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Single player is good, multiplayer is great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Fans of the movies should love this game. Fans of games like Halo and Doom should enjoy it as well. The single player offers the opportunity to play human, predator, or alien. All great fun to try. The alien being the toughest to get the hang of controlling, but a blast none the less. Once you learn how to wait to see your teeth extend when above a victim and do a headbite you will be proud of your ability.

Once you get the hang of running these three you will want to jump on one of the many multiplayer servers that are free. I often host games for a group of my friends. We have a blast fighting each other and trying our hand at each of the races. We find that each of us are better at certain types. I highly recommend this game. I recently picked up a copy at a local store for under ten dollars. Get it while it lasts.

AVP 2 rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is really really tight. For those computer people out there the main differnce between this game and the first one is that they switched from pixels to polys, giving the game a smoother more quake 3'ish feel to it. I've heard that the game play just like a movie. However, if you are buying the game for the fact that it has three games in it...alien, predator and colonial marine....don't...because it doesn't...well it does have all three characters game, but this time monolith and fox interactive (the wonderful people who made this game) focused mainly on the marine's perspective of the game. Don't think though that the alien and predator misisons will stink, because they won't, it is just that most of the storyline was created around the marine. If you are a multiplayer gamer, then you will really love this game, judging from the demo which even though it had a million and one problems was the best MP game i've played so far, the multiplayer will be out of this world, i can't reccomend this game enough...as it is probably evident

Gripping recreation of the movies, and a great game, too...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

AvP2 is wonderful, in that "OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD", scared-witless sort of way. You will find 3 seperate campaigns, one each for the Aliens, Predators, and Colonial Marines. Each race plays totally different from the other - the Marine is closest to standard shoot-em up FPS and also the movies, the Predator has lots of stealth missions and jumping from tree to tree while on the hunt, and the Alien - well, I won't ruin it for you, but the Alien campaign is certainly the most creative I've seen since Half-life.

The resemblance to the films is uncanny. While AvP2's story doesn't much resemble anything from the movies, the developers have taken many themes, locations and situations from the films and plugged them into the game, so that you are often replaying a moment that will remind you of something. The plot is wonderful, as each campaign, although self-contained, gives little details about the other two. When you finally finish the game, you'll definitely want to play through again, just like watching Sixth Sense a 2nd time to catch all of the details.

My only complaints are that the game is too linear and the enemies are too predicable on the second or third time through. Also, the multiplayer code will greatly hurt the online games, so get this game just for the single player game.

Classic FPS still shines

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: April 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First person shooter fans get a second dose of fun. Play as the chest-bursting aliens, the sci-fi-friendly Predator, or the poor marines stuck in the middle.

This classic came out in 2001, so by now it's rather cheap compared to current releases. The gameplay is still great fun, though. There are three different single-player campaigns, each with storylines that weave in and out of each other. You can face-hug as an alien, stealth-attack as a Predator, or fight off the enemy as a marine.

The graphics aren't top notch by today's standards, with faces looking painted on a balloon. Still, many of the scenes are rather impressive and keep you involved in the game. The sound really helps emphasize the trepidation and surprise that are involved in many of the scenarios.

Where the game really shines is in multiplayer. Train yourself up through the campaigns, and then join a faction on line to see if you can compete against net players. You can have up to 16 people playing at a time, and it gets for pretty intricate strategies if you're good! Each character type has a wide variety of attacks to choose from, and its own strengths and weaknesses.

Highly recommended for mature first-person-shooter fans. Might be a little much for younger players, between the body parts flying and death screams that sound pretty constantly as you prowl the halls.

Monolith still holds the title for the best FPS games...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

A year after the release of No One Lives Forever, Monolith puts out Aliens vs. Predator 2. In an amazingly short time, they've managed to put together another top notch first person shooter that places the player directly into the action.

The 3 species are all very different and it's fun just learning how to play each of them. Plus the stories for each character and intertwined (sp?) which is a very nice touch.

The graphics are fairly low poly at times, but they did an amazing job despite that fact. The sound is top notch, which is always the case coming from them. The interaction and story telling is also very well done.

