Really good match. Since 8 bit era. Action and action and shooting and shooting. after 30 years of Alien gaming, it will be nice see it go back to the original Alien roots. With a playstyle/genre it has never been given, that almost more than any other game, is more appropriate for Alien. Survival Horror.

Action oriented intent or not, there's a good way to achieve that thrill and a bad way to do it. In the movies, the enemies were still menacing, mysterious, frightening entities with foreign, alien physique; terrifyingly efficient and merciless, ruthless hunters, that had a sense of character and individuality to them. They were fleshed out very well in the movies (even the more action oriented second movie and those after that), which is what kept the movies special in a way, more so than typical action movie fare. Even when they poured out en masse, the sense you got wasn't "oh shit, well look at that, they'll really have to knuckle down and shoot all these things!" but a sense of the people you identified with being entirely overwhelmed by an unstoppable foe, impending doom, due to this characterisation and fleshing out of the enemy.

The game, however, had a non-canon, badly executed storyline, forgettable characters you felt no connection to, and the aliens were presented as truly nothing more than mindless cannon fodder. There was no sense of impending doom, no fear of the enemy. And a large part of that was down to there being no perceived risk. You never really felt scared, or worried about your safety, or indeed that of those around you. You had enough big (and by the way terribly generic feeling) guns, and the enemies weren't creepy aliens that scuttled along the walls at you like a sentient being with a sense of self-preservation and cunning, they just came running at you like a brainless flock of run-of-the-mill shooter game enemies, with animations that made them look more "derp" than "death".

Even if the game was going for an action-oriented feel, the fact that it was set in the Aliens universe meant that people were entirely reasonable in their expectation of something a little more profound and emotionally rousing / creepy than another Serious Sam - a mindless shooter. They could have delivered a tense, thrilling, scary experience, where you really felt engaged and at risk, and still had a mainly action-oriented FPS thing going, but they failed at that, miserably, due to shoddy code, a rushed game, and generally bad design choices and overall quality. Which is to many fans of the Aliens movies something entirely unacceptable - to me too.