We're taking those kinds of steps forward with the alien player as well. As Jones is quick to add, regardless of what people will expect, and what their experiences are with other games in the series - "crawling on the walls and ceilings and hiding in the dark to pounce on your prey and then kill them in gruesome ways" - isn't an experience you're going to get from Call of Duty.
As for the Marine player, it's not about shooting guys behind cover. The xenomorphs may be relentless killing machines, but there are situations where they'll know when to hold back. Likewise the Predator will likely use surprise and fall back into the shadows if overwhelmed.
So although AvP is being designed as an FPS, survival horror and stealth is as much a focus of design as all-out action. The Marine is clearly there to fulfil the action side of things, with his pulse rifle and under-slung grenade launcher, moving up to the smart gun and a trademark shotgun handy for close encounters, obviously. It's those pesky shadows and his bleeping motion tracker that will help ladle on tire tension. For the aliens, the trick is to make use of all the surfaces, use the shadows, get in close and strike hard and fast.
It's important for us to make sure that a single alien is a deadly threat to the player, because they are one of the scariest monsters in the universe, says Jones, highlighting a problem that has blighted many Aliens-themed game in the past "Even when you're up against two or three of them you're really in trouble, so the times when we really ramp it up and throw significant numbers of them at you, you're really going to have to be very tooled-up with weaponry to even stand a glimmer of a chance.
It's going to keep people on their toes and make them terrified. There will be times in y the game when teamwork is an essential part of strategy. Safety in numbers has been the lesson we should all take away from the movies that, and, don't open the damn airlock , and while isn't a squadlevel game other characters you meet and fight alongside - regardless of which species you're playing as - will be there to offer respite from the sense of vulnerability that will play out.
That ties into when you connect very physically with the characters right in front of you. Such physicality is demonstrated by visceral nature of melee combat in the game. Previous games required only blind pummelling of the attack key when up close, whether you were swiping alien claws or a Predator's wrist blades. The new AvP will open up trophy kills if you put a decent sequence of blows together, or are about to make a surprise attack. For the alien it might be the old pierce-and-lift tail manoeuvre, or a diagonal slice that carves a person in two parts.
For the Predator it's the swift removal of the spinal column although having seen it repeated four times in one brief play session, it's already becoming passe. Hie three-way battles that will identify the single-player side of AvP will be mirrored in the multiplayer. Of course Rebellion are in no mood to reveal anything specific about what gameplay modes to expect, only that, according to Jones, there will be a variety, "from the traditional, to ones that really make the most of the different species and the way they interact".
A full co-operative multiplayer campaign is on our wish list, but even just the traditional would do us fine, since it was Rebellion that did much to nail co-operative survival years before Left 4 Dead was even thought of.
Suggestions that Valve's zombie shooter might have stolen AvPs thunder prompts a response that could be telling: "L4D takes the approach of a parody, says Mackman, "it's not a scary game as such.
It's tense, but it's not the same kind of game as AvP. Yes it's co-operative, yes it's got a run-through area if you're comparing it to the original AvP but compared to what we're doing with multiplayer We're only saying that fans won't be disappointed.
Regardless of whether L4D is influencing the design of the multiplayer side of AvP, Rebellion are aware that although an endless parade of games have borrowed from AvP over the years, there are games that are paying back that influence in return.
However, it's not any one title that is inspiring Rebellion to get this one game just right. More than the template of the classic games in the AvP lineage. Rebellion are holding up the increasing levels of polish and accessibility that modern action games offer. Like us, Rebellion are of the opinion that today's FPS games are pretty amazing, and, like us, they want Aliens vs Predator to be counted among the very best.
In Many Ways you already know the score with the new Aliens vs Predator - it's essentially taking the much-loved PC model of years gone by and sprucing it up for the teenagers who weren't around at its beginning. This in itself is no bad thing, and the fact that it's being developed by Rebellion - the chaps who did the original Jaguar version and subsequent PC follow-up you know, the one that people actually played - gives this game much respectability.
