Aliens vs Predator



SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Minimum


Recommended




I finally retired my old 486 and got a new Pentium II with CD-ROM player so I (for the first time in my life) actually BOUGHT a PC game - this one. I haven't played it as much as i'd like and haven't got that far - but here's a little about the start of the game. I haven't played that much in predator mode, so there's not much about predators here...

In this game, you can choose which species you'd like to be - predator, human (marine) or alien. There is also three different levels of difficulty.
The three different species has their kind of weapons, their pros and cons.

Alien mode


WEAPONS: The alien have no weapons - it is one. It can use it's tounge, claw and hit with the tail. Clawing causes least injury - but is leathal. You gain lifeforce by doing this. You can claw your way through grids. You gain clawing by pressing the left mousebutton. If you feel like clawing several times, just keep the button pressed in - then you'll claw with a terrifying speed. Hitting with the tail has more power and you can burst your way through grids and destroy turrets and other things you feel like (tv's, computers, you name it) destroying. You gain hitting with the tail or tail-whipping by pressing the right mouse button. You gain a more powerful strike if you hold the button pressed down. The tounge is the most effective way of killing your victims. You also gain full lifeforce with one 'live headbite' - using your tounge on a still living victim. You gain points by this. It might be a little difficult in the beginning, as your victims move and for biting, their heads need to be directly in the center of the screen. If they move out of the center, the bite mode comes off. You can tell if you're in bite mode because the alien's teeth appears in the upper and lower screen.
BONUS: You can walk in the roof and on the walls!!! At least the marines DON'T look up! most of the time, anyway....
CONS: All of this is very effective, but the con about this is that you gotta be practically on top of your victim. You can't kill someone from a distance, as both marine and predators can.
ENEMIES: Since there are enough of enemies that would love to kill you and you can't kill them from a distance you have to stalk and when going for the kill using your speed. Take the civilians who are alone and without weapons first - less risk of being killed. The civilians with molotivs are a bitch. It's not always you see them holding that tiny molotov - but, believe me! They kill you! Basically - all fire, if it doesn't kill you, it's very bad for your health. You might survive a good frying, but with very reduced resources! With the marines - use your speed and an element of surprise. Attack from behind. Or else they'll make lots and lots of hole in you! You survive a couple of hits, but not that many!

Marine


WEAPONS: You have the best weapons of all the species! You have smartguns, pulserifles, flamethrowers and grenadelaunchers! The pulserifle has 99 rounds and a pump-action mode. Ammunition and pulserifles are found separately. The smartgun have 300 rounds. The flamethrower is used to set things on fire. Grenadelaunchers have 6 mags with 3 different kinds of grenades. SADAR is a rocketlaunch system. It is strongly advised NOT to use this in a confined area! Minigun is a gun from hell with 800 rounds. It might be the hottest gun the marine got, but it is difficult to use. You have to stand still if you want some hits on your goal. WARNING: all these weapons kan kill or injure yourself as well as your enemies!!!
When you start your game, you only have a pulserifle and this might run out of ammo! So always look for ammo and guns!
EQIPMENT: You start with full life and armor and most of the equipment mentioned here, except medkits, armorunits and jet packs.
Movementdetector: Is a device who picks up any movement about 180 degrees in front of the marine. It picks up ANY movement so lifts and flares have scared the shit out of me several times. It is hard to tell where exactly the enemy comes from. Aliens might run on the roof and run extremely fast and jump behind you...
Imageenhancher: with this you can see in absolute darkness. Direct light will overload the enhancher. With this mode on - the movementdetector comes off.
Armor: this protects the marine from acid blood and smaller trauma.
Medkit: restores health to 100%
Flares: the marine have unlitmited access to flares and might use up to 4 at once. They stick to any surface they hit and might use insted of the imageenhancher.
ENEMIES: - Aliens and predators. I've only encountered aliens. Predators come later in the game. The alien is a terrible opponent. It is not easy to spot and often you hear it hissing before even suspecting it's presence... It is very fast and if it manages to get behind you, you are, most of the time, excuse the expression - fucked! It runs on the walls and roofs, it jumps, it stalks... even with a ton of equipment, the best way of staying alive is NEVER letting your guard down! (and run as hell on the right places)


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