Alien vs Predator Un-Banned! - Now for discussion!

[Azazel]

The sheer underwhelmingness of the demo is going to knock this particular no-co-op-included down to "buy it much later for cheap off steam" level. Similar to how Bayonetta will be coming out of the bargain bin later in the year.

Unless the face-hugger in the SE is absolutely fucking glorious.

[angry.bob]

Soooo....

All things as they are, it's still plenty of fun and I'll probably actually pay cash for it, despite what happened last time I actually paid for a game. (DoW2)

1. Marine shotgun is possibly the worst gun in any genre of videogames since they were invented. Small magazine, slow, and no power? WTF, the magazine and rof should make the thing one-shot anything in the game at close range.

2. Not only is the lack of remapping keys bad, but not even being able to bring the keymap up to look at it is ass. Most of the games I was in I got stuck as a predator. It was still fun, but I know that being able switch to the plasma gun or discus that I'd picked up would have made a world of difference. Having a 5 button mouse/ wheel and none of them are mapped to a ranged attack or being able to swap from melee to ranged is crap.

3. WTF, movement as an alien is sub-par. When you're on a wall or ceiling jumping should make you come loose. Skulk wall/ceiling movement in Natural Selection is almost perfect.

[Roentgen]

I picked this up at around 1pm EST.  So far so good.  Plays exactly like AVP 2 except more realistic violence.  That's fine with me.

[Azazel]

Read up on the game this morning, and Hey! Apparently a lot of the facehuggers are broken right out of the packaging!

Saw the super-duper version this afternoon. Hey! That "big" box is still the same dimensions of a DVD case, only deeper!

Hey! That facehugger which may or may not be broken out of the box is the size of my fist at best!

Hey! Time to cancel my pre-order and maybe get a cheap console version from Play-Asia or Startup in 6-16 months, and/or the $5 steam special in the same timeframe, based on the underwhelming demo!


 

[UnSub]

We really should have thanked the OFLC for banning this game - they were only trying to save us the burden of such mediocrity.

[NowhereMan]

Wow the demo for this was fucking horrible. Controls felt a bit sluggish, increasing sensitivity (which is on a separate X and Y axis, fucking useful for a mouse) just resulted in feeling like I was control of a drunken sailor swinging his head around. Tried a few different matches and had what felt like very slight stuttery lag, from a University network. I might have been unlucky but randomised matches with the option of inviting friends is a fucking sucky way of choosing servers. Also it looks ugly, other standard complaints. The Marine shotgun was less than a joke, I would rather they included a melee weapon at least that way you'd know it was meant as a joke.

[angry.bob]

I've been playing the hell out of the demo the last couple of days. The gun I thought was a shotgun is actually a scoped sniper rifle. What the fuck for I don't know because even the biggest open area in the demo is a deathtrap for marines if you're not constantly on the lookout. The gun that's actually a shotgun is still pretty bad, though if you shoot once they're in melee range it will usually kill whatever. The downside is you're in melee range with a predator or an acid-filled alien. Weapon switching is the number keys, I'm not sure why that didn't work before. It would still be super great to be able to remap keys in game though.

[Threash]

Random shooting at every shadow/noise, constant arguing with your teammates, a sense of growing panic and dread at the hopelessness of it all, and to top it all off that cursed motion detector which has to be the scariest sound in movie history.  This game perfectly captures the space marine experience, its not... pleasant.

[Azazel]

If you have a PC, there are two superior versions of this game. Perhaps not graphically, but pretty much evereywhere else.

Might be time for a reinstall...

[Ironwood]

Yeah, that was my worry at the very start.

Despite lack of actual story, I still don't think they beat the original game.

[Roentgen]

I've been playing the hell out of the Xbox 360 version.  I'm very pleased with it.  There are many ways it could be improved but I enjoy it the way it is.

[Azazel]

fairy nuff. As I said, I'll probably bargain-bin it at some stage, but no way am I paying anything approaching full price...

[eldaec]

Am I the only person who thinks new games should have a different name to previous games made by the same goddamn company. Or is this a just the 1999 game ported to new consoles?

Get off my lawn tia.

[Azazel]

What did Tia ever do to you?

[Ironwood]

Nothing.  Which is part of the problem.

[Lantyssa]

I thought the same thing but didn't post it.  Thanks Ironwood.