Game | | Alien verses Predator: Extinction | Format | | PS2 (version tested), X Box | Publisher | | Electronic Arts | Release date: | | Uhmm, almost as old as the films! |
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I must admit that I felt surprisingly at home pottering about the digital realm that is Alien Verses Predator: Extinction. It was an extremely pleasant experience - impregnating accurate character representations, while bopping my spindly but all the same loveable legs to the dastardly bustling but appropriate musical score, which I might add, is ripped directly from the famous franchise that made me the iconic
er, kick-ass mêlée fighter that I am today. "So what disgraceful shenanigans did you find yourself crawling into?" I hear you ask. We'll let your favourite alien parasite tell you. "Not a lot", as the once-famous ancient conjurer of naffness would say. It was all rather confusing to tell the truth, almost as puzzling as counting to 10 using nothing more than my eight small but perfectly formed tentacles. You see young scallywags, this digital world played havoc with my legendary super perceptive senses. They would often pick up on the vibrations of a battle raging somewhere in the near vicinity, and being not one to shy away from an intergalactic scuffle, I found myself on a personal hunt to try and locate it. But this is where it all got a little confusing, no matter how far I would crawl the battle always appeared to be at least a mountain throw away.  It was all rather confusing to tell the truth, almost as puzzling as counting to 10 using nothing more than my eight small but perfectly formed tentacles.  | | Jimmy Face Hugger |
Now then, this was very frustrating, especially for a life-form of my grandeur, a species that asks for no more than a simple life of constant kamikaze rituals and good old wholesome destruction. And this is where my alien instincts failed me. I could smell the death and destruction but just couldnt taste it. And this is a departure I must add to my preferred lifestyle of frantic FPS bullet-fests. However, after a short while of surveying the battlefield from my barren mountainside vantage point it soon became apparent that I was traipsing over a landscape of dull locations made up of bland and muddy textures. But nevertheless, the battle never slowed, and was relatively glitch free perfect for mêlée combat. But then it all fell apart in front of my very tail, for it soon became clear the three species battling it out for supremacy were of unequal strength. My fellow aliens were at a disadvantage, susceptible to projectile attacks, and no species (not even the heavily clad dim-witted marines) could stand up to the might of the advanced offensive weaponry of the Predators. Bah
hiss! But all in all, my experience wasnt all bad. The music was effective enough to stir my hormones, the characters looked authentic, and the battles never slowed. And let us not forget that AvP: Extinction its an amalgamation of the two fascinating worlds of Alien verses Predator now that cant be a bad thing. 6/10
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