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Wow, this actually looks quite good.

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playing as a predator looks awesome .. will definately pick this one up

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The dark marine levels are a carryover from the original game. You see the guy throw some flares at the 56 second mark and that was how the marines operated in the original. Flares to light your area or toss ahead in the hallway. In the first game you could have several flares out at a time so it wasn't a rare resource.

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I wonder if they kept one of the other great aspects of playing as a marine: you have unlimited flares but can only throw a certain amount in a given area and while you have night vision(aka the image intensifier) turning it on disables your motion tracker. Really made for some tough choices on how to proceed into dark unexplored areas. The more I see this I think this will be a day 1 purchase for me.

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As to the dark levels the reasoning is to keep the game with the same atmosphere as seen in the movies. I wouldn't want this set in broad daylight in some street scene. I played (and still have) the pc version classic "Aliens vs Predator 2" from 2001. It was dark, downright scarry at times and kept you guessing most of the time. From my understanding the maps will have both "Alien" and "Predator" movie look. Outside jungle for Predator and inside very much like the Aliens movie.

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Another new trailer up......Survivor Mode....which is Horde Mode for those GOW folks


http://xboxmovies.teamxbox.com/xbox-...vivor-Trailer/

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the marine levels remind me alot of doom 3. omg i loved doom 3 so i am gonna eat this game up.

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I hope they have the mode from the PC game where your a marine at a crash site and have to survive a bunch of aliens trying to get you and your friends... that was awesome with friends.

It was like the horde mode all the games have been including lately.

Ah the good ole days!

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Demo on thursday

http://www.platformnation.com/2010/0...this-thursday/

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Too many potentially good games already in 2010... dunno if I can get invested in another one, ugh!

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I'm so gay for Aliens.

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We'll be sure and mention that to the aliens who are famous for the probings :D

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I could stare at that for hours........



I mean, that is so fucking disgusting /whistles

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the irony is the design of the eggs and elements of the facehuggers themselves are clearly very vaginal so perhaps "lesbo for aliens" is a better phrase ;)

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I'm torn over the special edition .. On one hand that facehugger looks awesome, but based on what has happened with the GTA IV set, and then again with the Halo 3 set, I can't help but worry that it will be < $40 in a short amount of time.

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The xenomorph was designed to be evocative of a lot of sexual imagery to make it more disturbing. Or did you not notice that its head was a giant penis? :)

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Kind of wish there was some kind of bonus with the game. Still it sits at 59.99 with nothing :( that is not normal amazon pricing.

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Just downloaded the demo on PS3, loaded it up and searched for a game three different times for like 5 minutes each and found nothing. I guess nobody else is playing it yet I'll have to wait until later to give my impressions.

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Same thing for me on Xbox Live.

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it worked for me. Cant really judge the game because I only played as the alien, but multiplayer as the alien is hard! controls take a while to get used to but, its hard to get where you want to, since you can climb on the walls and cielings. for a twitch type gameplay playing as the alien doesnt work well. I think the alien probably plays better in the single player campaign because those levels require more stealth.


Visuals were pretty good and I want to play as the marine and predator. I think this game is gonna be a better single player then mulitiplayer.

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Playing as the Alien in multiplayer in AvP2 was the jam. You could hide in a vent, wait for someone to walk by, then scurry down, smash through their head with your inner jaws, and scramble back up before anyone knew what was happening.

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Tried once more just now, it was looking for 7 other players found none. I guess I'll have to wait to try it which is annoying as I'm REALLY excited to see if it lives up to my expectations. If it does, this may be a day 1 buy for me.

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Been watching the demo being streamed live on jtv. General consensus is that it looks great, and handles pretty well. But theres a lot of frustration at the lack of any instructions or a tutorial. Would come in handy especially for the Predator.

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Playing the Alien takes some getting use to. Just from the demo alone I give it a 7.5 IMO.

Wish there was a crouch button for the marine.

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As a hardcore AvP 2 player, I'm initially disappointed with the Alien controls. I'm sure with the final game, the single player campaign will teach you the finer points, but the multiplayer game is frustrating as there are certain walls which you can't run on. The grab function could have used an explanation.

The Marine portion I played as was quite fun and it's hilarious mowing down other marines blindly using their lights. The motion tracker is dead on and adds to the suspense.

I've yet to play as the Predator, which was my favorite class in AvP 2, so I'm hoping it's as good if not better than I remember.

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Thanks for the link

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I wish there was a single player demo. That's the part I'm looking forward to playing. I wasn't impressed with the multiplayer. I hate jumping into an MP session without any previous training/tutorial. I tried it out, and just ended up frustrated.

A good demo will often convince me to pre-order the game. This demo makes me want to wait for reviews (and maybe a pricedrop).

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I haven't played it yet but I generally agree with you. Demo single player.

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Man all this talk has made me want to buy this day 1. I'm DL the demo now.

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Agree with both points from playing for a little while last night.

Also, I thought I would get sea sick from running onto wall/ceilings/floors as the alien, I found it really difficult to keep track of where I was spatially. My other complaint would be that the game is dark, dark, dark! I know that's how it's supposed to be, but there was a lot of the time that I was a marine that I couldn't see anything at all. Couple that with not knowing the maps, and it was bad times.

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Played as the predator in the Xbox Live MP Demo yesterday. It's definitely fun but, as it's been said, it's just not so much fun being dropped into a warzone being clueless about the controls. I must've been killed 50 times yesterday just trying to figure everything out. A single player demo would have been nice to include methinks. I'll pick it up on release day but, I've had my full of MP action for a while.

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It took me literally 10 minutes to connect to a match. I was an Alien with absolutely no clue what I was doing. I stayed disoriented the entire time. I had no clue if i was on the ceiling, the floor, the wall, in a vent, etc.... I know the setting is supposed to be dark, but it was way too dark for a MP match. When i saw somebody i just ran up to them and starting mashing buttons hoping for the best. I think the Alien will be cool to play with once you know what you are doing. Since I had such an issue connecting to matches, I only played that once. I do wish it was a single player demo, that is what I am buying the game for.

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I don't know about this one now after playing the MP demo. I loved AvP2's MP to death! It was such great fun. However this one didn't grab me like I thought it would. I was able to play as both the Marine and Alien (after waiting 15 minutes for it to find a match!). Marine was pretty standard and like I remembered. Playing as the Alien was what seemed really different. I think they slowed the Alien down from AvP2. Also, it was hard to get used to the controls especially when I wanted to run on the walls/ceiling. I don't know, maybe my brain is still trained to play this with the keyboard/mouse.

Either way, I'm not going to preorder this now. Will wait for the reviews.

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Do the Aliens not have a night vision mode? They did in the previous 2 games.

Even with that, though, I always found the Aliens were for the more advanced players. They have no ranged attacks (I think a few classes could spit acid, but it wasn't going to take out hordes of enemies or anything), they run along walls and into vents, and require a really different technique than just about any other kind of shooter. If people are having trouble playing as the Alien, I suggest trying out one of the other two species.

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I hope that message at the start of the demo about it being pre-release code is true. For me, the match making on PS3 has been garbage. Otherwise, the few matches i have played were fun.

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Played the demo this morning around 5am. It took me about 2mins for it to find players for a MP QM. I was the Predator and I think so was everyone else. I couldn't figure out how to shoot it only let me claw at things, camo and jump around. Not overly impressive.

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This was my first experience with this franchise, so i'm no expert, but i think you have to find the shoulder cannon to equip it.

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Also, is it a total free-for-all or is it species vs. species (vs. species)?

The lack of instructions sucks btw. Anyone know how to do the old alien face chomp insta-kill?