the queen like the queen like did even kill you like did normal alien kill you no she didn't really even get anywhere close to me she just like pops out of the wall and goes right and you guys you guys were [ __ ] leaving me by i was like wait and i turned out to be behind there was a time oh that's great thanks guys what do you mean what do you mean what do i mean i said this way he said follow him oj i did like the tension there we made it with like one second remaining how did we literally had one second left yeah but but i wanted to fight the queen she's the final boss battle you just run from her and that was a huge disappointment for me i will say this did take some points off the game uh because having no boss battles in the queen fight being basically so disappointing and running away from her uh you have to be prepared for that so let's talk about the gameplay though uh i think third person works surprisingly well it does lessen the [ __ ] like you said joe uh but it does let you guys they should have done more with it like you're walking down a hot like a little hallway or something and from the distance you just see like some run past you or something do some tension moments that would have been great yeah they they set themselves up for failure doing third person if they wanted to include any sort of horror right so there are jumps jump scares right where they have uh prowlers ambush ambush don't let him get you i guarantee he's up there my [ __ ] ambush shoot him off me when i get over there who's he gonna get ah [ __ ] i [ __ ] knew i knew it was coming still made me jump lightly because i knew it was coming and these are these alien type that hide and then they jump on you when they run process and there's a couple of times [ __ ] [ __ ] but the guy tells you but there's not a lot the guy does tell you he's like prowler it's like wait a minute how did you [ __ ] know the prowler because he says it way sooner than it leaps out ambush ambush what i don't see the numbers i don't see the embers [ __ ] of course you'd never see an ambush well you said it before it actually happens [ __ ] [ __ ] well because you're also in third person so you can literally see around corners and then you can see this this is this guy looking around going i can't wait and it's like oh no and he's just standing and he's just standing there he's like oh no uh like i said it does lessen the horror but i thought it was going to be a colossal disaster just like in game play but no it was fun you could see the aliens crawling on the walls you know and and and around corners and stuff and it just and at one point the game sort of turns into a gears of war cover shooter because there's a cover mechanic but you never need to use it except for a handful of missions when the synth commandos show up and then you start to use that cover for a little bit but um i think uh one of the because i as much as i like the game and as much as i just love the universe and i think they really have respected it and and done uh you know a good job yeah i gotta say content is lacking do you guys it's hugely lacking for i mean yes it's a forty dollar game but we've played a lot of forty dollar games and like this is so much less content than the like a 60 game like we get in something like outriders and we even gave out writers [ __ ] for look after a while to combat luke gets points bosses and events and all these other things so this as much as i like the initial loop i've played some more offline without you guys i played with them other people in the community and the more i play this game the less i like this game because you start to you start to see that you know everything starts to wear thin in the gameplay loop aliens run down three lanes and they take turns it's like there's this sad alien conductor that goes and then this ai goes like all right everyone goes left this time it's like but why i want the aliens to rush us in all different ways so i'm looking around the room and it's so predictable that the aliens will be like oh everyone's gonna run left this time and so i can look at the left wall and then i can run over and look at and then no one's going to flank me there may be one that one that spawns behind us okay that's that's after playing multiple times as your first play through you don't know where the aliens are coming you still have the feeling like okay they're in front of us and the marines will call out they're behind us and stuff like that so i think that your initial play through what matters the most is it feels good but upon repeat plays you'll see some of the flaws even when we lost a single mission there was a time where we lost a mission where we replayed the mission we're like all right everyone look left everyone look right there you know yeah with a single play through yeah your second playthrough yeah if you if you ever die in a mission there's no tension left in that mission we started just sprinting through missions realizing we weren't in any sort of dangers i worry about the replayability of this game i'm speaking about ai too like i was playing single player it is trash the ai really sucks on the standard they don't they just get in your way don't do anything then i tried it on intel oh yes the marine ai what you're talking about there is like yes this is a good game if you play with your friends play with your friends but you try to play alone no garbage garbage especially yes we have to call that okay okay um as far as content again i feel like there's two thirds of a game here uh when you look at it if you were to just give me one third more i think i could have been like yes this is a good amount of content for 40 but there are four chapters there are three missions in each of those uh for 12 missions total and that's all is here and a horde mode you're right but that's what we've been doing all game long joe so it's like honest i'm not really jonesing to play get it jonesy there's no kiddies in this unfortunate it needs to be jonesy in here somewhere that would have been an extra point right maybe if if you can use it as a as a pet animal attack take a facehugger um alex painted me a little miniature with uh jonesy