What do you mean by asymmetrical multiplayer? Is it broken? lol
I don't really play multiplayer much though, but some of my friends do have that and it looks pretty neat.
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Xeogred wrote:What do you mean by asymmetrical multiplayer? Is it broken? lol
Asymmetrical just means that players are not on even footing but that doesn't mean the game isn't balanced. For example, Evolve is an asymmetrical multiplayer game, where you have the one giant creature vs. a team of four squishy humans.
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I never would have guessed that at all, lmao. No multiplayer/online gaming lingo for me.
That sounds cool though. Kind of like the new Friday the 13th game I guess, which also looks fun.
That sounds cool though. Kind of like the new Friday the 13th game I guess, which also looks fun.
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Yeah, in Depth, four players are divers equipped with various sorts of harpoon guns (you buy weapons in a Counter-Strike style) who protect and follow this treasure hunting robot on a dive while two players play as sharks who try to kill the divers and destroy the robot. It's REALLY well balanced and REALLY addicting.
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I must report, that I spent that $5 on Life is Strange.
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Xeogred wrote:I must report, that I spent that $5 on Life is Strange.
Normally I'd be disappointed that it wasn't Depth, but that's a phenomenal game. You chose well.
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Games Beaten in 2017 So Far - 59
* denotes a replay
January (10 Games Beaten)
February (12 Games Beaten)
March (6 Games Beaten)
April (9 Games Beaten)
May (14 Games Beaten)
June (8 Games Beaten)
59. Aliens Versus Predator - PC - June 23
First and foremost, this is the 1999 PC game, not the 1994 Atari Jaguar game or the 2009 game. Anyway, I got it for like $2 on GoG's summer sale because I saw it was cheap and a late 90s FPS (late 90s/early 2000s is my favorite era for FPS), so I thought why not? I honestly wasn't sure what to expect given that the Alien games have a....less than stellar track record. I've also never seen any of the Predator movies. I LOVE the Alien series, but I've yet to see anything with Predator.
Fortunately my hesitations were completely unneeded. The game's not a masterpiece, but it's a damn good time in short bursts. The game consists of three campaigns, each roughly six levels long; the colonial marine campaign is six missions, the xenomorph campaign is five missions, and the Predator campaign is six missions. In addition to the main missions, each species has a handful of bonus missions that you unlock after finishing that species' campaign. While I love that they added this to give the game a little more value, I only played a couple of these bonus missions; they're just the other species' missions rehashed. For example, some of the colonial marines' bonus missions would be a mission from the xenomorph campaign with the addition of a jetpack to allow you to traverse the 3D parts as a human. Certainly cool but nothing really new if you've already finished the three story campaigns.
Speaking of story campaigns, while the story isn't strong or told particularly well, there is a story for each species. In the colonial marines campaign, your goal is to try to rid various USCM ships before a final confrontation with the xenomorph queen. In the xenomorph campaign, you try to drive the humans out of your hives and recover eggs that have been stolen by human scientists and marines. In the Predator campaign, you....actually....I'm not entirely sure what you're supposed to be doing. All I really gathered from it was "Go kill shit and prove your honor" or something. Idk. Anyway, that campaign ends by hunting a xenomorph queen.
Anyway, the visuals are okay for a 1999 game. They don't look quite as good as Unreal Tournament, but for the time, they're certainly not bad. The sound design, while generally kind of "meh," did stand out in one regard. The game featured a sort of pseudo-3D stereo sound where the volume of dialogue and which speaker played the audio changed based on your proximity to the monitor and where it was in relation to your character. I know that's nothing too unusual these days, but to see it done pretty well in a 1999 game stood out to me. Otherwise, the sound design is just okay. The music is forgettable, and the sound effects are just okay. One thing that was BRILLINATLY done, however, were the FMV scenes that played on monitors at various points in the game. They were pure 90s FMV brilliance. Worse acting than a high school play and more cheese than a deep dish pizza, they truly were the highlight of the game for me.
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In addition to the single player, there's also online multiplayer (which I assume still works; I honestly didn't care enough about it to test it) and your local multiplayer mode against bots called Skirmish. I know that's an alien concept (no pun intended) for kids these days, but back in my day, we used to play multiplayer matches against either real life people in the same room or AI controlled characters called "bots." Just another thing these damn kids killed with their PlayStation Live and Xbox Network or whatever.
Aliens Versus Predator is a perfect example of a late 90s licensed video game done right. It's not flawless, and it definitely shows its age in both visuals and gameplay, but it's fun, it's got a huge amount of gameplay diversity, and it's one of the most fast paced FPS games I've played in a long time. It's got a couple dozen single player missions with three different difficulty settings as well as both online and bot multiplayer, and to top it all, it's dirt cheap, even when it's not on sale. If you're into either the Alien and/or Predator series, late 90s shooters, or (ideally) both, definitely make sure you download this on either GoG or Steam.
