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Never played the series at all. I've never been a cpu gamer. The lack of tutorial really is lame.

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when the Demo goes live for all members for free, can you still try it out multi-player if you don't have Gold membership?

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Negative kemosabe, you can't play online on the Xbox without the Gold membership. Pony up for the gold or hope they release a single player demo (which i tend to prefer as my demos anyway).

I'm going to try again shortly on the PS3 hopefully I can actually find a match.

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I played a single match earlier and I thought it was fun. Not being a fan of deathmatch in general, it's not the best way to sell me. However, the prospect of a Marine campaign against Aliens is. I can definitely wait for this to hit the clearance bin.

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Honestly, if they had to go multiplayer only, they should have went with Team Deathmatch. Fighting Aliens as an Alien is always sketchy.

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Dude its like $35 a year. Its like going to the store and getting a couple dvds. Even if your only into single player games theres so much you can do on the 360 to justify $35

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Agreed, the only time I let my Gold membership expire was when my 360 was acting up and I suspected it was about to die (which it did) and it was out of warranty for everything (including the 3 year RROD) so I bagged it and moved onto PS3 recently. If you have a working 360, Live Gold is WELL worth it.

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Look at the "Gold" deal this way....it averages to around $3-$4 a month, less than a freaking Mac Happy Meal....I know which one I'd rather have.

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i don't eat at McD's ever and really have no viable use for a Gold membership (no real desire for multi-player, no Netflix membership, etc) except the desire to play an occasional early demo.

i don't understand why everyone keeps telling me to get when i ask a Gold related question. if there is something else i am missing that would be useful to me with a Gold, please let me know and i will reconsider, but i just won't use it so doesn't make sense at any cost. though i would like to play more, i play single player games maybe 6-7 hours per week right now.

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The reason people keep asking is because you ask a steady stream of questions about Gold/Silver. If you want to stay Silver then fine - nobody actually cares - but don't be shocked when MS treats you as a 2nd tier customer. You are.

1. Gold gets you demos a weekish earlier. Deal with it.
2. Multiplayer is Gold only. Again, deal.
3. Every demo that is multiplayer only will therefore be Gold only even if you can download it. Every demo. Shouldn't be a surprise or even necessitate a question since... you know... multiplayer is Gold only.
4. The deals of the week are Gold only. Not fake 24 hour sample Gold. But pay your yearly fee Gold only.

Again, not trying to be obnoxious but you ask about every single thing being available for Silver and the whole setup is very consistent (see above). You asked for free trials of Gold which implies you were interested so hopefully you see why everyone was slightly confused. If you aren't interested in Gold then cool. Play your single player games, ignore the special deals, and don't worry about the demos until it lets you download them.

Personally I'm astounded at how nice people are being. :lol:

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no, i really don't ask since Dec. (when i got my system) and i haven't repeated ?'s.

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back on topic, still haven't been able to find a game and actually play this on the ps3. I tried a few more times for about twenty minutes each earlier today, nada. Annoying to say the least.

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Yeah, the find a quick match option is totally broken on PS3 right now. People seem to be having better luck with the invite friends option.

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Back on the more interesting topic. You also get to to stream music and they add apps all the time. You'd be surprised at what you are missing out on. Many of your single player games might have great features you can only access via gold.

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So ... the Game Informer review of this (5.75/10) doesn't sound good. I am still holding out hope, though, and will still hold onto my preorder.

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I didn't enjoy the demo at all. Everything was way too dark and the classes felt unbalanced. Hopefully the single player is better.

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Seriously Video Gaming industry and Gamers....LET'S EVOLVE BEYOND 1ST PERSON. This game screams 3rd person and 3rd person would've been very cool in multiplayer.

I played a match today as a Predator and got my ass handed to me. I did manage to get about 4 melee kills against the Aliens...so there's that. I can seen hardcore AVP fans making multiplayer pretty annoying for those us who don't play all day every day.

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Ugh. No way. I, for the most part, despise 3rd person shooters.

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no way....5.75? what did they say was wrong with it?

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Demo is also up on PSN as well.

