There's a bit in that first mission where your crawling through a vent or something and a fly flies towards your screen. It's done to make you think its a face hugger. It's possibly the best jumpscare I've ever experienced in a game.
Yeah i tried to play it for some time, knowing how to block/parry was such an important skill and generally skilled players tried to avoid executions since you got stuck in animation to get killed yourself. Also on marines, shotgun was the main gun most used since if used right it was a 1 shot kill in generally closed quarter corridors
definitely one of the most underrated MP games of that generation. Predator and alien mode were unbelievably fun. That labyrinth map on alien mode was an absolute highlight. Hearing your squad mates scream in terror as they're picked off one by one until you're one of the last few left just gave me goosebumps. Amazing thrilling game.
@SteinerTheShriner yeah man, maybe. I remember it being on Mplayer then suddenly Gamespy bought it and everyone had to switch over that was like 2000/2001
The Grabs in AvP 2010 were Suicidal to do in Multiplayer cause you could still be backstabbed in the middle of the animation. Sometimes this caused a Conga-line of Backstabbing cause you could backstab another backstabber
same dude it's funny his criticism of the Aliens is that they take forever to build up but as a kid I had a great time building up alien forces and didn't really care that much about the objectives haha
Quarantine map , Survivor mode, or what what is called? When you get killed you transform into Alien? Everyone cramped into that last room..... holly molly One of the best multiplayer experiences ever
I still remember playing that game mode where you start off as marines but if you get killed you become an alien. Me and like 6 marines were hunkered into a corridor with only one way in. Things were going perfectly until bad timing hit and too many marines reloaded at the same time. The guy at the back with the flamethrower panicked and just sprayed everywhere, blinding all the other marines making us all easy pickings
I loved AVP2 multiplayer. There used to be a hack where you could turn your username to IlIlllIIll and it would make it near impossible for a server to kick you.
AvP2 will forever be one of my favorites of all time. The multiplayer especially was so much crazy fun. No other game since AvP2 has been able to capture how much fun that MP was.
I remember that you could only have a few predators active at a time since they were so potent, always liked to play them. Stealth up on the edge of the battlefield and hit someone with a disc to one shot them...
The option to turn on alien life cycle in multiplayer was genius. That and what you attacked as a chestburster altered the breed of alien you turned into was always cool to me. Predalien for the win. 😁
I remember trying out multiplayer for the first time...after at least 10 years after it was published. Boy never have I felt as outmatched as then. I just kept dying no matter what race or class I played. In time I learned how to give veterans hard time, but boy was it a challenge.
I was playing AvP on the marine campaign; face hugger killed me; scared the shit out of me! At that exact moment there was a cricket under my shirt moving; almost died of a heart attack!! One of the best and worst moments of gaming!!! I’ll remember it forever!!
Dude I knowww!!!! When I was a kid playing that game I had this intense fear of the facehuggers in the game because I wasn't paying attention to the room and suddenly I had one leap on my face and my volume was loud AF. I was so scared it took me awhile to man up and "face" them. Recently revisited the game with the redux mod and apparently it still freaks me out 😂.
There was a mode in AVP 2010 multiplayer where one team were Marines and the other team were aliens. It was like infection from COD. One guy starts as an alien and if you die to join that team. It was fucking amazing on the pyramid map. Good times. Underrated game for it's time.
I think I joined the multiplayer scene a bit towards the end of its cycle, so ranked play to get the skins was difficult for me consider games were hard to find. But custom games was so fun playing that infection like gamemode and everyone dropping like flies lol.
I played AVP 1 & 2 and the 2010 one and never understood what ppl were nitpicking about the 2010 one, i liked it a lot and still reinstall it on every PC i have to play trough it from time to time. The only gripe i have is with the pulse rifle, it really is a bit underpowered and the bullet velocity is a bit low, but thats nothing a mod could not fix, but still the best AvP (or Aliens for that matter) game to date.
I probably played the wave based mode in the first AvP for hundreds of hours seeing how long I could last each run. The first two games are great and I LOVE the AvP arcade game.
@@jamespaul6315 I guess technically I mean the first 2 PC games were great. I own the Jaguar AvP and never cared for it much but it was neat to play a few times.
Only annoying thing about the that game is how extremely weak the guns are definitely a put off if I’ve ever seen one but it does at least capture the tone in the marine campaign
@@0ne0fmany I see what you mean there I do think the pulse rifle could have been done better but Tbf it’s not entirely impossible for the xenos to have evolved so much they can take more damage so I get your point
@@CaptainPerfect bro fr I was like 9 and damn near couldn’t turn corners around the colony because I was so terrified of jump scares Lmfao. The lighting and ambience of the marine campaign specifically still holds up today
AVP 2 had the best multiplayer around. Life Cycle mode where you started as a face hugger, and lived through the alien cycle while fighting predators and humans was insane.
This is the era of alien and predator games that I want. Not interactive horror games like isolation even though it's a good game. I want more predator and alien games where you play as both and start from the life cycle. A new/remastered version of the first 2 alien games would be sweet. Or just new ones. They'd look so sweet and be fun games. Let's stay away from the colonial marines disaster and just do avp 2010 but even better lol.
It was the same publisher as Half Life, so I always wondered how much they asked Monolith to make it in that style because, to me, it felt like a Half Life game in the AvP universe. It was that good. The only other Alien campaign as good is Alien Isolation.
the thing about AVP 2010 is that youre seeing the story of the "location" played out at different times. like, all 3 stories are happening simultaneously, and each main character is missing the other by, at most, a couple of hours.
I don't quite remember the level (I think level 2), but there's a level as the marine where you run through a large gate while leaving a tunnel. There's a steel grate on the ground just outside the gate and if you sprint to it quickly enough and look down (roughly around the same time you get a checkpoint, I think), you'll see a xenomorph (possibly 6) haul ass through the vent underneath you.
avp 1999 (2000) blew my mind at the time. A first person game from that era having three campaigns and multiple characters was unheard of back then. The controls for the pred and alien were so unique at the time, especially with the vision modes etc. The sense of verticality and the atmosphere and sound effects were cutting edge. The wave based mode beat gears of wars horde mode to the punch by like 6-7 years.
My friends and I used to go to a network Cafe to play that avp. Having a room full of 16(? maybe it wasn't that many, but it felt like a lot) people doing species death match was one of my favorite multiplayer gaming memories. Such a good game
Fun fact: in the original script for The Predator (2018), the reveal of the Predator-killer in the capsule was originally supposed to be Schwarzenegger, but he turned down the role after reading the script. And honestly who can blame him.
AVP on the Atari Jaguar was way ahead of its time. It blew me away seeing it for the first time. Playing solo FPS games back in early 90s was so so eerie man. They were new and fresh back then.
@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182 You mean primal hunt? It was short and marine campaign was just non stop shooting, but i liked the story of ancient Predator waking up after centuries.
😂 glad I wasn't alone, setting down the Queen she would lay 4 eggs but a way around it was to move her across the room before you knew it you had a area full of hungers 😂😂😂 watching a few stray marines just get fucking heaped on, good times
@kennethleo4471 I have to agree a little there, i still remember checking out the back of the case and thinking "an AvP game set up like command and conquer?" No way... turned out to be fucking epic
He summed it up well. I was just a kid when I got my hands on the game and while I got the general concept of RTS games was still a kid who just wanted cool looking units. I still managed to get pretty far in each campaign. Would love to play an updated version of the game.
