Zero Punctuation: Aliens vs Predator

[Jallis370]

I like being an Alien (Xenomorph) and Predator (the other alien)too much to not like this game. Yes, this game is exactly like the last one, with better graphics and more annoying hardware problems, but it't exactly what I expected.
I never thought there would be any superiour history or acting, I just wanted to eat heads and collect spinal cords.

Humans suck anyways.

 

[Sheogoroth]

I played the steam demo, so I was able to experience the weakness of the multiplayer firsthand, I'm glad Yahtzee took a whack at it.

I'm beginning to trust Yahtzee more than My Game Informer, which I am paying for... oh dear.

 

[Kurt Horsting]

Am I seriously the only person who thinks the best AVP game was the arcade beat 'em up? What part of being Cyborg Arnold Schwarzenegger killing aliens en mass via machinegun arm and Pile drivers isn't fun to do? Its much better then generic fps trying to rip off doom 3 and natural selection.
And it isn't just about nostalgia of the arcades, it was just the most fun I ever had with an AVP game. It was the same dumb backstory as yahtzee said, but the story gets shoved to the side (cause its an arcade game, and you don't want to waste your quarters looking at text scrolls)and the gameplay was so fun you didn't really give a shit. And you got to do epic shit. You get to fight thousands of aliens, an entire battalion of marines, two infected predators, and two Alien queens. If you never played this, you are seriously missing out on some fun times.

 

[GLo Jones]

"Probably because of RACISM"

That's the first time I've actually lol'd for a while. Thank you Mr Croshaw.

 

[Sy Gower]

Spirit Tracks review please!

So many right and wrong things about it, should be very interesting.

 

[rize]

The continuing adventures of Fagballs

 

[Fatal-X]

I'm a bit disappointed with the new AvP...I hope that Colonial Marines will be better.

 

[Fursnake]

Great vid this time around...I haven't checked out AvP yet so I'll wait for it to hit the $19.99 mark before buying it. The line about playing the alien being the equivalent of "the perspective of a cat in a tumble dryer" was gold. But the alien definitely should have been in the wedding dress at the very end, not the predator, because the have no genitals...you can't have a xeno-unich as the groom...d'uh

The video opened with an ad for AvP for me, did it for anyone else? Even if random I thought it it was an ironic twist to the video hehe.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

Looking forward to the Heavy Rain review as well... never really expected AvP to be any good.

 

[sazzrah]

Heavy Rain next then? I don't mean to ask that in a Super Smash Bros. fanwanky sort of way, I am just anticipating a lot of comedy genius out of that review lol... a game made of QTEs, how could it not get spanked by Yahtzee?!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I have to wonder why they even bother putting in a human campaign at all. As Yahtzee said, it's called "Alien vs Predator" not "Alien vs Predator vs Dipshit." Who wants to play as the human when you've got these 2 badass alien dudes to play as. I would think anything with a name like "Alien vs Predator" would focus mostly on the Aliens and the Predators with the humans skirting around on the sidelines and in the background, that is if they have to be there at all. That goes for that mediocre movie too (I never did see the second one).

 

[signingupforgames]

My money's on the sandwich

 

[NeonAnderson]

I bought the game on PC, and I have to say after the initial "woah this is cool" factor started wearing off and the MP issues became more and more apparent (which surprisingly the dedicated servers failed to fix... in fact they seem to lag more than just playing through the p2p matchmaking :S)

The game really is not that good. The campaigns were quite fun and intense though, especially the marine one, but then again that comes down to personal tastes.

At times I was looking forward to the marine campaign ending though, as I was getting bored of it.

Multiplayer could have actually been fun but the melee system feels so glitchy and actually does have odd glitches in it, often due to lag, other times due to bad programming.

Overall I would say it might not be worth buying this game...

 

[Fortesque]

If you want a 3rd person Predator game, where the Predators are actually strong and dont need to be steathly.

Play Predator: Concrete Jungle... but you will eventually end up fighting aliens.. of course, it just wouldnt be Predator if you didnt.

 

[James Hueick]

Hmmm. I wonder how big a leprecon's testical is...

 

[B Goy]

I'd love to see Yathzee do Heavy Rain an entire game thats mostly quick time events. That'd be really funny

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Kinda weak there yaz, I suppose it would be to easy to pick on the games weakness's more than complain about the 3 race focus of it.

The alien needs a slow mo mode in order for the player to control them better,predator needs more armor he should be the toughest of the lot and his story mode should be based on kills and making skull totems and hanging skinned corpses and such.

I mean really the basics of each race is easy one is trying to recover/secure the base/area the other one is trying to make it into a nest and use any intruders as means to make more of themselves. And lastly you have the ultimate hunter...its not that hard a setup to mess up......