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History Of Alien Vs. Predator Games Explored
Thanks to 1UP for their story exploring the varied history of Alien Vs. Predator games for PCs, consoles, and handhelds, pointing out "...aliens have fought Predators while eating Colonial Marines on half a dozen game platforms with no sign of letting up." Titles featured include Capcom's 2D arcade version, notable for "ridiculous life power-ups, including tossed salads, giant pizza pies with everything, and delicately-garnished plates of sea bream", the first-person shooter Atari Jaguar version, "employing the concept that would later become central to the franchise - the game would be playable from the point of view of all three species", and Rebellion's follow-up PC version, described as "a heck of a game if it's patched to repair the flaws in its initial release."
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I have fond memories of playing AvP late at night, playing as a marine, and being scared silly. It really has a scary atmosphere, what with the bad lighting conditions, strange sounds, dark shadows and monsters lurking around the corner.
A very enjoyable game.
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actually there was a 4 part comic book series Of Alien vs Predator put out by darkhorse comic which came before any of the games.
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Actually, the idea of Aliens vs. Predator began before the comics and occured within the second movie. If you look at the "trophy" wall, you will see the skeletal remains of an Alien.
And between the first movies and the comic books, you had Predator 2 which had a shot of an Alien skull in the trophy case of the Predator's spaceship, thus putting the two species in the same universe.
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But it was a very nice game. You were so weak as a human, and the aliens were so fast. It took a lot of strategy to get anything done. I sure learned where all the medpacks were. Playing as an alien, where you could cling to any surface and move really quickly, was my favorite. But you had no distance weapons at all. You had to sneak up on everyone. I also liked how you could cheat, but you had to earn it, like getting a specific number of kills, or completing a level without being spotted, and so forth.
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Now both the comic and movie came out in 1990
obviously the movie was longer in development as well Dark Horse had scored those franchises in the late 1980's perhaps there was a colleration between Darkhorse and the film studio to mix the two together. Do we know which was released first.. was the comic or the movie first to hit the shelves?
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I didnt own a Jaguar, but I rented it soley for AvP. That game had some of the best Gfx, and FPS play that even the PC version dosent even touch. AvP1 for PC was generic, and didnt have the appeal as AvP2 for PC. AvP2 was more dark, faster and had more team play action.
The PC versions just never captured the FPS multiplayer style of game. But reading the history, it does state that the PC release had tons of bugs, and a horrible Initial release. (Ubisoft take note...) I gave up after its initial release because of its bugs, and picked AvP2 on sale because of the bad aftertaste of AvP1.
I dont agree thou, that the Jaguar version was fuzzy and had bad frame rate, if you compare it to Today, maybe... But at the time, the game was indeed a "Show Case game" for the Jaguar and console gamers.
Hopefully, someone gets back to basics, AvP is a good idea, just done badly in the newest incarnations.
I hear the final movie in the series has Alien and Predator make up and get married. They move out to the suburbs, have two chilren, and own a riding lawn mower. Here's a spoiler: Predator stays home with the kids and handles the finger painting and birthday parties, while Alien dons a suit at an insurance company and drives an Impala.
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Actually the Aliens v Predator series was released in Nov. 1989. The skull from Pred2 was inspired by the comic series.
IIRC the first AvP encounter happened in a short story in one of the Alien series books from 1988 (but that MAY be a complete fabrication on my part).
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Or... I could read the link I just posted. I knew it was somewhere before it became it's own series.
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I totally disagree, but I'm a HUGE fan of the AvP PC games. I didn't encounter any of the bugs from the first AvP, and the "sadistic" save game limitation was to provide for a serious sense of atmosphere - being able to save whenever you want, as many times as you want, takes away any sense of danger (and in my opinion, accomplishment).
I even played the first one through on Director's Cut, without the ability to save at all during a level. That was *awesome*.
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That's not true.
The first AvP Comic was released on Nov. 1, 1989, and appeared in "Dark Horse Presents" before that.
Predator 2 was released over a year later, on Nov. 21, 1990.
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Really? I didn't know that. Thanks. I stand corrected ;-)
No worries, it's not exactly common knowledge - I've just been a fan of all the alien/colonial marine/predator franchises since... well, right around 1989. I was fairly comic-obsessed, especially with the quasi-dark stuff... it's harder when it's your own money (hah), but AvP/2 are a couple of my favorite concepts/games.
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