A great game, shoddy controls and camera unfortunately. Always thought it'd make a great film plot, make the Pred the 'hero' just trying to reacquire it's stolen gear.
The first few levels of AvP2's Marine campaign remain a masterclass in building to and releasing tension. That whole trip into the hive and subsequent escape alone is one of very few videogame levels I would personally consider perfect and capable of standing entirely on its own.
AVP 2010 is memorable most for me and I get overly happy and euphoric when I play it now cause back in 2011 when my dad couldn't really do much in terms of getting out of the house. He would like watching me play various games. He liked Dirt 3 a lot, and found GTA4 absolutely histarical lol. He always would ask me though every other day or so to play AVP. He loved watching me play as the Predator jumping from tree to tree in the jungles and taking heads off. He loved the story of all 3 campaigns and he could never get the hand eye coordination down with fps games. He would drive around on GTA and play some split screen on dirt. He use to play the old Grand Turismo games on the og PS1 back in the 90's while I was a baby grasshopper watching him. So that's why I love this game. Not because the graphics at the time were amazing or gameplay was crazy good. Or the interesting story. It was cause my dad would sit there for hours never getting tired of watching me run through the various stories over and over again. He would pass away in 2012, to this day everytime I see AVP I remember all those hours at what I didn't know was the end of his road. All the laughs he had, the excitement he showed. AVP 2010 will always be the GOAT for that. 💪
I lost my father as well around that time. He and I would play starcraft broodwar with each other against cpu bots. A great time in my life towards the end of his life. Miss him! Respects to you and your family
I had some ridiculous number of hours in it on PS3, then bought it first thing I got a good PC and blazed through the entire game all over again for a few more weeks after growing up
I played Extinction like crazy back in the days. Love the Predator gameplay so much. 3 or 4 of the military predators and boom, you're blasting everything like nobody's business.
I really agree with your take on the AVP 2010 reception. It's no masterpiece, but it does feel people were overly harsh towards it. Put it next to Colonial Marines or even Fireteams Elite and it starts looking a lot better. The levels, the executions, the multiplayer. Honestly, if it came out today people would go crazy for it
AVP 2001 is still the scariest game I have played. I remember as a kid a particular level in marine campaign. At the start the commander says "Tyrago is overrun by aliens, so watch your back". I remember because I died so many times trying (this was before gold edition)
@@victorradial1179Amnesia and Re7 aren't remotely scary, F. E. A. R. did make me a little jumpy and freaked out at times. Awesome game with the best AI still.
What a fantastic era of PC games. I remember many hours in AVP1&2, NOLF1&2, Deus Ex, Unreal Tournament, Mafia, Far Cry, and of course Half-Life. Late 90s and early 00s will never be surpassed.
There was a bowling alley I went to as a kid that had the Capcom AVP game. My brother and I beating it as the Warrior and Hunter Predators is probably my favorite gaming-related memory.
I loved AvP 2 as a teenager. Playing online was a huge part of my formative years, and I made a lot of friends. For a long time I was hosting Alien vs. Predator dueling servers, with the occasional Predator vs. Queen matches. Great times. You always felt like a badass when you manage to jump over the queen's one-shot tail to land that super clean spear headshot.
It’s insane to me that AVP 2010 holds up till today. That game brought me so much fun back then and even really enjoyed the multiplayer too! I wish they would make an AVP game with the unreal engine. I’d also love a switch port of AVP 2010 :,)
I loved AvP 2000 as the Alien. So fun crawling on the ceiling and walls, breaking the lights and hearing the humans whimper in the dark before you bite their head off.
right on, love the balanced assymmetric mechanics, truly caught the feeling of predators and aliens with their varied strengths and the heavily armed, sweaty marines with motion trackers in between
Ironically enough though, I REALLY didn't like those slow as fuck executions. You are completely vulnerable to enemies when you do one and even if there were none around, I like my violence to be incredibly swift and brutally efficient anyway, not like I'm taking my grandma for a damn Sunday stroll around the star base.
That's a good trade-off yeah? You get a guarenteed kill and it's all flashy, but it leaves you open. I like that personally. Use it strategically, don't abuse it.
@@Bloody_crow Yeah except both the Predator and Alien are (mostly) based on stealth, so basically, you're penalizing the player for making stealthy kills.
@@arnox4554 personally loved them and never grew tired of it. Idk I just want to appreciate the hours of work that went into animating these things and I found only using the basic light/heavy attacks boring af to use. The animations really made you FEEL like an unstoppable force, especially the Predator’s because you’re so up close and personal with them and you can literally see the fear in the marines’ eyes when you pull them off. Using the equipment and wristblades just made the game feel more arcade-y to me.
I've spent 4 years of my life playing AvP2. I even became the leader of the best clan we had here in Italy, I still remember the clanwars with teams from all over europe. Good old times
AvP 1999/2000 genuinely gave me nightmares as a kid and had the most "movie quality" intro / menu system. It was so cinematic and polished. I still remember the xenomorphs "pheromone view" mode and it strikes me as one of the best and earliest ways of explaining how the xenomorphs see us.
My dad let me stay up til midnight back in the day to watch the UK TV Alien premiere, I was 9, good times. Unfortunately, literally no media since has scared me.
I remember I jumped on a predator in avp1, I was lying in wait on the ceiling right above him and ended up one shotting him mid-air with the little head move. Playing an alien, lurking in the dark and running above you on the ceiling and on the walls was and still is a special thing to me.
The Predator boss fight in AvP2's Marine campaign is the series' highlight for me. You spend half the campaign avoiding this thing only to be thrown into a life or death showdown with it. Pure awesomeness
I remember AVP 2 as a kid i probably played it through 40 times or more since my shitty computer could run it well on super low settings. Man those were the days.
AVP2 was the reason why I bought 128MB of ram in addition to 64MB. I thought that would make it run better (it was running at around 10-15fps on low graphics). I was wrong. What was weak was the processor (Celeron 400Mhz), but mostly the GPU (Savage4 16MB) :D
AvP Gold is probably my favourite game of all time. I'm surprised you didn't mention the skirmish mini-game. No time limit, unlimited respawns, just fun hunting NPC aliens. We didn't have internet on our old Windows 2000 so we played that instead. The skeeter and grenade launcher were entertaining weapons because they would have a tendency get the guy using them killed. Watching your buddy step on his own prox mine never gets old.
AvP2 was my all time favorite. I had a buttload of mods from PlanetAvP, I loved the gameplay. Especially the tweaks they made to Alien and a predator, as well as the atmosphere the Marine campaign had. I remember one time close to the end of the school year, I installed the game on every single computer in our computer lab, and I’ll never forget the rage our Lab Teacher was dropping every time he heard an alien screech or a smart gun whine. Also that Capcom Brawler was sick. Lt Kurosawa is one of the coolest Capcom Protags ever made.
APV2 is unironically one of my favorite shooters ever. I really liked the gameplay and atmosphere of it. I wish they made more games like it. The 3 species alone provides so much variety.
Good reviews. I was a tester and junior design monkey on AvP Extinction. There were.... reasons so many things were the way they were. I could spend hours going over why we were told we had to do certain things that were frankly not great for the final product. Fun project to work on though.
