History YMMV / AliensColonialMarines

* OvershadowedByControversy: The game's TroubledProduction, two lawsuits for false advertising for using a highly-polished gameplay demo that was not representative of the final product and accusations of negligence during the eight years-lobg development of the game heavily damaged Creator/GearboxSoftware's rising reputation in the gaming community, enough that their following game; ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'', ended up bombing in sales (this and releasing close to the highly-anticipated ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'').

* CompleteMonster (includes ''[[{{DLC}} Stasis Interrupted]]''): [[AdaptationalVillainy Michael Bishop/Michael Weyland]] is the face of Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the mastermind behind their [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]] on Xenomorphs in hopes of creating a perfect bioweapon. Ordering his subordinates to build a massive Origin Facility on Acheron LV-426 moon under very harsh and deadly conditions and capturing the Xenomorph Queen to produce facehuggers, Michael kidnapped hundreds of colonists for his experiments, turning them into the hosts for the Xenomorphs, which always resulted in their agonizing deaths. Capturing Corporal Dwayne Hicks, Bishop tortures him for information, and after Colonial Marines discover his atrocities, Michael ordered his troops to destroy their ship, resulting in over 300 of the Marines dying.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: A common criticism of the game is that the titular aliens are only the main enemies for a small portion of the game. It's not as bad as detractors make it out to be, though--for instance, the entirety of Hadley's Hope is nothing but aliens, and they're often engaged in an EnemyCivilWar with Wey-Yu mercs later in the game.

* SerialNumbersFiledOff: A Website/YouTube reviewer named [=DXFan619=] [[https://youtu.be/aBHkricvocs?t=19m25s convincingly argues]] that the game is basically a fresh coat of paint on ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin]]'', which had the same lead designer.

* MemeticMutation: "Press Backspace to Fix Videogame", after it became widely known in 2018 that the game's infamous ArtificialStupidity was partially the result of '''[[https://www.resetera.com/threads/aliens-colonial-marines-ai-fixed-by-a-single-letter.55247/ a single spelling error]]''' in the game's code wherein the word "tether" was misspelled as "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin teather]]".

* SnarkBait: Despite the patches, updates, and general improvements to the game after the disastrous launch, a quick look at the Steam reviews (where the game now only sold as a collection compilation bundle along with all the DLC) makes you think of how players in general regard the game.

* CompleteMonster (includes ''[[{{DLC}} Stasis Interrupted]]''): [[AdaptationalVillainy Michael Bishop/Michael Weyland]] is the face of Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the mastermind behind their [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]] on Xenomorphs in hopes of creating a perfect bioweapon. Ordering his subordinates to build a massive Origin Facility on Acheron LV-426 moon under very harsh and deadly conditions and capturing the Xenomorph Queen to produce facehuggers, Michael kidnapped hundreds of colonists for his experiments, turning them into the hosts for the Xenomorphs, which always resulted in their agonizing deaths. Capturing Corporal Dwayne Hicks, Bishop tortures him for information and after Colonial Marines discover his atrocities, Michael ordered his troops to destroy their ship, resulting in over 300 of the Marines dying.

* CompleteMonster (includes ''[[{{DLC}} Stasis Interrupted]]''): [[AdaptationalVillainy Michael Bishop/Michael Weyland]] is the face of Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the mastermind behind their [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]] on Xenomorphs in hopes of creating a perfect bioweapon. Ordering his subordinates to build a massive Origin Facility on Acheron LV-426 moon under very harsh and deadly conditions and capturing the Xenomorph Queen to produce facehuggers, Michael kidnapped hundreds of colonists for his experiments, turning them into the hosts for the Xenomorphs, which always resulted in their agonizing deaths. Capturing Corporal Dwayne Hicks, Bishop tortures him for information. and after Colonial Marines discover his atrocities, Michael ordered his troops to destroy their ship, resulting in over 300 of the Marines dying.

* InternetBackdraft: When it was revealed that assets and money that were supposed to go the creation of this game were instead directed to other projects done by ''Gearbox'', fans were not happy at all and promptly called out ''Gearbox'' and Randy Pitchford for the mis-advertisement and lying engaged by the developers. Randy's comments after the game came out where he criticized gamers for apparently causing their own HypeBacklash did not sit well either, and many players, fueled by frustration, ditched supporting ''Gearbox''.

