IGN UK Review: Alien vs. Predator

IGN UK Writes: The three species set-up feels generous even at a time when people demand so much of their games, but it's a premise that dates back to Rebellion's first Aliens vs. Predator in 1994. While much has changed it still feels a little rusty – this isn't as slick as a Modern Warfare or Halo and its production values feel like they're from a different age, with poor textures and the occasional unimaginative set-piece belying the fact that underneath the HD dazzle is a core idea that's changed little in over 15 years. But that never truly detracts from how much fun is to be had throughout Aliens vs. Predator's myriad modes as Rebellion leans heavily on the source material, creating a game that's going to stoke the hearts of anyone who ever fell in love with the original films – which is likely anyone who's ever picked up a game pad.

[The Meerkat]

Hudson: F***in' A.

[buckethead_911]

Colour me surprised! I thought this was gonna be sh!t after reading how bad Rogue Warrior and Shellshock were.

[Coffin87]

@1.1
i was fearing the worst.. wasn't there some review with 5/10 or something? glad to see it is not doing THAT bad. ^^

[Johandevries]

@1.2
That was Game Informer, and Game Informer sucks.
It was a bad review of about 200 words without some kind of clear message, just some random crap written down in frustration. They didn't even mention the PC version in the platform information.

[buckethead_911]

I agree with you. The review was by GaneInformer and they gave it a 5.75.

EDIT: Johan beat me to it, lol.

[Rockox]

For whatever reason, I never expected this game to score well. Either way, it doesn't matter, because I'm picking it up Day One.

DRAAAAAAAKE! WE. ARE. LEAVING!!

[Hellsvacancy]

Its still a rental

[StanLee]

This is not an 8.5 game. Seriously, IGN really has no credibility when it comes to reviews. The take so much money from corporate sponsorships that you can trust a word they print. When was the last time they gave a much publicized game a mediocre score?!

[nix]

ok.. then. will wait for other reviews... just to see if it's a good game. normally, all movie games are crap.

[CWMR]

-This is good news. I have had so much fun playing the demo and I kept thinking to myself 'there is no way that this deserves anything close to a 5.5 like Game Informer gave it'. This IGN score is definitely closer to what I would expect based on what I have experienced in the demo. This game's multiplayer is one of the few multiplayer games that I can actually say feels fresh and different. I'm getting the game. That's how much I have enjoyed the demo. I'm addicted to it now.-

[raztad]

I have to agree with stanlee there. Wait for more reviews.

[DecoyOctopus]

Xbox magazine gave this a 8/10 so it's a great game, Game informer is the worst crap on the whole internet their review was written by a 12 year old kid with aspergers

[StrikerZ3ro112]

This is not a movie game, the movie was based on the original games, the first of them was made by the same developers as this game.It's more of a remix of their first popular game.

Also, why are people complaining about the graphics? They look great to me, character models are amazing and the lighting is solid. Also the jungle environments look spectacular as well.

And one more thing, those of you who are complaining about how bad the demo was. Deathmatch is without a doubt the weakest gametype of them all. I don't think this game was made to be a free for all, It's more team based, it was a poor decision on the developers part to make that the only playable game type in the demo.

[nycredude]

Don't fall for IGNs BS. Game Informer is notoriously easy on game with their reviews so if they gave this a 5.75 then it's a no buy and rent at best. After all the shananigans of IGN you still take them seriously? Hell no. Too many good games out to waste on this BS. Production crap, textures crap... 8.5? Is it that much better than MAG? BS!

[MK_Red]

nycredude, I'm not trying to judge either of IGN or GI but if you think GI is always soft on games then why they gave something around 6 to original No More Heroes?

Back to topic, glad to see this game getting a better score than GI's. Hopefully the final game is more like what IGN UK says and a better than the demo.

[FragGen]

Given that they were dumb enough to release a freaking DOA demo, I'm thinking this has "rent before buying" written all over it.

One decent review does not mean the game can't completely suck. LOL. Definitely need more data.

[Nikuma]

Aliens mostly come out at night.........Mostly.

[IrishAssa]

Whoops , I duplicated this by accident, I was happy to see it got a high score.
Game Informer's review indeed sucked whale coc*

[chak_]

*cough* bias *cough*

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

?

[chak_]

after playing the demo (which is a demo we agree on that), the game deserve more the GI score than IGN's.

A 8.5 would mean a huge improvement, both in term of gameplay and graphics imho

[Johandevries]

Well in these days of 9s and 10s for Modern Warfare 2, reviewers don't care about quality, but about the secret money they get.

[josephayal]

not bad for a average 4/10 game

[Double Toasted]

Big sigh of relief, I'm sorry but I'm a huge Aliens and Predator fan and if this would've bombed hard...I don't know what I would've done.

I felt like this franchise has been ran into the ground and this game, along with the Robert Rodriguez's flick(Predator flick) thats coming, would be the only hope of re-energizing the franchise.

[memots]

What would you have done ?? What would you have DOOONE !!!!

Seriously you need to get a life. How and why a review would affect your life this much is a mystery to me.

Play the game and chill out its just a game.

[BeaArthur]

Pretty good score, with all the other games coming out over the next few months this one is pretty low on the list.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Nice might be worth it after all.

[Odin777]

hmmm...

[OneShotThrill]

I love the Alien and Predator films I think they're great. I want to play this game it seems decent but an 8.5? Really? Well based on what I've seen from the demo, some of the graphics in this game are poor. The gameplay mechanics seem to get repetitive. That map might have been one of the most generic old skool style maps I've seen in a while. Don't get me wrong I'm not hating on AVP I actually hope it kicks ass. But an 8.5.That's a little bit off from a 9. IGN reviews have had me scratching my head lately. Well maybe the game is just hella fun.

