Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000

what about the people who were supposed to have received it for free , with the gog galaxy beta Test? I got the mail for that and am still waiting on that...

Less of a review, more of a cry for help. Anytime I try and run the game, a message appears saying "Direct3D Initialisation Failure", even though the game has been updated to use DirectX 9.0. I was just wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue and knows a solution, as I was really looking forward to playing this classic. I have Windows 10 on a newly purchsed HP laptop.

Only 7 saves per level, not the best handling and bad level design. Do not play this game - it is frustrating and uncomfortable.

Multiplayer doesn't work. At least not without the Galaxy client...

So, I actually mistook this game for being Aliens vs. Predator 2 which I had heard a lot of great things about, but unfortunately I bought the "classic" 2000 game which at best is probably an okay speedrunning experiencing. I know it is from a period where story was less focused on, but even so the campaign still feels empty and awkward. It is very arcadic as most missions don't feel connected very well to each other and if you try to understand their connection, you just get more confused. For example, why is the marine constantly being send in alone to deal with a nest of xenopmorphs, lol? Even so, the different gameplay style that each campaign features is pretty interesting and it is really cool that they experimented so much with the different races. The Xenomorph can climb walls, heals by killing victims, is incredible fast, but is also very fragile, so it is easy to kill it with weapons and fire. The Marine is the old school shooter with access to a variety of weapons, heals by finding medkits, but he is also weak in the dark as he need to use flares, nightvision, and the (in)famous movement tracker which causes constant tension when the beeping noise increases in both pitch and tempo as the aliens move closer to you in the dark... And the Predator that mixes both stealth and combat into a unique godly hunter-experience with auto-targeting weapons, full camouflage, boomerang-dish, three different vision-modes to adapt to your environments, and where all marines are basically cannon fodder and xenomorphs are bugs to be squished. Yeah, the various gameplay styles and different type of campaigns are pretty cool, though I pretty much suspect the later games improved on the formula making this classic 2000 version outdated and obsolete in terms of fun. Neither does the awkward in-game videos do much for the immersion as they are strangely acted and most of the actors look like random people taken directly from the street. Yes, it is old and outdated...