Aliens vs. Predator
A trio of classic movie icons are making their come back in the world of games, with Rebellion back in charge of development.
Take a couple of tough guys with a taste for fishnet stockings, a couple of aliens that love to make out with your head until it bursts open and a gang of marines with an appreciation for automatic weapons and foul language. What do you get if you take those three and put them together on a distant planet? A lot of fighting, that's what. We've seen it before; three races, three different types of warfare, three different ways of hating each other. You get to play as all three and straight away you get to dish out as much pain as possible on everybody around you.
You know what you're getting by now. You get to move through military bases, jungles, sewers, ruins and everything else you can find on a remote planet at the nowhere end of the galaxy. The three races' storylines mix with each other and you get to visit the same locations while completing different missions, depending on whom you choose to play as.
As a fresh marine you get a pretty harsh first day on the job. If you thought Leon Kennedy had a bad time, wait until you see what this guy has to go through. You're a part of a group of soldiers that has been sent to the aformentioned planet to find out what's going on. Of course it gets complicated straight away, since a Predator ship suddenly appears out of nowhere and blows the human mothership out of the sky. The landing team survives, except the rookie that gets his head bashed in by some badly secured carry-on luggage.
When he finally wakes up, he's alone and there's no trace of his colleauges to be found. All he's got is a com-link with his seargant. The first minutes of actual gameplay is pure horror; you stumble around in the dark, strange noises everywhere, shadows that move, your motion sensor keeps blipping and indicates that there something moving out there. After a while you come face to face with the third race involved in this horror drama; an Alien. From here on out it's all about fighting your way through badly lit corridors in a pretty low tempo and filled with nasty surprises.
The Predator campaign is the highlight of Alien vs. Predator. You got all kinds of weapons and toys and you always have a trick or two up your sleeve. Making yourself invisible is perfect for dealing with those pesky human marines, especially when you want to lure them into an ambush and let every weapon in your arsenal loose on them. That arsenal is quite impressive, with laser canons, spears, boomerangs, proximity mines and - of course - the classic knives for some tasty close combat. You also have a whole bunch of acrobatic skills that the other two races lack and most of the time you can jump your way through the levels. This works pretty well, until you end up in places where the platform you want to jump to happens to be too close or not accessible from all angles. Most of the time this isn't a big problem, but at times it feels a bit too constrained.
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