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Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a co-op, shooter and aliens game
developed by Cold Iron Studios
and published by Cold Iron Studios and Focus Entertainment.
Released on August 23rd 2021 is available only on Windows
in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Czech, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Latin America and Korean.
It has received 24,049 reviews of which 19,214 were positive and 4,835 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: AMD Athlon X4 950 / Intel i5-2500K
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD R9 285 4GB / Nvidia GTX 760 4GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 30 GB available space
- Sound Card: Integrated or dedicated Direct X 11 compatible soundcard
- Additional Notes: Minimum graphics settings, 1920x1080 screen resolution, 30FPS average
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10/10 if you're a big fan of the 1986 film and the Alien universe like I am. Still an easy recommendation even if you're not. Aliens Fireteam Elite is a very competent 3rd person co-op shooter. It has great visuals that do H.R. Giger's iconic art justice, the musical score is phenomenal (literally Grammy nominated btw), and there are a nice vartiety of weapons to use that all feel responsive and are upgradable with weapon parts you can collect. Plenty of difficulty options, though the standard one is way too easy. The higher difficulties are truly how the game is meant to be experienced. Matchmaking on certain difficulties can sometimes take a while, but crucially, the game does feature crossplay with nearly every modern console and PC, so that helps. As someone who plays nightly as of March 2025 I can confirm the game is by no means dead. Btw, there's a sequel coming. It's gonna be announced on April 26 this year.
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Overall excellent game for fans of the Alien franchise, specifically the Alien and Aliens movies. Great graphics and gameplay, great weapons and talent trees etc. One drawback is the relative ineffectiveness of the bots or synthetics when playing offline solo or online without a full team; their abilities and damage should scale up better when playing Intense and higher difficulty. As the game inevitably ages and fewer people play online, the game risks becoming an unplayable or "dead" game due to weak and ineffective bot teammates and therefore limited solo play options.
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Personally, I love this game, but I am an enormous fan of the Aliens IP. Unfortunately, like most other games set in the Aliens universe, this title fails to deliver an experience that could stand on its own without the heavy lifting the brand does to elevate it. There are a lot of good ideas here, but ultimately the game feels like it was conceived as a live-service model co-op horde survival game similar to the likes of Fatshark's Vermintide 2, but whoever was backing it got cold feet and decided they didn't have enough faith in the product to allocate the kind of time and money needed to maintain a game like that. The moment I started this game, the first thing I noticed is the kind of awkward, boxy movement that's very common in a lot of low-budget or indie games. Maybe not everyone will notice this, but for those of us who know exactly what I'm talking about, once you've made this observation it's usually pretty easy to tell what kind of game you're about to be playing. Animations are passable but nothing special, shooting is decent and satisfying, but dear God the movement and camera are just downright awful. Whoever decided that a game set mostly in claustrophobic space station corridors should use an over-the-shoulder player camera needs to go back to game design basics. Not only is it already inconvenient to constantly have the camera zooming in and out on the back of your head as you turn around in these spaces, but where a lot of third person shooters would hide the character model if it would obstruct the player's view, this game does not. There's a dodge system with an associated stamina bar that seems to have invincibility frames, but it's incredibly unreliable. Sometimes it feels like there's no way you should have dodged an attack and the enemy will fly past you, and other times you'll be mid-dodge and just snap into the enemy's grip and have to suffer through the QTE (yes, QTE) "break hold" mechanic that seems to only exist to make you feel like you have something to do while you're unable to do anything else but wait for your AI allies or other players to shoot the enemy off of you. There's an awful lot of moments in this game where an enemy attack seems to just be predeterminately successful, and if you take the steps to avoid it, the game is just like "nah" and the enemy will teleport straight through a barrier or wall to you because it already made up it's mind that you were going down in that moment. There are 7 classes in the game: Gunner, Demolisher, Technician, Doc, Phalanx, Lancer, and Recon. Recon is only available after completing all of the base campaign missions, but it's really not clear to me why, since it's not any stronger than any of the other classes in the game, nor would using it have made the campaign missions any easier. All of these classes are fun and distinct enough from one another to warrant each's existence, and leveling up and crafting a build for each is easily the game's biggest strength. Each class has a unique set of abilities (two active and one passive), aside from which there is a sort of "skill tree" that functions sort of like a Tetris puzzle, where there are a set amount of slots with different modifiers that take up a certain number of slots, and it's up to you to customize and fit them together to get the most out of your class. Each class has it's own unique modifiers, but there are universal and shared modifiers, so you can mix and match a lot of different specializations from different classes to really make each your own. There are plenty of weapons in the game to choose from, and like with classes, they are (for the most part), distinct enough from one another to keep things fresh when you decide you want to switch things up. Like any game, there are obvious standouts, and there are obvious "do not use" options. Unfortunately, the classic Pulse Rifle we all know and love is one of the standard issue weapons, and as such isn't really the best option in a lot