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Hey jarek! Have you heard of Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30? It's an original Xbox era fps with strategy elements that I never hear anyone talk about but it was a really interesting game when I was younger. I'd recommend checking it out!
You should honestly review AVP2 and some mods(my mod it’s almost complete)Another reason You should play it it’s free now. ua-cam.com/video/6BauFpoxQpg/v-deo.html
Rebellion have a long history of making "good" games, not outstanding achievements, just "good", this is one of them. Three campaigns, they're all good, graphics are good, sound is good, gameplay's good, it's... good, i recommend it if you like good games.
I hate how hated this game is. I loved this game from the first time I saw gameplay of it, granted mostly because of the aesthetic. But then I actually played it, and loved it still. I wish more games would use the "Play from more perspectives" or "interwoven campaigns" approach, you really don't get to see that.. well, at all, really.
Fuck the haters bro because too be honest a lot of us love this game bro trust me this concept of AVP is so fucking legendary it has its loyal fans like you and me so lighten up bro 🙂🙂 aliens vs Predator dont need the whole world to love em it needs us the loyal fans ☺️☺️
@@shoopusdawhoopus I played AVP2, and I still loved this game, AVP2 was from a different time, with different game design elements. That doesn't mean this game is bad. I have a feeling people were just too stingy and unforgiving to give this gem a chance because it wasn't giving them the nostalgia they craved.
The alien campaign will be my all-time favourite; it just feels so amazing to strike from the shadows and deal mercilessly with anyone who dares to stand in your way. I'm still hoping this game will get a sequel.
An old friend of mine was the top rated player in the MP on 360 for years. His tag was ElderPredator1, and he was legit nigh unbeatable. He only played as a Predator (go figure) and just used arm blades.
This game was so underrated !!!! The alien storyline was smart and engaging , the predator one was brutal and telling and the human story was a straight up horror show 😂
@@nando6458 dude the mission in that big engine room with the lights flickering and there’s just dozens of Xenos coming from everywhere 10 year old me had nightmares to say the least
There's private groups and dedicated servers that get together at random intervals. I got my own group of friends to pick up and play the game for two weeks straight. It was a blast!
@@thelongneckprime8172 How come when I tried matchmaking on xbox one about 2 weeks ago there was no one online? I tried like twice a day for a week. The game is great and I hope we get another one like this one for next gen.
I have a soft spot for this game. Reminds me of the time where videogames would not come out here in Germany because they were too violent (still not available via Steam in Germany). So we had to buy them from Austria. Really appreciated the gore in this game. One of its only kind where you have solid gameplay as the Predator.
@@matteoziegler7632 Nah, not in Germany. Matter of fact, the multiplayer and zombies for COD WW2 for the entire world had to censor the swastikas so the German government could be satisfied. Same thing happened with The Last Of Us Multiplayer, the entire EU version was censored because Germany didnt want kids to see people's arms getting blown off, IN AN EIGHTEEN + GAME!! Its so sad that adults are being babysited by their governments, and they get to decide what we are allowed to see, as if by the age of 18 you are still an oversensitive fetus. To be honest though, our society is becoming more and more sensitive nowadays, and society is starting to cater to manchildren.
@@HiJack3r it wasnt The goverment it was the publisher who censored it World wide in the multiplayer and about the gore it rarely happens in any version of the game despite beeing part of every trailer to sell the War is brutal message www.schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=15371
@@matteoziegler7632 Then why are the swastikas removed entirely in the German version, but in the rest of the world they havent for the campaign? And also, it has been confirmed, the entire european version has been censored for TLOU to comply with German ratings. The fun is being taken away for the rest of us because the German government is too oversensitive. They wanna turn you guys into manchildren.
@@HiJack3r Because Swastikas are not allowed to be shown in Germany, most of the time. It's practically a legal thing. That was government. The violence was the publisher.
In the marine campaign, i remember giving my friend the controller and after the first part where the alien tries to get you through the door, my friend was done lmao. A testament to how well the audio, atmosphere, lighting and graphics. I find it still holds up really well. Thanks for the video!
I just remember how broken the multiplayer balance was, like how aliens would just spam their Tail power attack from walls effectively bypassing the games melee/block/bash system, and how EVERYONE wanted to play Predators.
yea and then the game would balance it before the game started and tbh I was an alien player I like the minimalistic gameplay because I was like 9 (we didnt get the game new we got it a year later)
To be fair, when your options are a lot more limited, you use what you can. The Xenomorphs were meant to be the speedy, stealthy, strike from shadows and unexpected angles characters. That kinda falls apart when the Predators have a vision setting to just... see you, and the Marines can pick up an auto targeting rifle that can deploy into a turret. Giving the Xenomorphs a ranged acid spit like some of them had in the campaigns, even if it just stunned marines and predators and allowed them to destroy smart turrets and lights from range would have opened up a lot more tactical options for them in multiplayer. Seriously, what good was the hiss in multiplayer? you aren't going to lure another player out of position with it. Also can smart weapons in games just... fuck off? Like, fine, for PvE weapons, but leave them out of PvP.
Game was a lot of fun, especially when they eventually introduced dedicated servers to multiplayer. Marines weren't the easiest to play as but it was always satisfying knocking aliens and predators on their ass when they weren't expecting it.
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A new video every Friday. 2020 is a hard year but if I can give people something to look forward to, even if it's just a silly video about games, then I'll do my best.
Ho, this game. Remember playing through all 3 campaigns on my PS3, that was a looooong time ago. Great game. P.S. God, the facehuggers terrified me back then. Horrible things.
I'd been praying for you to hear about this game. I was in the same boat as you, younger me loves this game but older me noticed the shortcomings and the multiplayer was fun but long dead by now. Thanks Jarek, Love the content.
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bigevilworldwide1 yes we had all been waiting for Colonial Marines though. So when this came out I was confused, I hadn’t heard they were making a new AVP game.
I remember playing this when it came out... It was a PAIN IN THE ASS to get here in germany. You couldn't buy it on the normal way back then because of "child protection"... man im glad these days are over...
