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Summary: Good game, but lacks the difficulty of the first.
Review: Alien vs Predator 2 is a solid game, the reason being that the graphics have been vastily improved from the first AvP game, and that you can save mid game is a blessing. Also that it contains scripted events like half-life to give it more realism and depth.Both of the three species have been improved greatly since the first game, the best improvement is that as a marine you do not die quite as fast, and can take more damage. Therein lies the problem, though. If played on easy, the marine levels are just that. Once you've gone around the block to play a certain level a few times, you can predict when the Aliens will appear (scripted events are a curse and a blessing) and the game looses its fun. Inbetween battles you will be anxiously awaiting the next confrontation. As Predator it's a cake walk with the added "Energy Sieve" which draws ambient energy to recharge your...energy source. This addition along with the well known medicomp renders the player practically invincible, a virtual tank. When playing as the Alien, you sacrifice the speed advantage for an attack caled a pounce attack. While this destroys an enemy on contact I rarely use it because it takes the fun out of the game. The biggest qualm I have with AvP 2 is the fact that the Alien isn't sneaky or fast as hell anymore. In Avp a tangle with a marine armed with a smartgun or multiple marines (about five) head on would result in instant death. You had to sneak up from behind or use your huge speed (think cheetah on crack) advantage to surprise them. Now you can go toe to toe with a bucnh of marines and survive, but if played on Hard and your life dissapears very fast, you still lack the speed (arrgh)to get away and hide. And the fact that killing the lights doesn't work anymore, so you cant create patches of darkness to hide in. For some reason the Marines can still see you even from a great distance or if it is pitch black and they have no visible means of seeing you. I was greatly disappointed when I played the Alien on AvP and then on AvP 2, and immediatley realized the glaring differences.
Another is the lack of enemies, as alien in AvP there were at least eighty enemies in a level, and they never showed up in the same place twice. They also would show up in the darndest places to boot (air shafts and alien tunnels). That aside, the game is immensely fun to play, especially mutliplayer where the ability to die very fast makes it a tough battle. All that said, it is a great game but I will still love the original for it's brutal difficulty and absurdly quick deaths.
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Summary: More frightening than most movies
Review: This game is far more frightening and tense than most movies (at least playing as marines). From the start of the game it scared the [] out of me. There are tons of scripted events in teh begining all as frightening as teh one before it. You'll constantly be looking over your shoulder for more enemys. However I have a small gripe about its "scariness" the first alien you encounter takes much of the fear away because they are extremly easy to kill taking away some of the atmosphere the movies created. However the atmosphere itself is just plain down freaky.
Each species (human alien and predator) have their own strenths and weaknesses, but I believe he human is the only really scary one which is what this game is about. However each species is fun to play as. Recommended for those that want scared or a different fps experience.
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Summary: Great Game, Captures the feel of the Alien/Predator Movies.
Review: This is an overall excellent game, I have only the demo which contains one mission for each of the three species but I am planning on purchasing this game. I would recommend downloading the demo, to see if the game suits your tastes. The three species (Alien, Predator, Human) are all interesting and fun to play as. Playing as a Marine will definateley get your heart pounding and adrenaline going as well. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about the Predator, as the introdction of the Energy Sieve and Medicomp renders you pratically invincible. The Alien is possibly the most fun species to play. Though the Wallcrawling technique takes some getting used to (a plus, the developers added arrows that indicate up and down, which is a step up from the first AvP which forced you to figure it out for your self). Overall, a worthy game and one that is worth buying, also make it a point to obtain patches to work some minimal bugs out.
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Summary: Predtor Campain
Review: Ok! who ever wrote the predator campain out look has no idea what he/she is talking about. You must not understand what the predator dose, He hunts duh and what is he doing HUNTING, he is hunting someone and s trying to settle an old score try reading the story lines.
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Summary: Just Like a Movie,a must have PC FIRST PERSON GAME!!
Review: AVP2 is suspensful,adrenline flowing,and scary.The Aliens are alot of fun to be,the ability to walk on walls with the smaller more agile aliens is great.You can start as a crawler,snake,drone and moth all the way to a big bad black Queen! The Predator has several races to play also,and his vision modes,invisibility,and weaponry is just like in the movie. The Marines,has several class operators,and is my favorite role player. The amount and power of the weaponry is awesome. At my home,we play over LAN,next to Unreal Tournament 2003,this is the next greatest PC first person game. Better have atleast 32mb or 64mb video card. I had problems late in the game with my Prosavage S4 video card,I aftwards,purchased the Nvidia Geforce 4 64MB AGP video card,with s-video output,now the game plays flawlesly,and we can watch it on the 27" big screen TV. A bonus to the game,is the ability to play LAN or Internet servers,upgrade your game first,the first time you play,on the internet. I recommend that you also upgrade the game (free) over the internet at the official Sierra website for this game.
