Aliens: Fireteam Elite Review (BaronFalke)
Pre-Review after ~6h.
The game itself is pretty nice. I like the collectables and the graphics. Everything is worked out very well. Even the "matchmaking" seems to work fine. You can start a game by joining and switch to AI support if nobody can be found.
That is also the negative about that game. The number of players I found during the 6h playtime: 4-5 people. So basically I am playing this game in solo with AI bots on easy. I think on greater difficulties it is impossible to win with bots. But else the bots are doing pretty well.
It is a shame that nobody plays this anymore (or at least it seems to be this way to me). I will continue the campaign and see further. By the way: I don't think you can play this with a controller ...
Final Review - Finished Game | Played some COOP
In the end the game is pretty nice and makes fun. The real fun starts on extreme difficulty since here you need a brain to win the mission. And there were some hardcore fights. I lost all of them except the very first mission. There are also possibilities to play modes like "fighting off waves" etc.
What I liked: after finishing the campaign you can use a special option to join any mission. You basically just select the difficulty and will be assigned to any matching game.
There is also a problem with the hosted games. If the host quits: you return to your base and do not get anything. No rewards at all. Not even EXP. This happened to me 4 times. 3x due to some connection issues (I guess). And once the host died (he rushed the whole thing and died) and just left the game: game over.
Finding players can be a chore. But there are groups in Steam who are playing this nearly all the time. Join there, add them as friends and this problem is solved.
I think what is really a sad is the small amount of missions. If I remember correctly, there are like 4 campaigns. Each of them has 3 missions. So in the end you will have 12 missions to select from. A little more would have been cool or a procedurally generated map.
Can I recommend this game?
For coop players with friends: YES
For people without friends: NO
In coop it is fun and you can go for more difficult settings. But using the BOTS (you get 2 of them if you go single player) it is barely possible. You can win on "casual" and "standard" ... but anything above is not possible I think.
All in all I also only would buy this in a sale. For full price there is not much content and not enough people are playing it.
Ah and yeah ... I liked the customization possibilities in this game. It made really fun creating the loadouts for the characters. The missing chat in the game is bad. You never can warn people about traps or tell them the plan. There is always one guy in the group fuckin' up everything. Usually it is me ... but here and there ... you know.