My brother and I were both 12 yo when it came out back in 2010, we were fucking excited for it bc we love both franchises and loved the game so much... we still got our physical xbox 360 copy in perfect condition after 11 years
You're, your channel is, one of the most underrated creators on UA-cam! Yes, underrated is the right word here! A man after my own heart! (Insert Father Gregory's laugh here).
I knew you'd be spreading the de light of this one someday. This game won't forever haunt my 90's childhood pc gaming dreams as does the OG AVP 2 but it for sure hit a high af note for me and my friends at the time. Awesome content bud keep crushing much love from MT, USA.
I played multiplayer a while back. This game has some meaning to me MP wise, as it's the first time I ever used my mic to speak in a game. There was only 2-3 active servers, and it was *heavily* unbalanced if one team had too many people on it. You can either get too many Xenos, Preds, or Humans. Trying to play as one of the other races not on the overflowing side is just suicide, and I remember one time it was nothing bu predators fucking around because there were no other players besides them
I love this game it's what sparked my interest for Alien vs Predator. The multiplayer was interesting, but by that point it was already empty. The story is great and it alp links up.
The infestation gamemode honestly highlighted just how terrifying it is to fight xenomorphs. Just being the humans and hearing your teammates die is bad enough, but it got worse when you find out you're the last one left and it just fell completely silent. I managed to get on redbox back in the day and it was fantastic. Really wish it got a remaster of sorts.
I grew up on this game- not sure when I played it, but it was when I was younger or 10 years old 😅 after school everyday I would go to my dads work and play the Xbox there soooooo I had a lot of time on my hands 🥲 I always and exclusively played the alien mode- love 6. My favorite number is 6 and I was born 2006, 16th 😂
I think a good fix for the combi-stick would have been to make it a normal spear as a default which stuns for a grab, without uncloaking you when you throw it, then allow it to use energy to upgrade it to an explosive which one-hits aliens and humans but and knocks down the cyborgs (I don’t remember their actual names). This would have its own animation of the predator powering up the spear’s tip and would also be much less broken and fun
I absolutely loved this game, so much so that I've bought it like three times over (twice physical, wound up trading them in for credit towards other stuff, then digital for keeps)
This game is apart if my teenage hood. This game on multiplayer was insane. My favorite map was the pyramid which would change the layout just like the first avp movie
Just coming into this in August 2022, always thought this was a multiplayer only game, never knew it had solo campaigns so always gave it a miss but saw this video then bought it, absolutely brilliant with the lights off and headphones on
I'm currently playing this game now on the PS3. I'm playing the Predator campaign and my Younger brother is playing the alien campaign. The pred campaign is so much fun. You get to go invisible, use heat detecting vision, sneak up on humans and grab them for instant kills. Humans are my favourite enemy because it lets me get creative and find the best way of taking them out
12:30 There was also infestation mode. Everyone but one player would start of as human, the other player as alien. Every human killed would respawn as an alien until it was a last man stand. The levels in this game were amazing if you ask me, from a pyramid to jungle forest to hangar. All being made for three teams, so you would experience them different when jumping from surface to surface as a predator or running over ceilings as alien. The game was clunky, and I think thats what killed it. It's reactions arent as responsive as a game like Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, which I feel like it should have been. There was no ads for marines and predators unfortunately were way overpowered in multiplayer. Leading a lot of players choosing that team making humans getting picked last. The best games had a solid pool of humans, a good spam of aliens and only a max of 3 predators. This made it most fun for everyone to play. I will say that any team was great if you had the skill. Humans could outdamage predators immensely if they knew how to track them and aliens could be kept off indefinately if you knew how the combat worked as human. If you werent prone to motion sickness alien had a great style of playing by remaining in the darkness and only jumping out when you had stalked your prey without them knowing you were there (you made sounds every move you made, so you had to be careful). I feel like predator had most forgivingness to it because of their invisibility. You couldn't outrun aliens or gunfire if you were found out, but you could snipe or oneshot people if you were good at aiming. I'd love to play this game again if I had the time or group of people to play with.
There was a multiplayer mode where your team got to choose that you wanted to be and work together to beat the other team. Me and my buddies love it. I was the marine and the other 2 were the alien and predator. Nothing could touch us.
I got this game because before it came out there was a multiplayer demo for it. As a Younger kid being able to play as an alien had me captivated so I had to get it. I honestly rather enjoyed the game and even remember all the assassination style kills you showed. Idk it's a special kind of game you'd only see on 360 and I appreciated the time I had with it.
Since you didn't get to try the MP much. It was decent but not as good as AvP2's. They ditched the class system which meant there was less variety. I also felt the Predator was a lot more overpowered as a result having all his weapons available at once. At least in 2 the speargun was only able to be used by the weakest predator with low health for example. But the biggest killer of AvP3's MP was probably the dumb press button to assassinate mechanic. It wasn't uncommon to see "conga lines" of people assassinating one another. Since it was way too easy to get that prompt to come up. Also Aliens being able to see through walls while cool for general deathmatch kind of ruined the survival mode though since you couldn't try to hide from them anymore as a strategy. That was the funnest mode in AvP2 trying to hide in some dark corner the map hoping you lasted longer than everyone else lol.
The multiplayer was small, but fun with different mechanics. The coolest was having mixed species teams working together. When a server was full it was awesome having marines, predators, and aliens working to each others strengths while also exploiting the enemies weaknesses. They also had an infection mode with marines vs aliens, that was exciting but not as creative.
Predators were so unbelievably broken in pvp, like the techs that people came up with were INSANE, which made killing them that much more satisfying. The infestation mode was downright terrifying; some of my scariest moments came out of that mode. Getting picked as the alien tested your patience. Alien mechanics in general made you learn how to play stealthy. Death matches were loads of fun. I loved playing marine. Exhilarating! The horde mode was addicting. Never got to play domination much but that was fun too. God I miss this game can I get a remaster please? 🥺
With it just being added to backwards I wanted to play it again because I loved it when I first got it. I loved it again. The Predator campaign has to be my favourite.