The multiplayer aspect of the game is almost a separate game in itself. It has many different modes of play, many different characters to choose from, and 4 teams to play on. Minus the fact that BOTS were left out, it ranks up there with any of the stand alone multiplayer games out there. It's a truly unique and fun experience.

But this game... you won't be disappointed.

Major Improvement over original

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Like many I was first introduced to the concept of Aliens vs. Predator through the Dark Horse comics. While I found the comics fair at best (movie to comics adaptions are rarely good) I am a huge fan of the Alien movies (except for the god-awful "Alien: Resurrestion") and to a lesser degree, the Predator movies. The concept was awesome, but an Alien isn't an Alien unless it's screaming that high pitched Godzilla whine and a Predator isn't a Predator without those weird clicking growls. There have been rumors of an Alien vs. Predator movie for as long as I can remember, but so far no cigar.

When the first PC game came out I really looked forward to it. Unfortunately, I couldn't get into it. I thought the plot was mindless the controls were wacky and the multiplayer was unbalanced. The novelty of controling an Alien or Predator wore off pretty fast after a few frustrating minutes. Once again, a great concept was put to waste.

For the first time, we now have a quality product from the marriage of two great film creatures. This game rocks. The last shooter that I got this into was Clive Barkers Undying. Before that it was System Shock 2 (a fantastic and highly underrated game). They all have one thing in common: tha ability to scare the crap out of me. The ambiance and tone of the game truly does the movies justice. I can think of several instances were I thoguht I was going to jump out of my skin.

This game has it all: great story, great graphics, great sound (I should put specific emphasis on this one. I have surround speakers and the ambiance and sudden noises kept scaring the crap out of me) and a lot of action. What's more, they manage to capture the tone of each individual race and balance some of the issues that AVP1 suffered from. The Aliens were mincemeat in the first game, but they're much more frightening in this installment. They're treated more like the Aliens in part 1 and part 3 than the cannon fodder of Aliens.

Even if you're not a big fan of the movies or the comics, I encourage you to try this game. It's rare for a franchise game to please more than just die-hard fans, but this is one of those games. Not since "Jedi Knight" has a movie based game captured the essence of a film so perfectly. If the single player games had been a little longer I'd probably give this game 5 stars. Instead I can only hope that an expansion is in the works because I want more.

A Great Sequel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game! It scared the heck out of me; severals times I jumped, severely, and then laughed at the greatness of that ability in a game!

The graphics and music are really exceptional and creepy! Did I mention creepy! I don't even mind that the music picks up before you're about to be attacked because it makes it that much more suspenseful. If they didn't give you any warning, I think this game would be a little too scary! Definitely a sweaty palms kind of game.

Also, this was the first time I was able to complete the Alien mission. In AVP, for some reason, there was too much wall walking and tunnel traveling for me to stand it to the end. In AVP2, starting as a face-hugger, then changing to a chest-buster really helped alleviate that constant swirling screen. Maybe I'm the only one afflicted by this phenom, but I was appreciative of that change. It also made it challenging, having to sneak around as a baby alien, hardly able to do much of anything...very interesting and creative, and truly alien to all of us gamers used to walking around on two legs toting letal hardware.

I also found the gameplay improved from AVP. All of the best elements are there, but without some of the annoying things...like the talking guy on the monitor and not every single room is darker than dark...sometimes I like to see a little bit and they did well there. Adding the rechargable shoulder lamp instead of just having the image intensifier was a terrific addition.

What I really love are the intersecting story lines...crossing the same territory as all 3 species was great! It also helps when you're playing the Alien if you've been in these areas before as a Marine or a Predator.

There's a large array of weapons, but I found that some are unnecessary. Maybe that's because I haven't played the most difficult settings yet, and don't play Multiplayer, but in the single-player, regular settings, I didn't have to use most of my weapons, especially as a Marine. Since I don't play MP, I miss the Skirmish mode from AVP, where using the cheats you could have all the weapons and really learn how to use them best, but the rest of the game was so good, it doesn't bother me. I wouldn't like AVP without the Skirmish mode, but AVP2 is fine without it.

I had no technical problems running this game, which is always nice. There were a few times when an Alien would kind of just sit there and claw at me, but not reach me, making it easy for me to blast it, but those times were few and far between.