* denotes a replay
January (10 Games Beaten)
February (12 Games Beaten)
March (6 Games Beaten)
April (9 Games Beaten)
May (14 Games Beaten)
June (8 Games Beaten)
59. Aliens Versus Predator - PC - June 23
First and foremost, this is the 1999 PC game, not the 1994 Atari Jaguar game or the 2009 game. Anyway, I got it for like $2 on GoG's summer sale because I saw it was cheap and a late 90s FPS (late 90s/early 2000s is my favorite era for FPS), so I thought why not? I honestly wasn't sure what to expect given that the Alien games have a....less than stellar track record. I've also never seen any of the Predator movies. I LOVE the Alien series, but I've yet to see anything with Predator.
Fortunately my hesitations were completely unneeded. The game's not a masterpiece, but it's a damn good time in short bursts. The game consists of three campaigns, each roughly six levels long; the colonial marine campaign is six missions, the xenomorph campaign is five missions, and the Predator campaign is six missions. In addition to the main missions, each species has a handful of bonus missions that you unlock after finishing that species' campaign. While I love that they added this to give the game a little more value, I only played a couple of these bonus missions; they're just the other species' missions rehashed. For example, some of the colonial marines' bonus missions would be a mission from the xenomorph campaign with the addition of a jetpack to allow you to traverse the 3D parts as a human. Certainly cool but nothing really new if you've already finished the three story campaigns.
Speaking of story campaigns, while the story isn't strong or told particularly well, there is a story for each species. In the colonial marines campaign, your goal is to try to rid various USCM ships before a final confrontation with the xenomorph queen. In the xenomorph campaign, you try to drive the humans out of your hives and recover eggs that have been stolen by human scientists and marines. In the Predator campaign, you....actually....I'm not entirely sure what you're supposed to be doing. All I really gathered from it was "Go kill shit and prove your honor" or something. Idk. Anyway, that campaign ends by hunting a xenomorph queen.
Anyway, the visuals are okay for a 1999 game. They don't look quite as good as Unreal Tournament, but for the time, they're certainly not bad. The sound design, while generally kind of "meh," did stand out in one regard. The game featured a sort of pseudo-3D stereo sound where the volume of dialogue and which speaker played the audio changed based on your proximity to the monitor and where it was in relation to your character. I know that's nothing too unusual these days, but to see it done pretty well in a 1999 game stood out to me. Otherwise, the sound design is just okay. The music is forgettable, and the sound effects are just okay. One thing that was BRILLINATLY done, however, were the FMV scenes that played on monitors at various points in the game. They were pure 90s FMV brilliance. Worse acting than a high school play and more cheese than a deep dish pizza, they truly were the highlight of the game for me.
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In addition to the single player, there's also online multiplayer (which I assume still works; I honestly didn't care enough about it to test it) and your local multiplayer mode against bots called Skirmish. I know that's an alien concept (no pun intended) for kids these days, but back in my day, we used to play multiplayer matches against either real life people in the same room or AI controlled characters called "bots." Just another thing these damn kids killed with their PlayStation Live and Xbox Network or whatever.
Aliens Versus Predator is a perfect example of a late 90s licensed video game done right. It's not flawless, and it definitely shows its age in both visuals and gameplay, but it's fun, it's got a huge amount of gameplay diversity, and it's one of the most fast paced FPS games I've played in a long time. It's got a couple dozen single player missions with three different difficulty settings as well as both online and bot multiplayer, and to top it all, it's dirt cheap, even when it's not on sale. If you're into either the Alien and/or Predator series, late 90s shooters, or (ideally) both, definitely make sure you download this on either GoG or Steam.
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Positional audio was definitely already a thing in 1999. System Shock 2 used it to great effect.
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marurun wrote:Positional audio was definitely already a thing in 1999. System Shock 2 used it to great effect.
I've not played System Shock 2, but this is the first game from the 90s that I've played that had it.
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I'm pretty sure the first two Thief games have some of the best sound design of all time, still echoing (hehehehe...) to this day... System Shock 2 was the same engine, but I think the sound design works better or is just cooler with the Thief games.
That all makes AvP1 sound pretty solid all around. If the FMV's are anything like Jedi Knight, then yeah they are probably epic... haha.
But most importantly, it's time to watch Predator, Elkin.
That all makes AvP1 sound pretty solid all around. If the FMV's are anything like Jedi Knight, then yeah they are probably epic... haha.
But most importantly, it's time to watch Predator, Elkin.