Who hasn't heard of at least one of these franchises? For whatever reason, they got put together in an ongoing hunt. Oh and you can also play as the Marines, cause more sides is more fun.
The game is a FPS but only the Marine gameplay could be called classic FPS. I really can't stand being one. You have to be a good team player to survive as a marine, and since I don't like using my microphone to converse with rude foreigners, (not to mention its a ghetto ass walmart clearance headset/microphone combo, so it's pretty bad and since I have my speakes aimed at my face, generates terrible, terrible feedback.) I'm not the best person for that.
Every predator is almost an MK walker. They have the best weapons once they find them. Permastealth. Long range tracking ability. The best melee. And the most health. Oh and they can heal themselves too. With ammo.
They aren't invincible by any means, but they are damn cheap, and because of all their power ups, often get played with cheese tactics.
Aliens (mah faves!) are sexy sleek embodiments of phallic symbolism and death. Basically they are rape with shape. (Poet and I didn't even kn-....err yeah...) SO THEY ARE TOTALLY AWESOME.
Yeah. They can climb any surface. are very hard to see in shadows, can telepathically sense all other players through walls with in range, can impale you with their super long tail, can jump pretty far (and land on ceilings!!) and are very, very fast. If you are bad at moving in all 3 dimensions, trying to play an alien will make your head spin. Down on the screen will be where your feet are, and at first I got myself lost a lot when dropping to the floor would disorient me, over time I got used to it and can ninja around like they do in the movies.
I love playing as alien, it's very much the rogue of the game. They generally can't take much of a beating. They get stunned easily, and their regen isn't worth much since they have so little hp anyways. But I love playing sneaky, and you have to if you play alien. A big black thing with a huge tail is actually pretty easy to see in almost any setting. So the first thing I usually do in deathmatch is to kill the lights. Being seen means being shot at or snuck up on. The best way to avoid being snuck up on, is to simply never stop moving and when you do move dont move in predictable ways. Best way to kill is to charge from shadows, if you have enough height advantage it will knock them down and you can finish with a tail stab, or a grab move. if they block, (ie, suspect you're there) charge will fail and you will get knocked down, so be very observant of their actions. Other way is if they are near a wall you can sneak up to them from is the wall tail stab, 2 or 3 hits and they dead.
Against a group of marines, which are nigh impossible to approach, due to teamwork/motion trackers, I usually run bait for them. Aliens can roar when you press a certain key which can be useful for mind games, and they can hold alt to move super slow to be invisible to motion tracker. If you are sprinting perpendicular to marines or zigzag sprinting away from them, their chance to hit you is very low. So you (or two) can play distraction while your team mates move in behind either slowly, or just jump in while the guns are aimed away. The tactic works well on preds too, but in most open levels you can't get close enough to the preds to sense them, as they are usually invis to normal sight. So you have to meta game and just know the spots they like to camp. :p
Lag is not your friend in this game, theres been 10000s of times I jump off a ledge and land on the next floor when the game rubber bands me back up top into the instadeathmove of the guy who was chasing me. And my ping is at max 100 else I don't join. (Aliens and Preds can insta kill anyone close enough with their back to them. just by spamming E until the server gives it to them)
I 99% of the time play as an alien. If I wanted to play like a marine I'd play doom, or L4D. I think predators are cheese so I refuse to play them without a handicaps.
As a final word, the insta kills in this game are ultra violent. Close up despineings, decapitations, alien brain digging, shoving a tail up a guys ass and out his mouth. I think it's a bit overboard, but I'm too desensitized to care really, but I'm sure children would get nightmares from watching this game.
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