"I don't care" I say.
"A game that came out a year ago, and is made mainly for consoles!" He responds.
"I'll only play it if you gift me it." Thinking I out smarted him.
"Alright!" He says.
"Ugh."
Aliens V.S. Predator is a game made by Rebellion Developments, who are known to gamers from their many AvP knock-off games. Outside of that, the only games I recognize of note worthiness is the "Gun" PSP port and "Rogue Warrior", which is a horrible start.
In AvP, you play as an Alien, a Predator, or a Marine, during the same plot events. The Marine Spaceship "Marlowe" has been shot down by an unknown species, and it has fallen onto a planet where Humans are discovering ancient Predator ruins and experimenting on Aliens. Predators are pissed off that the Marines are screwing around on one of their hunting grounds, Aliens are pissed off because their Queen is being held captive on the Marlowe, and the Marines are pissing on themselves in the corner.
Now, I love Alien and all of their sequels, and I love Predator and.. well, its sequel was shit. The movie Aliens V.S. Predator did a Freddy V.S. Jason sort of thing where two otherwise good franchises cancel each other out when paired together. I hated AvP, and I wasn't really looking forward to this game, as hinted by my discourse with my friend. The concept sounds great on paper! Different game play elements for each species. The sneaky Alien, waiting to pounce on its prey. The violent Predator, able to cloak, fight head on, and use ranged weapons. The Marine, ready to find the auto-target gun and piss off the Predators and Aliens.
Each campaign has the same major plot easily summed up with the question: "The Marlowe is down, what does this mean to me?". For the Aliens, that means they're going to try and rescue their Queen. For the Marines, it means he wants to go save his buddies. For the Predators, they just want to blow up the cadavers of their comrades. Fuck saving people I suppose.
The Alien campaign starts off interesting enough (Which I won't spoil because it is a unique way to start off a campaign), and then proceeds to fall flat on its face. It isn't that bad but it gets stupidly hard. As an Alien, the biggest advantage you have is staying in the dark and creeping around, which barely works. All the NPC Marines seem to have infrared vision, because no matter where you are, they're probably going to see you. I was sneaking around in a vent at one point, and I emerged out of it into the darkness of the ceiling. Just then, a Marine, on the total opposite side of this huge hangar, saw me out of the corner of his eye and proceeded to blast my ass and various other parts of my body off of me and back into the vent I was still crawling out of. That is bullshit. There were no lights around me. I was on the ceiling. He was on the other side of the room, on the ground. He didn't have the auto-target gun. I was doing everything right and he just used his telescopic vision to locate and kill me in a matter of seconds. I had quite a few moments like that, and it is just totally stupid.
On to the Marine campaign.
The Marine campaign is Doom 3. That's all I need to say. It's Doom 3. The environment, the weapons. It's Doom 3. They try to be creepy with all the darkness, but it isn't. It's Doom 3. Was Doom 3 scary? Of course not. It had those surprise scare moments, but that doesn't make it scary. Amnesia: The Dark Descent is scary. This is just people going "BOO!"
And finally the Predator campaign.
The Predator campaign has you running around killing Aliens and getting destroyed by Marines. I don't know why these Marines kick the ass off all the other species. I can't do that against my friend online. He can't either. You know how easy it was for Arnold and everyone else to spot the Predator in its movie? Of course not! It wasn't easy. I have no idea why it's so easy for everyone here! These guys can spot you out of no where. Even your little plasma gun thing runs out amazingly fast, so don't count on that. Proximity mines? Ha! The whole campaign is just hard and really retarded.
But how is the multiplayer? I would like to know too! I sat on my ass for 20 minutes, searching for a game. You know what I came up with? One game. Two people in it. This isn't a multiplayer experience, and I don't think we'll ever see one come out of this on the PC. It just feels like a console port, and I won't be surprised if it is. I played with my friend and the game was horribly unbalanced. I kicked his ass so many times with the Predator no matter what class he was, and he did the same thing when he was Predator. Is this why nobody is playing multiplayer? It might just be.
This game is just stupid. Plain fucking dumb. It has a fun concept, yes, but it fails on all levels. The NPCs are idiotically difficult, the auto-aim gun is way over powered for online play, and the online play isn't even there anymore.
Want to play the game? Play Thief, Shadow Warrior, and Doom 3.