Playing as the ugly dread -' locked one is all about vertical gameplay - keeping your balance, and scanning the environment below you for enemy movement. The tree-top gymnastics are aided by a marker that you place on viable spots that then triggers your Predator to leap there. Another enticing feature though is the ability to record the voices of people you listen in on - then later drawing soldiers out into ambushes by replaying the voices of their dead associates.
It's a ploy that certainly worked on Arnie's gang. As for the Colonial Marines, well you know what to expect: a misty metal-encased base with grids for floors and ceilings and all the pulse rifles, beeping motion trackers and screaming soldiers that Weyland-Yutani can provide.
Oh, and the automated turrets from the director's cut of Aliens - the one people judge you over, should you not have seen it There's no doubt here, as you move between wounded Marines soldering doors and shoring up defences against an imminent onslaught that Rebellion have nailed the feeling of tension -although whether it'll be ratcheted up to the levels seen in Monolith's AvP2 is still unknown. What's definite, however, is that when the aliens do put in an appearance their Al isn't lacking -they're always in different and unexpected spots and they're always noticeably hunting you down.
You can pretty much guarantee that most of your Marine chums won't be making it through the night. This said, if we're being overcautious in extolling AvPs virtues then there's a good reason - the last notable PC game Rebellion developed was Shellshock 2: Blood Trails issue which was truly an abomination: an indelible black mark in the history books of gaming.
With this in mind, if there's something to be feared other than acid-riddled xenomorphs then it's that mission objectives will seem a smidge bog-standard. Having to knock out a bunch of generators to gain access to a Marine base while playing as a Predator, for example, isn't a crime - but we've knocked out similar generators plentiful times before. So while there's little doubt that the new Aliens vs Predator will be an absolute blinder, with the game's release so far away we're not going to tempt fate with rampant pre-ordering just yet..
This guide's been written to help you grasp the basic functions of each character. Hopefully, it will help you cope with the many bowel-loosening encounters you'll face during your AvP experience. The slowest character in the game, and probably the weakest. He is protected only by his armour and guns. If you learn each level and move quickly to reach the armour power-ups and health, you stand a better chance of survival. Use short, controlled bursts, and aim for the head.
A reliable weapon with a grenade launcher for when you're in a rush. Another handy weapon against Facehuggers.
Always run backwards while firing and never let a burning enemy touch you - you'll go up in flames, too. Big one-shot rocket launcher. Effective against Alien Queens and Predators, not so effective in confined spaces. More powerful than the pulse rifle's launcher. Comes with three different types of grenade: basic, fragmentation and proximity. The nastiest gun in a Marine's arsenal. The only problem is you can't move when you're using it. So, make sure you find a save spot to mow down your prey.
Especially effective against Alien Queens and Predators. Not as handy as you first think. It cannot detect movement behind you, and it cannot specify whether an enemy is above or below you. It also detects mangled body parts. Not one to rely on. Enhances vision in darkened areas. To use it effectively, knock out any lights that may blind you. Use them to light your way if you don't want to use the image intensifier.
Remember, you can only activate four at a time. The Marine is probably the most popular character because it's the closest to what we're used to in first-person shooters. But, as we said earlier, he is slow and death can come quickly. The key to succeeding with the Marine is to not waste your ammo, and to not hang about.
When attacking Aliens try and run backwards. Shooting them point-blank is asking for a whole lot of acid in your face. You need patience and cunning to play as the Alien.
You can take advantage of its incredible speed, but use it wisely; leaping down a corridor towards a Marine with a minigun is futile - he'll just pop you like a water balloon. Use the ceilings and walls, and remain in the shadows for as long as possible. And remember: using the jaw attack on a head not only kills fast, but it also earns you health, too. The Alien has no 'techie' weaponry on it's side and instead must rely purely on what nature gave it.
Great to use against Marines, not so good against Predators. You can also claw a dead-being to gain a small amount of health. Perfect against Marines and Sentry Guns; Predators can also be killed using this attack method, just hit it once to knock them down and a second time to kill them. The Alien's default view is hunting vision. Humans are highlighted in blue, Predators in green, and other Aliens in red.
