Predator seems to be a well-meaning attempt at reinvigorating a languishing series, but grotesque kills and some entertaining multiplayer moments don't cut it--not when so many slick and exciting shooters are on store shelves, vying for your time.
The attention to detail, the well-considered level design, and the sense of momentum that characterize the finest shooters are missing here. Predator is sometimes enjoyable but never escapes an overwhelming sense of carelessness, so while it may remind you of the good old days, it fails to recapture them.
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The Good Three separate campaigns make for some variety Close-up kills are wonderfully gross Multiplayer can be good fun The Bad Awkward and inconsistent controls Poor level design Loaded with small but deadly flaws. About the Author. More GameSpot Reviews. Load Comments Predator First Released Feb 16, released.
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All of the sneaking around made me feel a little underpowered when playing as what appeared to be such an impressive creature. Thankfully or perhaps not once you get the combi stick combat is greatly simplified, perhaps to the point of being unbalanced thanks to the one-shot kills. So, while the single-player component doesn't hold up when compared to the Call of Duty or BioShocks of the world, it does a fine job of delivering the separate universes in AVP.
Playing as the marine can be haunting, the Predator is out to hunt his prey and the Alien is built to get in and out of combat quickly without drawing much fire. Now if only the mechanics had panned out better and the design had been more imaginative, then we'd have something truly special on our hands.
Thankfully the multiplayer piece to the puzzle fares better than the solo play. There are six adversarial modes complete with six maps. This, paired with the four-player co-op offering across two maps, makes for a nice serving of fun with your friends. The modes are nicely varied and largely stick to what makes sense given the subject material.
One mode has Aliens infecting marines, another has one Predator hunting a pack of humans. It's all solid fun, especially when you get 18 players willing to work together and play to the strengths of their respective characters. Where the multiplayer stumbles a bit is in the total of lack of expandability. I understand that there's a concern with balance, but the fact that you gain only new skins and no new abilities as you level up your character is a real drag.
Couple that with a few questionable design decisions, like the whole game quitting when the host leaves or drops his connection, and the multiplayer package is slightly less attractive. Where the adversarial play drops the ball, the cooperative mode known as Survival is right there to pick up the slack.
You and up to three buddies can hop into a map and take on endless waves of Aliens. It's modeled after the many Horde-style modes that we've seen before, and it works quite well. But as with so much of what AVP offers, there is a fault. For whatever reason Rebellion decided to package only two co-op maps in the standard edition of Aliens vs. Get it now on Searching for streaming and purchasing options Did we miss something on diversity?
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Continue reading Show less. Stay up to date on new reviews. Get full reviews, ratings, and advice delivered weekly to your inbox. User Reviews Parents say Kids say. Parent of a year-old Written by wecanonlyhope February 28, Continue reading. Report this review. Adult Written by Unnamed April 18, Know your kid! I'll go by one by one. The Violence: There are three campaigns, the violence level varyi Teen, 13 years old Written by neil gaiman April 24, Teen, 13 years old Written by Harlan Reviews February 26, Game does have an interesting melee system and when it works the games can be quite fun if you are a fan of the AvP universe.
But many of the missing features will frustrate many users. A decent game that may improve with patching, but currently does not live up to it's potential. A very buggy and unpolished game, even after several patches. I could list things wrong with it, but for the sake of not reminding myself A very buggy and unpolished game, even after several patches.
I could list things wrong with it, but for the sake of not reminding myself how badly developed this game was, I'll stick with just a few pet hates. Marine get's a magic pistol with unlimited bullets, even though he has a melee ability.
Marines weapons magically disappear at the end of a level to be replaced by defaults. Incredibly cliche and uninspired story stuck on a heavily linear and scripted single player, e. Alien attacks conveniently dry up once you finish some random objective as the game waits for you to move to the next section.
Incredibly repetitive npc marine chatter. Sometimes ingame triggers fail to activate, leaving you having to kill yourself to return to an earlier checkpoint, e.
Pressing e to do a killing move seems cool at first, and provides initial entertainment, becomes incredibly boring once you've seen it dozens of times and will go out your way to just beat enemy npc's to death to avoid seeing the same drawn out animation again.
Awful menu system with rubbish options. Buggy sound system. Poor amount of multiplayer maps. Npc's are pretty dumb and easy to exploit the weaknesses in the A. I to easily kill anything on any difficulty. I found the marine was most fu nto play altho it needs a second game just to clear up the ending. Predator nothign to get excited about it I found the marine was most fu nto play altho it needs a second game just to clear up the ending.
Predator nothign to get excited about it was however much better to me fro mthe previous games. Alien has been destroyed. If the game mariens used motion trackers and looked up you'd be killed, you run in to a pred it can melee kill you from behind.
I was really enjoying single player until I got to the aliens campaign where it's just ruined them, predators have better and faster melee and ranged attacks. Also they released the game without dedicated server files and with huge bugs i nthe system, every 5 minutes you get lag in SP. I would strongly advise agaisnt buying this game!
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