- As the Marine, you’ll experience a claustrophobic and terrifying experience where light is your friend, but there’s never enough; however, the United States Marine Corps are humanity’s last line of defense, and as such they are armed to the teeth with the very latest in high explosive and automatic weaponry
- As the Predator, you will stalk from the shadows and from above, passing athletically through the treetops to ambush your victims; although equipped with an array of powerful, exotic weapons and tracking equipment, honor ultimately dictates that you must get in close and take your trophies face to face
- As the most deadly species in the universe, the Alien offers you the chance to play as the very stuff of nightmares, the monster in the dark swarming forward with countless others, jaws like a steel trap and claws like blades
- Play all sides off against each other in a series of unique 3-way online modes and go tooth-to-claw-to-pulse rifle in the reinvention of one of multiplayer gaming’s defining moments
360 Aliens vs PredatorAliens vs Predator is an entirely new title for PC and high-definition consoles from acclaimed British developer Rebellion, the team behind the 1999 original PC gaming classic. Bringing the legendary war between two of science-fiction’s most popular characters to FPS fans, AvP delivers three outstanding single player campaigns and provides untold hours of unique 3-way multiplayer gaming. Experience distinctly new and thrilling first person gameplay as you survive, hunt an
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Review by Dave R. for Aliens vs Predator
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I’ve been playing this game since the demo and received the game today. I was pleasantly surprised on how they did things. It is easy to get the hand of things once you play it a while. The levels are kind of bland, but if you are like me and enjoy games offline and online then it’s definitely worth it.
Pros-
-It’s AVP! Its back!
-Fun system to choose whether or not you would like to be an alien, predator, or human.
-Unique idea for the most part
-Fun online multiplayer (this will keep you occupied and on edge the whole time)
-Easier learning gap then most FPS’s.
Cons
-The graphics aren’t as good as I was expecting, most FPS games have a bit better graphics but the graphics on this aren’t bad don’t get me wrong.
-The trophy kills are horrible in multiplayer, if you do one it’s a big chance someone is right behind you to do one to you (similar to the chainsaw on gears of war)
-Some races need tweaked. (I felt that alien was the most powerful in all aspects of online play)
-There should be a better campaign, but I’m satisfied.
All in all it’s a great game. I would definitely rent it to make sure you like it, or try the demo first. But if it’s your thing hop in. Well worth the purchase for me.
Review by Turtle502 for Aliens vs Predator
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It’s probably more accurate to call this game Marines vs. Aliens vs. Predator. The single-player campaign is divided into three perspectives. You can play as a Marine, an Alien, or a Predator. Each species’ campaign takes place in exactly the same locations, but since your abilities change from species to species, the game-play in each mission remains fresh. As a marine, you’re limited to the ground. As a Predator, you gain vertical mobility, since you’re capable of jumping short distances to higher locations, such as tree limbs or ledges. The Alien’s perspective is truly unique, as you can climb along any surface and jump short distances. Seeing these environments from the ceiling, and thus upside-down, is quite interesting.
It’s important to point out that both the Alien and the Predator incorporate a level of stealth. As the Predator, you have a cloak which renders you nearly invisible to most enemies. As the Alien, you can easily hide in dark corners or on ceilings, where most enemies can’t find you. The marine, by contrast, seems mostly helpless, without any stealth and virtually no cover-system.
None of the campaigns are masterpieces at storytelling. The marine campaign starts off as most Alien-related stories do. And, as a matter of fact, ends mostly the way Aliens ends. There are two halves of the Marine campaign – it’s almost as if there was a change in story or development. Your squad-mate “Tequila”, ends up harvested and pretty much disappears from the game after you get 60% of the way through. It all makes sense in the end, but the transition seems unnecessary. By contrast, the Predator and Alien campaigns are fairly cohesive, with clear goals and objectives. However, each of them require taking your objectives from on-screen prompts, since technically neither the Predator or Alien speaks “English”. As the Predator, I often found myself missing objectives because sometimes this information was communicated in the middle of action. It’s really hard to read scrolling text and watch the action at the same time.
From a control perspective, the Marine is the easiest to handle. Movements are smooth. Targeting is spot-on, with excellent hit detection. Only the rifle allows you to closely target your enemies, but in this type of battle, you wouldn’t expect to slowly take aim with an assault rifle and target aliens who are charging toward you. The aliens move fast, and you’ll be spraying bullets. The Predator allows you to target a specific enemy or location to which you want to jump. It was really difficult, however, trying to find a branch or ledge to which to jump – it wasn’t always clear. Like the Marine, the Predator is mostly FPS. The Predator also features a weak and strong attack – however, connecting with the strong attack is difficult. Overall, the game seems to suffer from a distance-perspective issue – it’s not clear how close you need to be to an enemy to hit it. The best part of the Predator is the battle disc – a small glaive-like disc that you can hurl at enemies and have return to your hand, much like a boomerang. If you ever played Dark Sector, it’s much like the glaive from that game.