Also has a degree field of view as opposed to degree. To see in the dark, the Alien must use its navigation sense. Unfortunately, the alien loses the ability to differentiate between different species in this mode.
The Alien is a real bitch to control, but if you manage to get to grips with the interface and retain your bearings it's probably the deadliest character in the game. The Alien has two advantages: its speed and the ability to see everything including cloaked Predators.
The Predator is the ultimate hunting machine with deadly weapons, the ability to cloak and heal itself, and four vision modes. The only disadvantage is its constant need for field energy -fuel; without this, Mr Predator is virtually useless.
Ammo is limited, so a good Predator should waft for the right moment to attack Wristblades. For really close encounters, the primary attack kills Marines in seconds.
The secondary attack holding down the right mouse button can kill instantly. The Predator also collects trophies by performing a secondary attack on the head of a dead, non-decapitated body. This baby is able to take a Marine's head clean off and pin it to a wall - also useful when attempting to keep aliens at bay. Without doubt the perfect sniping weapon. Auto-targeting weapon that can kill a Marine instantly. It can also be charged up for bigger bolts by holding down the fire button.
Primary button which heals you completely. The secondary button puts out flames. Takes between 15 and 20 energy units to use. Capable of destroying a Xenoborg with one hit. It's also lethal against most other creatures bar the Alien Queen. Auto-targeting and auto-return.
Master the Predator's strange weapons and he becomes a very satisfying character. The cloaking device is useful except against Aliens and the two homing weapons can be highly effective if used from cover. The perfect character for campers. You've probably seen a few other creatures on your travels, here's how to kill them.
A total nightmare: if they get on your face, you're dead. Marines should go for the flamethrower or smartgun, and grenades if desperate. Predators can blow them away with the pistol.
Look like civilians, but handle weapons better and show no fear. Easy to kill as Alien or Predator. A hybrid robot and Alien.
Predators should use the speargun and aim for the head. Slightly tougher than normal Aliens but can be despatched in the same way. Watch out though, these things actively seek out and eat power-ups. There are various ways to kill a Queen depending on which level you're on. Only one thing is constant though - explosives always work best.
My Favourite Sound probably out of all of them, is the ones made by aliens when they're being horrifically slaughtered in their second film, Aliens. It is, I think, based on a heavily distorted recording of a trumpeting elephant, sped up to make it absolutely terrifying in a way only the panicked, high-pitched scream of a flailing pachyderm can be. In second place it's the dense, tinny shred of a pulse rifle.
Then there's the muffled, static veil draped over your ears when the Predator switches to thermal vision, married with his exotic, guttural clucks as he lops his tongue about inside his mandible box-mouth. Every Aliens vs Predator game has understood the importance of replicating the most aurally recognisable aspects of its characters, and this release continues that tradition. It sounds incredible.
Incredible enough to make me want to say words like "aural soundscape" and "crunchy sonic feast". Here's a game that's mostly about inflicting horrendous injuries on deserving creatures, and it's one In which you'll appreciate every sinewy crunch, gargled howl, bloody slosh and hollow snap.
Aliens vs Predator is sickeningly violent - more so in one of the three campaigns than the others, admittedly -in ways that are borderline comical and dancing on the periphery of decency.
Lovely, spine-tearing, eye-socket spearing madness then. Where the films lost credibility the moment they went PG, Rebellion's A v P wears its 18 certificate with pride. These are Schwarzeneggar's Predators and, Ripley's aliens.
Sadly, these are the same one-dimensional barking space marines you've seen a thousand times before, but the point stands - this game doesn't flinch in showing you brutality on a level not seen since the early films.
The good ones. So, evil megacorp Weyland-Yutani have found some ancient ruins on a distant planet, and in their efforts to exploit the artifacts found within they've attracted the attention of the ruin's guardians: the tribal, dreadlock-sporting Predators. Bit of a pedant's minefield, this review, but we'll stick to calling the angry monsters 'Predators' for the sake of our sanity.
