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* ScrappyMechanic: The melee combat uses a TacticalRockPaperScissors system of light attacks, heavy attacks, and blocks. However in practice the enemies' attacks are hard to read, and if the wrong counter is used, melee combat can be a slog. This is why most players use ranged attacks and firearms the moment they can find them.
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** Predator Elite "[[PraetorianGuard Dark]]" is a brilliant hunter who infiltrates the world of the Yautja sacred hunting grounds, punishing the [[KickTheSonOfABitch humans who have desecrated them]] and finding the corpses of Predator youngbloods, setting their wrist gauntlets to self destruct to prevent the humans from [[CleanupCrew taking Yautja technology]]. Taking advantage of the chaos to kill multitudes of Xenomorphs and humans on the hunt, Dark even kills a Predalien singlehandedly, [[BattleTrophy taking the mask]] from his own great ancestor's tomb to reveal the ultimate prize for the next hunt: the Xenomorph home world.
** [[GeniusBruiser Specimen Six]] is an unusually intelligent Xenomorph who escapes from her captors in Weyland-Yutani before freeing several of her brethren, including the ancient Queen known as the Matriarch. [[ItCanThink Armed with her wits and strategic prowess]], Six cuts through entire swaths of Marines in defense of her hive while bolstering their ranks by harvesting civilians. Making her way to the Yautja ruins, Six single-handedly kills two Young Blood Predators and impregnates one Elite. Although captured once again, Six quickly escapes and [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning molts into a Queen herself]], having [[KickTheSonOfABitch exacted revenge on her captors]] and built a new hive to rule over.

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** Predator Elite "[[PraetorianGuard Dark]]" is a brilliant hunter who infiltrates the world of the Yautja sacred hunting grounds, punishing the [[KickTheSonOfABitch [[PayEvilUntoEvil humans who have desecrated them]] and finding the corpses of Predator youngbloods, setting their wrist gauntlets to self destruct to prevent the humans from [[CleanupCrew taking Yautja technology]]. Taking advantage of the chaos to kill multitudes of Xenomorphs and humans on the hunt, Dark even kills a Predalien singlehandedly, [[BattleTrophy taking the mask]] from his own great ancestor's tomb to reveal the ultimate prize for the next hunt: the Xenomorph home world.
** [[GeniusBruiser Specimen Six]] is an unusually intelligent Xenomorph who escapes from her captors in Weyland-Yutani before freeing several of her brethren, including the ancient Queen known as the Matriarch. [[ItCanThink Armed with her wits and strategic prowess]], Six cuts through entire swaths of Marines in defense of her hive while bolstering their ranks by harvesting civilians. Making her way to the Yautja ruins, Six single-handedly kills two Young Blood Predators and impregnates one Elite. Although captured once again, Six quickly escapes and [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning molts into a Queen herself]], having [[KickTheSonOfABitch [[PayEvilUntoEvil exacted revenge on her captors]] and built a new hive to rule over.
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* {{Sequelitis}}: It was seen by this at the time it was released, due to the popularity of the first two AVP games. Now, it is seen as a good successor, especially when compared to the Colonial Marines video game.

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* {{Sequelitis}}: It was seen by this at the time it was released, due to the popularity of the first two AVP games. Now, it is seen as a good successor, especially when compared to the Colonial Marines video game.''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines''.



* VindicatedByHistory: When the game initially came out, the game had quite the polarizing release with many furiously criticizing the repetitive gameplay and the confusing plot. It also had to deal with the fact that it had to contend with two incredibly popular games in the past decade. Now, with the disaster that was ''Colonial Marines'', along with the lackluster media released in both franchises recently, aside from ''Videogame/AlienIsolation'', the game is looked at much more kindly with many people remembering the game as a pretty good one and a worthy successor to the other two, and while the flaws are still there, they are rather minuscule in comparison to the flaws of future media in the two franchises.

