Alien combat is a bit different: players will crawl along ceilings and walls, slash at lights to hide in the shadows, and move at lightning speeds to harvest civilians for "face-huggers" or take bites out of their quarry. They move slowly through environments, rely on stealth, distract and lure hapless humans, and cloak before leaping in close to strike foes. Playing as each character provides a marked difference in gameplay-predators feel like methodical hunters. The stories are watchable, not memorable, and they provide enough of a pretext for a few hours of blasting, mauling, or impaling as the situation dictates. As the sixth xenomorph under observation by human scientists, you race along the corridors of a research facility and hunt down your captors using alien attributes.
Say you select the alien character, Six a video prologue tells the story of an alien spawn which, after violently bursting from the chest (and throat) of a human test subject, is captured and kept for research. The stories, level design, and combat mechanics are all driven by the individual star of the show.
These individual stories are an interesting idea and the gameplay is diverse enough to support Rebellion's decision. The endgame here is pretty clear-almost everyone who has a reason to play this game could find a better reason to play another.ĪVP's single-player campaign is really three short stories told from the point of view of human, alien, and predator characters depending on which you select. FPS fans will want a more polished or at least a more unique experience, casual gamers will want more accessible characters, and AVP fans will probably want more story than a couple of single-player modes can provide. The big "but" here is a common problem in video games these days there simply isn't enough weight here to make a splash. And let's not forget, the AVP name is enough to bring in a few hardcore fanboys.
Gameplay is familiar enough to make sense and diverse enough to earn a few hours of patience. It's a very serviceable attempt at an FPS game that provides a few tweaks to the traditional formula. Even though the acclaimed director is probably too busy focusing on the impending Oscar race and his "competition", something tells me that the newest AVP game still wouldn't get the Cameron stamp of approval. have been enough to make James Cameron roll over in his giant pile of Avatar-related money (onto his other giant pile of Titanic-related money). If you've ever seen Alien or it's equally impressive follow-up Aliens, you're probably with me when I say that the past few Alien, Aliens, Alien vs.
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