Posted by Couch Potato | Posted in Technology and Gadgets | Posted on 11-05-2010
The latest AVP videogame is out after several poor attempts at Alien, Predator and AVP titles, begging the question have developers Rebellion at last fashioned a videogame to fulfill the serious AVP followers?
The answer in short is yes. Launched for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC the new AVP videogame accommodates three campaigns, allowing the user to control the hunter, survivor or prey. Beginning on the Colonial Marines missions, you begin as a new recruit of the crew on a small spacecraft that witnesses a huge Predator ship demolish your baseship. Of course the only choice out there is for your craft to dock on an undisclosed planet.
The Various Campaigns And Aliens Offered Within The New AVP Videogame.
The subsequent scene shows your character waking up after blacking out from the deployment, and being told by Tequila (closely resembling Vasquez from Aliens) that this mission will become a “bug hunt”. The subsequent few phases are only for the user to become familiar with the controls, which might be familiar to most FPS gamers. Gamers shall be keeping off hordes of xenomorphs whilst hoping for an elevator to bring you to safe ground.
It’s throughout this instance users will notice how revolutionary the lighting of the latest AVP videogame is; was that a vent falling off? or was it an alien on the wall? The answer is that you will not know until it might be too late! Lighting has been employed to master effect in creating tense and uncertain gameplay. The weapons look and sound authentic to the Alien films.
If the Marines campaign is the closest to an FPS as possible in this AVP videogame, then the Aliens campaign is the furthest away from that. The story opens with a xenomorph breeding laboratory with test specimens being harvested in aid of bioweapons research. Nevertheless your Alien is special, as you decide to make your escape through your surrogate parent’s throat, this signifies you are a more intelligent species of Alien. An energy failure offers you the perfect chance to launch your escape. Mission aims are given to you telepathically from the Alien Queen, and your character itself is a moving weapon, armed with razor tipped tail. Alien gameplay promotes stealth and surprise attacks from the shadows, and it’s the most versatile of the three.
The Predator campaign is a mixture of the Marine and Alien campaigns. Being a Predator you rely closely on your advanced weaponry and use of stealth to eliminate your prey. The predator campaign in this AVP videogame is to locate and retrieve the bodies of several “youngbloods”; Predators which have gone missing. The Predator will be the favourite of the three campaigns in this AVP videogame, attributable to all its weaponry and completely gruesome steath takedowns.
In all, the latest AVP videogame will fulfill the hardcore followers as it remains faithful to both the Alien and Predator franchises. The visuals should have been augmented a little yet the lighting and sound work far make up for any graphical negatives. Fusing these features with an imaginative multiplayer mode has created the best AVP videogame yet.
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