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* VindicatedByHistory: When the game initially came out, the game had quite the polarizing release with many furiously criticizing the repetitive gameplay and the confusing plot. It also had to deal with the fact that it had to contend with two incredibly popular games in the past decade. Now, with the disaster that was ''Colonial Marines'', ''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines'', along with the lackluster media released in both franchises recently, aside from ''Videogame/AlienIsolation'', the game is looked at much more kindly with many people remembering the game as a pretty good one and a worthy successor to the other two, and while the flaws are still there, they are rather minuscule in comparison to the flaws of future media in the two franchises.
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* WhatAnIdiot:
** The Predators in the distant past qualify, as their inexplicable move of leaving the Matriarch in stasis in a pyramid instead of finishing her off ends up costing them a planet and killing countless innocents in the crossfire.
** Groves, despite having seen Six's intelligence firsthand, sends only ''two'' guards armed with pistols to prevent her from breaking out the Matriarch and shows a total failure to have any form of security to handle an outbreak.
** The Marines in the Alien campaign make shockingly bad decisions: wandering off by themselves despite knowing Six is in their area, going inside a room they were trying to trap Six in when the lights go out, and utterly failing to check the vents.
** The Predators constantly fail to use their self destruct devices. This is more obvious with the Elite Predator who ''also'' fails to use his self destruct device despite being more experienced.
** Pretty much every Xenomorph will happily appear right in front of the Marine wielding a shotgun in the Marine campaign, instead of just trying to grab him from behind.

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* TooDumbToLive: Several instances
** In the beginning, Weyland Yutani does not tell them that they are opening the pyramid. This leads to Six breaking the Xenomorphs out of the prison.
** Groves, having seen Six's intelligence firsthand, probably should have sent more than two guards armed with pistols to keep her from breaking out the Matriarch. Also, the total failure to have any form of security to handle an outbreak, such as possibly pulse rifles.
** Marines will frequently wander off by themselves despite knowing Six is in their area. Six promptly picks them off one by one.
** When the Marines trap Six in a building, one of them gets the smart idea to enter when she knocks the lights out. They also failed to consider the vent passage way.
** The Predators fail to use their self destruct devices. Its even more glaring with the Elite Predator, because he was more experienced.
** Pretty much every Xenomorph will happily appear right in front of the Marine wielding a shotgun in the Marine campaign, instead of just trying to grab him from behind.
** Rookie notices a room, peeks his head in and unwittingly opens a facehugger egg. He should have hugged the wall, and then instead of shooting the facehugger, gives it enough time to jump into the vents.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The treatment of the Xenomorphs by humanity resembles slavery with the Matriarch forced to give birth to children who are branded with numbers and used as test subjects and constantly restrained to be used as humans see fit. Their treatment at the hands of the Predators, with the Queen being activated to have Xenomorphs be used in a rite of passage seems to resemble animal rights.
** The slavery resemblance gets even more harder to ignore when at least two audio logs in the Marine campaign have Karl Bishop Weyland openly tell Six that she is merely someone to be exploited, merely to be used as a tool, and Doctor Groves saying that he will break Six and use her to make humanity the new great power in the universe, rhetoric that resembles justifications for slavery in the colonial era.
* TheWoobie
** Specimen Six is bred into human captivity with the sole purpose of being a guinea pig to advance Weyland Yutani interests, with Karl Bishop Weyland and Doctor Groves torturing her to learn more about her people's society, while they openly tell her that she will be a human tool to be used as they see fit. When she breaks out, her mother is killed and she is recaptured, and all of her kin are killed in a nuclear explosion. Furthermore, many of the experiments done on her are heavily implied to involve torture, and she is clearly shown grieving for the Matriarch when she senses her death.
** Rookie is left by his comrades for dead on more than one occasion. He sees nearly all his comrades wiped out, he is forced to kill his CO to spare him a more crueler fate, and to top it all off, the Corporal he has formed a close bond is impregnated with a chestburster and when it looks like, she can be saved, Weyland promptly shuts off the power condemning her to death.
* WoobieSpecies: The Xenomorphs are quite sympathetic in this game. The Queen has been used for possibly ten thousand years as nothing but a tool for the Yautja to use as a rite of passage. When the Predators abandon the planet, the Matriarch is left alone before humans dig her up and immediately separate her from her children. Then when they escape, they are promptly invaded by the colonial marines and the Predators who want to exterminate their old enemy. Their Matriarch is killed and those who survive are killed in the ensuing wrist bracer explosion, with the sole exception of Specimen Six.


