I was really expecting to see them whoop up on each other, but it never happened, and the experience suffers because of it. There could be moments of coolness, like when several enemies of various species are chasing you, but instead of fighting among themselves, they always focus on you. The new Predator-planet creatures have one attack methodology: the blind rush. Hampering all three campaigns is disappointing AI and pathfinding.
By the time I was controlling the massive Predalien, my interest level in this campaign was zero.
And when you’re finally allowed to eat people, your first taste of human flesh comes as a chestburster. If I’m an Alien, I want to munch folks and tear them limb from limb, not crawl around semi-helplessly. This setup may have been a good idea on a design doc somewhere, but in reality it’s sheer boredom. Starting off as a wee little facehugger, you must skitter around in search of a suitable host. The worst campaign, though, is the Predalien’s, which devolves from mildly interesting to a liability. The Predator missions are mildly interesting, but since most of the locales are the same as those you traverse in the Corporate battles, there’s a dismal sense of redundancy. Set 500 years before the Corporate campaign, the Predator sequence ends with a hokey cut-scene that explains the time difference. Aliens just aren’t all that scary when you can see them coming from a mile away, and you’ll miss the dark, claustrophobic environments that scared you senseless. Later, the switch to outdoor sections really fails to capture the key magic of the original game. The Corporate campaign is the strongest of the three, and features some compelling moments, especially early on when you’re fighting with AI-controlled squadmates. You can play the campaigns in any order, but the plot unfolds in the order listed above. Once again broken into three campaigns — Corporate (which replaces the Marines), the Predator, and Predalien (a hybrid race standing in for the Aliens) — the story behind Primal Hunt involves an ancient and powerful relic being pursued by all three factions. Unfortunately, the add-on for AvP 2, Primal Hunt, fails to build on the creative gameplay, instead offering unfocused and convoluted missions. Predator 2 was one of the scariest shooters ever made.
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