AvP2 marine campaign is one of the best FPS games ever. I remember playing it back in the day both alone and with friends and not believing something this awesome actually exists. I also enjoyed Colonial Marines (yeah, I know) and AvP2010, but AvP2 is unbeatable. Alien Isolation is the only game as good, although completely different of course.
I also enjoyed colonial marines I think that to this day it's biggest downfall is god-awful matchmaking that didn't allow you to play with anyone who wasn't already in your friend list, especially because co-op/mp was the best part of the game and they straight up made it unplayable unless you had friends who also bought the game.
@@DravgonPL I was enjoying colonial marines too until the game just stuck on one of the 'defend the position while npc do the hacking' mission. I don't know what happened, maybe some xenos that is supposed to be killed stuck in geometry or some script didn't work, or maybe both, and it kept happening despite reloading game several times. It just refused to proceed. This game is a bug hunt.
@@kaggykarrI've played it since realise on single player, co-op and mp with my brother and I never encountered a game braking bug, I don't know which platform you were playing it on but I played it only on a pc. That being said both our examples are anecdotal.
i absolutely love the arcade AVP game... it was the game my dad and i spent the most time bonding over whenever he was home on vacation (he worked abroad)... seeing it featured on this video is bringing up so many great memories of spending time with him... thank you for this...
AVP 2000 is the GOAT. Couple of things you didn't mention about it which I think are significant: 1. The explosions had some really natty physics. You fire a rocket in a narrow space vs. an open one you really notice it. 2. If you almost kill a Pred but not quite, there's a chance they'll set their self-destruct nuke.
I love it so much I lost count of how many times I replay every campaign. The best was the optimization, back in the day I had a potato PC, and still I could run the game at 60 fps with 4x AA without a sweat.
AVP Gold Edition & AVP2 were my first proper PC games on my own PC and not like at a friends house or a relatives. Absolutely adore those games, and I kind of like AVP2010 as well, not perfect, but the eye candy and the game mechanics with alien stealth and predator stealth and kills just feeds the nostalgia for those creatures. Good vid, man I hope Nightdive get to remaster AVP2 one day, and that we get a new game trying to recapture those same elements.
Avp 1 also had the most epic AI i have ever seen in a FPS game, the marine soliders could get so scared from the alien player, they would sometimes run around screaming or start shooting frantically around them self (including their alliess standing nearby). And if you managed to chop off one of their arms, the marine soldiers could still fight with the other arm, shooting or hitting the player while bleeeding and screaming out loud. I have never seen an AI does something like this in any other game.
The throwing disk just shredding that Xenomorph would have looked so badass back then. Turok on my 64 was so damn awesome for how brutal it was. Not many games made it seem like you did more then just health bar damage till they fell over.
AvP 2 is still in my top 10 when it comes to FPS Games, sure the Predator and Alien campaign arent a 10/10 but still great, but damn the Marine Campaign is such a wild ride and nearly perfect. Its more of a survival horror Game then a FPS Game, i pissed my pants so many times, full panic mode again and again. So many memorable moments and a solid story, again i dont know why the movies did not just copy the story of the Games...
I remember playing AVP 2 on PC as a teen. I remember loving how the 3 storylines were interconnected and that at one point all 3 protagonists were in the same room with each other, if only for a few seconds.
The marine campaign in AvP2 will always have a special place in my heart for one reason. At the end of the campaign, Harrison tells Tomoko his name. Andrew. My name. And hearing that for the first time as probably a 10 year old kid blew my mind because what are the chances?
AVP2 multiplayer was the best. I miss it so much. I remember when playing as a predator most chad preds would limit themselves to combistic and maybe bombs and disk. The highlight of my life was soloing a queen in multi with combistick... awww memories.
Saviour server mod for avp2 multiplayer remains the indisputed online experience for me. 22 years of avp2 multi, still keep coming back from time to time Survivor games were my favorite.
i couldnt get enough of AvP2 and even its expansion as a kid. this video came out coincidentally on the day i got back into AvP. its such a shame that the series has been abandoned for 13 years, it deserves more, at least the seperate Aliens games and one unsuccessful predator game will keep my hopes up.
I really enjoyed the segment on the AvP arcade game. I played that many a year ago on a family trip to Florida. The beach was hot and unpleasant, but the hotel's air-conditioned arcade was great because it had AvP! I noted all the praise you placed on this game and that made me super happy, because I remembered it as being awesome and hoped that wasn't just nostalgia.
AVP 99-2K is the best one. The sounds are 100% from the movies. With the alien you can scare, stalk, lure and ambush humans, you need to be tactical, if there is a molotov cocktail involved attack from above with your tail, listen for turrets... Some way the Predator campaign is the most scary but only on some levels because the vision modes highlight one enemy while the other type is invisible, when there are aliens and humans mixed get ready to get jump scared. The Marine one can be unnerving but there are two ways to play, run and gun and push thru the aliens with no time to be scared XD or go slow and methodical with the flares and the motion tracker. AVP2 has great points like the alien full life cycle but is ruined by the cheap jump attack you can do.
Can't help but agree there. Compared to AvP Gold, AvP 2 was clunky and slow. Never liked the Lithtec engine much either. I found the raw speed and energy of AvP Gold addictive as fuck. The weapons were razor sharp, responsive. It felt so satisfying to play that game.
100% agree. The speed on the Alien is best in this game, and the tactics you can use are just perfect. My favourite with the molotov's is to bait out the throw, then when they miss watch them panic and cower as they know they have F'ed up. Also with the predator you can use the pure night vision mode, which for some reason doesn't get mentioned in the video, for these join enemy type missions, lose some functionality for the trade off of seeing everything.
For me it was a huge letdown coming from AvP 2, the worst thing were the super slow Aliens. Never finished it, but still play through AvP 2 to this day.
@@jamespaul6315 Wasnt bad , but you could see that it wasnt PC only anymore, it got consoled down in many aspects. Gamepad players cant handle enemies that fast.
AVP2 is my childhood classic. I've spent more hours playing it and shitting my pants or watching my brother play than I probably did studying. I'm also pretty sure it gave me a permanent tachycardia. Thanks for the video!
AVP2 is one of my favourite games of all time, top 5 for sure. it's not perfect, but in my opinion, it has one of the best narratives out of the shooters of that era. certainly, one of the most complex. I remember writing down the dates and stuff, trying to figure out the right sequence of events:D the game doesn't hold your hand in that regard. reading notes and computers along the way may help you understand things only hinted at (like why and how Eisenberg ended up the only survivor in that expedition, and what led to disaster). the atmosphere, the music, the iconic creature and weapon sounds (which pretty much all the subsequent games AND films decided to change or outright replace for some reason)... I can rave about AVP2 for hours, man. still occasionally replay it, still holds up remarkably well imo.
AVP 2 is STILL TO THIS DAY, the highest point the franchise ever got I dont know why its so hard to overtake an overly predictable story(still a very well written one!) Today, and yet here we are
The idea of pitting these two legendary monsters against each other SHOULD be awesome... but it often requires neutering one or both of them in order to achieve a balanced fight.
@@BlueMarsalis It also has, visually, the most authentic depiction of the alien. You can tell the artist spent a while looking at the original movie's costume to get it just right.
