I was a big time fan of the original AvP games. The single player was amazing and presented a fun story for those of us geeks that own (and watched multiple times) every one of the films.
The multiplayer on the other hand was not that impressive because it was unbalanced (well the deathmatch). I guess this was to be expected if the designers were basing the combat on what we have seen in films.
The game was a sleeper. The lanpartiers of the time preferred to either play counter strike or the battlefield series so this one was largely ignored.
I loved how the game let you play all the classes.
I always played the Alien because I loved the hyper speed melee and wall waking. I could always see the heat/pheromone signature of other players so you could not hide from me. The ability to pounce(
it's what TIGGERS do fast
) was my favorite move but made the alien's effective melee damage into an insta-kill ranged attack. My second favorite move was the head bite because it had the same demoralizing effect of knifing someone in Battlefield2142 or CoD. I felt that the alien was balanced because someone could fart and dismember an alien (when they later introduced the game breaking predalien I gave up caring about balance). The health kits for the alien came from eating your defeated enemies.
It was the predator that irritated me the most. Lots of health and an array of auto tracking weapons. The worst part was the "
Smart Disc
" (made popular in the second film) that could kill you no matter what you did. It was the "I win" button that ruined the game for me.
Last of all the classes was the Marine which I felt horrible for the players we could trick into playing. They were easy to kill. The only effective thing I found I could do with a marine was get an explosive weapon and use the spray and pray tactic for some cheap satisfying kills.
I hope in the new game they do add the other multiplayer mods.
There was a king of the hill mod that allowed one player to be a predator (you only got points while you were king) and pitted everyone else as a team of marines against them.
There was also a gauntlet mod that allowed you to play on a combined team of predators/marines to fight off endless waves of aliens. This one is much like the zombie mod in CoD:W@W.
I would love a cooperative story mode for the aliens and marines (the predator almost always works alone).