* ThatOneBoss: '''''The Raven'''''. Good God, the Raven. Its most criminal sin is making using a power loader a living nightmare. The boss battle starts as it means to go on, and it starts with an in-game cutscene of your character taking ten seconds to climb into the driver's seat ''without invincibility frames'', so if you started the battle with full armor it's pretty much guaranteed to be depleted before you can even drive the thing. Once you're onboard, you ''sloooowly'' turn around while respawning helper aliens nimbly dart around you, attack you from behind, and force your power loader to veer off-course while you're trying to guard against the actual boss. You have no idea what the difference is between your two attacks, as you haven't used a power loader before. You have no idea what the effective range of your attacks is, and most of them sail right over the tubed heads of the minion xenomorphs. You have no idea where they are, since the motion tracker attached to the loader jumps around all over the place and half the arena is under a shadowy overhang. The game gives no feedback on what you're supposed to do and whether it's working. And to top off this shit sundae with a rancid cherry, when you repeatedly bash the boss like you're supposed to, it ''constantly'' clips out of the arena. And you can tell Gearbox discovered that through playtesting, because it then immediately teleports right back inside the area. After you finally beat it, and the achievement for "Quoth the Raven" pops up, you will indeed say '''''NEVERMORE'''''.

** The Hadley's Hope colony surviving and being still semi-functional was explained by the devs as the 40MT blast (apltly described by Bishop as "this area's gonna be a cloud of vapor the size of Nebraska") being a vertical explosion, a claim that simply doesn't hold up with was established and actually seen in the movie.

* GeniusBonus: The Raven doesn't look or act very raven-like, does it? That's because it's named for older, variant definitions of "raven"--"to seize violently" or "to tear apart." Given that it does the former and looks like it received the latter, it's simultaneously fitting and ludicrously obscure.

* SerialNumbersFiledOff: A YouTube reviewer named [=DXFan619=] [[https://youtu.be/aBHkricvocs?t=19m25s convincingly argues]] that the game is basically a fresh coat of paint on ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin]]'', which had the same lead designer.

* MemeticMutation: "Press Backspace to Fix Videogame", after it became widely known in 2018 that the game's infamous ArtificialStupidity was partially the result of [[https://www.resetera.com/threads/aliens-colonial-marines-ai-fixed-by-a-single-letter.55247/ a single spelling error]] in the game's code wherein the word "tether" was misspelled as "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin teather]]".

* MemeticMutation: "Press Backspace to Fix Videogame", after it was discovered in 2018 that the game's infamous ArtificialStupidity was partially the result of [[https://www.resetera.com/threads/aliens-colonial-marines-ai-fixed-by-a-single-letter.55247/ a single spelling error]] in the game's code wherein the word "tether" was misspelled as "[[RougeAnglesOfSatin teather]]".

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: One of the main criticisms of the game, the titular aliens are only the main enemies for a small portion of the game, and most of it is spent fighting other marines.

** The game's obsession with modern military aesthetics and clinical jargon, like "Rhino 2-3 Actual". It tries way too hard to ape ''Call of Duty'' rather than the MildlyMilitary tone of the original film.

** The game's obsession with clinical military jargon, like "Rhino 2-3 Actual", that sounds like it's trying way too hard to ape ''Call of Duty'' rather than the MildlyMilitary tone of the original film.

* {{Narm}}: The Boilers are blind creepier-looking Xenomorphs that can walk right up to you and explode. It's too bad that when they walk up to you, they do [[http://i.minus.com/i212wUcwcU0eE.gif this]].
* NeverLiveItDown: People were using the NeverTrustATrailer mentality that this game brought about for the game's pseudo-sequel, ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'' - even though ''Isolation'' actually has a playable demo and was made by a different studio. Likewise, criticism of Gearbox exploded after this game's release. Recall that ACM has worse reviews than ''Duke Nukem Forever.''

* HarsherInHindsight: Hudson's cameo where [[spoiler: he's cocooned and had already been chestbursted]] could be this due to Creator/BillPaxton's death from heart surgery.