UK Charts: Aliens Colonial Marines takes top

Soon it will drop to £20 and the likes of CeX and GAME will have many preowned copies to sell.

O_o must be that the majority isn’t caring for reviews?

The majority of gamers almost never read critic reviews.

Aliens name still sells apparently.

If its a shooter…. people will buy it. Meanwhile games like Sly 4 and PlayStation All stars are forgotten because their are no guns. I kinda hate Western gaming.

All Stars has guns and it’s not a good game.

Sly 4 is good though.

Sly will be released in Europe on March 29th. It’s simply not out yet.

Sly 4 isn’t out in EU yet. That is why it doesn’t show up (mind, if it even would).

I am completely clueless how A:CM could sell so much. It is a shame because such a game doesn’t deserve to sell so well, while other, great games often get no attention.

“Meanwhile games like Sly 4 and PlayStation All stars are forgotten because no one is aware they exist”.

Fixed.

@9: That too! Fucking Sony and their shitty marketing agency.

@2 and @3 The game wasn’t reviewed until the release date,funny how review embargo works like that.

two possibilities: consumers are stupid as shit or game isn’t that bad

“It’s also the biggest-selling release of the year so far”

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/news/a459513/aliens-colonial-marines-is-biggest-selling-release-of-2013.html

I wanted the wiiu version. But it wasn’t even released and from all the bad press I decided to gamefly it 1st. I still want to play it .

Oh, it’s not extraordinarily bad. Just extremely average, looks like something that should have shipped six years ago, has no ambitions concerning gameplay or plot. But it’s an Aliens game, and people expected and were entitled to much better. Maybe the worst thing about it, for a fan of the universe, is how they transformed the aliens from the ultimate living horror to stupid cannon fodder.

Another horrendous game outselling far better titles

The Horror… And I went on about how people wanted true survival horror games… opps. Maybe it’s the Aliens name or Gearbox, to a lesser extent, but wow.

Advertising is king. There are ads all over the place.

That is rather shameful. No offense to Sega but that game should have bombed and GearBox should been sued by Sega (Yes, they are both to blame here but what Gearbox did is pretty much what Silicon Knights did before its shameful fall).

Just like MoH: Warfighter, it sells beacause of its name. And as said in previous coments, this game doesn’t deserve to sell well.

Wow. Sometimes I am ashamed to be a brit.
Sega aren’t daft, they know the Aliens franchise has a huge following, and they know they can consistently put out bad Aliens games and still sell a boat load. One things for sure, there will be an awful lot of cheap trade ins on shelves in the not to distant future. As a huge Aliens fan myself, I may even pick up a copy just to see how bad the game really is.