10 Video Games That Launched In Unacceptable Condition
3. Aliens: Colonial Marines
Three words that send a shudder down the spines of video game fans everywhere:
Aliens. Colonial. Marines.
Released in 2013, and into a franchise as prestigious as Alien, expectations were high for this title.
But it was rife with technical issues, poor graphics, and abysmal enemy A.I., and was panned by almost everyone who played it.
There was even a controversy about the game's press demos featuring content of a considerably higher graphical quality, leading to an ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit against Sega for false advertising.
Colonial Marines was criticized for its low-res textures, poor character models and laughable animations. The numerous bugs in the game made it painful to experience, and the gameplay was very much out-of-sync with the rest of the Alien franchise, to put it lightly.
It was discovered four years later that a small typo in the game's code was the reason for the A.I.'s lack of any I., but for anyone who played the game at launch, it was too little, too late.