I'd like to stay away from gameplay-type elements, and focus more on what sort of storyline / events you'd like to see in a sequel for the AvP Game with the characters, and information from the first game. To get things started, I thought I'd write something up. Feel free to comment on mine / write up your own.
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I'd like to see it continuing this way (Revised 2/24):
Beginning where AvP leaves off:
• The humans are headed towards the Alien Homeworld.
• The Predators are responding to a distress signal on an unknown world.*
• 6 is on a Ship floating in space headed towards an unknown destination.
*I'm not sure if the Predator ending specifies if it's coming from the Xenomorph homeworld, but the distress signal seems to be coming from an injured/dead Predator on another world. My idea here would be that there's another Predator who gets killed elsewhere, explaining why the Predators show up a little later in orbit of the Xenomorph homeworld.
The W-Y team leaving BG-386 will know that this is going to be a huge endeavor, in doing what they want to on the Xenomorph homeworld, and they'll need some pretty heavy supplies, given that most of what is coming from BG-386 has been destroyed, so they contact another outpost doing research nearby to load up a large ship/research station, and head towards the Alien homeworld. The secondary W-Y force, is experimenting on a recently killed Predator, as they pack up and leave, to rendezvous with the team from BG-386.
The Predators follow the distress signal from the end of the first game, and arrive at the world that the secondary W-Y force has just departed, and follow the ship towards its destination. The Predators don't destroy the ship from a distance, because they're receiving Predator signals from the ship (due to the experiments and research done by the arriving W-Y, showcasing some more of the Yutani/Predator centric side of things).
~I tried to split the W-Y group into a more Weyland-centric group coming from BG-386, and the Yutani group coming from the other world for variety~The W-Y ship that departed from BG-386 meets up with the one that 6 took over, in orbit around the Alien homeworld. The Rookie and Tequila are taken to a medical bay for extraction of the Xenomorph inside Tequila.
6 spawns a Xenomorph from Groves (player Xenomorph, I'm calling 7 for ease of reference). Upon docking with the human ship, she senses the chestburster inside Tequila that's been extracted, and sends off 7 to go take it back from the humans, but first she needs to secure the hive. 7 begins killing off humans & facehugging them (dragging them back or harvest) so there's Xenomorphs to protect the Queen. This allows for a passage of time & gestation of greater numbers, and then begins moving towards the interior of the ship.
At this time, the Yutani group rendezvous with the station, and they are alerted to the presence of a Hive. During the confusion with them moving in to take care of the Xenomorphs, the Rookie manages to get free, and raids a weapon locker to go rescue Tequila, fighting off medical staff & guards, before the Synthetics are sent in (explains why you're alone).
The Predator ship manages to dock, and send in a boarding party completely unnoticed, and each of the Predators moves off to investigate. Dark (player predator) goes into the Yutani ship and recovers the predator's technology, and finds the medical area with at least one fully autopsied Predator in the lab.
One of the other Predators breaks into the lab with the Marine, and there's a confrontation there, and the predator is ripped away into a vent by a Xenomorph just before being killed. 7 will harvest this alien just prior to being killed, and removes the captive Chestburster shortly after the Rookie leaves the room. Dark is now dealing with the combat cyborgs and forces that Yutani set up to attempt to capture him, and escape.
After 7 drags the facehugged predator back to the hive, she had to deal with the Alien-masked predator coming in to the hive in an attempt to destroy them. 6 and the other aliens have been rapidly expanding the Hive. The Alien masked predator would be particularly tough, and is also harvested (providing 2 Predaliens in the Hive, as well as a Praetorian or two). After this, 7 morphs into a Praetorian.
The Rookie moves towards the escape pods, fighting off Xenomorphs, and realized after a test pod is fired that the Predator ship shoots them down, and he has to move towards another option, he gets Tequila to a dropship, and goes to try to "take care" of the Predator vessel. Dark moves in to the Hive towards the two killed Predators, and has to defeat the Predaliens, and set their wrist bracers to explode.
6 & 7 use the Predaliens as a feint to escape through another section of the Hive, and leave with some other Xenomorphs through an airlock, and attach on to the Predator ship. When the airlock blows, the Rookie has to make an unplanned, last ditch effort to head to the Predator ship (unknowingly, so do a large team of cloaked W-Y synthetics). Dark manages to escape back to the Predator ship, just before the human vessel is destroyed, damaging the vessel and forcing it down to the surface of the Homeworld.
This provides a large conflict onboard a Predator ship, between the W-Y forces and Predators as it lands (shakily) and then exits out onto the barren remains of the Xenomorph homeworld (one of those "out of the frying pan, and into the fire moments"). Dark has to fight off the W-Y forces, the Marine fights off the a few Predators, but mostly all spook encounters. 7 moves 6 off of the ship, and brings 6 to a safe location, where she begins calling out to the residant Xenomorphs.
Tequila contacts the Rookie (she drifted off from the station and covered with the debris before the station got a whole blown in it), and he has to make his way off from the Predator ship to rendezvous with a ship, fighting off the stray Xenomorphs slowly showing up, and fighting off the Synthetics that uncloak and try to take over the ship, and as it's taking off, the amalgamation of the W-Y Research on the Predators and Aliens (some hybrid something, I'll leave the design up for grabs right now), and depart (the almost safe, and 1 final battle feeling).
7 has to fight off the smaller drones and a Predator/some synthetics or two until 6 manages to force her objective onto the residant Xenomorphs, then you have you swarm on board the Predator ship, and disable it's self destruct sequence. (I was thinking that a BSP guard on the interior would make a good fight depending on what they turn out like in the Predators film).
Dark has to destroy the W-Y forces attempting to set up a communications device, and then fight off one of the massive Space Jockey-spawned Xenomorphs to allow the escape ship to take off out of the top of the main ship, leaving the primary engines to go critical (which they don't), escaping with his prize (still rather surprised that he didn't take the Predalien skull in the first game, and just hucked its body off a cliff).
So at the ending we have:
• 6 & 7 back on the homeworld.
• Dark cleaning the skull of the SJ-Xenomorph and the remaining Predators moving off world with the secured location of a new hunting ground.
• The Rookie & Tequila escaping back towards home. ("Last Survivor of the U.S.S Marlow... Signing out...")
Not TOO open for a sequel, but I think it works better than my original plan, and has more more open environments, and an improved final chapter. Please lemme know what you think, and thanks to you guys that read through all that, and provided suggestions.
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