Posted by Couch Potato | Posted in Technology and Gadgets | Posted on 13-05-2010
The new AVP videogame is out after several poor attempts at Alien, Predator and AVP games, begging the question have producers Rebellion finally fashioned a game to fulfill the serious AVP fans?
The answer in brief is yes. Released for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC the new AVP videogame accommodates three campaigns, permitting the player to play as the hunter, survivor or prey. Starting on the Colonial Marines campaign, you start as a rookie of the group on a small ship that witnesses a large Predator ship annihilate your mothership. Of course the only choice out there is for your craft to land on an unchartered planet.
The Different Campaigns And Species Featured Within The New AVP Videogame.
The following scene shows your character coming to after blacking out from the drop, and being advised by Tequila (closely resembling Vasquez from Aliens) that this job will develop into a “bug hunt”. The following few levels are just for the player to get to grips with the controls, which might be easy to most FPS gamers. Gamers shall be fending off hordes of xenomorphs while hoping for an elevator to bring you to safety.
It’s throughout this instance gamers will notice how impressive the lighting of the new AVP videogame is; was that a grate falling down? or was it a xenomorph on the wall? The answer is that you simply will not know until it may be too late! Lighting has been used to master effect in creating tense and scary gameplay. The weapons look and sound authentic to the Alien franchise.
While the Marines campaign is the closest to an FPS as possible on this AVP videogame, then the Aliens campaign is the furthest away from that. The scene begins with an Alien breeding laboratory with test subjects being harvested in aid of bioweapons research. Nevertheless your Alien is special, as you decide to make your escape through your surrogate host’s throat, this indicates you are a more canny species of Alien. An energy failure offers you the perfect distraction to launch your escape. Mission targets are given to you telepathically from the Alien Queen, and your Alien itself is a living weapon, armed with razor tipped tail. Alien gameplay favours stealth and shock attacks from the shadows, and it’s the most versatile of the combatants.
The Predator campaign is a mixture of the Marine and Alien levels. Being a Predator you rely closely on your superior weaponry and use of stealth to best your prey. The predator campaign on this AVP videogame is to locate and retrieve the remains of several “youngbloods”; Predators that have gone missing. The Predator will be the most popular of the three campaigns in this AVP videogame, on account of all its weaponry and completely grotesque steath kills.
Overall, the new AVP videogame will fulfill the hardcore fans because it is still devoted to each the Alien and Predator films. The graphics should have been augmented slightly yet the lighting and sound effects far make up for any visual problems. Fusing these features with a brilliant multiplayer mode has created the very best AVP videogame yet.
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