Aliens vs. Predator

To start things off, the story of this game is extremely weak and nothing extremely gripping but it's passable, you can complete the story in 3 segments (Alien, Predator, Marines) and you can choose which order to go in and they all have a tie in together but nothing huge. The Aliens campaign is very mediocre but if there is one thing this game gets right, it's making you feel like you're an alien because the controls and gameplay are very entertaining, climbing up surfaces and jumping around, sneaking behind enemies and taking them down with the little mouth, although the sneak executions are limited and repeat and the climbing on surfaces can get very disorienting when in small vents or a cliff with too many turns. You follow one certain alien who starts out trapped and being examined and then you escape...it's very short and lasts about 3 hours, if that. Then the Marine Campaign, I thought this was going to be the most dull but there were moments where I actually felt dread and paranoid...but it fell flat on it's face with the stupid constant beeping warning you there is something near by and ruins any kind of surprise. It's a pretty standard FPS as far as gameplay and aiming feels really stiff. It has a pretty outstanding last boss fight though and it's the longest campaign of the 3, lasting about 6-7 hours and most of that is spent just trying to figure out where to go because the waypoint is horrible at times. The story, again, is nothing special, you're a speechless Marine who is left alone when Aliens and predators attack, you follow another Marine whose name I can't remember but I can tell they wanted you to get attached to her but...no. You have a range of weapons from a pistol to the smart gun! Next you have the predator campaign, predator is easily my favorite because I absolutely love stealth and loved the way Predator is like a warrior and not afraid of anything. This campaign is absolutely amazing in the way of gameplay, the story lacks something but it's not noticeable because you're busy stabbing people with spears and throwing disks. AGAIN, it's faulty in the way of the waypoints and the campaign lasting only 3 hours max. Short but sweet I suppose. On to the multiplayer! You can of course play online with friends on either versus or Survival, survival is..fun with friends but lack any innovation, you survive for as long as you can on not a a whole lot of choices of levels. 4 i believe, fun but can be repetitive. Then you have versus where it's for the most part 6v6 or teams of 3 (Marines, Aliens, predator) and wow did they actually get this pretty good. Everything is pretty well balanced for the most part but if you're a marine it's way harder to win anything and predator is the cheapest and most fun in my opinion. Nobody plays it now a days but when you get into a match it's extremely fun, better with friends. Thanks for reading! (my first review)

I'm not really a big fan of First Person Perspective games. I do think that Aliens vs Predator would have been better as an over-the-shoulder third-person actioner, even the 1994 side-scrolling beat-em-up version was better than this. But for what it is, it's still a worthwhile game.

I wasn't immediately hooked, to be honest. I found the combat system to be clunky and difficult, though once the first level was cleared things got better (this applies to all three campaigns). Some of the gameplay and tense moments actually reminded me a lot of Condemned 2: Bloodshot. You play as either the Predator, Colonial Marines, or an Alien in three individual stories that all tie together, each with their own set of pros and cons.

The story follows on from those utterly awful AvP movies, but connects it with the Alien and Predator franchise in a more cohesive way than those cinematic travesties managed. But the video game franchise of this particular crossover has been stuck as a First Person actioner since 1999 and with this next-gen incarnation I think that Sega and Rebellion should have tried a new approach.

Despite the flaws, it's an enjoyable game that's very easy to play, if not finish, with plenty of trophies available.

Graphics B Sound B Gameplay B- Lasting Appeal B-

I'm sure by now every one knows of the Alien vs Predator series. Either by the mediocre movies, the comic books, or the games that came out in the late 90's and early 2000's. And if you're like me you've been eagerly awaiting their return. Well I'm happy to say that the series is back.

Aliens vs Predator gives you 3 different campaigns and an excellent multiplayer experience. The 3 campaigns are: alien, predator, and marine, and each one is different and satisfying. The marine plays like your standard first person (but with a larger focus on melee combat) anyone from the Halo of Call of Duty series should feel at home here. The marine campaign focuses on action and scares.

