Aliens vs. Predator Marine Trailer Turns Out the Lights, PC Demo Matchmaking Fixed

Thats crap, I'm in Japan and steam wont let me download the demo.... ....... .. .. . .. . . . . .BS!

Was pretty turned off on my first play. Though it really started to grow on me as I pressed on.

Having read some of the other comments...well. I have a good LCD (being a gamer and all) so the dark environments look great and are fitting for the AvP style. Like any other game recent FPS, crappy gear is NOT going to help you enjoy a game.

The level design on the demo level is pretty uninspired, so I really hope the rest of them are better. None the less I did have fun playing on it.

The Marines felt kinda...blah to me. Game play wise. But then they are based on your average run and gun FPS type guy so....

Yes the UI sucks, to many layers, but I can deal with it.

The mouse response in game feels a little "console'ish" kinda like Borderlands. But Borderlands has an easy fix for it by making some changes in the cfg, hoping maybe to find something like that for AvP2.

All out Death Match, is what I imagine to be the weakest mode in this game. Aliens vs Aliens vs Pred vs Pred, etc, doesn't give the right feel. The team modes I expect will be much more fun, and when people decide not to free for all in the demo, it seems everyone has a much better time.

Mixed bag, all and all. Lets hope for modding tools so we can make it better.

well, last night I wasted about an hour of waiting combined.

The gameplay was fine, although I believe the Predator needs some kind of starting weapon.

And Rebellion, I hope you guys read this - make it faster, at least on the PC. Damn console (or should I say: modern day, mass market appealing) games :(

My only issue with this game is you can't turn off microphone transmit in the lobby.

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU ALWAYS TRANSMIT IN THE LOBBY?

Why can't developers make decent PC ports?
Low fixed FOV, and fixed 60hz refresh.
These two things bother my so much, and are present in almost every console to PC port.

Looks alright, but christ those aliens are slow. I hope there's some that don't stroll towards you in quite as leisurely a fashion or it's never going to have that arse-clenching panic of the first two...

It's a good sign that they: 1. Acknowledged the problem, and 2. Fixed it right away with a patch.

Once I get more used to the controls, I'll enjoy it even more. So far, it WAS pretty fun. Though I do hope that the final release has slightly better graphics (in general) and the Dedicated Servers that they claim will be there. :)

This was a bad demo for (what I believe) will be a good game.

Initailly it felt very odd, but I persisted. Now it's actually alot of fun. The controls take alot of getting used to though.

I'm looking forward to the game, and the inital trashing of the game itself was unwarrented in my opinion. Maybe if some people took a little bit more time to get used to the characters (that's rebellions fault..no idea why they didnt include a tutorial level or something) they might have started enjoying it more.

Having a blast with the demo. It's a nice change from the other FPS games out there.

you people who say "it sucks" just dont know how to play. watch this video courtesy of niceguynick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scDdcJo47-g

ive been pimping this video a lot lately because it shows what you really can do in the right hands. practice practice practice

In case anyone missed the thread about it here: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=22095476 check this thread:

http://forumplanet.gamespy.com/tech_support/b49029/19799417/p21/

The guy that goes by the name of "sirlemonhead" wrote the code that Rebellion used without permission in the re-release of AvP.

Aliens Vs Predator

I've found a really interesting and very recent article with a lot of information I had not heard before as well as some behind the scenes stuff. Definitely worth a read:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/feb/04/games-sony

This paragraph in particular is interesting!

But of course, for those of us who've grown up being terrified by HR Giger's alien creations, it's not the human world we're so interested in. Rebellion says it has every incarnation of the alien presence that they could possibly fit into the game – there are face huggers and chest bursters, then there are the predominant warrior aliens from the second movie, and 'runner aliens' based on the faster dog-like incarnation from Alien 3 (this one also tends to pounce more, so watch out for that). The pred-alien from the AvP movies also shows up, as does the queen. For the runner alien, the team have added a projectile acid attack – it's a modified version of what we see in briefly in the latter two Alien movies. You won't have access to it when playing as the alien, but it's apparently an important balancing element in the human campaign.

I know theres a lot of hate out there for this game at the moment, and I had similar thoughts to everyone else when I launched the demo, although after playing it for a while (and actually managing to get into a game or two now) I'm liking it a lot more. Sure it's not perfect, but the main issue of melee/trophey kills could be resolved easily with a patch in the same way that valve rectified the melee problem in left 4 dead 2 with a patch. The controls I'm used to now and they really are fine, infact the predator jumping is particularly well executed. Admittedly movement isn't quite as smooth as it should be, but I highly approve of the slower nature of the game rather than really fast paced like AVP2. It's more intense I find.

TL;DR Singleplayer is still sounding like its a winner, multiplayer isn't as bad as you all make out, just not as polished as it should be. Read the article!

At first I was very interested but after playing the demo I absolutely despise it. Alien controls are complete garbage and need to be scraped then redone from a fresh start. I really want to like this game but I can't. If you think for one minute this shit's gonna get fixed just look at rebellion's track record, games dead on arrival.

so where do you get the pc demo? i dont see it on fileshack

If I wasn't reliving my favorite boy hood game and grinding out hours of FFT, I would have downloaded the demo off PSN. luckily I check shacknews every morning.

Im sorry. in reply

Can't believe no one said that: I LOVE the sound in the menu. Love looping cool sounds hehe :)

Now fix the PS3 issues, I've been sitting here for a game to begin for almost an hour. FUCK