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DIDN'T WORK

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: November 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I tried this game with a brand new DELL computer using windows XP and it didn't work.

Not Worth The Headaches

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: September 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this game and regret every penney.

1. The game is so hard that you'll have a ton of hassles just getting through a couple missions on anything but the easy difficulty. Then the other people come around bragging about how they thought hard difficulty was too easy.

2. The game doesn't have any trainers for the patched version to make the game's difficulty reasonable.

3. And now for the biggest reason this game is a waste of time, money and blood pressure is that this game is hopelessly laggy. What I mean is this game (and series even) has a very strong reputation of being very slow and jerky on not only multiplayer but on single player mode as well. The lag makes the game virtually unplayable. As of this point, there is no known cure for the lag.

Conclusion: The difficulty is something a person can work with but terrible and uncurable lag isn't. How are you supposed to walk when you twitch from one side of the hallway to the other? How are you supposed to shoot when your target warps from one side of the room to the other? I think you get the picture.

Aliens Vs Predator

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: August 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Alien Vs Predator is a first person shooter. AVP has a very poor AI and does not have much of a storyline, It is just a get from point A to point B by killing everything that comes in your way. You could play as three different charecters Alien, Predator and a Colonial Marine.

ALIEN : The Alien levels compared to the others are very easy. It does not have any weapons besides it's claws and tail, So to kill someone it needs to get very near the enemy, But a couple of attacks could kill the enemy. It moves really fast and can walk on walls or any surfaces. It can see clearly even in darkness. The alien gameplay is orginal and a initially a lot of fun but gets boring fast because the same thing happens in every level, No new weapons or new enemies.

MARINE : The marine levels are very difficult and quite unplayable. He has a lot of weapons but is given only a few for the levels and sometimes after the level completion the weapons collected are taken away and is given only a few. Each level have a lot of monstors but you can't see them comming because the levels are very dark and you need to use the image intesifier to look ahead, It makes the dark areas green and the bright areas white, If you fire a weapon with the image intense on the screen becomes white and you cant see where the enemey is. One minuite you could be walking with full health and aurmor but before you know it zero health, zero aurmor and game over. The marine levels are very difficult even on the easy difficulty.

PREDATOR : Compared to the marine the predator levels are very easy but not as easy as the alien. The predator moves very slowly and can become almost invisible, It has many weapons and can take a lot of damage. The predator has four types of visions to see in total darkness and it can also heal itself.

Each of the three charecters have six levels each, If you complete a charecter you could unlock a few bonus missions, And the number of bonus missions that is unlocked depends on the difficulty you play. AVP Gold has a limited number of saves depending on the difficulty. I would recommend you to play on the hardest difficulty (Director's Cut), Though it would be very difficult it would unlock many bonus mission, I don't think there is any difference between the difficulties besides the number of saves you are limited. AVP's graphics are sound are ok, The special effects are very good. Compared to the other games it ran very smooth and it did not crash much either. Alien Vs Predator is a good game but only for very good gamers, It is the most hardest and the most frustrating game i have ever played.

Too Hard to Play Honestly

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Challenging? No, Impossible is more like it! Just remember to download the cheat codes first before playing this game, you'll need them.

The graphics, sound and user interface are exceptional but those features are over-shadowed by the short amount of time players stay alive in the game. This is not really a serious gaming experience, its more of an exercise in futility. The only time you'll last longer than an alka-seltzer tablet in a glass of water is when you play as the Predator and even then your life span is not that long. The alien can't heal and the marine is the ultimate victim. The game settings should not be "Easy", "Medium" and "Hard"; they should be changed to "Slow Suicide", "Quick Death" and "Don't Bother Fighting Back".

Not as good as the second game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: February 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Not to put to fine of a point on it, but this game is below the standard compared to the second game. As a Predator, you have many weapons right when you begin, but in the second game, you have more of a challenge by having to collect your weapons as you go along. But still, being a Predator is the most fun out of the tree. As an Alien, you are openly vulnerable and can be killed easily. Your vision to "track Predators" is a complete drag 'cause you can't see at all, and you start off as a drone, where's the Face-Hugger, or the Chestburster? Let's move on to Marine. Newbies to this game might think that the Marine is some kind of Alien, but it's not, Marine is soldier, Colonial Marine is the full name. Being a Marine is probably the suckiest out of the three, you're even more vulnerable than Aliens because you can't gain energy from your assaults on enemies, and your infa-red mode is designed just as poorly as the Predator's cloaking. This game got two stars because when your an Alien or a Predator it's fun to stalk your victims. I don't really recommend wasting your money on poorly designed garbage such as this, buy Aliens vs. Predator II, buy something that's worth the money.

Could've been such a great game!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: July 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

...this game is too hard. It's not hard a in good way like having to use a lot of strategy and wits to win the game. It's hard in a you-almost-die-when-encountering-one-enemy kind of hard. You get to play the 3 different species: predator, alien, and marine (in the order of easiest to hardest). In the predator games I can actually finish most of the levels, but in the other 2 (especially the marine games) you basically die if you let the enemies come within 3 feet of you. And this is when the game is set to easy!!

But to be fair, I haven't played the aliens or predator missions too much. The only one I really like playing are the marine missions, because ever since the alien movies came out I always wanted to know what it was like to actually be in the movie. This leads me to the best feature of the game. It really makes you feel like you are really in the movie. The marine missions will scare the crap out of you and then some. The other 2 missions aren't too scary or great in my opinion. Marine missions are very dark with aliens seeming to come out of no where. To compensate for this, the game has night vision sensors, endless amount of flares, and the motion detector from the movie. Although, the motion detector seems to be better at causing your heart to race then in actually helping you.