Dude, that no-save hardcore version of the game from 1999 is the scariest shit I've ever played. My nerves after making it through some missions. I played it on the Director's Cut difficulty too, so if you weren't careful, you would die from killing a xeno, just from the acid splattering all over the place.
I remember my PS2 stopped playing all my games, except for AVP Extinction. I don't know why it was the only one that would work, but I played it the entire summer. That was a damn good summer. Enjoyed the hell out of that game. Still have it on PS2 and a copy for my Xbox. They need to bring all these games to steam. Wish they'd remaster them too.
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Absolutely gold !!
Now they are just two more Disney franchises.
AVP needed a cinematic platformer, like flashback
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having no enemies on the 1st level of the PC AvP was a thing of genius... built so much tension as you threw flares around crying in the dark
there was towards the mid and end
Yeah, even after you’ve finished the game, and you KNOW nothing will happen on this first level, it is still kinda creepy to go through it again.
@@Anton-cc7yc yeah man, games were awesome
Also having harmless bugs and dangling crane hooks triggering your motion sensor was really evil
There's a bit in that first mission where your crawling through a vent or something and a fly flies towards your screen. It's done to make you think its a face hugger. It's possibly the best jumpscare I've ever experienced in a game.
The Predator multiplayer mode on AVP 2010 was absolutely unreal when you had a good group of players
Yeah i tried to play it for some time, knowing how to block/parry was such an important skill and generally skilled players tried to avoid executions since you got stuck in animation to get killed yourself. Also on marines, shotgun was the main gun most used since if used right it was a 1 shot kill in generally closed quarter corridors
@@manraynor5 i miss is tbh i wish the online community was not completly dead
definitely one of the most underrated MP games of that generation. Predator and alien mode were unbelievably fun. That labyrinth map on alien mode was an absolute highlight. Hearing your squad mates scream in terror as they're picked off one by one until you're one of the last few left just gave me goosebumps. Amazing thrilling game.
and you had the little sonar radar to show if an enemy was near, that was a tension builder hearing it beep all of a sudden
i played 2 years ago and it was a mess, people camping using the same weapon adn strat and basically bullying you in chat lol
Playing AvP Gold and AVP2 on Gamespy Arcade back in the early 2000s was such a memorable part of my life
They are still my absolutely favorite AVP games. Man i would love a remake on unreal engine 5 or something.
We probably played together at some point! I was absolutely addicted to that game on PC
@SteinerTheShriner yeah man, maybe. I remember it being on Mplayer then suddenly Gamespy bought it and everyone had to switch over that was like 2000/2001
Unlocking memories, my friend
@@costascostas1760 Same man. What I'd give to go back to those times
The Grabs in AvP 2010 were Suicidal to do in Multiplayer cause you could still be backstabbed in the middle of the animation. Sometimes this caused a Conga-line of Backstabbing cause you could backstab another backstabber
Yeah I've seen it done. It was like human centipede with Predators and aliens mixed in.
Good times, I had so much fun with the multiplayer
@@xevious21 Thanks for the nightmare fuel
I miss that happening. Watching a line of 5 xenos and predators form at the back of a single lost marine was great
I love it when that happens everyone waited in a line one time just for the glory kills
AVP Extinction was my first ever RTS game before I even knew what RTS was. It was amazingly fun and brings back so much nostalgia.
Same,awesome game
Also same. Rented it non-stop as a kid.
The aliens campaign was so damn good. Just dragging bodies back and turning the map into the black good stuff
Facts
same dude it's funny his criticism of the Aliens is that they take forever to build up but as a kid I had a great time building up alien forces and didn't really care that much about the objectives haha
AvP2 multiplayer ran my life for months. And the single player Marine campaign was incredible.
Quarantine map , Survivor mode, or what what is called? When you get killed you transform into Alien? Everyone cramped into that last room..... holly molly One of the best multiplayer experiences ever
Saaaame! Played so much avp2 online, clans n shit, good times
I still remember playing that game mode where you start off as marines but if you get killed you become an alien.
Me and like 6 marines were hunkered into a corridor with only one way in. Things were going perfectly until bad timing hit and too many marines reloaded at the same time. The guy at the back with the flamethrower panicked and just sprayed everywhere, blinding all the other marines making us all easy pickings
I loved AVP2 multiplayer. There used to be a hack where you could turn your username to IlIlllIIll and it would make it near impossible for a server to kick you.
Same man, unitl they closed the servers. I spent my nights in there.
AvP2 will forever be one of my favorites of all time. The multiplayer especially was so much crazy fun. No other game since AvP2 has been able to capture how much fun that MP was.
MP is still live, not that much players but always some. There's even a couple of MP mods that play like an entire different game.
I remember that you could only have a few predators active at a time since they were so potent, always liked to play them. Stealth up on the edge of the battlefield and hit someone with a disc to one shot them...
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The option to turn on alien life cycle in multiplayer was genius. That and what you attacked as a chestburster altered the breed of alien you turned into was always cool to me. Predalien for the win. 😁
I remember trying out multiplayer for the first time...after at least 10 years after it was published. Boy never have I felt as outmatched as then. I just kept dying no matter what race or class I played. In time I learned how to give veterans hard time, but boy was it a challenge.
I was playing AvP on the marine campaign; face hugger killed me; scared the shit out of me! At that exact moment there was a cricket under my shirt moving; almost died of a heart attack!! One of the best and worst moments of gaming!!! I’ll remember it forever!!
Dude I knowww!!!! When I was a kid playing that game I had this intense fear of the facehuggers in the game because I wasn't paying attention to the room and suddenly I had one leap on my face and my volume was loud AF. I was so scared it took me awhile to man up and "face" them. Recently revisited the game with the redux mod and apparently it still freaks me out 😂.
I had to stop playing for years after i fell in a hole and instantly got a facehugger on me. But i did finished it when i was a bit older
Nowadays when something is too scary kids rush online to see if there is a mod to make the game less scary/remove what scared them from the game.
@@panthekirb7561 Tbf, we would've all done that back then if we could.
@@PyroFTB Naaaah
AVP 2010 will forever be one of my favorite games. Infection on the pyramid map will forever be a highlight of early gaming.
Holy hell yes, pyramid infestation was so good!
There was a mode in AVP 2010 multiplayer where one team were Marines and the other team were aliens. It was like infection from COD. One guy starts as an alien and if you die to join that team. It was fucking amazing on the pyramid map. Good times. Underrated game for it's time.
I think I joined the multiplayer scene a bit towards the end of its cycle, so ranked play to get the skins was difficult for me consider games were hard to find. But custom games was so fun playing that infection like gamemode and everyone dropping like flies lol.
Getting separated was so damn terrifying. Such a good game. My ONLY complaint was it was too short.
I loved the quarantine map and trying to survive in the vents lol
That was also in AvP2, though I’m not sure if it was part of the expansion or not.
The Marine campaign in AVP 2010 was fantastic, I remember getting really attached to Tequila and doing everything possible to try to save her.
The whole game was great, only lame hipsters who think they are cool think its not
Haters of this game are streets behind
Genuinely great game i actually remember plot points from the predator and marine stories
The game was actually great, the story was not the best but the gameplay was miles better than AVP 2.
