And the predator offers his own delights. Playing as the alien, your escape from the confines of a laboratory features some good old-fashioned bloody head-chomping, and there is some short-lived fun in crawling all over the walls and ceilings. Your first encounter with a creepy-crawly xenomorph is properly nerve-racking and will have you searching about in the dark, using your handy motion tracker to try to figure out exactly where it is (while trying to bear with the tracker's incessant beeping). The first two levels of the marine story, which plays as a fairly typical first-person shooter, are dark and creepy, making good use of atmospheric lighting to enhance the tension. Each campaign has its strengths and starts well enough. Predator's main appeal is its three disparate campaigns, in which you respectively take control of a marine, an alien, and a predator. Predator Video ReviewĪside from its storied history, Aliens vs.

Predator's campaigns just aren't much fun, and while the multiplayer is somewhat better, it's unlikely to be your go-to online shooter.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's The recycled levels are poorly designed, control issues make playing as the alien a chore rather than a pleasure, and numerous minor defects weigh the whole experience down. Sadly, the sight of the predator as he rips the spine out of his human victims is a short-lived joy because of the general clumsiness that invades almost every aspect of developer Rebellion's newest addition to the franchise. Predator worth playing, though certain moments will make you squirm in delight in spite of the game's noteworthy flaws. But concept and nostalgia aren't enough to make Aliens vs. And of course there is the undeniable fact that predators and aliens are awesome, and the idea of controlling them in a game is just as awesome.

It comes from the developer of the beloved first game in the AVP series, and like that game, it features three distinct campaigns with three somewhat differing styles of play. When three mediocre games are jammed into a single package, the result is still mediocre.

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