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Oh-My-God

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 18
Date: October 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As a large fan of the original Aliens Versus Predator, I was naturally excited when i heard about the sequal. And, i must say, that when i first played the Single Player Demo (in which you play as a Colonial marine), i was slightly dissappointed. The Aliens looked wrong, the game played like a slide-show...it really annoyed me that a sequal with such high potential should be such a let down...
But since playing the much more recently released MultiPlayer Demo, and then the final game, i must say, all that apprehension has gone, and has been replaced by a feeling of love...love for this game. The Aliens now look much better, the animations are superb, the game is much quicker and plays fine on my computer.
And, the best part...i finally know what it is like to play a Predator and an Alien in AvP2.
Both of these species have been given their full due attention, with clearly a lot of thought been put into keeping them consistant with the movies. The Predator has his cloak, which turns off when he falls underwater (a nice touch), along with all the other weapons from the movies...with the additions of a few more. Also, instead of extremely unrealistic 'Field Charges' randomly dropped around levels to recharge the Predator's energy, the Predator now has a useable Recharger...which fits in perfectly with his Healing MediComp. These might sound like an unfair advantage, but remember...both disable the cloak and the Recharger gives off a rediculous amout of light and electricity...which can be seen a mile away.
the Alien has all the old favorite moves (Claw attack, Tail attack, Headbite), with the addition of a new one...the Pounce, which can literally fling the Alien player all the way across the map!
The Marine gets some handy new weapons and abilities...two of the best are his Hand Welding Torch, which can be used to open and seal doorways and vents, and his shoulder lamp, a feature which was needed many a time in the original game.
The sights, sounds and feel of the films have been recreated to a tee in this Gem of a game, and it is enjoyable for both die-hard Alien or Predator fans, and traditional FPS fans alike. I give it 5 stars.

Visually Stunning!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: November 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I never used to be a Monolith fan. I thought all the old Monolith games looked like...

Pros:
Alien vs. Predator 2 completely changed my mind. This game is absolutely gorgeous and runs very smooth. After playing through ugly games like Operation Flashpoint, AVP2 looks the difference between night and day. The graphics in AVP2 looks like a movie. The storyline and NPCs interaction is a little weak, but considering you can play as a Marine, Alien, or Predator. I think Monolith did a good job. This is 10x better than the original AVP.

Cons:
There is a lack of low ping multiplayer servers. There also a big need for a chasecam for the Alien's wall-walking ability. It is very disorienting in first-person.

Graphics: 10/10
Just beautiful. Stunning and fast!

Sound: 8/10
Excellent atmosphere, but some sounds like the Predator roaring after every decapitation/trophy gets annoying.

Single Player: 10/10
Just perfect! It is like three different games combined into one.

Multi Player: 5/10
Server ping times are very high. Let's hope Monolith fixes this.

Fun: 9/10
Would be a 10/10 if multiplayer was better.

Alien Versus Predator 2 (AVP2)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: February 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I had played the first one as well. Although AVP was a good game. It had no story what so ever and the gameplay is basically just running from point A to Point B.

This game fixed all of that. It has a good story to it.
The setting takes place in a Planet called LV-1201. Where "the Company" is doing research on alien Xenomorphs. But when an egg hatches in an unsecure location and impreginates an officer (who later dies during the embryo's birth). Everything goes out of control.

The Graphics are astounding as always. But the sound has greatly improved. It sounds almost like the movies. The game play has also went up as well. The drawback however is that the game is short. Plus you should have a Pentium 3 at 700 Mhg+ and 256MB RAM+ for a smooth performance.

Like the previous game you get to play the 3 charactors.

THe Predator who has all the high tech gadgets from the plasma Shoulder cannon to the "Disc". He comes to the planet just to hunt. But when his friends are captured. He then tries to rescue them. Only to find out that he has some unfinished bussiness (of 20 years) to attend to.

The Human you play is a Marine name Cpl. Harrison. He can have all the firepower a man would need plus all the gadgets to bypass computers and doors and to weld off locks. He is sent with a Platoon to rescue any survivors and to keep the place intact. Only to find out that "The Company" has other plans with the Marines.

The Alien you play is the most interesting one of all. You start out as a Facehugger (a spiderlike creature) looking for a host. To a Baby alien looking for food, to an adult drone looking for the hive. He (or she) is the one who started the whole mess at LV-1201.
The alien has no external weapons what so ever. All it hs is his tale and claws like hands. It can also climb on walls and ceilings.

THe story is interesting because the three charactors "bump" into each other during the game.
you also get to observe people talking to each other (somtimes taking dialogue from the movies. That makes the game more alive.

If you love the movies then get this game.

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.

Another Glorious Day in the Corps!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: May 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When the original AvP came out I quickly snapped up a copy, playing it only during daytime because it was too much on my heart. The graphics were really good and the game gave new meaning to the phrase "Adrenaline Overload".

Here's AvP2, and in almost every way it's an improvement over the original, which I didn't think was possible. Every species has been retooled and new weapons have been added making each character type you play very different from the next. And my God, it's even more heart stopping than the original!

The plot centers around a particular alien-infested planet. A research station run by Corporates has had something go awry so the Marines are sent in to figure out the goings on and fix it if possible. The Predator goes in to rack up points for his Hunt while searching ultimately for the Boss of the base, a kill that got away years before. And the Aliens, well...they're just out to kill.