I played AVP 1 & 2 and the 2010 one and never understood what ppl were nitpicking about the 2010 one, i liked it a lot and still reinstall it on every PC i have to play trough it from time to time. The only gripe i have is with the pulse rifle, it really is a bit underpowered and the bullet velocity is a bit low, but thats nothing a mod could not fix, but still the best AvP (or Aliens for that matter) game to date.
I probably played the wave based mode in the first AvP for hundreds of hours seeing how long I could last each run. The first two games are great and I LOVE the AvP arcade game.
The first three games are great you meant
@@jamespaul6315 I guess technically I mean the first 2 PC games were great. I own the Jaguar AvP and never cared for it much but it was neat to play a few times.
Yeah skirmish mode was the best. I got a bootleg of the game from a family friend in like 2003 and spent an ungodly amount of time on it.
AVP 2010 will forever be my favorite because they actually made the human part scary. That opening as the marine was sooooooo good
You just brought me back to 2010, I remember playing that part and being scar ed shitless.
Only annoying thing about the that game is how extremely weak the guns are definitely a put off if I’ve ever seen one but it does at least capture the tone in the marine campaign
@@harambeepstein8009 I disagree, that game showed how resilient Aliens were. It was one of the more lore-accurate depictions of the Xenomorph.
@@0ne0fmany I see what you mean there I do think the pulse rifle could have been done better but Tbf it’s not entirely impossible for the xenos to have evolved so much they can take more damage so I get your point
@@CaptainPerfect bro fr I was like 9 and damn near couldn’t turn corners around the colony because I was so terrified of jump scares Lmfao. The lighting and ambience of the marine campaign specifically still holds up today
AVP 2 had the best multiplayer around. Life Cycle mode where you started as a face hugger, and lived through the alien cycle while fighting predators and humans was insane.
Damn I completely forgot the Life Cycle mode. Thanks for reminding me, it truly was amazing multiplayer
It’s still alive and played online daily. For free. Look it up 😊
This is the era of alien and predator games that I want. Not interactive horror games like isolation even though it's a good game. I want more predator and alien games where you play as both and start from the life cycle. A new/remastered version of the first 2 alien games would be sweet. Or just new ones. They'd look so sweet and be fun games. Let's stay away from the colonial marines disaster and just do avp 2010 but even better lol.
AvP2 is a masterpiece, easily one of my all time favorite FPSs.
It was the same publisher as Half Life, so I always wondered how much they asked Monolith to make it in that style because, to me, it felt like a Half Life game in the AvP universe. It was that good. The only other Alien campaign as good is Alien Isolation.
The campaigns are so good! And I played the multiplayer for years back in the day
the thing about AVP 2010 is that youre seeing the story of the "location" played out at different times. like, all 3 stories are happening simultaneously, and each main character is missing the other by, at most, a couple of hours.
As in AvsP2?
EDIT: Aah...not really 😕
@@dallesamllhals9161 maybe, idk, didn’t play AVP2
@@itskastrand Heh! Okay...kiddo ;-)
I don't quite remember the level (I think level 2), but there's a level as the marine where you run through a large gate while leaving a tunnel. There's a steel grate on the ground just outside the gate and if you sprint to it quickly enough and look down (roughly around the same time you get a checkpoint, I think), you'll see a xenomorph (possibly 6) haul ass through the vent underneath you.
avp 1999 (2000) blew my mind at the time. A first person game from that era having three campaigns and multiple characters was unheard of back then. The controls for the pred and alien were so unique at the time, especially with the vision modes etc. The sense of verticality and the atmosphere and sound effects were cutting edge. The wave based mode beat gears of wars horde mode to the punch by like 6-7 years.
You're God damn right
Yeah even though it felt shitty. It was everything I wanted lol
My friends and I used to go to a network Cafe to play that avp. Having a room full of 16(? maybe it wasn't that many, but it felt like a lot) people doing species death match was one of my favorite multiplayer gaming memories. Such a good game
Fun fact: in the original script for The Predator (2018), the reveal of the Predator-killer in the capsule was originally supposed to be Schwarzenegger, but he turned down the role after reading the script. And honestly who can blame him.
Thats too bad haha
Well done Arnie. Good to know some in Hollywood have some standards.
That makes me think they never watched Predator.
@@rrwhollowayArnie? Standards 😂
@@rrwhollowayArnold has standards? Lol you're lost.
Loved playing Extinction as a kid, i was just absolutely distraught when i found out that it was console only after growing up.
Same here... what a lost jewel
Buy PS2 or emulate
AVP on the Atari Jaguar was way ahead of its time. It blew me away seeing it for the first time. Playing solo FPS games back in early 90s was so so eerie man. They were new and fresh back then.
Still fresh, playing the Nightdive remaster of Doom and Doom 2 just now, banging.
AVP2 blew me away when I was 12, it's soooo good.
I played it a few months back, still pretty damn good. The expansion pack wasn't as good as the original game though.
@@padmanabhanvaidyanathan7182 You mean primal hunt? It was short and marine campaign was just non stop shooting, but i liked the story of ancient Predator waking up after centuries.
AvP Extinction is a definite guilty pleasure of mine. Loved setting up an almost automated alien hive.
Its a game that has no right to be as good as it is.
It s the best.
They need to reboot it.
more missions, more scenarios, multiplayer matchmaker, pvp or coop vs AI, and and random map generator.
😂 glad I wasn't alone, setting down the Queen she would lay 4 eggs but a way around it was to move her across the room before you knew it you had a area full of hungers 😂😂😂 watching a few stray marines just get fucking heaped on, good times
@kennethleo4471 I have to agree a little there, i still remember checking out the back of the case and thinking "an AvP game set up like command and conquer?" No way... turned out to be fucking epic
He summed it up well. I was just a kid when I got my hands on the game and while I got the general concept of RTS games was still a kid who just wanted cool looking units. I still managed to get pretty far in each campaign. Would love to play an updated version of the game.
Honorable mention, Predator Concrete Jungle, my favorite, a very complete game, there is a part in this game where the Aliens appear.
I remember that... I had a PS2 emulator just to play it
Well it's a predator game though
@@morkgin2459yes but there's a twist moment where the corporation that stole your Predator tech you're trying to steal back also had Xenomorphs.
@@RipOffProductionsLLCYutani Corp.
A great game, shoddy controls and camera unfortunately. Always thought it'd make a great film plot, make the Pred the 'hero' just trying to reacquire it's stolen gear.
The first few levels of AvP2's Marine campaign remain a masterclass in building to and releasing tension. That whole trip into the hive and subsequent escape alone is one of very few videogame levels I would personally consider perfect and capable of standing entirely on its own.
AVP 2010 is memorable most for me and I get overly happy and euphoric when I play it now cause back in 2011 when my dad couldn't really do much in terms of getting out of the house. He would like watching me play various games. He liked Dirt 3 a lot, and found GTA4 absolutely histarical lol. He always would ask me though every other day or so to play AVP. He loved watching me play as the Predator jumping from tree to tree in the jungles and taking heads off. He loved the story of all 3 campaigns and he could never get the hand eye coordination down with fps games. He would drive around on GTA and play some split screen on dirt. He use to play the old Grand Turismo games on the og PS1 back in the 90's while I was a baby grasshopper watching him. So that's why I love this game. Not because the graphics at the time were amazing or gameplay was crazy good. Or the interesting story. It was cause my dad would sit there for hours never getting tired of watching me run through the various stories over and over again. He would pass away in 2012, to this day everytime I see AVP I remember all those hours at what I didn't know was the end of his road. All the laughs he had, the excitement he showed. AVP 2010 will always be the GOAT for that. 💪
I lost my father as well around that time. He and I would play starcraft broodwar with each other against cpu bots. A great time in my life towards the end of his life. Miss him! Respects to you and your family
I hope you're doing ok, my respects to your family
I am truly sorry about your father, he was taken far too early. May he rest in peace.