EDIT: Nevermind. I see this only news to me. :blush:

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I got my mag yesterday and saw the score....I just shook my head. I for one have been really excited and posting all the trailers which to say did look very good. And then get hit by all these low score reviewsis to say the least very dissapointing.

It was bad enough with a low score with "Army of Two:40th Day" which I was going to get but didn't (it to had good looking trailers) but this. I did play the AVP2 on the pc and while MP was good the single player was just outright a blast also. Sorry guys for building this up. I'll wait for til this hits the discount bin also....crap.

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I usually don't let review scores change my mind on games I really want. If it is a game I am on the fence about, I will use the score. Still, even if it is a game I want, a score of a 5 is going to make me pause. That is really a low score, and indicates a lot of problems.

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IGN UK gave it an 8.5, so I'd say don't jump to any conclusions on the overall quality.

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Did you actually read that review?

I'm a big GI fan, but that whole review was garbage. They're biggest complaint was that the Predator relied on stealth, and other such stupidity. They also pretty much ignored the multiplayer altogether.

I don't know if there's any truth to it, but word is they (the reviewer) didn't even play the game, and were basically writing a review of a verbal review given to them by somebody else.



I can't believe that article even got into the mag. Every other review I've seen is 8-8.5

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Oh I read it but it strikes me that that's just it, almost no reviews for a game that's been out for almost a week. The few games I'm aware of that reviews somehow were postpone for awhile were....Damnation, Terminator, Turok 2 and most recently even Army of Two:40th day and we saew what those reviews were. Not to many that get a review a week later that just glows.

On the other hand look at titles from COD, Mass effect, Bioshock and others and those reviews made it out within 24Hrs. As to the one in Gameinformer I'm not putting my choice into just one publication or site. I take in account of several and actual hands on. Frankly I hope the game gets great reviews since I'm a fan of any AVP stuff and still have the pc game AVP2 which was great. At the same time I'm not going to run down and grab a copy just to play it without getting a good idea of all gameplay in both MP and single player.

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Played the demo today on my PS3. Seems pretty simple and fun. Well as long as you don't choose to be a Marine! LOL. Unless I was going something wrong (which I probably was) Seems like the motion tracker really doesn't help much against Predators. I'll probably buy it though.

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It's funny you say that I actually find I'm best at being the marine and am worst at the Predator. If you grab the smartgun or shotgun (using the alternate fire) you can really do some damage. Even the standard pulse rifle is pretty strong.

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Like I said I was probably doing something wrong. By the time I seen the Preds I was frikken dead. I just suck at it I guess. LOL

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Gamespot scores AVP
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.5.5 ouch!!


http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/acti...r-video-review

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.5.5 isn't even a real number! :eek:

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:rimshot:


5.5 :D

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as I expected...conspiracy theorist jumped to the conclusion that the other review was a hatchet job, in some attempt to screw sega, and even posted articles attacking the gamer informer review, quoting smaller magazine and websites that gave positive reviews....maybe this "person" wanting to screw Sega also bought off gamespot?

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yikes will definitely need to rent this with all of the polarizing reviews (IGN UK and OXM good scores, the others crap)

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I played the demo again as the Marine last night. I couldn't figure out how to use the flares but even not caring about that i'm not digging it all that much.

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I don't think there are flares or the image intensifier in this one, just the flashlight and motion tracker.

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Teamxbox has their review up.......6.0...I'm not saying anything but yes I did read it.

http://reviews.teamxbox.com/xbox-360...s-Predator/p1/


Gamespot review up also.......5.5

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/acti...le/review.html

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What a shame.

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while i will reserve final judgement after i play the game, arthur gies is a bit of a pretentious douchebag, and i take all his reviews (to include commentary on rebel fm) with one, if not two, grains of salt.

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Demo came in at #3 on last week's Live activity list: http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/...f-feb-8th.aspx

Only behind MW2 and Halo 3.

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I decided to still go ahead an pick it up today. The multiplayer is pretty fun, tons of bugs/glitches though. For single player, I have only run through the alien campaign and finished it in 45min! Seems really short to me, but that's ok since it was boring as hell. Overall, the 5/10 reviews are a bit low...maybe a 6.5/10?