The Marines are still my favorite. Heavily reliant on Pulse Rifles and Chainguns, the Marine campaign is nothing short of spectacular. From the word go you're immersed in what has to be simply put the best fusion of all the movies put together. Predictably after landing, your character is separated from his comrades and must rely on his minimal ammo load to make it from point A to B to C, fighting with Aliens the whole while. Hints that the Predator is around are seen everywhere by the numerous "skinned" bodies hanging upside down, and the telltale clicking noises he makes. The brilliant addition of a shoulder lamp helps enormously, making you less reliant on your finite source of flares. And to say this particular campaign will make you [appreciate it] is the understatement of the century. Even when you know that the dark and scary locale you're in is loaded with Aliens wanting to disembowel you is not enough to prevent even the most hardened gamer from screaming out loud at his or her computer in surprise.

The Predator portion is for the most part true to the movies. They've somewhat weakened this character from the first game, where the Predator was something of the uber class to play, mostly for multiplayer balance I would imagine. While the atmosphere is still eerie, knowing that you have auto-tracking weapons helps alleviate the shock of seeing an Alien running at you. A close eye must be kept on your energy bar as too many shots off of your Plasma Caster will deplete it rapidly.

But the real overhaul of the game, and by far the single biggest improvement is to the Alien. My God, this class has become so much fun! The original AvP had a very weak Single player story for the Alien, in my opinion. I must not have been alone in this way because the boys at Lithtech retooled the whole deal and made it very immersive. You start out as a simple facehugger...running from place to place looking for a victim to "impregnate". Playing cat and mouse with patrolling Corporate guards is something like having Thief crossed with Quake, and you'll want to avoid all contact for as long as possible. Once a suitable host is found, you spawn as a baby alien, even getting to *shudders* watch the chest-bursting act from a whole new perspective. This really adds to the entire experience and my hat's off to Sierra for making this happen.

Multiplayer is an absolute riot. You've got your standard array of maps and arenas, with the continued options such as "Deathmatch" and "Species Deathmatch", with the addition of notable scenarios like "Evac", where a group of Marines works together to escape a facility, while Aliens try to pick them off one by one. Get to the dropship on time and your team wins. Combat gets really hairy and confusing, and you'll never get used to crawling through airshafts that an Alien opponent is using to hunt you, reminding me of poor old Captain Dallas.

Buy this game. Play this game. And be prepared to be a stockholder in the Fruit of the Loom company, because you'll be changing your drawers hourly and often, especially in the Single Player Campaigns. Anyone up for a game of "Evac"? ;)

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

So Frighteningly Realist you'll have nightmares

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks. Talk about realism at it's best. If you think Counter Strike and all those games look good Check out this Gem. Texture mapping is so clean you can see the hairs on the marine's arm move in the wind. You can see your reflection in the aliens slimy dome just before it tears you appart. This game is so fast past is keeps you on the edge of your seat. If you were a fan of the first one you NEED to get this. It's got the same fst paced, high impact, scary as hell, nerve racking game play with a lot more plot and more abilities.
We got to see 5 different types of aliens in AvP and AvP Gold and were mad that we got to play as only one. Hearing our Cries Fox has made this game to be perfect. As an Alien you start out as a Face Hugger who must find it's host then break out as a chest burster and avoid everything until you grow into the menacing drone that roams around killing everything that we see in the movies.
As Predator you start out with a few things and as your skills improve you get better weapons and technologies. We also get to use weapons seen in Predator 2. The Spear and Net Gun(Got to Love that thing)
Marines have a few more added items such as a field lite, a hacing device, and fully automatic pistol, and ooooh knives.(great to run around with in Multy player when you need to hon your skills)
This game rules. It makes the origional look like a low rate B budget game. And we know that it wasn't that.

One of the best games of all time...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutely terrifying. Holds true to the movies and a lot of love and care went into this game. I wish there was an add-on pack to this game- or better yet----make this into a movie!!!!

A major improvement over the last!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I played the original and it was O.K. The graphics were good, but the game was VERY unstable, even with 1GB of memory, 2.0 Pentuim 4 and a Geforce 4 TI4600 video card the game would never run properly as an Alien or Marine. It was so laggy it was unplayable. The Predator worked good, but didn't feel like a Predator completly.

In this one the Predator has strenght to jump higher, the cloaking device fools Marines almost completly, where in the original game it only bought you a few seconds of surprise no matter what the distance. At a long distance in this game you are invisible to Marines under cloaking. And if you want to claw them to save ammo, they usually won't spot you until it's too late. Plus they say things, like "am I seeing things?" and "my eyes hurt". And your plasma cannon in this one seeks the target where in the first game it only did straight lines. And the alternate vision modes as in the first game, are simply cool! And to complete the feeling, the first thing you do in the game is jump through the trees, an experince sorely missed in the original game.

The Marine is fun too. Wandering through dark halls with the eary motion sensor sound, you hear screams around the corner and the cackling of a Predator but see nothing. You really feel like the prey as a Marine.

Haven't played as an Alien yet, but I will soon.

The best part of this game though...it has a story, something that was REALLY missing from the original.

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