2010 is no doubt the best one, still went back to play it every few years.
I had some ridiculous number of hours in it on PS3, then bought it first thing I got a good PC and blazed through the entire game all over again for a few more weeks after growing up
Love AvP 2010. EVERY year I hope at every single gaming event that a new one will be announced. Going 13 years strong on disappointment~!
It is a good game!
Indeed. Much thanks to the Alien protagonist Six, my favourite xeno.
Rebellion is too busy recycling Sniper Elite to make a new AvP
And then we got "Dark decent" sometimes i think dev´s seriously wanna troll us ^^
May you, and we, get your wish.
I played Extinction like crazy back in the days. Love the Predator gameplay so much. 3 or 4 of the military predators and boom, you're blasting everything like nobody's business.
So many childhood memories. Too bad my copy is too scratched to be read anymore 😅
i hatted the predator campaing, cause it required more micro than a ps2 game could give to you, also it was de most dificult by far.
Used to stack hydras in my team soooo satisfying
I really agree with your take on the AVP 2010 reception. It's no masterpiece, but it does feel people were overly harsh towards it. Put it next to Colonial Marines or even Fireteams Elite and it starts looking a lot better. The levels, the executions, the multiplayer. Honestly, if it came out today people would go crazy for it
I put so many hours into that game. I was disheartened no sequel would come out for it
I actually liked Colonial Marines, and I just recently got Fireteam Elite and have been really enjoying it
AVP 2001 is still the scariest game I have played. I remember as a kid a particular level in marine campaign. At the start the commander says "Tyrago is overrun by aliens, so watch your back". I remember because I died so many times trying (this was before gold edition)
play Fear, or Amnesia, RE7 just to name a few...
Really haven't played a horror game before have you.
@@thesixth2330not scary lol
Fear is awful. Not scary at all. Frankly none of the ones you mentioned were remotely scary. @@thesixth2330
@@victorradial1179Amnesia and Re7 aren't remotely scary, F. E. A. R. did make me a little jumpy and freaked out at times. Awesome game with the best AI still.
What a fantastic era of PC games. I remember many hours in AVP1&2, NOLF1&2, Deus Ex, Unreal Tournament, Mafia, Far Cry, and of course Half-Life. Late 90s and early 00s will never be surpassed.
This is correct. Same with movies and tons of great music.
Sickening that nolf1+2 can't be bought on steam 😡
@@whodatninja439 Or anywhere. Probably ever. (I have physical copies from back in the day, but still.)
@@whodatninja439 Google "nolf revival". Enjoy!
@@CantankerousDave The amount of times I walked past those boxes in Frys Electronics and never bothered to pick them up is literally countless.
Gman never fails to make me lauugh with his random ass simpson cut aways
It’s the Austin power memes that get me
@@BugzASMR those are great as well
"Come again?"
The farts always get me
There was a bowling alley I went to as a kid that had the Capcom AVP game. My brother and I beating it as the Warrior and Hunter Predators is probably my favorite gaming-related memory.
I loved AvP 2 as a teenager. Playing online was a huge part of my formative years, and I made a lot of friends. For a long time I was hosting Alien vs. Predator dueling servers, with the occasional Predator vs. Queen matches. Great times. You always felt like a badass when you manage to jump over the queen's one-shot tail to land that super clean spear headshot.
It’s insane to me that AVP 2010 holds up till today. That game brought me so much fun back then and even really enjoyed the multiplayer too! I wish they would make an AVP game with the unreal engine. I’d also love a switch port of AVP 2010 :,)
How?, Space Invaders still holds up, Pac-Man still holds up. Games don't suddenly get bad because they age.
I loved AvP 2000 as the Alien. So fun crawling on the ceiling and walls, breaking the lights and hearing the humans whimper in the dark before you bite their head off.
1999*
AvP2 still has one of the best multiplayer modes of any fps
Definitely!
right on, love the balanced assymmetric mechanics, truly caught the feeling of predators and aliens with their varied strengths and the heavily armed, sweaty marines with motion trackers in between
If you cut the smartgun and the disc. Yes. ;)
I remember, when we used to play. It was something like 2 predators, 2-3 aliens og 3-5 marines. :)
@@kimbach1824 smartgun and disc are fine, the only op weapons that have no balance are sniper rifle and plasma pistol
Mods for multi avp2 are like a fine vine. While I wont play vanilla for hours, Payback Time I follow for quite some time.
I love AVP 2010! I’m glad you’re bringing more attention to it
Ironically enough though, I REALLY didn't like those slow as fuck executions. You are completely vulnerable to enemies when you do one and even if there were none around, I like my violence to be incredibly swift and brutally efficient anyway, not like I'm taking my grandma for a damn Sunday stroll around the star base.
That's a good trade-off yeah? You get a guarenteed kill and it's all flashy, but it leaves you open. I like that personally. Use it strategically, don't abuse it.
@@Bloody_crow Yeah except both the Predator and Alien are (mostly) based on stealth, so basically, you're penalizing the player for making stealthy kills.
@@arnox4554 personally loved them and never grew tired of it. Idk I just want to appreciate the hours of work that went into animating these things and I found only using the basic light/heavy attacks boring af to use.
The animations really made you FEEL like an unstoppable force, especially the Predator’s because you’re so up close and personal with them and you can literally see the fear in the marines’ eyes when you pull them off. Using the equipment and wristblades just made the game feel more arcade-y to me.
I like the executions, but I can agree they can be a bit slow. Except this is a part of the game’s design, and I appreciate the strategy
I've spent 4 years of my life playing AvP2.
I even became the leader of the best clan we had here in Italy, I still remember the clanwars with teams from all over europe.
Good old times
I'm currently replaying Doom and Doom 2, been playing them since they released.
Easily my two favorite action/horror movies! ...Then combining them into a controllable game world (1999) was 100% terrifying!
AvP 1999/2000 genuinely gave me nightmares as a kid and had the most "movie quality" intro / menu system. It was so cinematic and polished. I still remember the xenomorphs "pheromone view" mode and it strikes me as one of the best and earliest ways of explaining how the xenomorphs see us.
My dad let me stay up til midnight back in the day to watch the UK TV Alien premiere, I was 9, good times. Unfortunately, literally no media since has scared me.
AVP2 was my first and I was addicted.
I first played the multiplayer demo. So much fun. The vibe was preem.
The demo was my life when i was little in the house of my grandparents
AVP 2000 was such a OP game back then. Loved it with Half Life, Quake and Unreal.
Yeah i can remember playing a Demo version from a PC magazine like a maniac ^^
1999*
@@flexydex8754launched in 1999, named AvP 2000
I remember I jumped on a predator in avp1, I was lying in wait on the ceiling right above him and ended up one shotting him mid-air with the little head move. Playing an alien, lurking in the dark and running above you on the ceiling and on the walls was and still is a special thing to me.