I remember this game, I enjoyed Predator most, because well I am Predator fan. Remember playing multiplayer also, but it died so fast on PS3 like month after launch if I remember correctly and Predator was OP af in multiplayer.
My brother and I had the demo of this game, which was 1 multiplayer map and you could be the basic human, alien and predator. We absolutely LOVED it. That multiplayer game was so incredible, I haven't felt a multiplayer that was so exciting
the survival multiplayer mode was so damn fun. No matter how hard everybody camps, players (as soldiers) just die left and right which makes it perfectly balanced.
i actually think the best part of this was the pvp.... predators had the upper hand when they knew how to cancel energy animation and got their power weapons , aliens out runned everyone and could literally pick your back if you were bad at tracking or not fast enough , and marines well.... i though for the most part were the weaker of them ... but then once the lobbys taked ages to find i stumble upon a marine main and he fk ragdoll everyone in the lobby i was a sweatty predator main , and there were also at least other predator and 2 alines , but that 1 marine was legit a pain to hunt down even in 2 v 1 scenarios ... since pulse rifle once you get used to spread you melt people , and granades of that think were boosted killing you or knocking you for easy spread till death , shotgun was also op melting anyone in close range just stay out rifle unless you have god aim , smart gun in multiplayer is a bait and flamethrower is a joke.... but outside of that every species had theyre ops and downs, in brawls predators had the upper hand and if you let them get caster + mines if they knew how to cancel energy unless a good marine melts them from afar they will dominate the lobby , aliens had the speed and angle advantage , and since marines started with pulse rifle all you needed to know was how to counter cancels and watch your back
My only response to this in regards to the alien campaign pov, its pretty disorienting and confusing at first, but once you get the hang of it, which isnt hard, its so much fun. You run fast and can go almost anywhere
God I loved this game on PC. Got it on launch with my stepdads card and played it every day online in multiplayer until he charged the game back like a year later for some weird reason. The multiplayer was so amazing when it was easy to get games going. They never had a server browser just shitty matchmaking tho so now you can’t find a match unless it fills the lobby, which it never does. It’s so sad they never patched a server browser in so people could keep the games going even with just a few players. I know I joined some groups to play this game online many years later but it was mostly pros who were super good at this game or cheaters who would ruin any match that went live. I remember thinking the heat vision for the Predator looked so realistic and good when this game first came out. God I miss playing the multiplayer with a full server, was amazing with marines and aliens and predators all running around killing each other. Some of the most fun I’ve ever had in multiplayer matches on PC. I loved the melee combat in this game. It was very difficult but satisfying when you killed someone in melee
And I also love this game. I've played this game back in 2012. However, one thing that bothers me is that I can't find the name of the font used in text, for example, on 0:14 where it says:,,Return to barricade tunnel and assist Charlie Company". On the top of that, I love everything in this game - graphics, gameplay, sounds (that are satisfying), light levels (yes, when you play as an alien, you can destroy light sources - a really fun thing) and, of course, font. In terms of font, I've searching for three days the font that is used in the sentence that I mentioned above, but with no avail to find it. But, who knows, maybe I will find it one day. Overall, this game is so beautiful and it is so sad and deplorable that is underrated. Since it is beautiful and nice game, I can give it a rating of 10 out of 10 stars.
This game fucking rocked as a 13 year old. The 3 distinct campaigns.The semi horror marine one. The other with som many beautiful gory kill animations.
This was a really good game. I remember once hiding upside down at the bottom of the stairs whilst playing as an alien, waiting patiently for my human prey. Cinematics were really good. That opening when the predator ship blasts its enemy. Playing as all of them is really good, fond memories indeed
I’m definitely late on this video but, I played this game on release and many months after during its prime. This became my favorite game of all time. I didn’t play the single player campaigns but only multiplayer and MAN OH MAN it was badass. You could choose to be a marine, predator or alien with each species having their own skins and looks as well as abilities. Aliens could crawl on walls and upside down on ceilings. This is who I made my main lmao. This shit was fun. I’m severely disappointed there hasn’t been a re release or another game after this. I have been waiting since 2010. Hurry tf up.
I had fun with this. Its most memorable to me because it actually had a double barrel Shotgun I like using which isn't common because I dislike guns where you have to reload after every shot, or every other shot unless they're grenade launchers or rocket launchers
I remember the multiplayer, and I personally loved it. I remember everyone wanted to be the predator, which was fine I loved playing as the alien, and sneaking up on other players was a blast. I've never played a multiplayer game with stealth before, oh and getting a smart gun in multiplayer was also the shit, as you basically had hacks on lol.
I completed this games story repeatedly back to back so many times when i was younger, was the first game i got a platinum trophy for, i expected a follow up to this game with such high expectations but it just never happened, but i’m only 20 so i got time to wait i guess.
As someone that played it alot, there is one big issue you didn't mention which was the multiplayer balancing. It was way too easy for the xenos and preds to bully the marines due to having the insta-kill stealth kills in the multiplayer. Trust me, it was infuriating to see that non-stop in matches to the point no-one wanted to be stuck as the marines. Granted, the developers stated the three species were balanced in sort of a rock/paper/scissor chart with xenos being the melee class, marines ranged, and preds in between which is important to keep in mind if you do find active games. I used this to my advantage one match when I was able to hold down a hallway with only two entrances on the far ends and keep my back to the wall. Crouching and not using the flashlight help keep me from being seen faster and let me get the drop on them as the motion tracker works on cloaked pred and the cloak isn't perfect. Follow the quote of short, controlled bursts and the pulse rifle dominates over any weapon save the rare smart gun. To help hammer this in, the match I played was me as the sole marine against full xeno and pred team. Holding that hallway and being sharp ended up with me beating out the xeno team and tying with the pred team on kills as a whole, and the pred team messaged me conceding to me as the winner of the match and this was when the game was new and heavily populated. Fun but frustrating is the way to describe it but sad it didn't get the love it deserved.
