Aliens VS Predator

 By: Thegreenback

 

Aliens VS Predator is a game mostly based off the movies with how things work. As you get to play three different campaigns. Each showing you bits of a major story of how things unfold and crossing over each other.

 

The Aliens campaign involves you being born into captivity as you are labeled number 6. As you break free you reek havoc to the scientist that put you where you are. Trying to reach the hive as the queen tells you what needs to be done.

The Predator campaign has you going to earth to stop the Aliens from taking over the area and eventually the planet. As you kill humans and Aliens alike to take them all out for messing with your ancient hunting grounds.

The Human campaign involves you being a Marine as you are labeled “Rookie”. Just trying to survive and kill the Aliens that have killed the scientist to get back control of the base.

 

The combat of the game is varied with each different campaign.

As an Alien you are very fast and can climb on about anything. But you can either press a button every time to do so or do and auto transition. In small areas you keep grabbing onto different walls that you don’t want to so it gets annoying. Making the world a big playground as you stick to the dark to hide from the Marines who shoot to kill you on site. So you have to be sneaky while playing you can hiss to make enemies come closer to you then take them down one at a time. Or try all at once but with much greater difficulty. Or you can get them into a finish move where you do a short grab and either kill them instantly or harvest them. Leaving you open for a bit even if your getting shot you cant stop it and have a chance to die. As your health naturally regenerates you don’t have to worry about looking for ways to heal, just how to kill your prey. Messing around with the lighting to keep you hidden, but still can be seen even if in dark areas tends to make some stealth kills harder to do in areas.

 

Playing as the Predator you can turn on invisibility defense and stay that way for the whole game. Making it work very well against Marines to take them out and get a nice trophy for your collection. You can even pick a spot on the ground and copy their words to make them go in that direction to either take out or get past. As you get more into the story you come across more of your weapons giving you a wider variety of killing your enemies. Most of them are cool but you tend to stick just too just a few that you’re given or wanting to get up close to take them out. You can also jump to places that give you a better view point and move around in a faster way. Some times you can’t get to place to jump on even if highlighted and leaves you wondering why that was put in the first place. You also need to heal as you take damage making you more tactical about your kills.

 

Into the Marine campaign you have a wide variety of weapons that you can choose from as you progress into the game. From a standard pistol to flamethrower to keep you living longer. As the game is very dark compared to the other campaigns. You use flares to light up areas to see the Aliens shine then shoot them down quickly. Also equipped with a flashlight and motion tracker to give you a heads up to what is coming. Most of the time you are surrounded by enemies just trying to survive making you feel very fragile and at any moment you can be taken out. As you just stick to shooting almost anything that moves you keep in contact with other Marines battling the same enemies.

 

There is also and online capability where you can pick your race and try to kill other players across the world. They even have odd games like one becomes the hunter and others prey. Or you can do a four co-op game to survive though waves of enemies and work as a team to make it out alive.

 

The overall is that you can play as different characters and each has a story to tell. As you can just kill lots of enemies it can get repetitive in some areas specially the quick kills only have a few to select from. The combat is alright but not that great to you can kill about anything with just button mashing. The graphics are ok but if you get to close to some things you can see the glitches stand out.

 

So I would give this game 5.1 out of 10

~Thegreenback~