Reviews are why I think it might flop.
Alien vs Predator - Anyone getting it?
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Reviews are why I think it might flop.
Had a little go at a mates house and early opinion is...
* Marine stuff seem pretty standard so no real problem there
* Predator is a little clumsy and dissapointing. Meele stuff against Aliens seems weaker than in AVP 1999. Also frame rate in areas for Predator stuff on PC anyway is AWFUL
* Alien is very fun though all these attacks are a little repetitive and AI dumb really dumb.
PC price its worth getting in future after a few patches but I would never get it on 360 for over £30. The game has been rushed by at least 6 months by SEGA and I hope Colonial Marines is better prepared at launch.
* Marine stuff seem pretty standard so no real problem there
* Predator is a little clumsy and dissapointing. Meele stuff against Aliens seems weaker than in AVP 1999. Also frame rate in areas for Predator stuff on PC anyway is AWFUL
* Alien is very fun though all these attacks are a little repetitive and AI dumb really dumb.
PC price its worth getting in future after a few patches but I would never get it on 360 for over £30. The game has been rushed by at least 6 months by SEGA and I hope Colonial Marines is better prepared at launch.
Ok, so I've been playing this pretty extensively since Friday, and I have to say, it's one hell of a fun game.
The campaigns are a bit short, but they're very enjoyable and atmospheric. I highly recommend playing the Marine missions in the dark with surround sound on. I also found it better to go into the Options menu and turn the music completely off. I just found it a bit distracting.
I've completed all three campaigns on Normal difficulty, and done the Marine missions again on Hard. I tried the Marine missions on Nightmare mode, but I gave up. Not that it was particularly difficult, but there are no checkpoints and you can't save, so if you do somehow die, you have to start the level from scratch.
I got to the end of the first Marine level, and was holding my own against the Warriors in the Queen's chamber. Just as I was about to blast a Warrior with the shotgun, another Alien leapt past me, took the shotgun round to the head and doused me in acid - on three full bars of health, that killed me instantly. Back to the start of the level.
Playing as the Alien is awesome. Once you get used to it and start stringing together fluid movements and attacks, it's a joy to play; leaping from surface to surface, and lunge-attacking an unsuspecting Marine before grabbing him and impaling him through the eyesocket with your tail is about as much fun as you can have with a video game.
The Survivor mode in AvP is a thing of beauty. While it can get a bit crowded with 4 players, doing it with 2 players, or solo, is fantastic fun. I've managed a best survival time of 19m 27s on C-Block, and around 16 minutes on Mausoleum.
The MP is pretty good, although it can seem a bit unbalanced at times, but that's just a minor gripe cause there's ways to deal with it.
All in all, I'd say it's a pretty solid game. I give it 8.5/10.
The campaigns are a bit short, but they're very enjoyable and atmospheric. I highly recommend playing the Marine missions in the dark with surround sound on. I also found it better to go into the Options menu and turn the music completely off. I just found it a bit distracting.
I've completed all three campaigns on Normal difficulty, and done the Marine missions again on Hard. I tried the Marine missions on Nightmare mode, but I gave up. Not that it was particularly difficult, but there are no checkpoints and you can't save, so if you do somehow die, you have to start the level from scratch.
I got to the end of the first Marine level, and was holding my own against the Warriors in the Queen's chamber. Just as I was about to blast a Warrior with the shotgun, another Alien leapt past me, took the shotgun round to the head and doused me in acid - on three full bars of health, that killed me instantly. Back to the start of the level.
Playing as the Alien is awesome. Once you get used to it and start stringing together fluid movements and attacks, it's a joy to play; leaping from surface to surface, and lunge-attacking an unsuspecting Marine before grabbing him and impaling him through the eyesocket with your tail is about as much fun as you can have with a video game.
The Survivor mode in AvP is a thing of beauty. While it can get a bit crowded with 4 players, doing it with 2 players, or solo, is fantastic fun. I've managed a best survival time of 19m 27s on C-Block, and around 16 minutes on Mausoleum.
The MP is pretty good, although it can seem a bit unbalanced at times, but that's just a minor gripe cause there's ways to deal with it.
All in all, I'd say it's a pretty solid game. I give it 8.5/10.
PC game is definitely worth it, and I've had no massive updates/patches from Steam either so I don't know what that's about.