As always, playing a Marine or Alien and going up against the Predator is totally awesome! Fox Interactive really has something here and I hope they continue to team up these two great SCI-FI stories.

Final Answer: Whether you have played AVP or not, you'll enjoy this game if you're into SCI-FI/Horror and FPS. This is what it's all about!

This GAME ROCKS! A MUST BUY!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thought the mp demo was beautiful! It runs silky smooth, smooth as a baby's bum on silk sheets floating on a cloud. The game has a better atmosphere than the first game aswell, and is a lot more strategic this time, which I think is better. It's definatly a good insight into the final game, and made me want the final release even more!
A lot of cool new features have been added too, like the preds super jump and the aliens pounce. A lot of people say the pounce ... but I don't think they've got the hang of it, with some practice it proves to be very usefull for getting you out of trouble and is also good for quick attacks. The preds netgun is pretty funny, although I can't help feeling that it's a bit unfair, but it's fun. Also the homing plasma cannon? It's too easy for the pred to keep his distance and just fire away, but I guess against a good marine or alien it would'nt be so easy. The marines motion tracker is actually usefull now, when I was playing as marine I relided a lot on the motion tracker and I was succesful in bringing down a lot of aliens because of it.
A lot of people don't like the speed, they say the pred, alien and marine are too slow. While I agree the pred should be a little faster, I think it's fine, it's more movie like and you have to think instead of the "mortal kombat" style, in your face gameplay of the first game. Another thing thats cool is the sound, I love the roar of the pred and the chilling shreak of the alien.

Anyways, overall I loved the demo, and I think any problems or glitch's in gameplay won't be in the final release, after all it's really only a test--it's the tiny tip of the ice berg. This game will definatly be a classic, and I think the people who are wary of it will eventually come to love the game, it took me a little while to get used to it, but now I ain't looking back. You can keep ya Quake and Counter strike! AVP 2 rocks!

Brian

Good multiplayer and online!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is GREAT! Especialy if you played the SNES game and arcade games and wanted to play alien but only had predator or marine to play with.
If you play the marine mission first and you're sad because you couldn't kill Rycov or Eisenburg, don't worry. Eisenburg kidnaps the queen in the Alien story and Rycov is the predator's target in the Predator story.
The marine story feels like a horror type game, but falls short a little if you wern't scared by either the Predator or Alien movies.

The Predator story isn't as scary as the marine story, and, don't worry, you don't have to skin humans. The medicomp and energy sift tools made the predator story feel a little bit too easy.
If you're freaked out by gore, do NOT play the alien story. You rip your opponents limb from limb, then eat what's left. And, of course, there's the part in the first level, Birth, where you have to actualy eat your way out of the human you facehugged as a facehugger, but that's not as gory as it sounds. It's mostly just red globs flying everywhere.
The story line feels more like Alien 5 featuring Predator than Aliens versus Predator. Oddly, the three story modes are so entertwined that the main character in each story couldn't survive without the other two.
But story mode is really just training for multiplayer mode. It's very very addictive. The multiplayer mode has only 3 things that are not good about it.
1. The predators die very fast if you're not careful, they have 1/1000 the endurance that they did in the movies.
2. People, and I don't mean a few people, whine and cry about losing, spawn killing, type killing, even just being killed too many times.
3. Jerks, a lot of jerks play this game in multiplayer, and all of them are foul-mouthed.
Don't worry, the jerks and whiners are only about 30% of the players, so multiplayer is a lot of fun.
GET THIS GAME IT'S GOOD!

scary atmosphere, better than the first in every aspect, but

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I had a lot of doubts before I bought the game. I wanted to make sure it wasn't a failure. I waited for the reviews to pop up, and as soon as they started getting published on the web, I read each and every one of them. Then I decided to buy the game and I am so glad I did. The graphics, the sounds, the atmosphere and the ability to play as the alien, predator and the marine all add up to one high quality game. The work that has gone into developing this game is evident from the start. I love singleplayer so I was actually a bit dissapointed to find that the singleplayer mission aren't that long. I expected something maybe not as long as No One Lives Forever, but at least close to it in terms of singleplayer play time. Still, this is a great game that the fans of the films should enjoy. I gave it 4 stars because of the short singleplayer experience which excites you and then finishes. Good job Monolith!

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