By the time I unlocked the spear after the third level, I was practically invincible, and a few clicks of the attack button sliced and diced everything in my path into confetti. Admittedly, you also get a shoulder cannon and a pistol, but all of these weapon upgrades seem incredibly overpowered. These three paths are almost identical in that your tasks always involve getting from point A to B, dispatching X number of mindless aliens and destroying randomly placed bits of predator technology from the crash.Īs a being from an advanced interstellar race, you are equipped with the latest in technological advancements … like a spear and knife. Requiem is also very short, with gameplay clocking in at less than five hours, so allowing the gamer to cut two-thirds of the game to reach the end seems imprudent. There seems to be little advantage in having three paths to choose from but only one endpoint alternate endings based on your choices would have been expected but are disappointingly absent. The levels are split into three paths - in a forest, sewer or suburban setting - that all lead to the same ending, and this feels like a very poor choice in game design. This is what I assume the story is, since there is a marked lack of narrative for a movie-game conversion, so much so that the game won't spoil the film - unless the movie follows an oddly friendly predator on many bland adventures. You play as a predator in Requiem who's been charged with stemming the alien takeover on Earth, since your ship crash was responsible for its menacing presence. Predator: Requiem for the PSP, have shaken my faith in the franchise. Unfortunately, titles such as Concrete Jungle and the subject of this review, Alien vs. They marked a high point in gaming for me. The second iteration, AvP2, was a similar revolution in game design, with the online multiplayer using three completely different races and showing that varied playing styles could be balanced and fun. When the first AvP game was released, however, it showed how versatile and gripping a canonical narrative could be. They were simple, frightening and well though-out, aside from the perplexing introduction of a monkey-alien hybrid in the fourth 'Alien' movie.

I love the 'Alien' and 'Predator' films in the way a mother loves an annoying child: At times, it can delight and amuse but on certain occasions, I want to dangle it from the balcony. Break out your cheesy one-liners - yet another action movie has drunkenly wandered into the realm of video games, adding to the already-strong case that movie tie-ins are a bad idea.

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