To me, it feels like two movies squished together. The excellent one with Ripley, and the other one which is a Terran vs Zerg. The only Aliens that felt truly threatening were the facehuggers in the lab and the Queen. But I guess it does come down to the formula being worn long before I watched Aliens.

Ironically, I have kind of the same feeling about Alien 4, except here it was Ripley's movie squished together with Joss Whedon's pilot mental image of Firefly. Now that was quite a feat. I will never forget the first time I saw Ripley lighting up the clone room and storming out, ending a perfect scene, until Ron Perlman peeks into the room and says some dumb two-liner to the effect of "must be a chick thing... effin waste of ammo". What a class A way of ruining your own excellence! It's actually impressive. But to be fair to mr. Whedon, he has grown as a writer and Cabin in the Woods (also a self-reflecting horror parody) is great. I recommend watching it right after Alien 4 for maximum mindblow.

Getting back to gaming: Aliens vs Predator 2 was actually awesome. I never played Colonial Marines, but assuming that everyone in the universe is correct that it's terrible it is nice to reminiscence on the greater parts of the game-genre. High hopes for Isolation!