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Howdy Gamers
I was visiting a friend of mine at the weekend who had picked up a copy of Aliens Fireteam Elite. We sat and played it for a couple of hours which was enough to get me hooked and pick it up myself.
The video above shows the first mission of the game. We need to locate and rescue a doctor.
The game is pretty challenging it took me 3 attempts to clear the first mission and there are no check points so if you fail you need to re-do the whole mission.
So lets dive into this first mission and see what Aliens Fireteam Elite has to offer...
We start out onboard a ship called the Endeavour...this is the games hub...its where we return to after each mission and where we can upgrade our weapons and armour with credits gained during the missions.
You have a choice of 4 different loadouts which I guess are like character classes. Your not tied to one at the start of the game you can switch between classes at the start of each mission.
In the video above I'm using the demolisher loadout which is the heavy weapons guy. He uses a machine gun and a smartgun and has 2 timed special attacks, shoulder rockets and an aoe grenade attack.
The demolisher looks like a classic bandana wearing 1980s action movie badass...
Gif made by me :)
Aside from the Demolisher we have The Technician...
The Doc...
And the Gunner...
To begin a mission we speak with Sgt Herrera
Our first mission is to respond to a distress call from Katanga Refinery. and locate and extract Dr Timothy Hoenikker, a Weyland - Yutani scientist.
You can choose to play with friends but if your just playing solo the game will give you AI synthetic's to keep you company.
Ok lets look around...
This first level does remind me a lot of Aliens , the second movie in the franchise. When I was done recording the footage above I set my video to encode and watched Aliens while I waited.
We follow in Dr Hoenikkers footsteps...
Until we find the corridor with his locator chip...
This is where we get our first taste of action...some Xenomorphs attack...
And its time to light this corridor up!
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Hosing down corridors full of Xenomorph's with the smart gun is a hell of a lot of fun.Im surprized its taken so long to get a good Aliens game.
I mean its a pretty easy concept to get right ,send waves of Aliens at me and my buddies and let us smoke them with fancy weapons.
The smartgun has a sort of auto aim function where the scope will jump to the nearest target ,making it an extremely efficient killing machine....nice! :)....
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At certain points in the level you get some time to prepare before triggering a big wave of enemies. These are kind of like boss battles. You know your about to get a big wave when you get the Caution :Hostiles Incoming message.
When you find one of these event's there are ammo crates to reload from. These crates are infinite so you can keep reloading as many times as you need to.
There are also a few med kits to be found around the level....
And weapons crates that hold items like sentry guns and mines. On each level there is a hidden weapons cache that changes its location every time you play and the loot is random which helps keep things interesting when replaying a mission with a different class.
Towards the end of a wave of enemies' you will get hit with these armoured Xenomorph Warriors which can be a pain to get down.
Every now and then an Alien will surprize attack you and you need to hit buttons in the correct sequence to avoid taking damage....
Not far to the end of the stage now , just down some more corridors...
Passed this impressive looking engine...
Down a couple more corridors..
And finally we are at the elevator...
For the last part of the first level we just have to hold our ground here for 175 seconds until the elevator reaches us...
I found a good strategy is to keep one of the sentry guns from earlier in the level and use it here so you have 2 sentry's to keep the elevator area clear...
Keep spraying the bugs until the elevator reaches you....
Eventually the big armoured guy comes in to attack...
Burn him down....
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Then run onto the elevator and that's the first part of mission 1 complete. This took me 3 attempts to do so it was real satisfying to finally get on that elevator
At the end of each mission we earn credits and reputation tokens which can be spent in the ships armoury
I'm certainly looking forward to checking out the different weapons...
Gaining new perks open up things like new head gear and different decals for your weapons.
Overall I am liking the game alot.Its a straight forward team shooter set in the Aliens universe which is easy to pick up and play and addictive enough to keep me wanting more.
I'm intrigued enough by the story to keep progressing and the large array of weapons on offer keeps me wanting to grind those requisition credits so I can afford the heavier weapons and upgrades.
If your a fan of the Aliens movies your likely going to have a blast playing this.
Gif made by me :)
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