I personally loved this game, I could play the campaigns for days and days and days without getting bored. The survival was absolute class and multiplayer imo was perfect. Hell I played campaign so much for xenomorph I either finished everyone with harvest or execute every time I played the campaign and with predator I’d execute everyone as well, marine I never had the balls to complete on nightmare but did get to research lab. The multiplayer was such a good concept with the modes and the amount of players and maps, as for the graphics? It’s mad a game from 2010 literally has better graphics then half of the games I’ve seen today My only drawback of the game is we haven’t got a sequel to it yet :(
I remember I was like 7 or something when I saw this game at GameStop and asked my mom to buy it I loved this game so much. I replayed the alien and predator campaigns over and over. I was too scared to play the marine campaign and the one time I did there was the uh… the… that one room… and my dad was in the living room at the time Safe to say I couldn’t play the marine part anymore They also didn’t like the characters dialogue? So I had to play it muted or else I wasn’t allowed to play it
At the time I was not able to play the game when it came out I didn't have an Xbox or Playstation I only had a Wii I had a laptop but with no graphics card so I couldn't really push the graphics one thing I can definitely say though that this game had a unique feeling for the xeno morphs crawling almost like lizards I thought it was so cool compared to the previous games in recent years I've tried playing the campaigns now and then multiplayer I went straight to the horde mode like you did but I didn't know there was more than one map most of the maps for multiplayer were pretty dark from what I remember I was never able to play with my friends online because the servers were down when I tried it four years ago meanwhile alien versus predator colonial still seems to be played strange given it's the oldest entry in the series and then AVP2 considered to be the best of the series for multiplayer PVP is the strange duckling in the fact that the only way to obtain it is pirating the game enjoying on a patched small server since gamespy got shut down
I loved this game so so much back in the day. The multiplayer was so fucking fun. I wish there was a Reddit community for it or something so people could meet online to host private matches
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Hey jarek! Have you heard of Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30? It's an original Xbox era fps with strategy elements that I never hear anyone talk about but it was a really interesting game when I was younger. I'd recommend checking it out!
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JarekTheGamingDragon I like this game but I like playing as the Marine more than the Alien & the Predator campaign.
You should honestly review AVP2 and some mods(my mod it’s almost complete)Another reason You should play it it’s free now. ua-cam.com/video/6BauFpoxQpg/v-deo.html
damn you have some quality content
Rebellion have a long history of making "good" games, not outstanding achievements, just "good", this is one of them.
Three campaigns, they're all good, graphics are good, sound is good, gameplay's good, it's... good, i recommend it if you like good games.
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Everyone hates it but I loved this game. Sadly, though, I couldn't get to it before the multiplayer died
I had the same problem with multiplayer back in the day. There wasnt ever enough people online playing but good thing the campaigns are fun
Mp still going man, look at forum ya still got a couple of guys playing. I join sometimes too.
It was a great time tbh playing predator was my fav
The multiplayer when this game first cam out was amazing.
There is some MP going around, sadly there are too many cheaters
I hate how hated this game is. I loved this game from the first time I saw gameplay of it, granted mostly because of the aesthetic. But then I actually played it, and loved it still. I wish more games would use the "Play from more perspectives" or "interwoven campaigns" approach, you really don't get to see that.. well, at all, really.
Fuck the haters bro because too be honest a lot of us love this game bro trust me this concept of AVP is so fucking legendary it has its loyal fans like you and me so lighten up bro 🙂🙂 aliens vs Predator dont need the whole world to love em it needs us the loyal fans ☺️☺️
Play AVP2 and then this game and you might understand why this one is so hated.
@@shoopusdawhoopus I did.
@@shoopusdawhoopus I played AVP2, and I still loved this game, AVP2 was from a different time, with different game design elements. That doesn't mean this game is bad. I have a feeling people were just too stingy and unforgiving to give this gem a chance because it wasn't giving them the nostalgia they craved.
Gta 4 has one of the best interwoven stories ever told. The three characters are interesting as well, HBO level writing to
The alien campaign will be my all-time favourite; it just feels so amazing to strike from the shadows and deal mercilessly with anyone who dares to stand in your way. I'm still hoping this game will get a sequel.
In my personal opinion this is the only AVP that is fun playing with the Alien, the other 2 are too much confusing.
I wish you could pull marines into vents to kill them. That'd be a cool mechanic.
I completely agree 😈
An old friend of mine was the top rated player in the MP on 360 for years. His tag was ElderPredator1, and he was legit nigh unbeatable. He only played as a Predator (go figure) and just used arm blades.
The game wasn't hard to be good at. Once u know how to faint Lb attacks and bait ppl and speed Lb attack u were unstoppable against noobs
Predator rules Xbox4life
I wouldnt be surpised if I ran into him since ive played it hardcore back in the day on 360.
Cheers for the mention my friend that was actually me. I`m still on Xbox under the same name; ELDERPREDATOR1.
@@JANNELDERPREDATOR3 beetlejuicing
This game was so underrated !!!! The alien storyline was smart and engaging , the predator one was brutal and telling and the human story was a straight up horror show 😂
seriously tho the marines campaign was a legit horror experience lol
@@nando6458 dude the mission in that big engine room with the lights flickering and there’s just dozens of Xenos coming from everywhere 10 year old me had nightmares to say the least
@@nicunicucaesar2893 that was a blast of terror man lmao
@@nando6458 I just realized that I couldn’t beat that part and had my dad do it for me at the time because I got too scared 💀
@@nicunicucaesar2893 lmaooo I don't blame you for getting him to play that part for you 💀
There's private groups and dedicated servers that get together at random intervals. I got my own group of friends to pick up and play the game for two weeks straight. It was a blast!
Hope You got Room for One more. I got AvP as well. I'm mlp1999 on Xbox One
@@thelongneckprime8172 How come when I tried matchmaking on xbox one about 2 weeks ago there was no one online? I tried like twice a day for a week. The game is great and I hope we get another one like this one for next gen.
I just went on the server browser and there just happened to be an almost full lobby
It's funny how a game with 3 different campaigns has a better marine campaign than aliens colonial marines
I'm sure people looking back at this game or just found out about this game are like "damn, this game did the AVP better!"
