Aye, but if you're being sent to invade a planet you'll know how to use the assault rifle, receive training and a superior will hatch a well thought out plan, particularly if you're dealing with an unfamiliar and unknown life form. I suppose if you work it in the story that these aliens are led by an arrogant and incompetent leader, mayhaps. I understand that they're just as open to error and stupidity as we are. I dunno, I feel, particularly when it comes to the hives cliche it's just lazy writing and not for anything reasonable.
Mass Effect has those soldiers, heck when it comes to the geth they're not individually intelligent and they're disposable units who know how to fire a weapon but aren't necessarily intelligent themselves. The collectors are plenty disposable and of course you get Harbinger which controls a collector and makes them a lot tougher, but in ME2 the collectors managed to set up a trap in order to try and kill your squad and of course at the beginning of ME2, they know to do what they can to kill Shepherd.
At the beginning of Crysis 2, yeah kudos they gave Prophet a virus, but you seem to manage to infiltrate the city, infiltrate the hive with just meagre aliens who just run at you like a suicide bomber who left his detonator in the back of his car. Granted, some hide around corners, but I get the feeling despite how effective your Nanosuit is and how well it dealt with aliens in Crysis and continues to pwn aliens pretty damn well in Crysis 2 that they're rather quick to underestimate your abilities and slow to react to your presence.
I can think of one bit where I have to 'watch out' for a ship because it fires quite deadly shots - I wasn't at all stealthy, opened fire, took out all of the aliens there, who very kindly offered themselves to me and I managed to openly run across in open space without that ship coming in to fire its mighty lasers at me. After the first guy I killed surely the second guy would have called in the nearby reinforcement whilst hiding behind some cover? What did he do? He ran at me. So did the rest.
When infiltrating the hive and taken out several pillars/arms/things, you think they'd be able to predict where I was going to strike next and up the defence instead of having 3-4 normal guys and a big tank guy that doesn't know how to look around corners when somebody's shooting at him? 3-4 guys, easy to take out - just head shots with a sniper rifle, maybe something else for those who get closer, then you can run the big guy around obstacles, take cover and hide and spring out again, repeat until he's dead.
That's just Crysis 2 though, but that's because I've been playing through it recently and is most fresh in my mind.