Mb in campaign, cause in MP it takes 4 tail swipes unless you instakill with headbite
The Predator boss fight in AvP2's Marine campaign is the series' highlight for me. You spend half the campaign avoiding this thing only to be thrown into a life or death showdown with it. Pure awesomeness
It should've been awesome, but they gave you plenty of SADAR rockets with the lock-on alternate fire lol.
@@skyvipersyou don't have to use it though
@@LordofMovies91 Of course, real AvP2 Chads use the combat knife
Extinction was the first AvP game I played. I know that it's an odd game out of the series, but I had tons of fun bringing hosts back to the hive.
I remember AVP 2 as a kid i probably played it through 40 times or more since my shitty computer could run it well on super low settings. Man those were the days.
AVP2 was the reason why I bought 128MB of ram in addition to 64MB. I thought that would make it run better (it was running at around 10-15fps on low graphics). I was wrong. What was weak was the processor (Celeron 400Mhz), but mostly the GPU (Savage4 16MB) :D
@@Krisztian5HUN
I wish I understood all this computer lingo.
@@Krisztian5HUN Celerons are pathetic :/
I was lucky enough to have a 1.2ghz AMD Athlon and a GeForce 3 so I could play the game all turned to high.
I LOVED Extinction. I plugged hours and hours into that game, and I'm so disappointed they never made another RTS AvP game.
Im hoping Aliens Dark Decent will recreate that a bit
Extinction was pretty cool despite some of its minor flaws.i thought it was fun
AvP Gold is probably my favourite game of all time. I'm surprised you didn't mention the skirmish mini-game. No time limit, unlimited respawns, just fun hunting NPC aliens. We didn't have internet on our old Windows 2000 so we played that instead.
The skeeter and grenade launcher were entertaining weapons because they would have a tendency get the guy using them killed. Watching your buddy step on his own prox mine never gets old.
I actually spent several hours just exploring the maps in AVP Extinction, trying to raise the biggest hive possible.
I played AVP Extinction to death back in the day, love that game so much.
1 hour video? Absolutly fine because this series has a special place in my heart.
AvP2 was my all time favorite. I had a buttload of mods from PlanetAvP, I loved the gameplay. Especially the tweaks they made to Alien and a predator, as well as the atmosphere the Marine campaign had.
I remember one time close to the end of the school year, I installed the game on every single computer in our computer lab, and I’ll never forget the rage our Lab Teacher was dropping every time he heard an alien screech or a smart gun whine.
Also that Capcom Brawler was sick. Lt Kurosawa is one of the coolest Capcom Protags ever made.
It’s a damn shame that AVP2 hasn’t be put on anything. I really wanna play it.
avpunknown.com/avp2aio/
They need to remaster the whole series with updated mechanics, or make a new one if Alvarez & Trachtenberg make an AvP movie
The thing I will always remember about the Jaguar game was playing the marine and hearing the predator whisper "hey over here".
APV2 is unironically one of my favorite shooters ever. I really liked the gameplay and atmosphere of it. I wish they made more games like it. The 3 species alone provides so much variety.
Good reviews. I was a tester and junior design monkey on AvP Extinction. There were.... reasons so many things were the way they were. I could spend hours going over why we were told we had to do certain things that were frankly not great for the final product. Fun project to work on though.
Would love to hear your insights
Good job, u helped make one of my fav games of my childhood, even replayed it recently.
Please make a video about it
AvP2 marine campaign is one of the best FPS games ever. I remember playing it back in the day both alone and with friends and not believing something this awesome actually exists. I also enjoyed Colonial Marines (yeah, I know) and AvP2010, but AvP2 is unbeatable. Alien Isolation is the only game as good, although completely different of course.
Yeah AvP 2 had some amazing writing and some incredible set pieces., Just the sheer scale of the game was fantastic.
I also enjoyed colonial marines I think that to this day it's biggest downfall is god-awful matchmaking that didn't allow you to play with anyone who wasn't already in your friend list, especially because co-op/mp was the best part of the game and they straight up made it unplayable unless you had friends who also bought the game.
@@DravgonPL I was enjoying colonial marines too until the game just stuck on one of the 'defend the position while npc do the hacking' mission. I don't know what happened, maybe some xenos that is supposed to be killed stuck in geometry or some script didn't work, or maybe both, and it kept happening despite reloading game several times. It just refused to proceed. This game is a bug hunt.
@@kaggykarrI've played it since realise on single player, co-op and mp with my brother and I never encountered a game braking bug, I don't know which platform you were playing it on but I played it only on a pc. That being said both our examples are anecdotal.
i absolutely love the arcade AVP game... it was the game my dad and i spent the most time bonding over whenever he was home on vacation (he worked abroad)...
seeing it featured on this video is bringing up so many great memories of spending time with him...
thank you for this...
AVP 2000 is the GOAT. Couple of things you didn't mention about it which I think are significant:
1. The explosions had some really natty physics. You fire a rocket in a narrow space vs. an open one you really notice it.
2. If you almost kill a Pred but not quite, there's a chance they'll set their self-destruct nuke.
*1999
AvP 2010 is incredibly underrated and and great game for its time and for being a smaller budget shooter
I love it so much I lost count of how many times I replay every campaign. The best was the optimization, back in the day I had a potato PC, and still I could run the game at 60 fps with 4x AA without a sweat.
I too have head injuries.
I come back and replay this game all the time
AVP Gold Edition & AVP2 were my first proper PC games on my own PC and not like at a friends house or a relatives.
Absolutely adore those games, and I kind of like AVP2010 as well, not perfect, but the eye candy and the game mechanics with alien stealth and predator stealth and kills just feeds the nostalgia for those creatures.
Good vid, man I hope Nightdive get to remaster AVP2 one day, and that we get a new game trying to recapture those same elements.
imagine a new alien vs predator with today's graphics.that would be sick
its not all about graphics its about fun.
AVP 1 and 2 were hella fun and detailed.
The amount of micro transactions, always online, lgtbq inclusion... idk man, seems kinda bad
@@juansotelo3996 also paid dlc rushed and incomplete work endless amounts of bugs.
little to no creativity and passion.
Go watch an animated movie if all you care about are visuals.
@@juansotelo3996 what game is held back because of lgbtq inclusions?
AVP 2010 was my beginning. Playing as a human was crazy fun and the sound of changing the vision as the predator was addictive
Avp 1 also had the most epic AI i have ever seen in a FPS game, the marine soliders could get so scared from the alien player, they would sometimes run around screaming or start shooting frantically around them self (including their alliess standing nearby).
And if you managed to chop off one of their arms, the marine soldiers could still fight with the other arm, shooting or hitting the player while bleeeding and screaming out loud.
I have never seen an AI does something like this in any other game.
Play F. E. A. R. No AI has ever come close to that, seriously terrifying the way it worked.
The throwing disk just shredding that Xenomorph would have looked so badass back then. Turok on my 64 was so damn awesome for how brutal it was. Not many games made it seem like you did more then just health bar damage till they fell over.
I remember playing the marine campaign on AVP1 and using console commands to spawn in different types of marines and xenos for big battles
AvP 2 is still in my top 10 when it comes to FPS Games, sure the Predator and Alien campaign arent a 10/10 but still great, but damn the Marine Campaign is such a wild ride and nearly perfect.