attacking a facehugger anyways um we finished it in about i looked at i was about eight or nine hours with repeating some levels too so um and this game really does seem like it wants you to replay it because there's two more difficulties and but even on intense already things can get pretty crazy uh joe what the [ __ ] we're gonna die if you don't get your back wow these [ __ ] warriors man what are you doing joe i'm dying what do you want to do man i'm dying what i'm stopping what the [ __ ] is this supposed to be there's no [ __ ] way no [ __ ] way i guess we we were we were not supposed to fight that we were all supposed to get through the [ __ ] chopper [Applause] i cannot even imagine it on extreme or insane it would be crazy um the game also has these challenge card modifiers though uh they do things like remove your hud or [ __ ] with your motion scanner make your guns jam that one sucks the game it makes the game dif more difficult in some ways in exchange for giving you some credits and experience that you can level up faster so that you can get attachments and gear faster so you can play this the missions over um it works well to vary things up but it is not a replacement for content i would have preferred you know more missions in in the game so um can you guys tell that it was a little bit of a budget title the 40 price yeah yeah i would have been crazy just if this was 60 dollars there would have been yeah all right we would have probably been below average just stuff like that right so so in all the cut scenes there's no lip syncing at all uh you just zoom in on the guy there's great voice acting i am not going to [ __ ] on the voice again i think the marines all sound like [ __ ] marines uh you know and and the lore is great but you know you could tell that it's a budget title they don't even do lip syncing or the station find hanukkah and extract them staff sergeant herrera will be the voice in ears movements and provide support so warn you your there's no lip syncing but there is voice acting okay seems a little lower production value um in fact it's a very first game from cold iron studios sort of and this is something that people keep typing in chat and i think is not accurate these are this is this a studio that is from a different studio like they've done games before this is the first like oh sure so it's the first one but still when you're when you're getting a team together and you're making a game it it could turn out [ __ ] just because you have industry veterans doesn't mean they're going to crank out the best games yeah and i got to say it's in far better shape than at least gearboxes aliens colonial marines which had a multi-million dollar but way more budget than this game their ai is downright ineff hello my baby hello my honey hello um and this game actually has a little bit more polish now there are some bugs we ran into a few but uh nothing like aliens cologne or marines it passed my test yeah you didn't bug everything like well there was a couple audio bugs that were horrible but like they were real small through those questions and that's about it yeah so through those 12 missions uh i want to talk about variety alex variety what are the missions like uh okay so you as you as a group of three uh you move from from the starting point to like the other point and then you hit the button and once you hit the button the button makes noise even if the button makes noise the button makes noise and noise is bad and the aliens will rush you usually in three lanes and i by usually i mean always in three different lanes always predictably one at a time because they take turns and then behind you if you're in name sometimes yeah and then that button is done because buttons take a while and then you rush to a new area with a different button and then and then a new area well sometimes there's a doodad you got to grab too and then so it's not a button it's a doodad and then there's a thingamabob sometimes that the bad guys drop yeah uh and then you gotta pick that up but those make noise yeah and when noises happen aliens show up well but by the way there's no killing bells on it by the way there is no noise when you hit the button i think it's hilarious and also aliens come when you rip dog tags off of uh dead soldiers makes noise but there is no noise oh [ __ ] the grabbing the tags off that marine has made the aliens upset hostiles incoming what we're doing is we're making fun of the fact that every [ __ ] mission is grab the thing hold and horde mode which i gave destiny [ __ ] for it i gave [ __ ] you know anthem [ __ ] for it so i'm gonna give alien [ __ ] for it yes i kind of expected it already because that's kind of how this game is built but every single segment of every single of one of these 12 missions it gets repetitive um and so i just wanted to mention that you have to be prepared for that and that was the end of the second chapter and no bus just waves and waves and waves uh oh it's starting to wear all my patience a little bit um i have some suggestions that could have broke broken things up for sure abc missions drop ship segments like those are done in sound only during the loading screens but we could have had a segment investigating segments like in batman that would ramp up the horror elements the tension like you're looking at all these dead bodies you're figuring out what happened and all what's going on and then [ __ ] starts to go down or just some mini games for hacking or dork cutting and welding that kind of stuff would break up these monotonous even if you don't want to get into completely new development stuff like more timed missions where it's just like hey you you set the charges now get the hell out of here and it's less about sitting here for 10 minutes and shooting and like how do we get from point a to point b into 30 seconds you're saying even with the restrictions even with restrictions and we're like look no more no more development no we don't have the program an apc you already have a timer built in the game timer is really easy sure and just like do more things to break up yeah sit and camp they have two timers one at the final mission and one during one of