I have a soft spot for this game. Reminds me of the time where videogames would not come out here in Germany because they were too violent (still not available via Steam in Germany). So we had to buy them from Austria.
Really appreciated the gore in this game. One of its only kind where you have solid gameplay as the Predator.
@Брандон Кeллeр but it aint an issues since a few years we are even allowed to show nazi symbols which was an instant ban like a year ago
@@matteoziegler7632 Nah, not in Germany. Matter of fact, the multiplayer and zombies for COD WW2 for the entire world had to censor the swastikas so the German government could be satisfied. Same thing happened with The Last Of Us Multiplayer, the entire EU version was censored because Germany didnt want kids to see people's arms getting blown off, IN AN EIGHTEEN + GAME!! Its so sad that adults are being babysited by their governments, and they get to decide what we are allowed to see, as if by the age of 18 you are still an oversensitive fetus. To be honest though, our society is becoming more and more sensitive nowadays, and society is starting to cater to manchildren.
@@HiJack3r it wasnt The goverment it was the publisher who censored it World wide in the multiplayer and about the gore it rarely happens in any version of the game despite beeing part of every trailer to sell the War is brutal message
www.schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=15371
@@matteoziegler7632 Then why are the swastikas removed entirely in the German version, but in the rest of the world they havent for the campaign? And also, it has been confirmed, the entire european version has been censored for TLOU to comply with German ratings. The fun is being taken away for the rest of us because the German government is too oversensitive. They wanna turn you guys into manchildren.
@@HiJack3r Because Swastikas are not allowed to be shown in Germany, most of the time. It's practically a legal thing. That was government. The violence was the publisher.
In the marine campaign, i remember giving my friend the controller and after the first part where the alien tries to get you through the door, my friend was done lmao. A testament to how well the audio, atmosphere, lighting and graphics. I find it still holds up really well. Thanks for the video!
Yes 🙌 it’s a well made game Rebellion were fans themselves 🥰🥰
Easily the best game from the franchises. got a bit cheese in the MP in the end, but all games do.
I just remember how broken the multiplayer balance was, like how aliens would just spam their Tail power attack from walls effectively bypassing the games melee/block/bash system, and how EVERYONE wanted to play Predators.
yea and then the game would balance it before the game started and tbh I was an alien player I like the minimalistic gameplay because I was like 9 (we didnt get the game new we got it a year later)
multiplayer was a huge mess. probably only played 2 or 3 multiplayer games that were enjoyable
To be fair, when your options are a lot more limited, you use what you can.
The Xenomorphs were meant to be the speedy, stealthy, strike from shadows and unexpected angles characters.
That kinda falls apart when the Predators have a vision setting to just... see you, and the Marines can pick up an auto targeting rifle that can deploy into a turret.
Giving the Xenomorphs a ranged acid spit like some of them had in the campaigns, even if it just stunned marines and predators and allowed them to destroy smart turrets and lights from range would have opened up a lot more tactical options for them in multiplayer.
Seriously, what good was the hiss in multiplayer? you aren't going to lure another player out of position with it.
Also can smart weapons in games just... fuck off? Like, fine, for PvE weapons, but leave them out of PvP.
THANK YOU! Finally someone who agrees this game is underrated!
Me too, I just completed all campaigns on hard on my xbox one the other week
Especially for what came after it...*coughs* *coughs* colonial Marines
I was a once godly at this game's MP as an alien. I adore this game, it will always hold a special place in my heart.
Game was a lot of fun, especially when they eventually introduced dedicated servers to multiplayer. Marines weren't the easiest to play as but it was always satisfying knocking aliens and predators on their ass when they weren't expecting it.
Compliment sandwich:
>This video made me excited to play a game that's a decade old simply by explaining its mechanics and fun factor well.
>You should work on your pronunciation of words like "versus," "escape," and a few others.
>The people who are not subscribed to you are missing out, because you deliver quality content on a much more regular basis than many similar channels.
A new video every Friday. 2020 is a hard year but if I can give people something to look forward to, even if it's just a silly video about games, then I'll do my best.
I got it too on steam if you tryna play
I agree. The video was well presented overall, but some prononunciations made me lose interest.
Ho, this game.
Remember playing through all 3 campaigns on my PS3, that was a looooong time ago.
Great game.
P.S.
God, the facehuggers terrified me back then. Horrible things.
Facehuggers are the only thing that still give me the creeps in games, just hearing that fucker sound makes me go crazy shooting everything.
True
I'd been praying for you to hear about this game. I was in the same boat as you, younger me loves this game but older me noticed the shortcomings and the multiplayer was fun but long dead by now. Thanks Jarek, Love the content.
i don't understand why people doesn't subscribe to this channel?!
this is one of the best classic game reviewers that specialized in FPS game, tho he tried to make vid about other games
if u love FPS games please subscribe!
172k Subs... what are you talking about?
Jarek and Gman are the best imo. Their content is similar, but there îs a big gap between their sub counts. People picking sides perhaps?
Ah yes. The nostalgia. Th greatest nostalgia.
If this gives you nostalgia, try AvP2!
Nostalgia? Nostalgia would be for the first or second AvP - this is too young for nostalgia - and so are you
@@kestutisvaiciunas8663 It was about 10 years ago, the world was a very different place so stfu granddad
@@kestutisvaiciunas8663 who are you?
@@kestutisvaiciunas8663 You need to look up the definition of nostalgia. 🤣
A good game. But I remember it as “Not Colonial Marines” when it was released....
bigevilworldwide1 yes we had all been waiting for Colonial Marines though. So when this came out I was confused, I hadn’t heard they were making a new AVP game.
Imagine a time when a game not being Colonial Marines was a bad thing...
Imagine a universe where games are finished
I remember playing this when it came out...
It was a PAIN IN THE ASS to get here in germany.
You couldn't buy it on the normal way back then because of "child protection"... man im glad these days are over...
