There is a game that's been skipped over so many times by reviewers, gamers, and even the loyal fans.
Aliens versus Predator: Gold edition
Made by Rebellion... it is a living legend in survival horror (as the marine) You have your motion tracker, a pulse rifle with WAY to fewrounds, barley any light at all... BTW the lights can be broken and your thrust into complete darkness... and you must kill all the aliens and the predator's hunting them. AVP is very hard to get running on today's hardware and would be a wonderful candidate for GOG, it would take a simple editing of one of the shaders from what i understand, which is easy but the mod community has sadly gone away and were left with a game that hates Nvidia graphics cards :(
Bah "you say" the marines are simple i could do that... NO wrong, you already have the inner mouth part of the queen alien sucking the delicious pink fruit inside your skull... the aliens have a certain vision which can detect you by your pheromones and you cannot hide no matter how hard you try. and if you pee your pants it gets brighter.... no really, google it! As the pred they can home in with thermal, night, and pred vision focusing there sight on one species and cycling though visions at will... what does the human get.... a flare no seriously you get flares... and they SUCK.. all the tech in the world and you get a headlamp which cant even light a room and a few flares that burn out right as your motion track shows 5 inbound moving at 25mph ON THE CEILING!
On to other things that are great...This games multiplayer is fantastic, there's a survival mode with wave after wave of aliens, hunter mode where you hunt the alien/pred and he who kills it becomes it... and so many others. Also when you beat the game and unlock certain achievements which are basic cheat elements there is a Rendering option see below and cry at the delicious ingeniousness that is Rebellion.
SUPERMUN: Alien gains long-distance jaw attack. To acquire the SUPERMUN, you must defeat the first Alien level, Temple, and score 10 live civilian head bites.
NAUSEA: The entire screen shakes and moves, causing, well, nausea. To acquire NAUSEA, you must defeat the second Alien level, Escape, in less than two minutes.
PIPECLEANER: All characters are shown as pipecleaners, or as their skeletons. To acquire PIPECLEANER, you must defeat the third Alien level, Ferarco, with 15 dead civilian head bites.
MOTIONBLUR: Makes the screen blurry. To acquire MOTIONBLUR, you must defeat the fourth Alien level, Gateway, in under four and a half minutes with an average speed of 9 m/s or greater.
MIRROR: Mirrors your display of the level. To acquire MIRROR, you must defeat the fifth Alien level, Earthbound, with one live Predator head bite.
JOHNWOOMODE: When you attack or are attacked, the game slows down. To acquire JOHNWOOMODE, you must defeat the first Marine level, Derelict, with 80 percent head shots.
GRENADE: Stocks your Pulse Rifle with 99 grenades (but no bullets). To acquire GRENADE, you must defeat the second Marine level, Colony, with 40 percent accuracy.
WARPSPEED: Run very fast. To acquire WARPSPEED, you must defeat the third Marine level, Invasion, in less than four minutes.
LANDOFTHEGIANTS: Makes you very small. To acquire LANDOFTHEGIANTS, you must defeat the fourth Marine level, Orbital, using less than 20 shots.
SLUGTRAIL: Causes all Aliens to crawl on the floor because they have no legs. To acquire SLUGTRAIL, you must defeat the fifth Marine level, Tyrargo, with 32 Alien kills.
PIGSTICKING: Gives the Predator's speargun unlimited ammo and extra shots. To acquire PIGSTICKING, you must defeat the first Predator level, Waterfall, with 80 percent accuracy.
SUPERGORE: Ups the level of blood and gore. To acquire SUPERGORE, you must defeat the second Predator level, Area 52, with 25 marine trophies.
BALLSOFFIRE: Enemies are always on fire. To acquire BALLSOFFIRE, you must defeat the fourth Predator level, Fury 161, with 40 Alien kills.
RAINBOWBLOOD: Causes the lights, smoke and blood effects to be rainbows. To acquire RAINBOWBLOOD, you must defeat the fifth Predator level, Caverns, and be spotted less than 15 times.
IMPOSSIBLEMISSION: Causes the game to be more difficult because you take more damage. To acquire IMPOSSIBLEMISSION, you must defeat the second Alien bonus level with 20 live marine head bites.
TICKERTAPE: Aliens all have a trail following them. To acquire TICKERTAPE, you must defeat the first Predator bonus level, Invasion, with 15 alien trophies.
TRIPTASTIC: Causes the screen to be blurry, jittering, and rainbow. To acquire TRIPTASTIC, you must defeat the second Predator bonus level, Escape, with 10 civilian trophies.
Aliens versus Predator 2: Gold Edition
Oh but Starkrun Aliens Vs Predator is so old and looks all poopie... ok fine ya sonofa.... *Ahem*
Fun Fact: you can play 3 campaigns that are interwoven together and must be played to get the entire story... i actually got a little misty eyed when i played as the alien!
May i introduce AVP2 and Primal hunt, Great games which enhance on the ideals of AVP1 and it can still be played on today's hardware very well. So your like MAN i loved AVP1 i was the best Alien on the BLOCK im going to be one of them... you load up AVP2 say hell YEAH im an alien and POOF loading.... Your a F A C E H U G G E R YES i just said you start the life cycle coming out from an egg and hunting a biological host ((no i never said human HEHE)) to impregnate and become a CHEST BURSTER which then needs to eat and gather strength to metamorphose into a full blown alien adolescent SWEETNESS! the Preds get the there famous Wrist blade a Boomrang auto homing Frisbee of death and a shoulder mounted cannon... Oh yeah a huge staff of gore... marines get a pulse rifle... OK ok ok and a smart gun and a flamethrower just like in AVP1 but it doesn't matter when your face is being eattin by the alien that was camping ON THE CEILING waiting to EAT YOUR FACE....
Note: If by now you haven't jumped up out of your chair and screamed yes then i need to smack you HARD, please msg me your address :)
Next thing im going to talk about are cybernetic android opponents that bleed White lubrication instead of blood and can fight while missing arms and legs... wait no i don't i just told you.. yeah... missing legs, were talking terminator stuff here.
Ok on to primal hunt the Exspansion for AVP2.... basicaly its 3 new storys all linked and fun yadda yadda... You get to play an Alien/Predator hybrid, called the "Predalien" in the game. No im not shitting you... a walking death machine of hurt and pain with a splash of gore. You basically hit something and it cry's for its mother right before it explodes into tiny bits... Again, if your not excited about this you can safely label yourself a Casual gamer. You now have your justification for the Wii you paid $300 for at launch.
Dear fellow GOG players and Developers, these games are a corner stone of Awesome. IN the great words of Bill and Ted:
Ted: Dude, are you sure we should be doing this?
Bill: Ted, you and I have witnessed many things, but nothing as bodacious as what just happened. Besides, we told ourselves to listen to this guy.
Ted: What if we were lying?
Bill: Why would we lie to ourselves?
And mighty members of GOG, why would i lie to you, i am a loyal member of the community, and i say We need these games. They will become the greatest addition to GOG the likes of which we have never seen. Please help me bring these fruits of gaming glory here!
Fun Fact2: Aliens can eat the corpses of enemy's and regain health, or you can CONSUME THERE FACES for almost full life!
Fun Fact3: As the pred you can SPEAR the HEADS of humans and aliens and keep them as little mementos to give to your pred babies or that cute little pred woman you've had your eye on... SPEAR THE HEADS OF PEOPLE... like rip them off with your Wrist Blade!!!!
Post edited September 27, 2009 by Starkrun
