Aliens vs Predator

Well, so far I've only played a couple of missions as the Alien, but he's a deadly little beast!! With Alien you can walk on any surface which makes sneaking up on grunts kinda straightforward, but the inbuilt A.I has made sure that it's not "Easy" as the grunts rarely walk alone & their firepower is decent enough to mean a few hits will kill you. You must use Aliens greatest strengths to get through. Speed & Stealth. Stealth by cutting power to lights or in some cases taking out the lights themselves. Circle round your enimies, lure one away & strike quickly with deadly precission. When it comes off without you getting caught it is very satisfying

Can't really go into too much detail as I'm just starting out really. Only downside thus far is the camera can be rather confusing when you go from walking on the floor to walking on the walls to walking on the ceiling & back again

I'm gonna try out Predator next.....

The camera angles are often a problem for me in these sorts of games but I don't see how it can be made any easier considering you are viewing your characters entire world on a flat screen

Looks like my Alien missions are done So on to Predator!

Predator is much easier to control & much more straightforward than Alien, but then it's something I half expected. Stealth again plays a large part with predator as he's able to become "invisible" to sneak up on his prey and can also use distraction techniques to lure grunts away from the group, making for a kill with less hassle. "Trophy Kills" seem to be the way forward with the big guy and with his love of Skulls combined with my love of Skulls I think we'll be great mates

Predator downsides so far: thus far there are only 2 visuals which he can utilise. a "normal" view or the "Inferred heat sensor" view. Little disappointed not to see ultra violet & the rest amongst the viewing options. Apart from that life with predator is pretty good at the minute.....

It's not really the angle that's the problem as you're playing in "First Person". It's more a thing of trying to figure out which way up you currently are as one minute you're on a wall & then quickly go to being on the ceiling, so there's a very quick change to the view. To be honest I blame my brain more than anything else, but I started getting used to it last night................. Just as the missions were finishing

always the way dude, you just the hang of it and it's all over

True, but I am a little disappointed that there wasn't more Alien missions. I feel I had only really scratched the surface.....

Is there no 'free roam' sort of mode?

I'm not sure at the moment to be honest. I don't think there is, but there is Online Multiplayer......

That's the one thing missing from prototype

I won't hold that against it

We have indeed Olly, well I have at least. Check out the thread

https://frognbones.forumotion.net/nightryder-s-control-pad-f9/gta-iv-t123.htm

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DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME (ALIENS VS PREDATOR) AT CURRENT RETAIL PRICE! WAIT UNTIL IT GETS CHEAPER OR UNTIL YOU CAN BUY IT SECOND HAND! EVEN BETTER, JUST BORROW IT FROM A FRIEND! DISAPPOINTED DOES NOT BEGIN TO DESCRIBE IT!!!!!

You've been warned.......

What happened dude, I thought it was going well?

Wait until after the weekend & I'll post it to you!

Assassins Creed 2, nuff said

It was all going swimmingly, but the initial excitement & nostalgia wore off and I started to notice the flaws in the game. Here are just a few:

Targeting is pants
Stupidly placed objects stop you from making a clear kill
Predator can jump something like 50 feet in some instances but couldn't hop over a 5 foot wall
Whilst invisible somehow grunts managed to see me & start shooting from what seems like miles away
Storyline has more pooh than Pauls house
Fighting is pretty repetitive
Camera work is just not up to scratch
Objectives could be clearer
The missions are too short
And the bastard thing had the cheek to crash on me last night!!!

It's not a terrible game, but there are much stronger shooters of this type around. Nice to have it in the collection, but far from impressed with the actual game itself. It's almost like they've taken three almost good games & tried to shove them into one package to make it a quite good game, but have only managed to make an almost good game with three different stories. Had I paid £15 for it I might've been happy, but I've wasted £39.99 of gift vouchers on this

I praised Sega for having a hand in Bayonetta (pretty good game that!) but I must take that praise away for them going anywhere near this poor imitation of a classic game.

Kitt wrote:LP do you remember a game called Frogger where you had to guide the frog accross the road?

of course I do!!

Check it out baby

http://www.happyhopper.org/welcome.html

Oh dear............ I can get on these from work......... Must.......... resist.......... temptation........

It comes up as Server error if I click the link on your post, but if I click the link on LP's post it comes up fine.

This is because on your post it comes up as: http://www.happyhopper.org/welcome.html[/quote[/url]]

But on LP's post it's: http://www.happyhopper.org/welcome.html

Try it