Ja ich habs damals aus Frankreich importiert wegen der Indizierung:)
Multiplayer still has like 30 people and 2 servers active, so you are all welcome to di- I mean join and have fun ;D
I quite fondly remember this game. In fact I'm playing it right now
I hate you 😩😩🥺 I so wanna play it again lol
You should review Red Faction. I feel it's a game series that's been forgotten in recent years, and especially by younger gamers
Red Faction Guerilla was absolutely golden tier. They remastered it and its still a lot of fun. Armageddon was a shit pile
Red faction AI was limited to the mobs sliding away from your .ouse cursor when you aimed at them. Just somehow defying physics.
[Marine gets stabbed through the throat by an alien tail]
UA-cam: "Time for a GrubHub ad!"
I know this is kinda weird term for saying, but I really like Jarek's wholesome and positive critics, compared to others. Keep it up!
My brother and I were both 12 yo when it came out back in 2010, we were fucking excited for it bc we love both franchises and loved the game so much... we still got our physical xbox 360 copy in perfect condition after 11 years
I remember playing this on the 360 and the loving the gore lol
7:42 in VR... Imma jump at this tree an-*VIOLENTLY VOMITS*
Jarek, I always appreciate your videos and am very excited when new ones come out. Thank you for your hard work!
Glad you like them!
You're, your channel is, one of the most underrated creators on UA-cam! Yes, underrated is the right word here!
A man after my own heart! (Insert Father Gregory's laugh here).
Loved playing matches in the AvP movie arctic temple.
I knew you'd be spreading the de light of this one someday. This game won't forever haunt my 90's childhood pc gaming dreams as does the OG AVP 2 but it for sure hit a high af note for me and my friends at the time. Awesome content bud keep crushing much love from MT, USA.
Man, I remember playing this on 360, good times
I played multiplayer a while back. This game has some meaning to me MP wise, as it's the first time I ever used my mic to speak in a game. There was only 2-3 active servers, and it was *heavily* unbalanced if one team had too many people on it. You can either get too many Xenos, Preds, or Humans. Trying to play as one of the other races not on the overflowing side is just suicide, and I remember one time it was nothing bu predators fucking around because there were no other players besides them
I just want Rebellion making a Alien's Game because I loved the marine's campaign and Tequila she is a perfect Latina woman❤
11 year old me was soo scared. Don’t know what my uncle was thinking, fallout 3 and this one were my first games on ps3.
I love this game it's what sparked my interest for Alien vs Predator. The multiplayer was interesting, but by that point it was already empty. The story is great and it alp links up.
The infestation gamemode honestly highlighted just how terrifying it is to fight xenomorphs. Just being the humans and hearing your teammates die is bad enough, but it got worse when you find out you're the last one left and it just fell completely silent.
I managed to get on redbox back in the day and it was fantastic. Really wish it got a remaster of sorts.
Might need to pick this game up.
You'll enjoy it
Its replayable and fun to take turns playing with buddies just for the violence lol
It has multiplayer! Ill play it with you if u want :D
I love this game multi-player was so fun I was very sad when downloaded again couple of years ago and saw its dead :/
@@l4dfanatic11 my gt is literally my name lol
I grew up on this game- not sure when I played it, but it was when I was younger or 10 years old 😅 after school everyday I would go to my dads work and play the Xbox there soooooo I had a lot of time on my hands 🥲 I always and exclusively played the alien mode- love 6. My favorite number is 6 and I was born 2006, 16th 😂
wanted to play it 10 years ago. Sadly germany banned it.
What DIDN'T they ban?
TeamEngie gore, and violence
Import from Austria?
Fucking hell, Germany is a pussy
I think a good fix for the combi-stick would have been to make it a normal spear as a default which stuns for a grab, without uncloaking you when you throw it, then allow it to use energy to upgrade it to an explosive which one-hits aliens and humans but and knocks down the cyborgs (I don’t remember their actual names). This would have its own animation of the predator powering up the spear’s tip and would also be much less broken and fun
I absolutely loved this game, so much so that I've bought it like three times over (twice physical, wound up trading them in for credit towards other stuff, then digital for keeps)
This game is apart if my teenage hood. This game on multiplayer was insane. My favorite map was the pyramid which would change the layout just like the first avp movie
Recently played this again a few weeks back I loved it I really enjoyed the gameplay the marine campaign was a good horror for about an hour
Just coming into this in August 2022, always thought this was a multiplayer only game, never knew it had solo campaigns so always gave it a miss but saw this video then bought it, absolutely brilliant with the lights off and headphones on
I loved this game when it came out. I did find the Alien part hard to get used to
I remember having a lot of fun playing this game. MP was rough and I loved the predator campaign.
for the record,
I love your content
I'm currently playing this game now on the PS3. I'm playing the Predator campaign and my Younger brother is playing the alien campaign. The pred campaign is so much fun. You get to go invisible, use heat detecting vision, sneak up on humans and grab them for instant kills. Humans are my favourite enemy because it lets me get creative and find the best way of taking them out
Would love to see a remaster
Man, I keep coming back to this game even now in 2022
12:30 There was also infestation mode. Everyone but one player would start of as human, the other player as alien. Every human killed would respawn as an alien until it was a last man stand. The levels in this game were amazing if you ask me, from a pyramid to jungle forest to hangar. All being made for three teams, so you would experience them different when jumping from surface to surface as a predator or running over ceilings as alien.
The game was clunky, and I think thats what killed it. It's reactions arent as responsive as a game like Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, which I feel like it should have been. There was no ads for marines and predators unfortunately were way overpowered in multiplayer. Leading a lot of players choosing that team making humans getting picked last. The best games had a solid pool of humans, a good spam of aliens and only a max of 3 predators. This made it most fun for everyone to play.
I will say that any team was great if you had the skill. Humans could outdamage predators immensely if they knew how to track them and aliens could be kept off indefinately if you knew how the combat worked as human. If you werent prone to motion sickness alien had a great style of playing by remaining in the darkness and only jumping out when you had stalked your prey without them knowing you were there (you made sounds every move you made, so you had to be careful). I feel like predator had most forgivingness to it because of their invisibility. You couldn't outrun aliens or gunfire if you were found out, but you could snipe or oneshot people if you were good at aiming.
