

However, Aliens vs Predator's multiplayer isn't as terrifying as its single-player game. It was only after I regained my composure and let out a nervous laugh that I even made the connection between the game I was playing and the costume of the man SEGA had To be fair, if anybody hissed at my face like that I'd probably drop dead like a timid canary. That I Leapt a mile when a man dressed as an alien slinked into the room and made some stupid hissing noise at my face, during my multiplayer hands-on, says a lot for my state of mind. You can also pick up a Disc weapon, which shoots deadly discs into your foes, or a Predator's Spear, which takes out whole lines of Aliens. You're equipped with a shoulder-mounted Laser Cannon, which can fire Light, Medium, or screen-clearing Heavy Laser bolts depending on how long you hold down the Fire button. Take heart (or the Aliens will), because you have some pretty mean weapons yourself. Some Aliens use acid as a defensive weapon, some will skitter across the floor to attack you, and others resort to their molars to mollify you. Your hunting skills had better be as sharp as your opponents' teeth, because you'll face Alien Drones, Warriors, Eggs (complete with Facehuggers), Chestbursters, Guardians, and the Alien Queen.

Traveling through 10 levels of vermin-infested corridors, you hunt through a city, the countryside, the Spaceport, the Space Transport, and finally an Alien world in your final showdown against the Alien Mother. Predator is a one-player, side-scrolling, punch- and-kick fiesta, where you must hunt down and destroy Aliens to gain honor among your fellow Predators. The Predators live to hunt and now they believe they've found the perfect prey.Īliens vs. They've sent out an emergency distress signal, which has been intercepted by a race of extraterrestrial hunters known as the Predators. Now a group of colonists on New Shanghai are under Alien attack. On planetoid LV-426, the six- man crew of a spaceship unearthed the eggs of a terrible parasitic creature - the Alien! Soon the crew was missing and the cargo was lost. Don't worry! Although the Alien hordes are plentiful, you're more than a match for 'em. Instead, you must also use your preying strength to make 'em scream. Unlike Ripley, you can't just rely on guns to fight the acid-blood terrors. Predator is a monster- mashing beat-em-up, where you play the Predator. In the year 2493, the colonists of New Shanghai found the Aliens.and they weren't very neighborly! In game, the colonists sent out an emergency distress signal, which was intercepted by an extraterrestrial group of hunters - the Predators.Īs a Predator, you've just found the perfect prey in this one-player, monster-versus-monster beat-em-up.Īctivision's Aliens vs.