The planet also happens to be home to a colony of Giger's xenomorphs, thereby allowing for the classic three-way struggle seen in both of the previous games to erupt all over again.
Registering false positives in nearly every darkened corner, the environment takes pleasure in suggesting random shadows might contain dripping alien death, and for the first 10 minutes you won't even meet one of the things.
You'll be yelping at vents, alarmingly shaped shadows and dangling bits of wire which, in a case of misjudged engineering, look identical to the tails of lackadaisical, ceiling-dwelling aliens.
The Alien campaign, on the other hand, is a reduced affair. Weapons and frippery are replaced by tooth and claw, and the unique ability to climb on any surface allows you to stalk marines from the darkness like a pervert Spider-man.
You're the smarter-than-your-average specimen known as Number Six, receiving curiously detailed orders from your Queen who's kind enough to mark objectives on your HUD, in between shitting out a thousand eggs and fighting to save her and your colony from the nefarious human threat. Great greasy things, are the aliens, moving unpredictably along walls and ceilings, at all times beautifully animated and intricately detailed. As absurd as it sounds, their flowing, flicking tails are their most convincing component, snaking behind their skeletal forms as they corner and leap from surface to surface.
In the Alien campaign, you'll spend real minutes chasing your physics-powered tail. Your armoury increases to include a shotgun and a powerful scoped rifle, around about the same time you begin to encounter acid-spitting aliens and the Freud-baiting facehuggers. Inevitably, when your objective changes focus and you find yourself pitched against human opponents, the change in pace throws the Alien's combat into sharp relief.
Instead of frantically searching walls and ceilings for scuttling enemies, you're seeking out enemies who intelligently find cover. The notion of an enemy who, at this late stage, doesn't simply sprint towards you in an attempt to stab you from every angle at once feels oddly unnatural but wholly welcome. Otherwise, you're dragging your lonely self through some scenic environments, locations through which all three campaigns pass.
Marines have their cold, metallic, space-age grime. Aliens prefer their homes to resemble the interior of a giant decaying anus: dank, maze-like hives peppered with facehugger-bearing eggs. No matter who you choose to play as, the campaigns are linear, checkpoint-pocked trots from one area to the next, and one from which every ounce of fat has been trimmed.
AvP's campaigns are iwrryingly short - you could race through the Alien campaign in under two hours, and the Marine's in four - but they're densely packed with well-sonstructed set pieces, engineered scares and often striking locations. The Predator campaign, in particular, is almost puzzle-like in delivering small arenas of patrolling humans and tasking you with murdering the lot of them. Your distract ability allows you to target a single marine and lure him to a point using a voice recording, a highly telegraphed they shout things like I think the noise came from here!
Aliens grab too. And where Predators jab wristblades into eye sockets, aliens spear chests on barbed tailsand plunge their inner-mouths through foreheads to regain health. You'll gag on your own nostalgia gland as, when playing as the Alien, you realise you can still slash limbs off corpses and leave them lying about the place for their friends to find.
Scooting up and down walls is at first disorientating, but soon becomes second nature - and as long as you're in the dark you can take a moment to relax and figure out if you're upside-down or not, just like a real alien probably does. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3.
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The game has three playable species, and each has its own single-player campaign with different missions and plotlines. Their only weapons are their own body parts: claws for close combat, their deadly tail, and their inner mouth that can crack through an enemy's skull for an instant kill if close enough. They are deadly at close range, and can heal by eating corpses or the heads of unsuspecting enemies.
They can't be hurt through falls, and an alternate vision mode allows them to see clearly ahead through darkness. Their strength lies in flexibility and speed, and an ability to cling to walls and run along any surface - allowing a skilled player to escape or ambush from literally any 3D direction.
Marines, as portrayed by Michael Biehn in the film 'Aliens'. Marines have strong firepower that ranges from the self-tracking SmartGun, all the way to rocket launchers and devistating six-barrel miniguns as seen in 'Predator'.
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