Aliens vs Predator

Multiplayer demo is up on Xbox Live, downloading as I type.

Anyone looking forward to this? I haven't seen any videos or screenshots yet, I have no idea what to expect.

 

Demo, huh? I suppose that makes sense since it comes out the 16th. I'll check it out.

I've been reading about it and following it with interest since I saw the announcement. Being done by the same folks who made the PC games, so I expect a good experience.

 

Just finished a few rounds, and my thoughts so far:

- Looks and sounds like Aliens all right. Just firing the pulse rifle alone is enough to put a smile on my face. It seems a bit laggy though, and takes a good while to find a match.

- The best moment so far: after spotting the shimmer of a distant cloaked predator, I started shooting. Globs of green blood splattered the wall and then I saw it stop, turn around and aim its red laser beam at me. The next instant a spinning chunk of metal was flying towards me and I was dead. Awesome moment.

It looks promising, and if there's enough interest in it (for multiplayer), I might just buy it. I hope the lag is cleaned up though.

 

I pre-ordered this game the day it became available, huge fan of the original (seperate) films!

I downloaded the MP demo yesterday and enjoy it, although it is FFA Deathmatch so that's a bit weird having other members of your species tearing you up. I would've liked to see one of the other MP game types in the demo like Survival or Team Deathmatch, but overall I'm really happy with it so far. The different instant kills for each species are great fun and the sound effects really took me back - epecially the motion tracker and the Predator's cool "clicking" growl.

The game itself looks amazing - 3 seperate species campaigns, many different MP game types & maps, and the achievements look fun. I'm all about this game!

 

I thought the demo sucked. It gives you no time to get used to the controls, you have to get to know the map before you get a feel for the weapons (starting the Pred without his plasmacaster is a sin against hum- err Yautjanity) you die every time you try a new mechanic, giving you no real opportunity to get to know them and a dozen other little things that a real demo would do which a MP demo can't. You don't do a demo like this when two of the characters aren't your familiar machine-gun wielding space marine. At least let me host an empty game first! What a waste of time.

I'd say the only thing the demo was good for was to see how it runs on my PC - but it's an old demo in an enclosed space that only does DX9. I knew that it'd run when I ordered it on amazon.co.uk (damn thing doesn't come out in Germany).


As such, I don't know anything now that I didn't know before. I'm still hoping the game will be good, especially the campaigns.

 

^^ I will competely agree with your comments, TwiLek. It would be nice to be able to cut down the learning curve and not get thrown into a Live game immediately in order to learn the controls...it took me about 4 maps to realize I could sprint as an Alien.
...and wth is the purpose of being able to interact with panels as an Alien (using 'x')?! I bit the panel, an alarm went off...then *nothing* happened. Wasn't the damn door supposed to open or something?!

Either way, it excited me for the actual game release, but you are correct that the learning curve is pretty rediculous.
I'm just trying to get more of the people on my friends list to get the demo and host games that way so we all have time to better figure out the controls. Since I've only been a Predator and Colonial Marine *once each*, that's not near enough time to figure anything out...I still dig it though.

 

Just got done playing two rounds as a Xenomorph.

I hated it to begin with, but once I got a hold of the controls I enjoyed it very much. I'm afraid the Predators are too powerful (which was always a worry) but maybe I just think that because their death-frisbee is always flying at me.

This went from a "maybe" to a "must buy". I look forward to the campaign and other MP modes; a team of Aliens vs a team of Marines makes my mouth water.

The death animations were cool, and I'm glad they weren't instant; you have to take a chance to use them. But nothing is more satisfying then chomping a Marine's face off, or decapitating him via your tail.

Glad to see they're going to implement "skins", that was something I wanted very early on.

Overall, I am pleased.

 

Yeah, there's going to be a learning curve to any game that isn't a simple shooter, even the Bad Company 2 demo has a learning curve. It didn't take long to pick up the basic controls in this case (maybe it's easier on a controller?), and once you know what you're doing it's awesome. The predators and aliens are powerful, but I actually had more success as a marine; I just ran around waiting to find a fight between two aliens and then gunned them both down. I got so many multi-kills that way.

Although I do admit, I still haven't figured out how to shoot the predator's weapon, I haven't had much chance to play as him.

 

Me either. Both chances I played as an Alien. I think the Marine will be good; we're all used to taking aim and shooting so if you're into shooters, most strategies you use in any shooter will apply. Except, you know, adapted for Aliens and giant Killing Machines.

 

Rebellion made the first AVP shooter for the PC years ago. I've been following this one for a while wondering...

Does anyone remember AVP 2?

AVP 2 was wonderful and much easier to play compared to the one that came before it. If I don't see any innovation past that one, I'm not going to be impressed. I feel like AVP 2 has been somewhat snubbed by the editorials and other gaming jounalists.

 

Rebellion doesn't want to give too much credit to Monolith
But I do hope they secretly paid attention to some of the stuff they did on AvP2. Last time I played that was... October or so. It's that good. I hardly remember the first one.

 

AvP2 was definitely the better of the AvP games. To this day playing as a Marine had some of the scariest video game moments ever for me.

 

Multiplayer in AVP2 was epic--especially with features like the xenomorph life-cycle (go from face-hugger to queen).

I thought Monolith improved the game so much with the sequel. That's why I'm worried this might be a step back in terms of gameplay/innovation, but with a more shiny coat of paint i.e. Next gen lighting, textures, etc.

 

Well I never played the old ones, so it doesn't bother me. It's certainly not anything original, so if you still pine for the old days maybe you should keep away from this one.

 

I usually never bother with multiplayer, but I still remember a couple of matches in AvP2. God the Predator was so easy, it was probably overpowered. But so much fun.

Couldn't say the same for this one's MP demo - which has now been removed from my Steam, because I'm in Germany.

 

Played the Demo. *-ing awesome. I never played the first two, but I am a huge fan of Aliens and the Predator movies.

I prefer the alien. Best match I played, I broke all the lights on the level, and waited while the rest of the players(all marines and predators) duked it out while I picked them off when they weren't looking.

There is some room for improvement though. The predator's claws do way too much damage at too long a range. And the alien's wall crawling needs a bit of fine tuning.

Apart from that, its great.

 

There are some objects the predator can interact with, which I assume is picking up projectile weapons. I haven't actually had chance to find out, as I always get killed trying to activate one.

I wish I had more chance to select what class I play with, but I love the predator so far. The buzz noise that comes with changing to thermal vision just makes me feel like I'm in the movie, it's great.

 

I have no idea what a Yautja is.

The biggest problem at the moment (at least on Xbox Live) is that hardly anyone is playing it. I tried a few matches tonight and never got above three people in a game. Where is everyone?

 

This goes back to the Jaguar game, where the Predators had normal vision and you could toggle between the different types of heat vision. Apparently with this game, they're doing what was done back then. It's probably done as a means of being gammer frienly for those who don't want the challenge of seeing in the standard Predator vision.

 

But 90% of the time you're in some vision mode anyway... at least I was. First thing when a level starts, switch to a view-mode.
And if I saw that right from my 10 minutes in the demo, the vision modes don't limit the visible distance, so there is even less reason to switch to normal view now.

 

IIRC previous AvP games had 4 vision modes for the Preds:
"Normal" - What humans see.
Thermal - Highlights humans.
Bio-electric - Highlights Aliens and androids (like Bishop).
Pred-tech - Highlights other Predators and their weapons.

 

Is this at all comparable to the PC game that came out ages ago? 'cuz muh gawd that game was good and scary. Loved it.