The alien’s controls? This definitely takes some practice. Transitioning from the floor to a wall requires you to press the right-trigger. Holding the right-trigger indefinitely actually just makes things easier, so it’s hard to understand why Rebellion just didn’t make surface transition automatic. Unlike the marine and Predator, the Alien has no weapons. You are limited to strong and weak attacks, and like the Predator, I found it extremely challenging to connect with strong attacks. Many times, I just lashed-out with a string of weak attacks. Fortunately, unlike the Marine and Predator, who both require “health packs” of sorts, the Alien regenerates health.
The game features some really challenging but not-impossible-to-beat bosses. You’ll feel satisfied after these fights. From a replay perspective, there are some decent Xbox 360 achievements to pursue. Each species has its own collectible – the most interesting of which are audio diaries that you collect as a marine. These help to fill in the back-story. The collectibles for the Predator and Alien are uninspired, but finding them all is a must for completionists.
Technically, the game is superb. The audio is extremely well-engineered – it sounds exactly like an Alien-franchise movie. Graphically, it looks great on current-gen consoles. The aliens and Predators look and move great. Lighting is eerie and appropriate. After nearly two play-throughs of the marine campaign, I did not encounter a single graphical hiccup. It’s a smooth game with lots of polish.
Is this a game you should play? Definitely. It may not be able to hold a candle to other FPS titles, but it’s not really trying to be an FPS. What this game offers is fun – you’ll be tense, sweating, and probably cursing at times. It offers just the right amount of frustration and challenge.
Review by A. John for Aliens vs Predator
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I was really looking forward to playing this game and I really enjoyed playing the demo on both the PS3 and the xbox 360. I even went as far as getting a copy for myself and another for the kids that I picked up at my local Gamestop so that I wouldn’t have to share. What a disappointment it was when I put it in and started playing the campaign. There’s really no maps to guide you along your way, it’s basically hit and miss. All 3 campaigns could have been a bit longer and more detailed. Game seemed kinda rushed and not totally put together. In my opinion not worth the $60 being asked.
The only thing that makes up for it is the multi-player mode which even gets bland after a while. I love the fact that you get to be either Marine, Predator or Alien while in multiplayer mode and it’s random so you never know who you’re going to be in the next game but still could have been better all around.
Edit: Found out the only way you can change your character in multi-player is if there’s an open slot, if there isn’t the only thing you can change is the skin of your character. I’ve gone ahead and played the game again to be really fair and I stand firm behind my first review. Make this one a renter unless you’re a die-hard AVP fan.
Review by B. Handy for Aliens vs Predator
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This game follows the trend of the new AVP movies, good intentions but incomparable to the originals…
I loved Aliens vs Predator 2 on the PC, and played it for years thereafter with the always exciting multiplayer. That game told a story well, and made each race’s campaign not only different from each species perspective, but shared the main story always with new cutscenes, which was refreshing.
That said I was very excited when I heard a new Aliens vs Predator was being developed, but now that I have it, it’s a letdown. Each campaign is only five chapters long; when I finished the Alien campaign I was a bit taken aback when it cut to the ending cutscene. It was very anti-climatic (the predator ‘boss’ not so difficult) and left me very unsatisfied. I felt like I was just getting started killing off Marines, and then it ended…Same for the Colonial Marines and Predators.
It was nice that all the campaigns shared the same locale, and was nonetheless exciting from each perspective, but it wasn’t new territory; you already know where all the nooks and crannies are. It lacks the trepidation of not knowing your way around that was so perfect in the older games. It might have been better if they just added far more environments that were not shared. Maybe they were just lazy.
And the storytelling, just sucked. I almost want to go play the old boxy graphics of AVP 2 on the PC than replay this rubbish. Don’t get me wrong the action is fun, but it gets old, and the game just lacks life. It may have decent graphics, but it seems like they just rushed this game, and gambled on the franchise name.
Oh yah and the flares are just pitiful, they last like 3 seconds. 3 BLOODY SECONDS!!!
Review by C. Zirbel for Aliens vs Predator
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I had typed a detailed review earlier, but my computer crashed, so I will summarize it again here…
This game should not be played with a Call of Duty mentality. You need to play each character as they should be played to get the most fun out of it. I am about half way through the Marine and Predator campaign. I have yet to play any Alien part.
With the Marine part, you MUST play the game with the sound up and the lights low to give it the best feeling. The sound from the radar only helps to fill the atmosphere of creepiness, not to be annoying. Also the main weapon, the rifle, has 100 round per clip but is pretty weak. This kind of reminds me of the weapons from Star Ship Troopers.
Also, with the Predator, you need to take his missions slow, using all of his available techniques. His cloaking ability never runs down, but his plasma cannon powers down fairly quickly. Use the recorded human voice to lure individual humans away from a group to kill them. Play as the predator would normaly hunt NOT like COD.