the other missions um but honestly you know and we're trying to help them out there but no really it does it did need some extra development or something to vary it up if we're going to give other game ship for we got to give this game ship for it um and finally i think one really good idea uh it was brought up i mean uh i i was developing an aliens board game behind the scene with kevin wilson i saw we had some ideas with alex where in this board game like it was possible where there was a mechanic where one of your buddies could get captured you know during gameplay and taken to the hive and so you need to go and rescue him and like pull him out of the hive like that would have been awesome in this game especially since there's only three players would have been like we gotta go get him you know um look further into the high i actually do feel like we're [ __ ] pushing into a goddamn hype we're going the wrong way boys all of these could still be content updates you know um as i don't think this game is going to get a sequel so anything that's coming for this game november the dlc is coming out yeah but whether it's something crazy like new stuff like that i don't think so probably be more story missions and uh the announced class that they've already announced um but what did you guys think about how it even advanced the lore in the series because uh aliens colonial marines was touted all this is canon it's gonna do everything's gonna be best and they kind of [ __ ] it up again yeah again i'm uh alien casual i just know the films i don't go okay well we're not going with joe go with alex uh i i view aliens lord the way i do star trek lore where anything that happened after i don't remember what year let's say there's a period of time where it's just like it's this is new aliens laura and i don't give a [ __ ] um because it's been kind of bad well i loved it but you say it's bad no i said after like so alien love aliens aliens love and then there's some other ones they're like guilty pleasures but then we get into like well they don't really talk about covenant as much after any of that other [ __ ] it's like i don't give a [ __ ] well obviously we're just focusing on collodia marines i loved it i think the colonial marines are now kind of less a lackey for wayland i always hated that that the company kind of used these marines to whack around people uh hyperdyne is now a separate company and they mentioned the progressive peoples uh which i wish one day we'd get to play against or with if they're like the other kind of human faction in this universe and world that you know uh they've even tried to pit you know the united americas and colonial marines and start a intergalactic war and stuff like that it's been in the rpg that we've played uh they even had [ __ ] working joes in the game from alien isolation i thought that was cool so i love the way they integrated the lore i think it's great they have a new mother uh ideas mother is like the computer systems that control things they introduce commissars you know there's a little bit of warhammer 40k up in there and the frontier war so you're going through all the lore and you're you're listening to all the voiced things from the intel's it's like goddamn but i need a picture or i need at least some lip syncing or something else it's just pure you know voice voice stuff but i think they did a good job there um it does even include some pretty cool you know prometheus lore uh that we've seen in in pretty cool prometheus laura i don't like that statement at all yeah i liked it oh i loved it i like engineers these the sculptures of the engineers and even even the pathogen sort of factors in here if you know alien lore but unfortunately no actual engineers in the game you got zombies you have they put zombies in your [ __ ] aliens game [ __ ] joe joe you won't play a [ __ ] zombie game i would have resulted in an at least an additional point from me uh if the engineers i hate how we get teased all the time in alien games with the space jockeys and we never ever get a payoff there to actually see one or fight one or something they had a huge opportunity but wasted it um maybe in a dlc update i don't know yeah the lore is one of the the other things that was great until it wasn't and you mentioned like a picture and i don't need fully animated cut scenes from a triple a studio there are so many games budget games indie games that cost five dollars that have amazing voice over work and they've got an amazing image that if you own an alien's license you probably have access to the fox vault because that's how licensing works and you can show a picture i've got a geiger image and it's like fading in and going around and doing cool things and that could it does so much because we finished a mission and then the screen goes black and now you're you're in the thing and there's no voiceover there's no anything else after the fact like there's even like program where like a mission ends and it's like go to the corner of the map to get picked up but it doesn't look like you could get picked up there yeah and the mission just ends in the face of black it's like they didn't finish developing no i think we're fine oh we have to go over here two or three squad reigning did you see how the end of the level wasn't really designed where we get extracted it was just like kind of go in the little cocoa in the corner go on the corner of the level yeah that's where we'll say you get picked up needs a little bit there but okay so let's um it sounds like we're we're hating on the game because we're constantly picking at it we're we're doing all these negatives but it's because it's such a simple idea or it's like waves and waves the alien license is perfect for that the look is perfect the sound is perfect the music i'll say the music is fantastic i love the music i love the additions to the lore and i think they pay respect for it to the license and they didn't [ __ ] it up like gearbox did [Music] the [ __ ] the hell did i get all dressed up for [ __ ] so let's go to the final verdict okay final verdict for me i'm gonna give this a six i did have fun with it i think that's like slightly above average