Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2

Not sure of why this has so many negative reviews. Game runs perfectly fine for me, so i think most people are just retarded and either: A: Dont know how to update drivers or B: Dont know how to build their own PC Theres plenty of weapons, perks and unlocks, so its hard to gauge how many hours it would take to unlock everything, or if even doing so is completely necessary. If you like the Aliens franchise, and enjoy co-op shooters, then I would def recommend checking this out.

If you enjoyed the first you'll enjoy this one. It's a horde shooter with a few different factions. The perk system seems even better then the first game. For new players, you can modify your core class abilities to customize them for your build. The turret can shoot gas which can then be changed to a frozen gas for example. The rockets on the marauder can be changed to do fire damage and leave a pool of fire that lasts 5 seconds. The weapons can be heavily customized/modified AND new to this series is you can permanently change the ammo type to be fire, electric, ect vs temporary ammo. Look, this isnt game of the year, but it is fun. Single player with 3 bots is fun. 2+ players gets better and better. For Linux players facing crashes on prologue. I'm on Bazzite and I installed the Proton GE pack and switched my compatibility to that. That allowed the game to get past that.

If you told me this was a DLC expansion to the first game, which was already mediocre and kinda trash, I'd believe it. Slogged through the entire campaign and never once had a moment of "wow, I'm having so much fun". Found myself more irritated with the forced NPC dialog, forgettable combat barks, and unusual bugs including mission softlocks. Even worse, took me 20+ minutes to find a team (which was horribly underleveled, didn't finish the mission by the way) for the first map on intense (not the highest level difficulty, if you don't have the game. it's just above normal mode). The game already has a low playerbase and it's not even week two yet. Save your money, play a better coop game like Vermintide/Darktide/DRG/HellDivers 2.

I have to give this game a positive reveiw but only by the skin of its teeth. In camparison to the first game I would say it is a decent succesor but doesn't do anything groundbreakinly new. More weapons, an extra team member and a wider variety of enemies are about the only addition, as well as actually animated npc dialogue however their god awful corny dialogue and demeanor discredits that entirely. Gameplay wise, there are a lot of stutters and friendly and enemy ai seem to struggle with tasks and pathing even though they said they improved it from the previous game. I've also dropped out of a fair few games without any explainable reason. But that being said, I can't in good faith give a game an overwhelmingly negative review based on bugs that will probably be ironed out in the first few patches. What really pushes me to dislike this game is the price. With DLC, the previous game totaled a cost of around $55 Australian dollars. The base price for this game, without deluxe add ons or future dlc, being $80 AUD is absolutelty disgusting. Without any meaningful addition to the franchise or overall content of the series, I cannot see how they justify the price, especially seeing as how the first game wasn't a particuarly overwhelming success that would justify such a premium price. If you are a fan of the Alien franchise or enjoyed the first game, definitely give this a go, but absolutely wait for a steam sale and hope that servers aren't dead by then. Overall rating: 6.5/10 (Pre any bug fixes)

its bad in every way other than visually. 1. locking certain basic things like cosmetics or challenge cards behind game progression feels like a lazy way to forcibly pad out hours played. 2. enemies jittering or even outright teleporting is a constant issue, especially during the second-half of the campaign. 3. the audio is dog water to be frank. the aliens sound like theyre halfway across the room from you even if theyre up in your face, voicelines can and will repeat with an echo, the guns are only passable. 4. the dialogue is terrible. if they were intending to make an obnoxious 'so quirky lol' character then they did raptor well. ko has the personality of easily forgettable cardboard even for someone supposed to be the hardass type. shipp. piper i feel as though could have had better development other than 'i spoke once on the comms now im learning :)' esther and wrench i like simply because they feel more natural compared to the rest. 5. i struggled to pay attention to the storyline on account of the fact that it was so bland and samey. the prologue had me hooked, i was excited. the 2.x missions managed to keep that excitement building up until 3.1 even if there were fair leaps of escalation. the more you start to learn about the big evil doctor, however, and the further you progress into that arc the worse it gets until it becomes nothing more than a 'big scary scientist is doing EVIL and playing GOD.' 6. the ai clearly has a few screws loose as very frequently from what ive played, they would do things such as conga lining or get themselves stuck on nothing in an open space (an issue especially prevalent with the droid enemies). the only ai that seems to work decently well and kind of erratically are the synths, which is bad, because youd also expect that the xenomorph enemies would be able to do more than walk in singular straight lines at you. 7. semi infrequently (in my experience) the interaction key would either take one-two seconds delay or outright stop working. really just a nuisance compared to everything else. 8. the difference between the pre-rendered cutscenes, in-game cutscenes and the actual gameplay itself is utterly jarring to such a degree that it can pull you out of the immersion; going from wonderful to look at immediately into grainy 80s footage. this game is ultimately just fireteam elite 1 with prettier graphics and DOZENS of issues which one wouldve hoped wouldnt have been stuffed into a game that costs a whole 50 dollars. i love that they made challenge cards infinite, added new weapons and systems for said weapons, and abilities. but when i can count how many new things theyve added to 2 on both of my hands while the issues that persist infinitely, constantly grinding against you, its really just not worth it to purchase this game at full price. at best this is a game that you wait a year or two before buying, or buy it when its at a 15-20 dollar discount.

My god this is bad, I didn't even finish the first mission and I am refunding the game 21 minuets is all it took. Firstly it's 2026, the game looks terrible and it actually looks worse than the first game. You'd think the graphics would have been better. The gameplay is okay, run around shoot aliens and place down different items like turrets ect in different rooms while clearing waves and waiting for doors to open, I looked at gameplay it seems that is a common thing in most missions. First mission just did not grab me, then I got to an in game cut-scene and it looked terrible, I turned off motion blur, yet this cutscene had a blur effect around the character that was moving around. It also had crap dialogue and my character was doing stuff like throwing a phone at this woman off screen. Again it's 2026, it should have been able to render my character into the cutscene, with the limited customization that can't be hard. Wait for a heavy discount to play this guys, honestly just not worth it right now. 20 minuets is all it took for me to just realize the rest was going to be a rough ride.

This game should have been a DLC for AFTE 1, not a seperate game with a 80$ price tag.