Posted on: July 21, 2024
StuntmanMikeL
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I really wanted to love this
There are few things that I remember from my childhood more fondly than reading AvP comics and my overall obsession with movie franchises that inspired this game. Naturally, because of this, I never missed an opportunity to play any Alien or Predator games that I could find, although the 1999 AvP somehow always slipped my grasp. Sadly however, despite being really excited to finally give this a shot, a brutal reality check hit me in the face faster than a leaping facehugger. The first major strike against the game for me, is that everything is just too damn dark. Clearly the developers were aiming to replicate the mood of the films, but in this case I feel like they went into such an extreme that it actively hinders player's progress rather than being a mere mood-setter. The night vision mode is supposed to be a solution to this but even that is hampered by even the faintest light source, which immediately flares up the entire screen and blocks your vision anyway. The only balanced option available are the light flares, however, the area that they can illuminate is limited and you can only pop about 5 of them before having to wait for a cooldown. The second problem is the level design. I tried each of the three available campaigns, and the furthest that I ever got was the third mission of the Marine campaign, because it was the only one where I was able to figure out where to go before I lost my patience. Being lost so often sapped any enjoyment out of the game for me pretty rapidly, and the problem was further exacerbated by constantly respawning enemies that drained my resources until I could either figure out how to progress or die. It pains me because normally I'm very open minded about old games, and dated visuals or mechanics rarely ever bother me to the point where I would stop playing. But I feel like AvP is simply not a very well designed game, and it was definitely a huge disappointment to me, after so many years of hearing good things about it.
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