Its more of a survival horror Game then a FPS Game, i pissed my pants so many times, full panic mode again and again.
So many memorable moments and a solid story, again i dont know why the movies did not just copy the story of the Games...
I remember playing AVP 2 on PC as a teen. I remember loving how the 3 storylines were interconnected and that at one point all 3 protagonists were in the same room with each other, if only for a few seconds.
This just reminds me that we need AvP2 re-released to the world again. Come on GOG!
Thanks for making this video Gman, a lot of these games were a big part of my childhood, especially AvP2!
I really hope this series makes a comeback.
AVP 2010 was nostalgic for me, going to Gamestop to pick up a copy and playing the Alien campaign over and over again was the best.
The marine campaign in AvP2 will always have a special place in my heart for one reason. At the end of the campaign, Harrison tells Tomoko his name. Andrew. My name. And hearing that for the first time as probably a 10 year old kid blew my mind because what are the chances?
I loved extinction as a kid, would love to replay it again.
The AvP Extinction commercial in the bathroom at 41:42 had me in absolute stitches. The lil' "sup" head nod from the Xenomorph is just too perfect lol
AVP2 multiplayer was the best. I miss it so much. I remember when playing as a predator most chad preds would limit themselves to combistic and maybe bombs and disk. The highlight of my life was soloing a queen in multi with combistick... awww memories.
Servers still active! Still play regular every night. Free to download too.
Check out master server patch and mods for avp2, too!
AVP extinction was amazing, introduced me to RTS and loved it
Saviour server mod for avp2 multiplayer remains the indisputed online experience for me.
22 years of avp2 multi, still keep coming back from time to time
Survivor games were my favorite.
i couldnt get enough of AvP2 and even its expansion as a kid. this video came out coincidentally on the day i got back into AvP.
its such a shame that the series has been abandoned for 13 years, it deserves more, at least the seperate Aliens games and one unsuccessful predator game will keep my hopes up.
I really enjoyed the segment on the AvP arcade game. I played that many a year ago on a family trip to Florida. The beach was hot and unpleasant, but the hotel's air-conditioned arcade was great because it had AvP! I noted all the praise you placed on this game and that made me super happy, because I remembered it as being awesome and hoped that wasn't just nostalgia.
AVP2 had a really bad ass campaign. And the multiplayer was so much fun.
I remember absolutely wrecking marine players while playing as a xenomorph.
MP is still alive for it.
It's still amazing though
AVP 99-2K is the best one. The sounds are 100% from the movies.
With the alien you can scare, stalk, lure and ambush humans, you need to be tactical, if there is a molotov cocktail involved attack from above with your tail, listen for turrets...
Some way the Predator campaign is the most scary but only on some levels because the vision modes highlight one enemy while the other type is invisible, when there are aliens and humans mixed get ready to get jump scared.
The Marine one can be unnerving but there are two ways to play, run and gun and push thru the aliens with no time to be scared XD or go slow and methodical with the flares and the motion tracker.
AVP2 has great points like the alien full life cycle but is ruined by the cheap jump attack you can do.
Can't help but agree there. Compared to AvP Gold, AvP 2 was clunky and slow. Never liked the Lithtec engine much either. I found the raw speed and energy of AvP Gold addictive as fuck. The weapons were razor sharp, responsive. It felt so satisfying to play that game.
100% agree.
The speed on the Alien is best in this game, and the tactics you can use are just perfect.
My favourite with the molotov's is to bait out the throw, then when they miss watch them panic and cower as they know they have F'ed up.
Also with the predator you can use the pure night vision mode, which for some reason doesn't get mentioned in the video, for these join enemy type missions, lose some functionality for the trade off of seeing everything.
I really enjoyed AVP 2010 and found it really underrated
I put so many hours into the multiplayer and 1v1 predators with friends
For me it was a huge letdown coming from AvP 2, the worst thing were the super slow Aliens.
Never finished it, but still play through AvP 2 to this day.
@@henriklarssen1331 youre wrong, avp 2010 was great
@@jamespaul6315 youre wrong, avp 2010 is bad
@@jamespaul6315 Wasnt bad , but you could see that it wasnt PC only anymore, it got consoled down in many aspects.
Gamepad players cant handle enemies that fast.
AVP2 is my childhood classic. I've spent more hours playing it and shitting my pants or watching my brother play than I probably did studying. I'm also pretty sure it gave me a permanent tachycardia.
Thanks for the video!
The Predator campaign in AVP2 making the “villain” just a trophy that got away is certainly the best writing of this entire series
AVP 2 for me represents this whole era of amazing games in the early 2010s. That was such a golden age, thought it would last forever😢
AVP2 is one of my favourite games of all time, top 5 for sure.
it's not perfect, but in my opinion, it has one of the best narratives out of the shooters of that era. certainly, one of the most complex. I remember writing down the dates and stuff, trying to figure out the right sequence of events:D the game doesn't hold your hand in that regard. reading notes and computers along the way may help you understand things only hinted at (like why and how Eisenberg ended up the only survivor in that expedition, and what led to disaster).
the atmosphere, the music, the iconic creature and weapon sounds (which pretty much all the subsequent games AND films decided to change or outright replace for some reason)... I can rave about AVP2 for hours, man. still occasionally replay it, still holds up remarkably well imo.
Man that 2010 AVP game was so fuckin slept on here in the states. Such a solid game.
Damn this sure brings back memories! Thanks Gman!
AVP 2 is STILL TO THIS DAY, the highest point the franchise ever got
I dont know why its so hard to overtake an overly predictable story(still a very well written one!) Today, and yet here we are
That cheeky little jumpscare in AVP 2 actually triggers your motion sensor as well to add to the freak out 😂
The idea of pitting these two legendary monsters against each other SHOULD be awesome... but it often requires neutering one or both of them in order to achieve a balanced fight.
AVP Thicker Than Blood does it pretty well.
@@BlueMarsalis It also has, visually, the most authentic depiction of the alien. You can tell the artist spent a while looking at the original movie's costume to get it just right.
AVP2 was an amazing game. The human campaign was genuinely scary.
Oh hell yeah! This franchise is so underrated.
Thank you for doing avp 2010! I've literally been asking for this forever.
I played these games back in the early 2000's and some of the horror aspects were way ahead of their time.
*@GmanLives What about AVP: EVOLUTION for mobile? It was pretty good. Have you played that one?*
He mentioned it in the video. He called it the shitty PSP game. I suspect the game came out on PSP before being ported to mobile.
Dude, that no-save hardcore version of the game from 1999 is the scariest shit I've ever played.
My nerves after making it through some missions. I played it on the Director's Cut difficulty too, so if you weren't careful, you would die from killing a xeno, just from the acid splattering all over the place.
Is that where Bioshock Infinites 1999 mode came from?. Cool.
I remember my PS2 stopped playing all my games, except for AVP Extinction. I don't know why it was the only one that would work, but I played it the entire summer. That was a damn good summer. Enjoyed the hell out of that game. Still have it on PS2 and a copy for my Xbox. They need to bring all these games to steam. Wish they'd remaster them too.
32:01 that one got me good back in the day. I full on sent a mag of the pulse rifle into that pipe :*D