Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Set in the iconic Alien universe, Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative 3rd-person survival shooter that drops your fireteam of hardened marines into a desparate fight to contain the evolving Xenomorph…
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a shooter developed by Cold Iron Studios, released 23 August 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $5.99 at Humble Store. The main story takes about 9.5 hrs to finish.
What Aliens: Fireteam Elite is
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a shooter game developed by Cold Iron Studios and released in 2021. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a 2021 third-person shooter game developed and published by Cold Iron Studio. It takes place in the year 2202, 23 years after the events of the film Alien 3 (1992).
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and survival. It supports multiplayer for up to 3 players online. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 46 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Alien series
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is the 68th of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. It arrived 2 years after Aliens: Neoplasma. The next entry was Alien: Isolation in 2021. Its critic score of 74 is 4 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Alien: Rogue Incursion at 90.
How it was received
Aliens: Fireteam Elite holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 52% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored about average for its year.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9.5 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $5.99, that works out to about $0.63 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Athlon X4 950 / Intel i5-2500K, 8 GB RAM and AMD R9 285 4GB / Nvidia GTX 760 4GB. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 30GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $5.99 at Humble Store, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Aliens: Fireteam Elite launched on 23 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes and Tales of Arise. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes, Tales of Arise.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Aliens: Fireteam Elite yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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