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Aliens: Fireteam Elite

Aliens: Fireteam Elite

Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a PlayStation 5 shooter game developed by Cold Iron Studios. It centers on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and weapon and firepower management, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.

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7.7 / 10
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About this game

Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a PlayStation 5 shooter game centered on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and weapon and firepower management. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.

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7.7 / 10PlayStation 5

Satisfying squad synergy is held back more by repetition than by shooting.

Fireteam Elite turns familiar Alien weapons, creatures and industrial spaces into cooperative defensive encounters. Class firepower, turrets and control abilities complement each other, while choosing priority targets gives dense firefights a tactical layer. Responsive PS5 aiming and shoulder-button abilities support that pressure, and film-inspired environments strengthen the appeal. Base missions repeatedly alternate corridor skirmishes and larger defence rooms, however; familiar wave routes leave builds doing much of the work of sustaining interest. Later updates revised AI companions and matchmaking and made challenge cards free, easing experimentation without transforming the repeated mission structure. It best suits an organised group interested in class combinations, rather than players relying on narrative or constantly new locations. Early crowded PS5 scenes sometimes slowed down. Pathogen is a separate paid campaign, and online matchmaking depends on active players.

Strengths

  • Class synergy and target priorities reward teamwork
  • Convincing film-inspired environments and weapons

Weaknesses

  • Repeated base missions and wave routes
  • Long-term variety relies heavily on builds

Who it is for: Organised groups interested in defensive shooting and class builds.

Play notes: Pathogen is sold separately; an organised group avoids dependence on matchmaking activity.

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Repetition remains; free cards reduce access friction rather than structural sameness.

Reviewed6.9 / 10Not provided
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Strong shooting and class synergy shine in coordinated defence.

Reviewed8.0 / 10Not provided
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Detailed environments reward fans without making intricate narrative the focus.

Reviewed8.0 / 10Not provided
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Reliable input layout retains caveats about dated slowdown and untested current networking.

Reviewed7.5 / 10Not provided

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Core information

Publisher
Focus
Release date
Aug 24, 2021
Platforms
PlayStation 5
Content kind
Game
Release state
Released
Region
Worldwide
Official website
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Offline minimum players
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Offline maximum players
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Online minimum players
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Online maximum players
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Tags
Solo-friendlyFast-pacedReal-time CombatLocal Co-op3D GraphicsReplayableShootingThird PersonPlayer versus EnvironmentMain Story Under 10 HoursDodgeLinear Levels
Supported game languages
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Requires base game
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Standalone
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Age ratings
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Play modes
Single playerCo-opMultiplayer
Perspectives
Third person

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