This needs a LOT of improvement.
The learning curve is far too great.
The non-interactive tutorial is not very helpful. Make an interactive tutorial instead.
Marines and Aliens should be much, much more visible, because it's difficult to see anything.
The experience is there, but this game isn't so much difficult as unfair.
Once someone gets hit by a xeno, it's fucking over for them. It always gives you a chance to attack like that's going to save them or something, but even if you do kill the alien, the person is still incapacitated. Why even bother?
Secondly, in Operations, SO MANY XENOS come out of the fucking woodwork that it's absolutely ridiculous. The inability to control Burke makes this literally impossible because everybody's dead by the time he get's his fat ass down the hallway, and then he sits in a closet waiting for his shit to get wrecked.
This game seems like it'd be a lot of fun, but the difficulty prevents me from having any kind of fun with it.
It's a good looking game, but it's just no fun to play.
Awful game. It claims to be like the original Leading Edge board game, but resembles it in appearance only - this coming from someone who used to own the original board game. This flash game used to be excellent, but whoever created it decided to destroy it. They have the talent to make a great game, but they don't understand what makes a game great. Playability is awful. 50s roll like 30s. 70s, 80s, and 90s roll like 50s, 60s, and 70s. Aliens now pop out of places they never did before to such an extent it borders on cheating. Newt gets stuck on the question marks three times as much as she did in the actual board game, leading to infuriating results. Enter the final level with eight marines (maybe even fewer now, I don't know for sure) and way too many aliens come so that it is literally impossible to succeed given the limited number of moves and ammo. Just swarm after swarm, making any forward progress next to impossible. It's really a shame, too. It used to be really great game, but the creator doesn't realize that games are supposed to be FUN. Yes, games need to be challenging, and this one used to be. Now it's unplayable. I wasn't going to write a bad review since the game is free, but it just got too ridiculous.
Don't waste your time. This game shows promise, but it's hilariously bad. I got to the last level and alien bombs started dropping everywhere. In one turn 10 aliens dropped all around my guys. I started laughing it was so ridiculous. The game cheats like that. There is nothing random about the alien drops. One of the aliens "walked through" the wall after I had walled it off with fire. Stupid. I honestly believe the maker of this can't stand for people to beat his game. I've played it before and it wasn't like how it is now. How can this game be rated so high? Again, avoid at all costs.