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* WhatAnIdiot:
** The Predators in the distant past qualify, as their inexplicable move of leaving the Matriarch in stasis in a pyramid instead of finishing her off ends up costing them a planet and killing countless innocents in the crossfire.
** Groves, despite having seen Six's intelligence firsthand, sends only ''two'' guards armed with pistols to prevent her from breaking out the Matriarch and shows a total failure to have any form of security to handle an outbreak.
** The Marines in the Alien campaign make shockingly bad decisions: wandering off by themselves despite knowing Six is in their area, going inside a room they were trying to trap Six in when the lights go out, and utterly failing to check the vents.
** The Predators constantly fail to use their self destruct devices. This is more obvious with the Elite Predator who ''also'' fails to use his self destruct device despite being more experienced.
** Pretty much every Xenomorph will happily appear right in front of the Marine wielding a shotgun in the Marine campaign, instead of just trying to grab him from behind.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The treatment of the Xenomorphs by humanity resembles slavery with the Matriarch forced to give birth to children who are branded with numbers and used as test subjects and constantly restrained to be used as humans see fit. Their treatment at the hands of the Predators, with the Queen being activated to have Xenomorphs be used in a rite of passage seems to resemble animal rights.
** The slavery resemblance gets even more harder to ignore when at least two audio logs in the Marine campaign have Karl Bishop Weyland openly tell Six that she is merely someone to be exploited, merely to be used as a tool, and Doctor Groves saying that he will break Six and use her to make humanity the new great power in the universe, rhetoric that resembles justifications for slavery in the colonial era.
* TheWoobie
** Specimen Six is bred into human captivity with the sole purpose of being a guinea pig to advance Weyland Yutani interests, with Karl Bishop Weyland and Doctor Groves torturing her to learn more about her people's society, while they openly tell her that she will be a human tool to be used as they see fit. When she breaks out, her mother is killed and she is recaptured, and all of her kin are killed in a nuclear explosion. Furthermore, many of the experiments done on her are heavily implied to involve torture, and she is clearly shown grieving for the Matriarch when she senses her death.
** Rookie is left by his comrades for dead on more than one occasion. He sees nearly all his comrades wiped out, he is forced to kill his CO to spare him a more crueler fate, and to top it all off, the Corporal he has formed a close bond is impregnated with a chestburster and when it looks like, she can be saved, Weyland promptly shuts off the power condemning her to death.
* WoobieSpecies: The Xenomorphs are quite sympathetic in this game. The Queen has been used for possibly ten thousand years as nothing but a tool for the Yautja to use as a rite of passage. When the Predators abandon the planet, the Matriarch is left alone before humans dig her up and immediately separate her from her children. Then when they escape, they are promptly invaded by the colonial marines and the Predators who want to exterminate their old enemy. Their Matriarch is killed and those who survive are killed in the ensuing wrist bracer explosion, with the sole exception of Specimen Six.
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** We are supposed to see the Predators intervening as them trying to clean up the mess that Weyland Yutani made and their actions painting them as the good guys. However, this argument really falls flat when you take the other campaigns into account. The Xenomorphs are clearly depicted as fighting in self defence, they have been brutally experimented on by Weyland Yutani, Specimen Six actually cries when the Matriarch burns to death screaming in pain, and the Predators treatment of the Xenomorphs themselves, using them for GladiatorGames, and leaving the Matriarch in stasis instead of just killing it makes the Predators fairly culpable when you think about it.
** The Colonial Marines are supposed to be the good guys trying to shut down the infestation. In the Alien Campaign, the overwhelming majority of Marines encountered are idiots, and callous jerks at best and downright bloodthirsty at worst who show no qualms about sacrificing civilians, and later using their own men as cannon fodder to get rid of just one Xenomorph. Furthermore, the opening level of the Alien campaign and the audio logs ''really'' make the Xenomorphs people you want to root for, with them being used as tools by two sapient species, with Weyland Yutani turning them into their puppets and committing horrific torture on them. This gets taken up to eleven when you see Six clearly shed tears for the Matriarch after she burns to death screaming in pain. The Marines really look like less like good guys and more like cold blooded butchers.