of cases, but you can make it work with the right attachments and class build. For whatever reason the developers of this game decided to remove the underbarrel launcher from the Pulse Rifle and put it in as a separate weapon in the handguns category, stating in the description that apparently the underbarrel application was "problematic" in the game-universe without elaborating on how. Fortunately, the Smartgun is pretty much best-in-class for heavy weapons despite being standard issue. There are 12 campaign missions (15 counting DLC), each of which takes about 15 minutes to complete. The missions are split into chapters, 4 of which being the base game, and the fifth being the DLC. Beyond that, there are 5 holdout style wave-based maps seemingly intended to be the endgame grind content since they are not playable until all campaign missions have been completed. Nearly half of the base game campaign missions have a heavy focus on non-xenomorph enemies, and this is where it becomes painfully obvious how mediocre the core of this game really is. The sixth campaign mission is nearly all cover-based shooting against bullet-spongy humanoid synthetics firing hitscan weapons at the player, and it was almost the point at which I gave up on the game altogether. The entire third chapter of the game focuses on creatures formed from the pathogen contained aboard an Engineer ship. 90% of these missions involve standing in one spot unable to progress while an excessive number of headcrab-like skittering critters that die in 1-2 shots run toward you while you wait for a door to open or something. The rest of the enemies in these levels are just humanoid zombies with a small health pool that run in a straight line at you and test your patience while you wonder why the Aliens game you bought is making you play a bad version of Left 4 Dead for a quarter of its runtime. AI is just terrible on both ends. Your AI companions while playing solo will constantly shoot you in the ass, causing you to stumble and throw off your aim, go down in the most ridiculous ways, or lag behind causing you to be unable to advance until you run back and remind them of your existence so they resume following you and you can continue the mission. Xenomorphs and other melee-based enemy types sometimes become stuck in corners, leading to moments where nothing is happening because the game wants you to kill all enemies before the objective advances, and you have to run around looking for the last enemy. Synth enemies run around in circles, hop in and out of cover, and throw themselves into explosions like their entire AI routine is simply to perform random actions and hope they kind of resemble sentience. I could say it's at least not as bad as Colonial Marines, but it's been a decade and comparing anything to that dumpster fire is really just pointless since anything looks like a masterpiece held to those standards. One of the more appealing aspects of this game is the challenge card system, which I'm sure is not at all unique to this game, but works well enough with everything else going on to mix everything up enough to keep the replay value at an adequate level. I have no idea what challenge cards were like when the game launched, but as of writing this, they are available for free from the Armory, so you can just grab as many as you like and apply them at your leisure. Some give you benefits like double ammo, more damage, or weaken powerful enemies and grant no bonus, while others add obstacles such as the inability to fire while moving, disabling radar, or making your guns jam in exchange for a boost to your postgame rewards. While playing solo, you can only apply one challenge card, but with all three slots filled each player can throw their own challenge to the mix which can really do a lot for making things feel different. No conclusion because of the character limit. Buy at your discretion.
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This game is dead! It deserves a positive review for what it was, but if you don't have two friends who want to play it at the same time, don't buy it. Gameplay: The gameplay is very good, and the Alien universe is well respected and staged. The gunfighting is very good, with weapons emblematic of the first Aliens movies, and in some areas of the map, the massive shootout is very pleasant, with aliens coming in droves and sending some heavy blows. The story is basic, easy but realistic, and true to the movies. Today, this game is dead because there aren't players left "exept sometime in the weekend." The AIs are totally useless. The devs were warned that the game would be pitiful with AIs, but they would rather let the game die than offer a game that could be played solo. Graphic design: The game is beautiful, the Alien universe is respected, but the maps are very repetitive. Playtime: Today this game offers no more playtime because there are no more players on the game. I repeat, make sure you have two friends to play with before you buy. Price: Much too expensive for a co-op-only game. This game had great potential, but the devs opted to let it die rather than exploit its potential. If you like Sci-Fi games, come and discover what's available on steam. https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45217343-SeniGamingSciFi/
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I used the shotgun. You know why? Cause the shot gun doesn’t miss, and unlike the shitty hybrid flamer it stops a xenomorph in their tracks in two hits. Bang, bang, and they’re fucking done. I use four shots just to make damn sure. Because, once again, I’m not there to coddle a buncha xenoid scum sucking runners, I’m there to 1) Survive the fucking round. 2) Guard the HVT. So you can absolutely get fucked. If I get out of the colonial marines, which I won’t, you can guarantee I will continue to use the shotgun to obliterate xenomorphs. Because it’s quick, clean and effective as fuck. Why in the seven hells would I fuck around with the M39, which takes half a clip just to bring some xeno down, or with the handcannon bullets which are slow as balls, impossible to aim and do about next to jack shit, fuck all. The shotgun is the superior xeno removal weapon. Because it stops hives. And it stops hives by reducing the number of xenomorphs roaming the fucking halls.
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Developer
Cold Iron Studios
Publisher
Cold Iron Studios,
Focus Entertainment
Release
23 Aug 2021
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