Alien vs. Predator

ALIEN VS. PREDATOR
SEGA (XBOX 360, PS3, PC)
Rating:

The original AvP project was the 1999 PC game. Now you can battle movie monsters again, with much better graphics but with the same seasoned developers in charge. As before, you can step into the body of an Alien, a Predator, or a Colonial Marine.

Rocks: Blasting Aliens in two with the Predator’s plasma cannon and doing the trophy kills with your wrist blades is cool. The different fighting and defense skills of each faction allow for decent replay ability. While fighting as a space marine is similar to traditional first-person shooters, slinking around and dropping on enemies as an Alien and ripping off heads as a Predator clearly are not.

Flops: The premise sounds like a blast, but it’s basically the earlier game again. Playing the Alien is disorienting at best and leaves you stuck with mediocre graphics while you explore corridor after corridor. Playing the Marine is just foolish. We don’t see any way for humans to win against those guys. That leaves playing as a Predator, and although their guerrilla style warfare is fun, we wish the other two factions were more exciting.