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** We are supposed to see the Predators intervening Predator campaign as them trying to clean up the mess that Weyland Yutani made and their actions painting them as the good guys. However, this in a GoodIsNotSoft way, an argument that really falls flat when you take the other campaigns and backstories into account. The Xenomorphs are clearly depicted as fighting in self defence, they have been brutally experimented on the more sympathetic faction this time around, and are the victims of brutal experiments by Weyland Yutani, Specimen Six actually cries when Yutani and the Matriarch burns to death screaming in pain, and Predators’ equally bad treatment. To make matters worse, the Predators treatment of the Xenomorphs themselves, using them for GladiatorGames, and leaving the Matriarch in stasis instead of just killing it makes them responsible for the Predators fairly culpable when you think about it.
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Colonial Marines are supposed to be the good guys trying to shut down the infestation. In infestation, a notion which becomes much harder to swallow during the Alien Campaign, the campaign. The overwhelming majority of Marines encountered there are idiots, idiots and callous jerks at best and best. At worst, they’re downright bloodthirsty at worst who show bloodthirsty: showing no qualms about sacrificing civilians, and later using their own men as cannon fodder to get rid of just one Xenomorph. Furthermore, unlike most entries in the opening level of ''AvP'' franchise, the Xenomorphs are portrayed ''far'' more sympathetically, to the point that the Alien campaign and the audio logs ''really'' make the Xenomorphs people you want to root for, with them being used as tools by two sapient species, with Weyland Yutani turning them into their puppets and committing horrific torture on them. This gets taken up to eleven when you see has Six clearly shed tears for the Matriarch after she burns to death screaming in pain. The Marines really look like less like good guys and more like cold blooded butchers.her death.
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** The Colonial Marines are supposed to be the good guys trying to shut down the infestation. In the Alien Campaign, the overwhelming majority of Marines encountered are idiots, and callous jerks at best and downright bloodthirsty at worst who show no qualms about sacrificing civilians, and later using their own men as cannon fodder to get rid of just one Xenomorph. Furthermore, the opening level of the Alien campaign and the audio logs ''really'' make the Xenomorphs people you want to root for, with them being used as tools by two sapient species, with Weyland Yutani turning them into their puppets and committing horrific torture on them. This gets taken UpToEleven when you see Six clearly shed tears for the Matriarch after she burns to death screaming in pain. The Marines really look like less like good guys and more like cold blooded butchers.

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** The Colonial Marines are supposed to be the good guys trying to shut down the infestation. In the Alien Campaign, the overwhelming majority of Marines encountered are idiots, and callous jerks at best and downright bloodthirsty at worst who show no qualms about sacrificing civilians, and later using their own men as cannon fodder to get rid of just one Xenomorph. Furthermore, the opening level of the Alien campaign and the audio logs ''really'' make the Xenomorphs people you want to root for, with them being used as tools by two sapient species, with Weyland Yutani turning them into their puppets and committing horrific torture on them. This gets taken UpToEleven up to eleven when you see Six clearly shed tears for the Matriarch after she burns to death screaming in pain. The Marines really look like less like good guys and more like cold blooded butchers.
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** Choosing to turn Rookie into a HeroicMime, and not giving him a name. Some say this makes him original and in line with the original game back 10 years ago. Others see it as an enourmous waste of potential.

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** Choosing to turn Rookie into a HeroicMime, and not giving him a name. Some say this makes him original and in line with the original game back 10 years ago. Others see it as an enourmous waste of potential.potential, especially compared to [[VideoGame/AliensVsPredator2 Andrew "Frosty" Harrison]].

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** Both Praetorians do have very easy patterns that a player will notice extremely quickly. The one in the ruins has a relatively easy strategy to it, jump on one of the high ruins, and then smack it with the Disc Thrower. The one in the labs will hang back unless shot, and all it takes is a few good shotgun blasts.

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** Both Praetorians do have very easy patterns that a player will notice extremely quickly. The one Praetorian in the ruins level of the Predator campaign has a relatively easy strategy to it, jump on one of the high ruins, and then smack it with the Disc Thrower. The one in the labs will hang back unless shot, and all it takes is a few good shotgun blasts.



** While Karl Bishop Weyland can down you easily, if you get up the stairs and use the statues for cover, then you can easily flank or run circles around and give him a few shotgun bursts, though it will take a full package to bring him down.

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* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The sounds the Xenomorphs make, unlike the sounds above, are music to any Alien fan's ears given that for all of the flaws the game had when it came out, it indicated that Rebellion's little remake was dedicated to the fanbase.

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The sounds the Xenomorphs make, unlike the sounds above, are music to any Alien fan's ears given that for all of the flaws the game had when it came out, it indicated that Rebellion's little remake was dedicated to the fanbase.fanbase.
** Lighting an alien on fire with the flamethrower causes it to flail around, scream in agony, and finally explode with the wettest, squishiest, most satisfying ''pop'' ever put into a video game.

