10 Exact Moments Video Games Self-Destructed

6. Hicks Returns From The Dead - Aliens: Colonial Marines

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Aliens: Colonial Marines remains one of the most disappointing video games of all time, and on top of its gameplay being painfully undercooked, it also made some egregious, ill-executed changes to the established lore.

Case in point, the game clumsily retcons the death of Corporal Hicks, who controversially died at the start of Alien 3, by revealing that he was actually jettisoned from the Sulaco and another marine's body was mistaken for his.

It's about as lazy an ass-pull as any Alien fan could imagine for resurrecting Hicks, and was made even worse by both Michael Biehn's thunderously phoned-in voiceover performance and the character's dead-eyed likeness.

All in all, coming at the tail-end of a game most Alien fans already hated, it was the final insult. While most loathed that Hicks died the way he did, this half-assed retcon came off as a desperate attempt to do something "meaningful" with an otherwise forgettable story.

And though Colonial Marines' narrative was considered canon to the movies at the time of its release, it's basically been ignored ever since.

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