Zero Punctuation: Aliens vs Predator

[General BrEeZy]

the campaign lengths dont suprise me at all.
neither does the reflectiveness of the aliens' skin. i guess flashlights or the dim lights around you are quite useful.
still wanna play it big time! i want to play all 3 sides, they'd all be entertaining to some extent im sure...

 

[Sjakie]

To bad Yahtzee didn't review it's MP. That should have given me another 1-2 minutes of pun's too laugh at. dont get me wrong the MP gameplay is okay imo. Just the way it all hangs together is really SHIT! matchmaking, no rounds...*vomits*

 

[ObsessiveSketch]

It's true, I found the campaigns to be lacking, and I didn't really expect him to break code and try the multiplayer, so a pretty accurate review overall. I have a feeling I'm gonna have to try out Predator: Concrete Jungle...as well as Arkham Asylum >3>

I was surprised, reading the comments, at all those who bitched about this review not being Heavy Rain...at first I thought Yahtzee was exaggerating the claims of swarms of fanbois whining at him to review something, but apparently he's right on the spot.

As for AVP, I thoroughly enjoy the multiplayer of AVP, and having recently re-watched the entire series (both A and P) I must admit that those two characters are spot on as far as their gameplay goes. The humans? BLEARRCHHGHBCSWEIKFAB. Sub-standard FPS, don't even NEED flares, and, as Yahtzee said, NOTHING MUCH GOIN' ON.

Anyways, great review, I'm gonna continue playing the game cuz I really enjoy both the multiplayer and the not-human campaigns. So, yeah.

 

[messy]

Some funny lines in it. Although I do like the idea of a full predator game

 

[JPH330]

Another glorious review, quite hilarious, but if you don't mind I would like to give it a try myself before I jump to any conclusions.

Why would anybody mind...?

 

[sneeky033]

dang, i was expecting him to verbally castrate battlefield: bad company 2. maybe next week?

 

[PrimoThePro]

Another glorious review, quite hilarious, but if you don't mind I would like to give it a try myself before I jump to any conclusions.

Why would anybody mind...?

I'm just pointing out that sometimes people listen to Yahtzee almost like a religion on if a game is good or not. I will not.
And, for the fact that sometimes people are weirdos.

 

[LeQuack_Is_Back]

Ah, I'm glad he touched upon the point that there is only 1 predator encounter for both Alien and Marine campaign.

You see, people? Multiplayer can't be balanced because the game was designed to have the predator be overpowered!

I already touched on this on another board. If the Predator is OP, they shouldn't make you fight a whole ****ing team of them (which invariably happens, as everyone would rather sit on top of the level and spam insta-kill weapons than actually try).

Complaints about the Preds in MP aside, I've been having a ball with AVP, especially the aliens. Especially stealth-killing the kinds of predator players I was just talking about.

 

[soapyshooter]

I was hoping for a early review of God of War III. =/

Meanwhile you can watch the other 20 ZPs where he mentions he lives in Australia and that games take forever to show up down under.

Thats why i said "hoping" I HOPED he would do one, i didnt whine that he didnt.

What exactly is the point of hoping for something you know isn't going to happen?
Contrary to popular belief, Yahtzee doesn't have unreleased software stealing flying monkeys.

Reviewers get games sooner if the publisher and devs want reviews out before the release. That's why i hoped he would be among the people reviewing it. Ign, ps3 magazine, and several other reviwers already have scores out.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

AngryJoe said it wasn't all that hot either

but I did find the Pred and the Alien wedding at the end pretty funny

 

[The_Reviewist_v1legacy]

Yeah i didn't think it was all that bad, but Yahtzee is right.
The one thing he didn't mention is how much better the original is, with it's one hit Kills for the Alien and Predator.

The point when I started to realise prefered the original PC edition was 3 minutes into the Alien campaign when I had to tail-whip a weaponless NPC 3 times to kill him.
In the PC game that would have taken his head and probably arms off with the first hit...

Anyway my review goes up tomorrow on http://www.square-go.com [/obligatory self promotion]

 

[trevorfrost]

Hee Alien's Vs. Preadator, neat... I keep wondering if he's going to get to Silent Hill Shattered Memories... Maybe Australian release times are the reason he hasn't yet..

 

[=HCFS=Discoman]

very good review. one of the best so far. quite amusing.
i already had the game, and it is as good as he says. it can be fun, but it is pitifully short. wasn't quite as good as AVP2. not that that was a great game either.

 

[Kielgasten]

Those Alien and Other Alien cartoons are the funniest ever!

Love them!

 

[Mafi]

I'm actually kinda suprised there was no mention of the complete lack of content in the game. Given that the discs can hold tremendous amounts of data, there was pretty much fuck-all on offer.
Each campaign is played over exactly the same levels, but with different routes, and in a different order, and when one race runs around like five year old on crack and another like a legless elephant, it's not so much that the gameplay is longer for one campaign; it just takes a fucking year to get to the same place.
The most irritating thing about the whole polava was the multipler; four years to get in to a game, and four seconds to find out you absolutely suck. Complete with the same 2-4 second "stealth" kill animations as featured in the single player (possibly for the "holy fuck look how many different ways you can kill your enemies!" video that Sega/Rebellion so proudly boasted), it turns into nothing more than a fucking man-train of anal penetration. You walk into a game, see somebody facing away from you, and before you've even finished waiting for your fiasco of a kill to finish, the same fucking guy is stood behind you doing the same to you. At what point did it ever occur to the developers that spending half your game time watching animations was a glorious way to play a multiplayer? Thanks for completely fucking missing the point, asshats. Remind me never to spend money on your movi-err, games again.

 

[FallenMessiah88]

Overall i thought the game was very entertaining, and i will agree that the alien campaign was the best. Multiplayer is pretty fun too.

 

[ResiEvalJohn]

This was awesome! I always look forward to reading Yatzee's columns and watching his videos every week. Sometimes they have their comedic slumps and don't hit me as hard, but I think that's mainly because I haven't played any of the games he's reviewed for weeks now. Aliens Vs Predator 2 was always one of my favorite PC FPS games, so I can completely relate to what he's talking about here. Well done sir.

 

[MortalForNow]

Nice review, I think this pretty much summed up what I though the game would be. Keep 'em coming, Yahtzee.

By the way, I'm now going to start casually using, "Humans tasty, let's eat them all. Yum yum." Even if it doesn't fit into the context of a conversation, it's just that awesome.

 

[Dragon-Byte]

does yahtzee know about Predator Concrete Jungle for the ps2?
because that's basically the game that he suggested (3rd person predator, tight combat, full game length)

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Ok, I have been hearing a lot of "im not gonna buy that game now" after Yahtzee has reviewed it (not just for this one, its happened with others). Dont let Yahtzee's reviews discourage you, he's a fucking game critic, that last person I want reviewing a game is a critic (yes I do know what critic means its just that the definition has slowly changed throughout time