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* MagnificentBastard: Predator Elite "[[PraetorianGuard Dark]]" is a brilliant hunter who infiltrates the world of the Yautja sacred hunting grounds, punishing the [[KickTheSonOfABitch humans who have desecrated them]] and finding the corpses of Predator youngbloods, setting their wrist gauntlets to self destruct to prevent the humans from [[CleanupCrew taking Yautja technology]]. Taking advantage of the chaos to kill multitudes of Xenomorphs and humans on the hunt, Dark even kills a Predalien singlehandedly, [[BattleTrophy taking the mask]] from his own great ancestor's tomb to reveal the ultimate prize for the next hunt: the Xenomorph home world.

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Predator Elite "[[PraetorianGuard Dark]]" is a brilliant hunter who infiltrates the world of the Yautja sacred hunting grounds, punishing the [[KickTheSonOfABitch humans who have desecrated them]] and finding the corpses of Predator youngbloods, setting their wrist gauntlets to self destruct to prevent the humans from [[CleanupCrew taking Yautja technology]]. Taking advantage of the chaos to kill multitudes of Xenomorphs and humans on the hunt, Dark even kills a Predalien singlehandedly, [[BattleTrophy taking the mask]] from his own great ancestor's tomb to reveal the ultimate prize for the next hunt: the Xenomorph home world.world.
** [[GeniusBruiser Specimen Six]] is an unusually intelligent Xenomorph who escapes from her captors in Weyland-Yutani before freeing several of her brethren, including the ancient Queen known as the Matriarch. [[ItCanThink Armed with her wits and strategic prowess]], Six cuts through entire swaths of Marines in defense of her hive while bolstering their ranks by harvesting civilians. Making her way to the Yautja ruins, Six single-handedly kills two Young Blood Predators and impregnates one Elite. Although captured once again, Six quickly escapes and [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning molts into a Queen herself]], having [[KickTheSonOfABitch exacted revenge on her captors]] and built a new hive to rule over.
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** The Colonial Marines are supposed to be the good guys trying to shut down the infestation. In the Alien Campaign, the overwhelming majority of Marines encountered are idiots, and callous jerks at best and downright bloodthirsty at best who show no qualms about sacrificing civilians, and later using their own men as cannon fodder to get rid of just one Xenomorph. Furthermore, the opening level of the Alien campaign and the audio logs ''really'' make the Xenomorphs people you want to root for, with them being used as tools by two sapient species, with Weyland Yutani turning them into their puppets and committing horrific torture on them. This gets taken UpToEleven when you see Six clearly shed tears for the Matriarch after she burns to death screaming in pain. The Marines really look like less like good guys and more like cold blooded butchers.

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** The Colonial Marines are supposed to be the good guys trying to shut down the infestation. In the Alien Campaign, the overwhelming majority of Marines encountered are idiots, and callous jerks at best and downright bloodthirsty at best worst who show no qualms about sacrificing civilians, and later using their own men as cannon fodder to get rid of just one Xenomorph. Furthermore, the opening level of the Alien campaign and the audio logs ''really'' make the Xenomorphs people you want to root for, with them being used as tools by two sapient species, with Weyland Yutani turning them into their puppets and committing horrific torture on them. This gets taken UpToEleven when you see Six clearly shed tears for the Matriarch after she burns to death screaming in pain. The Marines really look like less like good guys and more like cold blooded butchers.
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** We are supposed to see the Predators intervening as them trying to clean up the mess that Weyland Yutani made and their actions painting them as the good guys. However, this argument really falls flat when you take the other campaigns into account. The Xenomorphs are clearly depicted as fighting in self defence, they have been brutally experimented on by Weyland Yutani, Specimen Six actually cries when the Matriarch burns to death screaming in pain, and the Predators treatment of the Xenomorphs themselves, using them for GladiatorGames, and leaving the Matriarch in stasis instead of just killing it makes the Predators really very evil when you think about it.

