Aliens vs. Predator Classic 2000 is a VERY different FPS - even to its contemporaries. This game is very fast-paced. If the original Unreal Tournament feels like you're running around normally, and if Quake III is faster, this game plays like you're in some hyper-fast hovercar with perfect turning. In other words, very fast, yet very playable. Each race plays very differently, from the marines who rely on medkits and a wide variety of weapons to survive, to the Aliens which can climb virtually anywhere, sneak into passages no-one else can, and devour their foes to regenerate health, to the Predators, who utilize their stealth, vision, and weapon tech to hunt Alien and human from the shadows. The single-player portion is also quite good, with all three races playable. While each mission is effectively "Start here, complete x objectives, then go here to exit", the randomly-respawning enemies ensure you'll never be safe (and, in the case of the Aliens, never unable to regenerate your health). However, the much-vaunted multiplayer modes - online and LAN! - are locked behind a standalone version of GOG.com's GOG Galaxy client. If you own the game, fantastic! You and all your GOG.com buddies who also own the game can play just fine. If you don't own the game or lack an Internet connection, then you can't play the multiplayer parts of the game, PERIOD. This fact is conspicuously absent from the title card, and is in stark contrast to GOG.com's other DRM-free multiplayer games. Were the multiplayer components truly DRM-free, I'd give this game 5 stars; with them, the game only merits 2 stars only because there's so much to do in singleplayer.
