Aliens: Dark Descent is a fresh and fun take on the series, with great tactical action supplemented with unique concepts like stress management. The writing and characters sadly don't amount to ...

Aliens Dark Descent comes so close to being something special, but the myriad of technical issues I’ve had with it in my 20-odd hours with it have not done it any favours.

Aliens: Dark Descent immerses players in the treacherous world of Xenomorph nests, but unlike many previous games, it deviates from the standard first-person shooter or horror genres.

Aliens: Dark Descent can be pretty darn brutal, even in the normal difficulty setting, I've escaped from several showdowns with groups of just regular Xenos with my whole squad in seriously bad shape.

Dark Descent does an excellent job capturing the essence that made James Cameron’s1986 film Aliens, the sequel to Ridley Scott’s classic Alien, a hit with fans.. Aliens: Dark Descent will have ...

Aliens: Dark Descent predominantly takes place on the planet Lethe, after a familiar scene of a Xenomorph outbreak takes place on a Weyland-Yutani space station and forces the entire area into a ...

Aliens: Dark Descent is the Prometheus of real-time strategy games. In our review, Polygon dissects the unique isometric title and explores its relation to turn-based classics like XCOM.

Is Dark Descent to Aliens what Isolation is to Alien? In how it builds the best game it can out of the themes and ideas of the film it is based on, yes, absolutely.

Aliens: Dark Descent is a real-time, squad-based tactical action game. Instead of controlling a single Colonial Marine, you’ll find yourself commanding a whole squad.

Aliens: Dark Descent is an occasionally wayward but on the whole, inspired movie adaptation, and a suspenseful real-time tactics game. The absolute worst thing in Aliens: Dark Descent isn't an ...

Aliens: Dark Descent starts off in a suitably cinematic fashion. You play as Maeko Hayes, a deputy administrator for the Weyland-Yutani company who finds her routine savagely disrupted by an ...

Aliens: Dark Descent is an original game worthy of any strategy fan’s time that also lovingly expands upon one of Sci-Fi's most important franchises.