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** We are supposed to see the Predators intervening as them trying to clean up the mess that Weyland Yutani made and their actions painting them as the good guys. However, this argument really falls flat when you take the other campaigns into account. The Xenomorphs are clearly depicted as fighting in self defence, they have been brutally experimented on by Weyland Yutani, Specimen Six actually cries when the Matriarch burns to death screaming in pain, and the Predators treatment of the Xenomorphs themselves, using them for GladiatorGames, and leaving the Matriarch in stasis instead of just killing it makes the Predators really very evil fairly culpable when you think about it.
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* MagnificentBastard: Predator Elite "[[PraetorianGuard Dark]]" is a brilliant hunter who infiltrates the world of the Yautja sacred hunting grounds, punishing the [[KickTheSonOfABitch humans who have desecrated them]] and finding the corpses of Predator youngbloods, setting their wrist gauntlets to self destruct to prevent the humans from [[CleanupCrew taking Yautja technology]]. Taking advantage of the chaos to kill multitudes of Xenomorphs and humans on the hunt, Dark even kills a Predalien singlehandedly, [[BattleTrophy taking the mask]] from his own great ancestor's tomb to reveal the ultimate prize for the next hunt: the Xenomorph home world.
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* AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: Apparently, any manual saves you create cannot be deleted, much to your annoyance.
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* VindicatedByHistory: When the game initially came out, the game had quite the polarizing release with many furiously criticizing the repetitive gameplay and the confusing plot. It also had to deal with the fact that it had to contend with two incredibly popular games in the past decade. Now, with the disaster that was Colonial Marines, along with the lackluster media released in both franchises recently, aside from Alien: Isolation, the game is looked at much more kindly with many people remembering the game as a pretty good one and a worthy successor to the other two, and while the flaws are still there, they are rather miniscule in comparison to the flaws of future media in the two franchises.

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* VindicatedByHistory: When the game initially came out, the game had quite the polarizing release with many furiously criticizing the repetitive gameplay and the confusing plot. It also had to deal with the fact that it had to contend with two incredibly popular games in the past decade. Now, with the disaster that was Colonial Marines, ''Colonial Marines'', along with the lackluster media released in both franchises recently, aside from Alien: Isolation, ''Videogame/AlienIsolation'', the game is looked at much more kindly with many people remembering the game as a pretty good one and a worthy successor to the other two, and while the flaws are still there, they are rather miniscule minuscule in comparison to the flaws of future media in the two franchises.
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* CompleteMonster: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Karl Bishop Weyland]], [[MegaCorp Weyland-Yutani]]'s CEO, {{greed}}ily seeks Predator technology and control over Xenomorphs. Founding a colony, Weyland uncovers a Matriarch Xenomorph; he then has any colonists who complain about the conditions of the colony, as well as unwitting staff members, fatally impregnated by facehuggers to create Xenomorph specimens for him to study. Despite knowing the risks to his colonists, Weyland lets the Xenomorphs escape his labs [[ForScience so he can observe and study their instinctual behavior]], callously [[LackOfEmpathy letting thousands of colonists die]], and when a Marine is about to be killed by a chestburster, [[EvilIsPetty Weyland spitefully shuts down the surgical equipment]] so she will die.

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* CompleteMonster: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Karl Bishop Weyland]], [[MegaCorp Weyland-Yutani]]'s CEO, {{greed}}ily greedily seeks Predator technology and control over Xenomorphs. Founding a colony, Weyland uncovers a Matriarch Xenomorph; he then has any colonists who complain about the conditions of the colony, as well as unwitting staff members, fatally impregnated by facehuggers to create Xenomorph specimens for him to study. Despite knowing the risks to his colonists, Weyland lets the Xenomorphs escape his labs [[ForScience so he can observe and study their instinctual behavior]], callously [[LackOfEmpathy letting thousands of colonists die]], and when a Marine is about to be killed by a chestburster, [[EvilIsPetty Weyland spitefully shuts down the surgical equipment]] so she will die.

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* CompleteMonster: Weyland Yutani's CEO, [[BigBad Karl Bishop Weyland]], greedily seeks Predator technology and control over Xenomorphs. Founding a colony, Weyland uncovers a Matriarch Xenomorph; he then has any colonists who complain about the conditions of the colony, as well as unwitting staff members, fatally impregnated by facehuggers to create Xenomorph specimens for him to study. Despite knowing the risks to his colonists, Weyland lets the Xenomorphs escape his labs so he can observe and study their instinctual behavior, callously [[LackOfEmpathy letting thousands of colonists die]], and when a Marine is about to be killed by a chestburster, [[EvilIsPetty Weyland spitefully shuts down the surgical equipment]] so she will die.

