Alien Versus Predator Demo

[Hum4n After All]

Oh.

I never pay attention to the dates.

My bad.

[Zipp]

I've been playing the game. The earlier recommendation of "Pulse Rifles" still stands firm, but once you get past the head-chomping, the plasma blasting, and the smart-gunning and start to look at game mechanics, you realize that the very first AvP by Rebellion, the one on the PC, was the best one.

There's just too many little things wrong with the game. The Marine missions aren't tense enough and feel very scripted (usually a good thing, but here it kills the mystery and flow). The Predator missions are really poor approximations of stealth. The Alien missions handle stealth better but then expect you to master some odd combat system.

Now, multi-player is pretty great and captures more than anything the AvP feel. Unfortunately, it's such a weird game overall that I'm not sure it's going to gain much of an online following. After all, most online gamers like straight up shooting. They don't want to use stealth... they want to shoot shit up.

On the other hand, I've had players hand me my ass when they pick the Alien, so... to each his own...?