"A game that came out a year ago, and is made mainly for consoles!" He responds.
"I'll only play it if you gift me it." Thinking I out smarted him.
"Alright!" He says.
"Ugh."
Aliens V.S. Predator is a game made by Rebellion Developments, who are known to gamers from their many AvP knock-off games. Outside of that, the only games I recognize of note worthiness is the "Gun" PSP port and "Rogue Warrior", which is a horrible start.
In AvP, you play as an Alien, a Predator, or a Marine, during the same plot events. The Marine Spaceship "Marlowe" has been shot down by an unknown species, and it has fallen onto a planet where Humans are discovering ancient Predator ruins and experimenting on Aliens. Predators are pissed off that the Marines are screwing around on one of their hunting grounds, Aliens are pissed off because their Queen is being held captive on the Marlowe, and the Marines are pissing on themselves in the corner.
Now, I love Alien and all of their sequels, and I love Predator and.. well, its sequel was shit. The movie Aliens V.S. Predator did a Freddy V.S. Jason sort of thing where two otherwise good franchises cancel each other out when paired together. I hated AvP, and I wasn't really looking forward to this game, as hinted by my discourse with my friend. The concept sounds great on paper! Different game play elements for each species. The sneaky Alien, waiting to pounce on its prey. The violent Predator, able to cloak, fight head on, and use ranged weapons. The Marine, ready to find the auto-target gun and piss off the Predators and Aliens.
Each campaign has the same major plot easily summed up with the question: "The Marlowe is down, what does this mean to me?". For the Aliens, that means they're going to try and rescue their Queen. For the Marines, it means he wants to go save his buddies. For the Predators, they just want to blow up the cadavers of their comrades. Fuck saving people I suppose.
The Alien campaign starts off interesting enough (Which I won't spoil because it is a unique way to start off a campaign), and then proceeds to fall flat on its face. It isn't that bad but it gets stupidly hard. As an Alien, the biggest advantage you have is staying in the dark and creeping around, which barely works. All the NPC Marines seem to have infrared vision, because no matter where you are, they're probably going to see you. I was sneaking around in a vent at one point, and I emerged out of it into the darkness of the ceiling. Just then, a Marine, on the total opposite side of this huge hangar, saw me out of the corner of his eye and proceeded to blast my ass and various other parts of my body off of me and back into the vent I was still crawling out of. That is bullshit. There were no lights around me. I was on the ceiling. He was on the other side of the room, on the ground. He didn't have the auto-target gun. I was doing everything right and he just used his telescopic vision to locate and kill me in a matter of seconds. I had quite a few moments like that, and it is just totally stupid.
On to the Marine campaign.
The Marine campaign is Doom 3. That's all I need to say. It's Doom 3. The environment, the weapons. It's Doom 3. They try to be creepy with all the darkness, but it isn't. It's Doom 3. Was Doom 3 scary? Of course not. It had those surprise scare moments, but that doesn't make it scary. Amnesia: The Dark Descent is scary. This is just people going "BOO!"
And finally the Predator campaign.
The Predator campaign has you running around killing Aliens and getting destroyed by Marines. I don't know why these Marines kick the ass off all the other species. I can't do that against my friend online. He can't either. You know how easy it was for Arnold and everyone else to spot the Predator in its movie? Of course not! It wasn't easy. I have no idea why it's so easy for everyone here! These guys can spot you out of no where. Even your little plasma gun thing runs out amazingly fast, so don't count on that. Proximity mines? Ha! The whole campaign is just hard and really retarded.
But how is the multiplayer? I would like to know too! I sat on my ass for 20 minutes, searching for a game. You know what I came up with? One game. Two people in it. This isn't a multiplayer experience, and I don't think we'll ever see one come out of this on the PC. It just feels like a console port, and I won't be surprised if it is. I played with my friend and the game was horribly unbalanced. I kicked his ass so many times with the Predator no matter what class he was, and he did the same thing when he was Predator. Is this why nobody is playing multiplayer? It might just be.
This game is just stupid. Plain fucking dumb. It has a fun concept, yes, but it fails on all levels. The NPCs are idiotically difficult, the auto-aim gun is way over powered for online play, and the online play isn't even there anymore.
Want to play the game? Play Thief, Shadow Warrior, and Doom 3.