I'd love to play this game again if I had the time or group of people to play with.
The multiplayer on this game and AVP2 was so good. My first taste of multiplayer games right here.
There was a multiplayer mode where your team got to choose that you wanted to be and work together to beat the other team. Me and my buddies love it. I was the marine and the other 2 were the alien and predator. Nothing could touch us.
I got this game because before it came out there was a multiplayer demo for it. As a Younger kid being able to play as an alien had me captivated so I had to get it. I honestly rather enjoyed the game and even remember all the assassination style kills you showed. Idk it's a special kind of game you'd only see on 360 and I appreciated the time I had with it.
2010 was A Great Era for the Predator Franchise, ps3 and Avp came out. Predators 2010 came out. Oh i miss it
The multiplayer was fucking fun. There was an infection-type mode with Marines and Aliens that was horror game levels of intense at times.
I studied at a boarding school
This game was a hot topic among my friends till 2014 in our own world
Since you didn't get to try the MP much. It was decent but not as good as AvP2's. They ditched the class system which meant there was less variety. I also felt the Predator was a lot more overpowered as a result having all his weapons available at once. At least in 2 the speargun was only able to be used by the weakest predator with low health for example. But the biggest killer of AvP3's MP was probably the dumb press button to assassinate mechanic. It wasn't uncommon to see "conga lines" of people assassinating one another. Since it was way too easy to get that prompt to come up. Also Aliens being able to see through walls while cool for general deathmatch kind of ruined the survival mode though since you couldn't try to hide from them anymore as a strategy. That was the funnest mode in AvP2 trying to hide in some dark corner the map hoping you lasted longer than everyone else lol.
The multiplayer was small, but fun with different mechanics. The coolest was having mixed species teams working together. When a server was full it was awesome having marines, predators, and aliens working to each others strengths while also exploiting the enemies weaknesses. They also had an infection mode with marines vs aliens, that was exciting but not as creative.
Predators were so unbelievably broken in pvp, like the techs that people came up with were INSANE, which made killing them that much more satisfying. The infestation mode was downright terrifying; some of my scariest moments came out of that mode. Getting picked as the alien tested your patience. Alien mechanics in general made you learn how to play stealthy. Death matches were loads of fun. I loved playing marine. Exhilarating! The horde mode was addicting. Never got to play domination much but that was fun too. God I miss this game can I get a remaster please? 🥺
Infestation and Predator Hunt on MP were some of smartest and funnest modes to play as well as the alien waves mode.
With it just being added to backwards I wanted to play it again because I loved it when I first got it. I loved it again. The Predator campaign has to be my favourite.
I was ranked as the #1 Alien player (PS3) for a while on this game. I adored this game and played 100s of hours way back when.
Bro me and the boys used to play this on LAN in high school. Alien lifecycle was the absolute shit! Stalking humans through the vents was SICK!
I remember this game, I enjoyed Predator most, because well I am Predator fan. Remember playing multiplayer also, but it died so fast on PS3 like month after launch if I remember correctly and Predator was OP af in multiplayer.
Anyone else have nostalgia for the main menu? The spinning blueprints and static sounds 🤌
My brother and I had the demo of this game, which was 1 multiplayer map and you could be the basic human, alien and predator. We absolutely LOVED it. That multiplayer game was so incredible, I haven't felt a multiplayer that was so exciting
For anyone who has a 360 copy but doesn't feel like getting out their 360, it is backwards compatible on xbox one as of November 2018
the survival multiplayer mode was so damn fun. No matter how hard everybody camps, players (as soldiers) just die left and right which makes it perfectly balanced.
alien infestation mode was the best mode i loved it and i glad i played it when the multiplayer was still active
I love your videos dude, theyre really just on point, informative entertaining and explanative
i actually think the best part of this was the pvp.... predators had the upper hand when they knew how to cancel energy animation and got their power weapons , aliens out runned everyone and could literally pick your back if you were bad at tracking or not fast enough , and marines well.... i though for the most part were the weaker of them ... but then once the lobbys taked ages to find i stumble upon a marine main and he fk ragdoll everyone in the lobby i was a sweatty predator main , and there were also at least other predator and 2 alines , but that 1 marine was legit a pain to hunt down even in 2 v 1 scenarios ... since pulse rifle once you get used to spread you melt people , and granades of that think were boosted killing you or knocking you for easy spread till death , shotgun was also op melting anyone in close range just stay out rifle unless you have god aim , smart gun in multiplayer is a bait and flamethrower is a joke.... but outside of that every species had theyre ops and downs, in brawls predators had the upper hand and if you let them get caster + mines if they knew how to cancel energy unless a good marine melts them from afar they will dominate the lobby , aliens had the speed and angle advantage , and since marines started with pulse rifle all you needed to know was how to counter cancels and watch your back
I remember beating all 3 campaigns on nightmare and repeated the second to last level over 20 times on the marine campaign. Good times.
My only response to this in regards to the alien campaign pov, its pretty disorienting and confusing at first, but once you get the hang of it, which isnt hard, its so much fun. You run fast and can go almost anywhere
Somehow I missed this when it came out! I just picked it up on steam for 15 bucks! Great video and analysis!
God I loved this game on PC. Got it on launch with my stepdads card and played it every day online in multiplayer until he charged the game back like a year later for some weird reason.
The multiplayer was so amazing when it was easy to get games going. They never had a server browser just shitty matchmaking tho so now you can’t find a match unless it fills the lobby, which it never does. It’s so sad they never patched a server browser in so people could keep the games going even with just a few players.
I know I joined some groups to play this game online many years later but it was mostly pros who were super good at this game or cheaters who would ruin any match that went live.
I remember thinking the heat vision for the Predator looked so realistic and good when this game first came out.
God I miss playing the multiplayer with a full server, was amazing with marines and aliens and predators all running around killing each other.
Some of the most fun I’ve ever had in multiplayer matches on PC.
