Comments on: Aliens Vs Predator: Multiplayer Demo

By: Kaise

Kaise — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:48:58 +0000

I can’t figure out for the death of me why they ignored the many, many wonderful things in AvP2 and decided to go with this piece of dung that’s obviously a console port and is designed to cater to the masses that saw the AvP movies and knew nothing of the games.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:12:06 +0000

The Predator uses the consoles to recharge it’s energy, the Alien can break them to deny them this.

By: Jay Kim

Jay Kim — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:22:29 +0000

Burn.

Yeah, poor Rebellion.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:25:05 +0000

I completely agree that vanilla deathmatch is a terrible way to show off a game like AvP. And I was confused about the control panels (hold E to…what, exactly?) as well. And I’ve never seen the counter system in action, I just saw in another comment thread that it does actually exist.

I think the thing that bothered me the most was the the console-ish auto-aim on melee — it reminds me of melee in Halo 2/3 where you instantly slide a few feet across the floor and shank the other player, no aiming necessary. Maybe I’m paranoid, but it screams of dumbing down for the analog stick to me.

In other news, I really have no idea what I think about Rebellion as a developer. Rogue Warrior was supposed to be godawful, yet they’ve patched up AvP Classic 2000 HD Remix Alpha rather beautifully. Weird.

By: Ed Fenning

Ed Fenning — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:05:59 +0000

Thanks, that clears a little bit up but it was still a very lacklustre demo. So was the point of those little panel things you could bite as an alien to give other races better weapons?

I stress again though, deathmatch is such a strange choice to show off multiplayer. I started off following a fellow alien around to try and stalk a predator together and was really surprised when he turned around and killed me. I thought he was just an annoying tker till it turned out he got a point for it.

I’ll try and share your hope that the new team have treated this baby better in other regards for the final release day and will patch it up.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:03:37 +0000

Ooh, harsh. I found it shallow, and I do agree with the feeling of sluggishness — people say turning off vysnc helps, but I play my games triple-buffered. And it’s worth mentioning that predators don’t start with the plasma caster, and otherwise they’re restricted to melee. And the motion tracker only tracks 180 degrees in front of you, leaving your back exposed. Apparently there is some kind of block/stun/counter system in place, the game just doesn’t tell you anything about it. And the map design is a bit too old-fashioned, it reminds me of a boxy Quake map, only with Alien infestation textures.

Maybe species deathmatch will be better. Rebellion has done wonderful things in patching up the original AvP (multiplayer, widescreen, etc), so maybe the new AvP team will treat its baby just as well.

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:30:33 +0000

Fuck. Sounds like they turned the original xenomorph motherfucker into a zerg.