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User Rating: 8.5 | Aliens Versus Predator 2 PC
Aliens vs. Predators (vs. Marines, too) is a subject just waiting for a good game to come to it. AVP2 comes along and improves over every aspect of the previous game. The graphics are better, the story is better, the gameplay is better, the multiplayer is excellent, and the ways the different species work is very intriguing. I could spend weeks just seeing what it's like in the life of an Alien or the most efficient way to get skulls as Predator. That brings me to another point: all the little details. As a Predator, you can get skulls and switch visions and when you cloak and go into water, it uncloaks you and shocks you. When you are Alien, you get health whenever eat corpses. As a Marine, you get radar and hackers and other cool gadgets. There are plenty more of these features and they are really what makes AVP2 pop out from other games. The multiplayer is excellent. All the races are balanced out so that no race is left behind. The Aliens have their pouncing and wall-walking which makes up for not having the Predator's plasma caster or spear. The marines get movement radar and flamethrowers which makes up for not having acidic blood or the ability shoot your inner-mouth out and eat people's heads off. Everything works quite swell and it's the greatest demonstration of asymmetrical symmetry I have ever seen. I think all these next-gen games should take a hint from this one: it's not about bump-mapping or god-rays, it's about having flavorful races that liven up the game and let you have fun and experiment. The only flaw I can find is that it can make you not be aware that you have been playing for a day and a half.