yeah i felt like a marine like above average so much fun just like killing stuff but i at the end of every mission it just felt like faded to black and just like it was lackluster especially chapter four that was the end yeah i was like that's it it's like yes what's going on it does feel like hey wait a minute and then they start talking about all these people coming right and this is that it's like but no the game is over and it's like well what the [ __ ] it's like well dlc is coming in november yeah we're doing it now as excited for 40 i think i would probably wait it wasn't i wish they kind of would have had more guns i like uh for my class there was only a couple guns i could have used and they didn't really have a lot of rifles are limited to the gun i don't know the lore maybe that's just what i'm stuck with but as soon as i found my gun i was like well this is what i'm gonna do so i'm just gonna level these up yeah and i didn't really want to do the other ones and this is a game where you have to have to play with friends because the ai is not really going to have a lot of fun yeah i think that's why joe's had a six out of ten because he put a lot of time into the single player which is not up to parkinson's no and uh like i said again the variation i wish they would have done something with that or some kind of horror element because the first time i saw aliens or alien i was [ __ ] scared tough love from other joe what about alex uh i i like this game i think it's got a i don't want to say a satisfying gameplay loop i mean i think it's it's good for one one playthrough i don't think that this has the legs that a lot of the games that people are comparing to like it's not left for dead it's missing way too much content um i mean it would would have been amazing if we could play as the aliens we don't play as the aliens that mode itself could have given it unlimited replayability no man that that technology only existed in the the mid 90s when you and i were playing it online on dial-up internet and i can explode up on these fools go for it go for it go for it that was [ __ ] awesome i was keeping them uh i think they did so much right you can tell that these people really truly cared about the aliens license because you're going through and you're like this is an easter egg the sound design is is right uh you know face huggers are a menace and there's so many other things but they they do so much right and then they just stop abruptly as far as quality goes like the rpg elements i the guns i started with as a technician i never upgraded because they were the best in slovakia pistol was the best weapon in the game and if you got it at the beginning and you started with it and if that's not the best in the game the pump shotgun is the best in the game and that's my other weapon and the technician was overpowered but but frankly you switched from the the dock sucks from the dock the dock was just so underpowered min max yeah they they have some balancing issues that i they can fix in a patch i'm not going to really you know harshly grade them on the rpg elements i think that they did just enough for me not to be mad at them but they could have done so much more there's one two optics per gun maybe three optics per gun and there's like very little variation between them i don't think this is a game that i want to play again i'm glad i played it i'm a huge aliens fan i love aliens video games and they did just enough for me to not be upset and because i'm such a big fan i'm going to give it a 7 a little bit higher than you but this if someone's like hey do you want to play this next week no i'm done i think until they drop new content this is a one and done for me and i'm one and done at 40 bucks because that's what i would do tuesday all right i play the game shelf it kill the dlc you think they get oh don't say that you talking about us in horde mode uh i think it earns a seven out of ten it is because i am highly biased i love it's my favorite film i think they did it justice they did it right i want you to buy it but i want you to say joe is probably right out of all of us because he's got the casual you know we could say like i'm not in love with aliens why is a single player ai so bad and all these other things and what could have been now first game first time studio great yeah it's a one and done um but honestly it could have very well been higher the game could have reached higher it could still reach some of that with free content but they've actually not detailed any of the free content other than a new class um but there could be new story and i'm hoping there is because the game literally just stops and it cuts off and it says hyperdyne is coming and so is wayland and there's still aliens on the ground and there's still the [ __ ] queen there and it's like nuke it from orbit the guy's like no we can't nuke it from orbit because it'll make a mess i'm like that's not how that works it incinerates everything space mess what exactly so it loses a point for the lack of content and and the lack of boss battles and it's just a bit on the repetitive side so those three things kind of bring it down for me to a seven out of ten um could have used that varying mission types but this is amazing to me for a first time studio i think it's solid if you're an aliens fan definitely pick it up it's not gonna you know piss you off or make you angry uh like aliens colonial marines and i hope that maybe they're just kind of dipping their toe in there seeing if it's getting enough sales that maybe we might get some extended story stuff some new modes uh some new characters and then by then it could be an eight nine you know who knows so we'll we'll see that but that's it for aliens fire team uh elite weird name aliens fire team would have done it fine no delete uh but thank you guys so much for watching and we will see you on the next angry joe show bye guys tell us all this [ __ ] the name of science i will put my face in it [Music] [Music] you

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[u/Dee_Dubya_IV]

I think this a really good review for the game. Everything he says is fair and I completely agree with 90% of it.