Aliens versus Predator

Aliens versus Predator is a Video game of the type First person shooter, left in January 1999. Published by Fox Interactive and developed by the English studio Rebellion. The license Aliens versus Predator took life thanks to a scene final of Predator 2 when in the vessel Predator one discovers a room of trophés in which one can clearly see a cranium of Alien. The topic of the play thus takes again two great classics of the cinema of horror and science fiction by joining together Aliens and Predator. Two of the extraterrestrial species most frightening ever imagined. The play has its own history and does not take again any hero of films. The time to which the adventure proceeds is close to that of the film Alien . The play proposes 3 very different campaigns and several multijoueurs modes, of which a co-operative mode. Rebellion is the first studio to have adapted this license on PC.

Scenario

  • United States Colonial Marine Body: Pandora Bases, an installation belonging to Weyland-Yutani under the protection of the USCMC is used as research laboratory in biology on of Aliens. During an experiment several Aliens escape and start to sow chaos in the center. The base is evacuated in urgency and all the vessels leave in orbit. Your character is a very lazy private who missed the shuttle by help because it made a nap. SA main mission will be thus to find a means of escaping from planet. Unfortunately for him the way towards peace will absolutely not be whole rest.

  • Predator : Whereas you and your pack furrow the galaxy in search of new species to be driven out, your vessel has a damage and is crushed on planet where Pandora Base is. A section of the USCMC is sent on the place of the crash landing and finds your comrades. The human ones capture your similar still alive and bring back the corpses to study them. You awake with for objective avenging your dead brothers and releasing the prisoners. The aliens and the human ones will not make you any gift.

  • Aliens : Your case desperate, is locked up in a cage, one inflicts cruel experiments to you, but once escaped, you will become again the predator born which sleep in you. Your mission will be to kill a maximum of enemies and to find a vessel which will take you along on Earth.

Gameplay

A completely innovative thing is that in Aliens versus Predator , there are three very different ways to play.

United States Colonial Marine Body

The human one is weakest of the three species, but thanks to its arsenal there remains a very good combatant. The way of playing with this race is very similar to the standards of the kind (Quake, Unreal, Half-Life). But it conceals subtleties nevertheless.

The play was created so that the player really feels very vulnerable with dark and often confined environments. The stress and the fear are omnipresent throughout the progression. To venture in the places without light, marinades it is team of glasses of night vision and incandescent torches. These last are effective but temporary while the glasses make it possible to see well in the black but you plug when you look at a source of light. Your third asset in your equipment is a biological radar sound and visual, it is very effective but will return even more your tour stressing. The activation of the glasses of night vision deprives to you of the famous radar.

The weapons has provisions are with the height of the threat which planes on you: Rifle machine gunner with just lance grenade, heavy machine gun with automatic system of aiming, lance-flame, etc But these weapons need ammunition and the ammunition always misses at the bad time. To look after itself one uses cases of first aid which one finds on the way. Lastly, be wary of Facehugger.

Predator

Predator is a hunter since thousands of years, it has an extreme physical resistance while being very technologically advanced. He is also played in a rather traditional way but there are nevertheless techniques inherent in the character which must be controlled. Its secret weapon is its armor, it enables him to go nearly invisible to the eyes of the human ones. It can be also looked after thanks to a medicomp on its arm attached on its armor and a self-directional turret with plasma is assembled on its shoulder.

But Predator has a weakness, it does not have less than 4 modes of vision via its mask:

Standard mode. A vision similar to the human ones, as the play is very dark one will use it rather little. Thermal vision. This vision makes it possible to highlight the human ones in voyanu the heat released by their bodies. The blue color dominates this vision. Electric vision. With this vision one sees perfectly Aliens, and the turrets. The red color is omnipresent in this mode. The vision predtech. The electronic objects become easily detectable and the allies predators too. The green color is dominant by using this filter.

You will have included/understood it, when one faces several races at the same time it is paramount to coordinate well his modes of visions with his stategie of attack, on the one hand to see the enemy but also to be able to target it correctly. It is there all the subtlety and the difficulty of this character.

Because its arsenal is devastator if it is used in an adequate way: Harpoon gun of precision with zoom, radio-controlled disc which cuts out all the targets aquises by the interface and, of course, the combat claw. For its weapons Predator uses the energy of its armor, this one is regenerated with time. The harpoon gun has its own ammunition.

Aliens

Aliens are very basic but difficult to take in hand because extremely fast and nimble. They have a mode of standard vision with will have alive species which forms a bluish halation around the enemies, the other mode is a kind of night vision with tons blue. Alien can move on all surfaces thanks to its claws and it can make enormous jumps. To attack it uses its claws or its tail. An interesting aspect of Alien is its way of looking after itself or to gain power, for that it is necessary to approach a cranium and to devour its contents thanks to the so specific jaw of Alien.

To note

The original music accompanying the play is of very good invoice and takes an active part in environment. The version gold contains new weapons as well as new charts.

Others

The continuation of Aliens versus Predator , Aliens versus Predator 2 , was published in November 2001. It was developed by the American studio Monolith Productions and publish by Sierra Studios. Extension for Aliens versus Predator 2 named Aliens versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt was published in August 2002. It was developed by Third Law Entertainment and was published by Sierra Studios. Aliens versus Predator 3 would be under development at Monolith Productions.

Comings out date of the various versions of Aliens versus Predator

External bonds

The official Web site:
  • http://www.rebellion.co.uk/ (in English)
  • http://avp2.sierra.com/us/ (in English)

Principal not-official sites:

  • http://www.planetavp.com/ (in English)

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