Aliens versus Predator

There’s not a lot of tactical play in the game. Die hard shooter fans might be disappointed. The single player campaign is broken down into three separate sections. You can play as Colonial Marine, Predator or Alien; utilize each of the species skill sets.

As a Colonial Marine your campaign starts in an empty strip club. A gigantic holographic hooker is twirling on a pole and xenomorphs are crawling on the walls like scorpions but you cannot see them. In your radar HUD you can see contacts are moving in from all directions. By far the marine campaign is the most engrossing and atmospheric ride as it expertly replicate the nail biting-edge-of-your seat thrills.

If you are playing Predator you will be dropped onto a planet with one mission. To figure out why the humans opened your vault and to hunt down and kill as many Aliens as possible. As a Predator you get some cool skills, you can cloak, you got heat-sensitive vision. You also get a shoulder mounted cannon that melts marines with hot plasma, and also gauntlets equipped with blades.

As an Alien your mission is to free your mum the Alien Queen from the Humans. Campaign starts in a Weyland-Yutani Corp. facility where humans are experimenting on you. Playing as the alien is like being batman in space. You are nimble; you cling to ceilings, descending only to gut, slash or decapitate marines that have wandered away from their squad members. Walls, ventilation ducts, undersides of staircases, ledges – every surface is crawlable and easily hoped between.

Minimum Requirements
Windows 7/ XP/Vista
1 GB System RAM (XP)/ 2 GB System RAM (Vista)
3.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4/Athlon 64 3000+ or equivalent processor
DirectX 9.0c compliant video card with 128 MB RAM (NVIDIA 6600 or better, ATI X1600 or better)

Recommended Requirements
Windows 7/ XP/Vista
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 or equivalent processor
2 GB System RAM
DirectX 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA 8800 series, ATI HD2900 PRO or better)