I loved the melee combat in this game. It was very difficult but satisfying when you killed someone in melee
I loved Species team deathmatch. That multiplayer mode was so awesome 6 marines vs 6 aliens vs 6 predators. It was a awesome shitshow.
And I also love this game. I've played this game back in 2012. However, one thing that bothers me is that I can't find the name of the font used in text, for example, on 0:14 where it says:,,Return to barricade tunnel and assist Charlie Company". On the top of that, I love everything in this game - graphics, gameplay, sounds (that are satisfying), light levels (yes, when you play as an alien, you can destroy light sources - a really fun thing) and, of course, font. In terms of font, I've searching for three days the font that is used in the sentence that I mentioned above, but with no avail to find it. But, who knows, maybe I will find it one day. Overall, this game is so beautiful and it is so sad and deplorable that is underrated. Since it is beautiful and nice game, I can give it a rating of 10 out of 10 stars.
This game fucking rocked as a 13 year old. The 3 distinct campaigns.The semi horror marine one. The other with som many beautiful gory kill animations.
When I used to play this for the PS3 I loved the alien and predator story line. I still have it for PS3.
This was a really good game. I remember once hiding upside down at the bottom of the stairs whilst playing as an alien, waiting patiently for my human prey. Cinematics were really good. That opening when the predator ship blasts its enemy. Playing as all of them is really good, fond memories indeed
I’m definitely late on this video but, I played this game on release and many months after during its prime. This became my favorite game of all time. I didn’t play the single player campaigns but only multiplayer and MAN OH MAN it was badass. You could choose to be a marine, predator or alien with each species having their own skins and looks as well as abilities. Aliens could crawl on walls and upside down on ceilings. This is who I made my main lmao. This shit was fun. I’m severely disappointed there hasn’t been a re release or another game after this. I have been waiting since 2010. Hurry tf up.
I had fun with this. Its most memorable to me because it actually had a double barrel Shotgun I like using which isn't common because I dislike guns where you have to reload after every shot, or every other shot unless they're grenade launchers or rocket launchers
Marine: OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT
Alien: I am speed
Predator: Haha, tech go brrrrr
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
I beat the marine campaign on the hardest difficulty when it came out, became my tag, be prepared and block!
I remember the multiplayer, and I personally loved it. I remember everyone wanted to be the predator, which was fine I loved playing as the alien, and sneaking up on other players was a blast. I've never played a multiplayer game with stealth before, oh and getting a smart gun in multiplayer was also the shit, as you basically had hacks on lol.
The mess up audio is very good actually.
Game on sale right now too.
I completed this games story repeatedly back to back so many times when i was younger, was the first game i got a platinum trophy for, i expected a follow up to this game with such high expectations but it just never happened, but i’m only 20 so i got time to wait i guess.
As someone that played it alot, there is one big issue you didn't mention which was the multiplayer balancing. It was way too easy for the xenos and preds to bully the marines due to having the insta-kill stealth kills in the multiplayer. Trust me, it was infuriating to see that non-stop in matches to the point no-one wanted to be stuck as the marines. Granted, the developers stated the three species were balanced in sort of a rock/paper/scissor chart with xenos being the melee class, marines ranged, and preds in between which is important to keep in mind if you do find active games. I used this to my advantage one match when I was able to hold down a hallway with only two entrances on the far ends and keep my back to the wall. Crouching and not using the flashlight help keep me from being seen faster and let me get the drop on them as the motion tracker works on cloaked pred and the cloak isn't perfect. Follow the quote of short, controlled bursts and the pulse rifle dominates over any weapon save the rare smart gun. To help hammer this in, the match I played was me as the sole marine against full xeno and pred team. Holding that hallway and being sharp ended up with me beating out the xeno team and tying with the pred team on kills as a whole, and the pred team messaged me conceding to me as the winner of the match and this was when the game was new and heavily populated. Fun but frustrating is the way to describe it but sad it didn't get the love it deserved.
The only time I got to play this game was a demo for the multiplayer. It was so fun taking people out with the preadtor.
I personally loved this game, I could play the campaigns for days and days and days without getting bored. The survival was absolute class and multiplayer imo was perfect. Hell I played campaign so much for xenomorph I either finished everyone with harvest or execute every time I played the campaign and with predator I’d execute everyone as well, marine I never had the balls to complete on nightmare but did get to research lab. The multiplayer was such a good concept with the modes and the amount of players and maps, as for the graphics? It’s mad a game from 2010 literally has better graphics then half of the games I’ve seen today
My only drawback of the game is we haven’t got a sequel to it yet :(
Me and my brothers loved this game as kids. Great memories man
I remember I was like 7 or something when I saw this game at GameStop and asked my mom to buy it
I loved this game so much. I replayed the alien and predator campaigns over and over.
I was too scared to play the marine campaign and the one time I did there was the uh… the… that one room… and my dad was in the living room at the time
Safe to say I couldn’t play the marine part anymore
They also didn’t like the characters dialogue? So I had to play it muted or else I wasn’t allowed to play it
At the time I was not able to play the game when it came out I didn't have an Xbox or Playstation I only had a Wii I had a laptop but with no graphics card so I couldn't really push the graphics one thing I can definitely say though that this game had a unique feeling for the xeno morphs crawling almost like lizards I thought it was so cool compared to the previous games in recent years I've tried playing the campaigns now and then multiplayer I went straight to the horde mode like you did but I didn't know there was more than one map most of the maps for multiplayer were pretty dark from what I remember I was never able to play with my friends online because the servers were down when I tried it four years ago meanwhile alien versus predator colonial still seems to be played strange given it's the oldest entry in the series and then AVP2 considered to be the best of the series for multiplayer PVP is the strange duckling in the fact that the only way to obtain it is pirating the game enjoying on a patched small server since gamespy got shut down
I’m fortunate to have actually played the multiplayer of this game a lot back in the day
I loved this game so so much back in the day. The multiplayer was so fucking fun. I wish there was a Reddit community for it or something so people could meet online to host private matches