This game would be perfect if it wasn't so hard. I haven't even passed the 3rd level with the setting on easy. .... Because it is so hard, the developers should've made the single player missions playable in a multiplayer environment. Trust me you'll need the extra firepower and someone to cover your rear flank. If you want to know how quickly you would die going against these aliens in real life then buy the game. ....

An excellent game that's a little too hard...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 29 / 29
Date: July 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

until you get into it. When I first started playing, this game was so frustratingly impossible, but when you get used to it, it stops being impossible and starts being a challenge. This game definitely makes wonderful use of all the source materiel, giving us a wonderful cinematic-feeling experience. Now you can sympathize with what all those people were feeling in the Alien movies.

The Alien is probably the hardest to play as. Granted it moves really fast and can walk on walls, but no ranged weapons, and no medkit, leave you exceptionally vulnerable to the marines' rapid fire weaponry.

The Marine levels are also extremely difficult, because as soon as an alien gets under your arc of fire, you're good as dead. Fortunately, you get a full range of fun weapons.

But the easiest, if least fun, is the Predator. Exceptionally strong, with auto-aiming vision, sniper weapons, and auto-recharging ammo, this guy's levels are, at first, a lot easier than the other two.

Each of the characters has his own, linear, campaign, but these campaignes have nothing to do with each other. The multiplayer's lots of fun, the sounds are excellent, the graphics are high-res, and run well, even with all the features on, on a low end system. Plus, it takes less than 300 megs of HD space and it doesn't require the CD! The music, while not award-winning materiel, is moody, and the predator music recognizably borrows materiel from his movie theme, while the Marine and Alien music is similar to the Aliens action themes.

The enemies aren't incredibly diverse, but they're tough and they look cool, so that doesn't matter too much. And don't worry about the difficulty level...The gold edition comes with the strategy guide. Overall, this is a very fun and addictive, if very hard, game to add to your collection. Recommended.

Is this gonna be a stand up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

We've all seen the movies. From Alien to Predator 2, the average fan can usually recall and say, verbatim, just about any line from each movie. We each have our favorites too...mine is Aliens, and AvP borrows heavily from it and Predator to establish it's basic premise and it's incredibly eerie atomosphere.

Oh, the atmosphere is perfect...I don't think the designers could have made it any more frightening than it is. This is especially true if you're playing as a Colonial Marine. Of the three species, this will be the one you're liable to grab first. And why not? You're a human, you understand guns, how to shoot em', and blow up stuff. The engine is superb...the graphics are outstanding...to this day I cannot play this game at night. Laugh if you must, but between the "beep...beep...beep..beep..BEEP!" of the motion tracker detecting aliens you can hear but cannot see, to the very accurate sound and fire pattern of the M-41A Pulse Rifle...I'm not joking when I say it's like being in the movie "Aliens".

The Predator portion is equally outstanding. Every sound has been dutifully rendered into the game from the silver screen, so that when you cloak and look in thermal view at some inept human walking down a corridor, you really do feel all-powerful, especially when you hit them with deadly accuracy with your shoulder cannon. Every weapon is powerful, and depending on which species you're fighting, each will be more important than others at different times.

The Alien has to be my least favorite species to play as. For one, I'm not afraid to run around, since I *become* the thing to be feared, but then again, damage is easily inflicted on you, although your speed can help lower that a bit. The only other problem I have with the Alien mission portion is basically summarized by PC Gamer's review of it when it said something like "To accomplish your mission objectives like it was on a to-do list on the Alien Queen's clipboard feels somehow *wrong*".

Multiplayer is a blast, but with only a limited selection of maps to play on and no means to make your own multiplayer levels, you'll grow weary on it after a while. Cooperative missions are my least favorite...several marines basically try to hold off huge and endless waves of Aliens that respawn regularly...ad infinitum. It'd be nice to have a scenario where a group of marines would have to go through a maze or complex to accomplish some mission that would have a definite end to it. But it usually ends up being 3-4 marines backed up into a corner firing at everything they see.

Overall this is a fantastic game, one that once you start playing you won't want to stop. Except at night, when you're all alone.

Great Game... With One Major Problem

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I loved the game. I had downloaded one of the Single player demo's and decided I had to have it, even if it was old. The graphics are intense, and it seems like you are almost IN an Alien movie. The sounds are great, and the In game movie's help with the atmosphere. I particularly liked the Melee game, even though it was almost impossible to survive for longer than a minute or so.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to play the Single player mission games very much yet.

The problem I have with the game is it doesn't run right under Windows ME. It doesn't say that anywhere when you buy it, and the tech support is practically useless. With ME, the game freezes your computer RELIABLY/ So if you are running ME, wait til you upgrade to XP or you will have to run another OS on your computer. Or get the sequel, AVP II which runs on ME.

ALIENS,PREDATORS,COLONELS VERSUS U

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What can i say about this game,it has really cool graphics,a good gameplay and a good atmosphere to it.the game has all the qualities of a good game except that it is a little too hard particularly with the alien,its still ok with the colonel and predator.to be honest i wouldnt suggest one buying this game if hes lookin for a good mission game but its for the ones who like hunting,killing all the way.the game in all is not for everyone to buy but only for the ones who like to hold the gun and be told kill everything that comes on the screen

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