[user5482954]

I understand the skepticism for a game earning such drastically different scores in addition to the mediocre demo displayed, but what we've all played is just that - a demo. And a rough one at that.

The Aliens vs. Predator franchise is pure nostalgia for me and it hasn't been treated well over the past decade (I'm looking at you, Paul W.S. Anderson). I hope this score is accurate because it deserves its due.

[OneShotThrill]

With you Sausage. I think a lot of us are fans of the franchise but after playing the demo I was really let down but hopefully this score isn't inflated. Bubbles to you my friend

[mrbillybadass]

that GI review was a biased worthless P.O.S. and that moron ben reeves should be fired

[BeaArthur]

Don't you think it might take more than 2 reviews to determine if someone is biased? I have played plenty of games where I didn't understand where all the high scores came from. Maybe he genuinely thought it was a poor game. What I do know is that Ben Reeves has played the final version and you have not. So before we start firing people maybe we should wait for more reviews and actually play the full version.

[mrbillybadass]

lets see besides the IGN uk review...i've seen a 95% from a russian magazine, 8.0 from oxm, and an 8.6 from a gaming website...and an 8.1 from someone else...cant remember who its from...can get u links to all if u like

incoming links on and bnaked...you probably sucked at the game didnt turn on auto-transition, and played it like a halo, COD, or KZ...which is the COMPLETELY the wrong way to play the game...smh have no idea how to play a different game

[bnaked]

I've played the demo and it was totally crap imo.

Grafics are ugly and gameplay is boring after 5 minutes..

I absolutely think, that Gameinformer has given the better score..

[IrishAssa]

I would like the links .. I'm probably getting this day one, post them all on N4G if you find the links again . If you read the GI review it really is a terrible review, he faults thing that you'd expect from AvP and ses the originals were better in those terms, Alien wallwalking is the same just dif buttons , Motion tracker, come on. Predator to stealthy , wtf is it supposed to be like, it was stealthy in the old ones too

[BeaArthur]

mrbillybadass...I don't need links, I'm actually not really interested in this game. I was just pointing out that calling for someone to be fired is a pretty extreme response.

[mrbillybadass]

[url] http://www.avpgalaxy.net/fo...

reviews and links are at the top of the page if anyone wants to make stories out of them

[IrishAssa]

Im surprized its getting 8's all round, except for that 5.75

[mrbillybadass]

that GI review was incedibly biased...and AvP's online demo is the most fun i've had online since socom 2...IMHO much much much much more fun than KZ2, Halo 3, COD4 and MW2, BC2...the AvP game is amazingly fun if u give it more than 5 mins and play the game right and learn the combat system

[peeps]

was looking frwd to it, played the demo and not so much. may pick it up when it's cheap on steam 1 day but the fact that i won't pick this up on release just saves me some money for the number of other games i wanna pick up at teh end of feb/march

[ThePostalDudeX]

How about you morons play it yourself instead of your purchase solely relying on a review when 3 years later when you pick up the game you realize it wasn't that bad (In your opinion if you still have one) and have loads of fun with it.

[NateDPG]

Now this is a score the game deserves

[ASSASSYN 36o]

My experience with the demo was enough to make me pass on this game still. This game is hardly a shadow of it's former PC self. The auto-aim melee combat is too much for this AVP veteran. And since when did the Alien imbued with royal jelly (True fans know what that is) get tired while running? I can't believe the alien runs 10 feet and gets tired...come on! WTF indeed. I will wait for BF bad company 2.

And a lot of you talk big now but the AVP servers will be empty by may and you know it.

[Gambit07]

Gamespot>>>IGN

[iamgoatman]

A solid review.

"it's in Survivor Mode that the Colonial Marines really shine. Playable online with up to three team mates or offline solo"

As someone without a fast internet connection, it's always good to hear devs cater for people without broadband, and reading that made my day, I'll be wasting many an hour there!

[Akagi]

IGNorance.

[TheBand1t]

Gonna wait for more reviews.

[VanHalen]

Anyone that doesnt pick this one up is gonna be missing out. The campaigns are going to be awesome. You kids that bash this are stuck to COD and hardcore military fps only. If youre a fan of any of the movies then this is a must buy! Bioshock2 and Heavy Rain can wait when they come down in price! This is a day one purchase for me. No contest!

[Kittenz]

I had a ton of fun with the old AvP that was on the Atari Jaguar, hopefully this game is the same way

[VanHalen]

Its going to have more of an old school feel to it, something that this new f@cked up gen of kids know nothing about! What ashame, seriously. They just have no clue what makes a good game and are simply programmed and locked into Modern Warfare! Its a joke. This is going to be great gameplay and fun. What a game is supposed to be about!

[Johandevries]

You're right.
Too much mainstreamies around here... ''well the demo graphics werent like KZ2 and the gameplay sucked, because I have becomed used to noobtube shooters like MW2''

Still, releasing a specialist MP demo was a very bad idea of Rebellion, with all these idiotic people around.

[MyWordIsGospel]

PLayed the generic demo, and it now scores higher than MAG...shame on you IGN!

[mrbillybadass]

cause all first person shooters allow u to jump and climb on all surfaces...has melee system that simply goes past knife and rifle butt, and allows you to jump where u want to go whether it be atop of a complex or thick tree branch right?

[NeloAnjelo]

Wait on more reviews, or if you really liked the original game, then just buy it. I would have gotten this if thery weren't so many other options at the moment. Finishing up Darksiders, then Dante, then GOW3, then Heavy Rain, Then Alan Wake.. lol.

In between these... Bioshock 2 and probably this.