UPDATE: Reader Pat David went the extra mile and improved the trailer a different way: by keeping the music and sound effects but removing the dreadful voiceover: “turns out it’s a center-panned vocal – so just inverted the LR stereo channels.” Pat’s edit is pasted above, UberWaz’s is below.
After years of waiting, Alien fans were shocked yesterday by the appalling state of the trailer for Aliens: Colonial Marines. Badly-acted and terribly-scripted, it made the forthcoming game look amateurish and cheesy; the project’s lead writer immediately and publicly disowned it. But what a difference a day makes: Rock Paper Shotgun reader UberWaz remixed the clip with new audio, creating something that perfectly matches the franchise’s gloomy mix of science fiction and horror.
Here’s the “fixed” trailer using the original Aliens soundtrack as a mood piece. Below is the excruciating, official original.