I don't know why people are giving it mediocre reviews unless it's from that dismal demo mode I heard about. The campaigns are fun, finished the Marine, did the opener for the Alien and started the first campaign for the Predator but I've been taking my time with it too as I've heard and expected it to be shorter on the single player as everything these days is geared towards multiplayer which is IMO a mistake. Multiplayer should not take so much precedent over the single player like it does these days.
I don't know why people are giving it mediocre reviews unless it's from that dismal demo mode I heard about. The campaigns are fun, finished the Marine, did the opener for the Alien and started the first campaign for the Predator but I've been taking my time with it too as I've heard and expected it to be shorter on the single player as everything these days is geared towards multiplayer which is IMO a mistake. Multiplayer should not take so much precedent over the single player like it does these days.
I had the Atari jaguar version and from what I remember of it, it was wild. I remember one part near the end where I the screen went all psychodelic on me and I didnt know if I was losing my mind of if the system was screwed up.
Gearbox's Randy Pitchford recently confirmed that Alien: Colonial Marines is not dead and with Borderlands + DLC finally out of the way the staff is focusing on the game though he did not confirm any changes to it nor a release date...
I would guess Q1 2011 as I doubt it will make this year though they got pretty far into the game from what I heard before they stopped but please don't rush it like AvP was. I hope they keep the 4 player co-op for sp and hopefully a teaser trailer might get shown at E3 to drive up interest because am sure its a forgotten title to many.
Heres what he said...
I would guess Q1 2011 as I doubt it will make this year though they got pretty far into the game from what I heard before they stopped but please don't rush it like AvP was. I hope they keep the 4 player co-op for sp and hopefully a teaser trailer might get shown at E3 to drive up interest because am sure its a forgotten title to many.
Heres what he said...
I tried downloading the demo on Steam but after installing it just kept saying "game not available" so I deleted it. To be honest I still have the old PC version of AvP2 from years back and have yet to get very far with it. I remember being rather unimpressed with the gameplay as a whole and I don't imagine this new one has fundamentally changed anything.
It always slightly irked me though that in a game called "Aliens vs, Predator", most of the game is taken up by the human campaign. I'd much rather cut out the humans (so to speak) and just have the two title characters duking it out. Any humans you happen to slaughter along the way only counting as nutritional heath pick ups.
I think part of the problem with a game like this is that the bit with the marines in metal corridors has been copied so many times by so many games that the source material now seams somehow generic and unexciting. Also, since Arkham Asylum came out we already have something that is already just a skull collecting mechanic away from perfect predator game.
As for the Alien part...I remember having a lot of trouble getting very far without being spotted and blasted into a cloud of acid and body parts. On it's own in a complex full of well armed soldiers, a single Xeno is pretty much screwed and playing as part of a swarm would be like playing Left 4 Dead as one of the generic infected. Plus all that climbing up walls and ceilings business is very disorienting.
It always slightly irked me though that in a game called "Aliens vs, Predator", most of the game is taken up by the human campaign. I'd much rather cut out the humans (so to speak) and just have the two title characters duking it out. Any humans you happen to slaughter along the way only counting as nutritional heath pick ups.
I think part of the problem with a game like this is that the bit with the marines in metal corridors has been copied so many times by so many games that the source material now seams somehow generic and unexciting. Also, since Arkham Asylum came out we already have something that is already just a skull collecting mechanic away from perfect predator game.
As for the Alien part...I remember having a lot of trouble getting very far without being spotted and blasted into a cloud of acid and body parts. On it's own in a complex full of well armed soldiers, a single Xeno is pretty much screwed and playing as part of a swarm would be like playing Left 4 Dead as one of the generic infected. Plus all that climbing up walls and ceilings business is very disorienting.
I finally broke down and bought a used copy today and I love it! I am starting off playing as a Marine and it is creepy running around all the darkened hallways and fighting off the aliens. I assume we get to go up against Predators later in the game?
Everytime I hear the "beep beep beep" of my motion tracker I am turning all over the place looking for the aliens. I think they did a great job so far.
Everytime I hear the "beep beep beep" of my motion tracker I am turning all over the place looking for the aliens. I think they did a great job so far.
hmm. from what i've read, alien vs predator 2 is a much better game compared to this new one.
I finished the Marine portion and now I'm playing as a Predator and having a blast!
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