Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 Reviews
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 delivers solid action moments, with interesting classes, a good variety of enemies, and combat that shines when the hordes arrive. The downside is that the campaign repeats its structure far too often, becoming tiresome before the end. Combined with performance issues on PS5, weak animations, and an unengaging story, it becomes difficult to recommend the title.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
The story is passable, but the action is capable of nice heights, especially with pals on your side or diving into the unpredictable lottery of public matchmaking. It’s hard to beat the intensity of hearing the ping of your motion sensor that precedes mowing down aliens with a smartgun or pulse rifle, and the game provides candy of that sort and more to indulge in. Genre fans who are more forgiving of prominent flaws will have a good time with it. More critical players may want to wait for some title updates to roll through.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is average, but stands out thanks to a satisfying arsenal, classes with solid builds, and varied enemies that require distinct tactics. However, the lack of Portuguese subtitles, bullet-sponge enemies, FPS drops, and a scarcity of matches in South America are likely to deter fans.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Anyone looking for a co-op game that lets them jump right into the action in seconds and have fun without having to think too hard will find exactly what they’re looking for. A bonus for Aliens fans, who’ll get to do all of the above in faithful settings and an authentic atmosphere.
Review in Greek | Read full review
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is a game that focuses heavily on replayability, with rewarding progression systems and a ton of missions. That doesn't mean, however, that the developer has found the magic formula to keep me constantly engaged.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 stands out as an engaging and promising cooperative Horde shooter game with significant potential for growth and improvement. While it may not yet represent the pinnacle of the co-op shooter genre, it offers a solid foundation that, with some fine-tuning and enhancements, could elevate it to a top-tier status.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 delivers another entertaining blast of Xeno-slaying co-op action, but familiar ideas and a general lack of polish stop this bug hunt from reaching its full potential.
There’s a fun game in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 for sure; just don’t expect much in the way of originality.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 manages to deliver exactly what we expect from a good cooperative game in the franchise: lots of bullets, Xenomorphs coming from all sides, classes that really make a difference, and that delicious feeling that any dark corridor could turn into our last moment of life.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
"Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2" promised to improve upon everything its predecessor lacked to achieve mainstream success. However, the game we received manages to regress in many ways to the final version of the original and repeats many of the mistakes that nearly killed the first title.
Review in German | Read full review
In the end, there is enough here to keep fans happy, and hopefully future DLC will come similar to the original, which will give players plenty of new missions to enjoy.
Ultimately, any time you might spend on Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is better spent elsewhere. Any momentum built up in enjoying the game is derailed instantly when a bug forces you or a teammate out of the game, and the impressive visuals aren’t enough to make up for it.
If you’ve played Aliens: Fireteam Elite, you’ve already played Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. It’s nearly the same game down to mission structure, only prettier but with 200% more story and dialogue you do not want to hear. Once the campaign ends, there’s no real endgame content to speak of, leaving you with nothing to do but replay levels on higher difficulties where the core gameplay fails to hold interest. Charging $10 more than its predecessor for an experience that recycles the same formula where you’re retreading previous areas is uninspired. It offers a few hours of mindless action if you just want to turn your brain off, but ultimately, Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 simply isn’t enough to justify the price tag.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 rebuilds its classes and adds a genuinely clever Specialist system, but stuttering, crashes, and a campaign that runs out of content too fast keep it from being the leap forward it should've been.
While Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 features visual upgrades and several improvements over its predecessor, it fails to be a highly captivating game due to unaddressed flaws, disappointing optimization, and a lack of Korean localization.
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