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Video Compares Aliens Demo With Final Product

We're trying not to beat a dead horse with the whole "Aliens: Colonial Marines is terrible" thing, but there's a lot to be said about the situation. The folks over at VideoGamer.com have put together a great video today that showcases the drastic differences between early demos of the game and the final product.

Take a look below to see the footage and wonder where things went wrong. Watch it with YouTube annotations on, as their original labels get messed up at one point in the middle.

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  • I hope that Reddit AMA was telling the truth :/. Also, Reddit just got knocked down a few notches for taking down Dan and His Dad.
  • What a *** cocktease. SMH Gearbox, SMH...
  • If this proves to be true, Gearbox could be facing some legal trouble. That's false advertising at its finest.
  • I think Gearbox was showcasing tech demos that THEY made, when the actual game was thrown together by a couple of middle school modders. Seriously...Duke Nukem Forever is a gold plated disc compared to this.
  • What a freaking disaster! I wanted this to be good!
  • Gearbox should be ashamed of this. I was surprised when all the reviews said the game looked like sh1t because all the trailers and E3 demos look so good. This explains it, sort of.
  • Seeing them side by side like that is shocking. The demo looks amazing.
  • I was thinking the same thing, The demo did look so bad ass but when i saw the game play..... men it was ugly and outdated. Hope Gearbox learn the lesson and if they start/acquire a IP hope they work with it all the way trough.
  • EPIC FAIL! GI on the defensive as well.. you guys still over hyped this game. cut the hype machine down and you know i give you props for the guts to tank this game.. really i do.. im proud of you for it but you still hyped this game i cant get over that one. $60 saved in my pocket THANKS GI! I LOVE YOU
  • That demo version looks like the game that should have been.
  • I just finished watching it-what the heck happened? Honestly...it looked so much better in that demo footage...

  • Hey, wasn't Randy Pitchford the one who gave a DICE speech about how making games is a lot like being a magician? "And for my next trick, watch as I make the quality of this product disappear!"
  • One clearly looks like the movies and the other looks like a game. Since this is based off the movies, this should stick to the movies.

  • yeah the demo looks way better

  • its direct x 9 versus direct x 11 graphical instructions

  • this is pathetic.... appalling.

  • there are some things that the final version and demo versions do right, but overall the demo version is way better.
  • What a shame. Disappointed me greatly

  • As I continue to read about this evolving story (the reception of aliens:CM). It's becoming apparent that gearbox had spent time making tech dems and many other pieces of the game, then they took all their work and handed it over to an outsourced company (some other studio) that studio was supposed to create/finish the game using what gearbox made as a jumping off point, or a template, a blueprint, or however you wanna put it. That studio was supposed to finish the game. Instead they made a complete piece of *** on the backs of gearboxes reputation. Gearbox was putting all their effort into borderlands 2. Gearboxes mistake was outsourcing a game that was so important to so many. Mark my words! Gearbox will soon pursue legal action against the company they outsourced to.
  • Wow and that's the PC VERSION which I heard is vastly superior in terms of graphics. I'm not a huge graphics person, but crap like this happens. This happened to Metal Gear Solid 3DS as well, if you look at EARLY demo footage the graphics are crazy, they then used a 2GB card instead of a 4gb (demo used 4) so the graphics were very scaled down for the commercial release, I was upset. It wouldn't be that bad had the gameplay been superb, but my buddy said you can kill pretty much anything with a shotgun all the way across the room, and it's just little things like that that throw it off.
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