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* CompleteMonster: Weyland Yutani's CEO, [[BigBad [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Karl Bishop Weyland]], greedily [[MegaCorp Weyland-Yutani]]'s CEO, {{greed}}ily seeks Predator technology and control over Xenomorphs. Founding a colony, Weyland uncovers a Matriarch Xenomorph; he then has any colonists who complain about the conditions of the colony, as well as unwitting staff members, fatally impregnated by facehuggers to create Xenomorph specimens for him to study. Despite knowing the risks to his colonists, Weyland lets the Xenomorphs escape his labs [[ForScience so he can observe and study their instinctual behavior, behavior]], callously [[LackOfEmpathy letting thousands of colonists die]], and when a Marine is about to be killed by a chestburster, [[EvilIsPetty Weyland spitefully shuts down the surgical equipment]] so she will die.
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* ThatOneAttack: The Praetorians tail attack has them lashing out with their tail which can easily cause serious damage to Rookie and Dark. In Rookie's case, the hit is likely to be fatal, given he is surrounded by Warriors and the Marine has precious little in terms of melee, but in Dark's case, one slash can take out an entire health segment. As a result, it can easily make getting into close quarters combat with the Praetorians very difficult.
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** In the Marine campaign, the Praetorian boss can be extremely aggravating. While a shotgun will defeat it, its size, the fact it summons other Xenomorphs, and its speed can make it very difficult to avoid getting cornered. Not helping is that the fight scene has the player with their back to a wall, so it is very easy to back yourself into a corner if you aren't careful, and if you have to reload, you can easily be killed.

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** In the Marine campaign, the Praetorian boss can be extremely aggravating. While a shotgun will defeat it, its size, the fact it summons other Xenomorphs, and its speed can make it very difficult to avoid getting cornered. Not helping is that the fight scene has the player with their back to a wall, so it is very easy to back yourself into a corner if you aren't careful, and if you have to reload, you can easily be killed.killed, in addition to the fact the Praetorian will easily outrun you even if you don't back yourself into a corner, which means getting stuck on something or briefly slowing down can cost you dearly.

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* TheScrappy: The Colonial Marines are really hated here. Not only do they have the most story driven campaign, they also get the most screen time despite having genuinely compelling Alien and Predator protagonists. Needless to say, not a lot of players like them.

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The Colonial Marines are really hated here. Not only do they have the most story driven campaign, they also get the most screen time despite having genuinely compelling Alien and Predator protagonists. Needless to say, not a lot of players like them.them.
** In multiplayer, Predator players are deeply loathed because of their use of technology, especially the plasma caster, as it can guarantee a one hit kill, can allow the Predator team to rack an insurmountable lead very quickly, especially against aliens, and because of a overpowered heavy attack that cannot be interrupted.
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* ThatOneAchievement: Several of them in this game
** Thanks to the fact multiplayer died out, anything involving the multiplayer achievements are very hard to get, simply because the part of the game they deal with is not used very often, in very stark contrast to every other achievement involving a weapon in the Marine campaign, which usually occurs through using the weapon long enough or just by luck.
** "I Like To Keep This Handy", where the player must kill two enemies in one shot with the shotgun, can be quite difficult, in the fact that it is very hard to get two enemies into the kill radius required for the shot.
** "Stay Frosty" and "I Love The Corps", the achievements you get for beating the Marine campaign on Hard and Nightmare difficulty are quite difficult, because the Marine campaign is much harder on those difficulties when compared to the Predator campaign, and especially the Alien campaign. The Xenos are faster, more aggressive, deal more damage, and on Nightmare difficulty, facehuggers can one hit kill the player.
** "Not Bad For A Human" is where a player must get every single achievement, including the ones mentioned aboe. Suffice it to say, players don't like it.
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** Much like Aliens vs Predator 2, the first 20 minutes of the Marine campaign is nothing, but pure terror. You are completely alone, stranded in Xenomorph territory. You have a really weak flashlight and flares that burn out in seconds for illumination. Your lovely motion tracker will endlessly remind you that the Xenomorphs could be anywhere. When you enter the washroom to restore power in the garage, the door opens to reveal a technician who has just been chestbursted. And on the way out, you will see another technician get dragged through a vent towards the hive. In the colony itself, you can see the Xenomorphs scurry through the vents. It is when you finally get to see the Xenomorphs that the game stops throwing the endless ParanoiaFuel.