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Summary: awsome game
Review: this game is great you can be come alien to queen alien my brother has this game this game #1
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Summary: Windows XP Users BEWARE!!!
Review: I gave this review to Aliens Versus Predator 2 the three-star treatment because it's the mid-grade score. So why the mid-grade score? It's a fun game, by all means (especially the Alien campaign), however, if you own a computer that runs Windows XP, the game won't work well as it did for those that gave this game a better grade. Even with the game running on the lowest/minimum settings on audio and graphics, the game suffers from severe lag and awefully dragged out loading times. My computer specs tower over the minimum requirements in order to play this game, but Windows XP doesn't seem to have the compatability in order to enjoy this title. What I could play and deal with, the game showed much promise to be great in both single player and with the online multiplayer games. I just never got too into the game because of all the problems with the system crashing, long loading times (and we are literaly talking about 5-10 minutes here), and bad lag. I installed and played the game for nearly ten hours and got only two levels into it (My character died many times because of the lag). If you are running Windows XP, avoid this game!!! There are just too many problems to overcome. If you own a previous Windows edition, this game will most likely be a great title.
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Summary: Good... but not the best!
Review: I own many games, many of these are FPS. What is odd about this game is that it is like a 3 in 1 package. You either play as an alien, predator or a marine. All sub-games are quite short. The marine section is cool! You can get many weapons from the knife to the 'Minigun' which made its name in the fiml Predator. You also get a number of gadgets including an image intensifier (makes the surroundings brighter) and the smart spider mines (these follow a specific target, then detonate). The predator part of the game is undoubtedly the best. The weapons and gadgets made available to you throughout the course of the first two or three levels alone is way enough to make short work of your enemies! The wristblades, a predator's primary weapon, are perfect for killing and then skinning your foes. The thermal imaging mode is just unbeatable. The alien section allows you to take on the role of a xenomorph through its life cycle (from facehugger, to chestburster, to drone, etc...) You can wall walk, hang upside-down, rip yourself from the inside of a host and so on! I can't help but find this part of the game boring- and difficult! Nevertheless, I am fan of shooting monsters 'til my barrel glows red hot rather than playing a monster! DOWNSIDES. There is a lack of storyline (its just kick butt action i.e. shoot first, ask questions later). If you are a fan of structured storylines, buy something like IGI. The game is well hard especially when you've got hundreds of aliens charging at you!
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Summary: better then the first, though
Review: i really feel this game was better than the first when it came to a story line and objectives, that was something i was really hoping for when i first heard it was comming out and i enjoyed the way it built on attacks of the aliens, though some points in the story where a little to much for the mariene, (when the girl tells you where to go becouse her brother died or something to that effect)it was still a better situation than the first. some of the new abilities are very cool to, like alice and the predators net gun, i love that thing on multiplayer!
and the multiplayer(the realy reason i bought the game) was great, lost of really cool looking levels and very beutiful scenery. i love the lesser fate area. and now you can have 16 players instead of 8, that was really cool to, i have a entire team of people who play with me online and they enjoy every aspect of the game. it did seem slihgtly easier than the first game, you didnt have to sorry about ammo since the clips never seemed to run out (the first game you where out of ammo when you pulled the trigger)but now the pulse rifle lives forever, and the reload and welder ability are cool too.
this time its much more like bieng involved in a movie than the first, i really feel like i was in Lv-1201 and with a team of mariens. or that i was a alien stopping the humans from destroying the hive and the spiceise.
if you enjoyed the first game, then try this one, you wont be dissapointed.
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Summary: Fun game to play
Review: I was looking for something fun to play while games were in development so I picked up avp2 in the discount bin. This game is incredible. I played the marine mission because the feeling of being hunted far outweighed the interest to play a non-human species. This is a fast-paced, adrenaline-pumping game. I can't even describe the fear [and thrill] of a single or dozen aliens charging straight at me. I often wondered if my neighbors could hear my screams because let me tell you, I screamed a lot. The multi-player gaming will keep your interest for a long time. I find the marine to be boring during online gaming so I stick with the predalien unless I'm needed to balance the races. I'm an avid fps gamer. This one won't disappoint you except for 1 thing: it should have been a longer a game. I also purchased the Primal Hunt expansion for more fun. This game was highly recommended for a very valid reason so just buy it and enjoy.
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