The predator campaign's a little different. It focuses on stealth with humans and hand to hand combat with aliens. The flow is simple, you'll enter any area with marines, isolate one, preform a stealth kill, and repeat the process. The twist is the environmental factors, such as sentry guns that will lock onto you even if you're cloaked, water which will disable your cloak or even rival species.

The alien campaign is the most drastic change from the standard first person shooter. For starters all of the aliens attacks are melee based, meaning you'll need to get close to enemies to attack. So it's a good thing the controls are up to it. You have 3 attacks: light, heavy and block. Light is quick and can be used to form a combo, but can be blocked. Blocks can be broken by a heavy attack, but they take time to use, so it's possible to interrupt it with a light attack. As an added bonus if you succeed in your heavy attack, the enemy will be stunned long enough to preform a brutal finisher. The alien and predators share the same melee moves, but unlike the predator the alien has no long range attacks, making its gameplay even more stealth oriented. The aliens can crawl on any surface, so stealth parts involve hoping off from the ceiling to execute a marine, similar to the predators. The twist is that their are sentry guns that will gun you down, or that their are civilians that you'll want to harvest, however they usually have armed guards and will kill themselves if you're not quick enough.

The final component is the multiplayer which is very well done. There's something for everybody. There's a free for all, team death match, species team death match, territories, a version of Halos infection and juggernaut, and a Gears of War 2 style horde. The only thing that keeps this from a 10 star rating are the length of the campaigns and the kill trains in multiplayer. Happy hunting

Being a fan of both universes, it was a pleasure to play this game. I didn't play the old version of Aliens vs Predator, so I'm only evaluating this one.

The plot here is banal, and not particularly important, you get high from the gameplay itself.

There are 3 campaigns here - for a human, a predator and an alien (I will write in the sequence of my walkthroughs)

A human (paratrooper) is the very first and most interesting campaign among all. At first, there was even horror in the very first chapter, then, although there was a sense of danger (there would be constant sounds of monsters nearby, both alien and sometimes predator), it was not so scary anymore because you found a weapon and got used to throwing flyers in the dark. There is some kind of plot here too (unlike the trail campaigns). Well, his episodes are the longest in the game. Rating : 7/10

Predator is a pretty interesting campaign. Here you will feel like a real omnipotent hunter (and this is cool, because the Predator is one), there are no special difficulties (but there are challenging levels), you have a large arsenal and many enemies, in general, it's a complete action movie. It will take less time to complete than a human. Rating : 6/10

Alien is the shortest campaign, which is no worse than Predator episodes. There is a very interesting gameplay here, you will finally be able to feel yourself secretive (because everything here is based on stealth) and a nasty enemy for humans, just like a predator does not have a special plot, and it is not needed. Rating : 6/10

Overall, it's a very good game to play once (but with a buzz), where everything is built on - go from point A to point B, break it and so in...

It's good, it's pretty good. I am glad that somewhat in 2010... we put back some things on the right path. After AVP (2004) and AVP Requiem (2007), which I didn't like at all... I thought that all that alien & predator thing is going down the drain. But, thanks to this new video game, and film "Predators", we got some interesting stuff here. Now, let's get back to the game. Graphics - incredible, gameplay - amazing, what can I say, atmosphere and music were great too. And still it kept good impression when you are playing with Alien, or predator, or the marine. Again you feel cool when you are playing with each of them, and their stories are connected, just like in AVP 2 (2001) video game. Though, I don't think that the action scenes, or some moments in the game were not that much tense and not very high voltage. It's kinda slow. This game rules because of good graphics and gameplay, but the plot is weak. Never, during gaming, I have never felt anything exciting in the plot, it's pretty simple, and I feel sorry for that. The intros for all three campaigns were good, but as the plot moves on... something was missing. Maybe it was about these changes that occurred within Alien and Predator canon/universe. You can see that in the game, and there are pretty cool moments with those changes. Like, for example, giving predators much more deeper hunter culture. But, I like things simple. That's just me. When I heard so much about this game, and I expected to be something big, yet simple, and it wasn't ... It was really good, but without the plot... 60% of it is good. But, still highly enjoyable.