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** Much like Aliens vs Predator 2, ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredator2'', the first 20 minutes of the Marine campaign is nothing, but pure terror. You are completely alone, stranded in Xenomorph territory. You have a really weak flashlight and flares that burn out in seconds for illumination. Your lovely motion tracker will endlessly remind you that the Xenomorphs could be anywhere. When you enter the washroom to restore power in the garage, the door opens to reveal a technician who has just been chestbursted. And on the way out, you will see another technician get dragged through a vent towards the hive. In the colony itself, you can see the Xenomorphs scurry through the vents. It is when you finally get to see the Xenomorphs that the game stops throwing the endless ParanoiaFuel.
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* AnticlimaxBoss: This is quite possibly depending on the difficulty and the approach the player takes to the bosses.



** In the Marine campaign, the Praetorian boss can be extremely aggravating. While a shotgun will defeat it, its size, the fact it summons other Xenomorphs, and its speed can make it very difficult to avoid getting cornered. Not helping is that the fight scene has the player with their back to a wall, so it is very easy to back yourself into a corner if you aren't careful.

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** In the Marine campaign, the Praetorian boss can be extremely aggravating. While a shotgun will defeat it, its size, the fact it summons other Xenomorphs, and its speed can make it very difficult to avoid getting cornered. Not helping is that the fight scene has the player with their back to a wall, so it is very easy to back yourself into a corner if you aren't careful.careful, and if you have to reload, you can easily be killed.

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* VindicatedByHistory: When the game initially came out, the game had quite the polarizing release with many furiously criticizing the repetitive gameplay and the confusing plot. It also had to deal with the fact that it had to contend with two incredibly popular games in the past decade. Now, with the disaster that was Colonial Marines, along with the lackluster media released in both franchises recently, aside from Alien: Isolation, the game is looked at much more kindly with many people remembering the game as a pretty good one and a worthy successor to the other two, and while the flaws are still there, they are rather miniscule in comparison to the flaws of future media in the two franchises.

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* VindicatedByHistory: When the game initially came out, the game had quite the polarizing release with many furiously criticizing the repetitive gameplay and the confusing plot. It also had to deal with the fact that it had to contend with two incredibly popular games in the past decade. Now, with the disaster that was Colonial Marines, along with the lackluster media released in both franchises recently, aside from Alien: Isolation, the game is looked at much more kindly with many people remembering the game as a pretty good one and a worthy successor to the other two, and while the flaws are still there, they are rather miniscule in comparison to the flaws of future media in the two franchises.franchises.
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** The Combistick in the Predator campaign in the final two levels. Combat androids can be killed in one slice, and Xenomorphs are much more manageable. It even does a fair bit of damage to the Abomination in its boss fight.

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** The Combistick in the Predator campaign in the final two levels. Combat androids can be killed in one slice, throw, and Xenomorphs are much more manageable. It even does a fair bit of damage to the Abomination in its boss fight.



* GameBreaker: Facehuggers get a lot more manageable in the Marine campaign, if you bring a scoped sniper rifle with you, given that you can see them if they are hidden with the sniper rifle. One shot from any weapon will kill them, aside from a pistol, where it takes multiple shots, but the sniper rifle primarily allows you to put a single bullet in them without alerting them to your presence.

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** The slavery resemblance gets even more harder to ignore when at least two audio logs in the Marine campaign have Karl Bishop Weyland openly tell Six that she is merely someone to be exploited, merely to be used as a tool, and Doctor Groves saying that he will break Six and use her to make humanity the new great power in the universe, rhetoric that resembles justifications for slavery in the colonial era.



** Specimen Six is bred into human captivity with the sole purpose of being a guinea pig to advance Weyland Yutani interests. When she breaks out, her mother is killed and she is recaptured, and all of her kin are killed in a nuclear explosion. Furthermore, many of the experiments done on her are heavily implied to involve torture, and she is clearly shown grieving for the Matriarch when she senses her death.

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** Specimen Six is bred into human captivity with the sole purpose of being a guinea pig to advance Weyland Yutani interests.interests, with Karl Bishop Weyland and Doctor Groves torturing her to learn more about her people's society, while they openly tell her that she will be a human tool to be used as they see fit. When she breaks out, her mother is killed and she is recaptured, and all of her kin are killed in a nuclear explosion. Furthermore, many of the experiments done on her are heavily implied to involve torture, and she is clearly shown grieving for the Matriarch when she senses her death.

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