Quote from: PRI. HUDSON on Oct 02, 2014, 04:29:34 AM
Quote from: Hudson on Oct 02, 2014, 03:20:52 AM
Speaking of that, I just reminded myself today how much I hate the Predator mission series in AvP. Cannot stand it. Playing it on hard this time too, so that's gonna be fun. First marine mission still pretty solid.
Some of the marine missions weren't bad. Letdown game, but it had some moments.
Yeah, decent game, but perhaps lazy. I mean it completely trashes ACM in retrospect, but it was released alongside the likes of Mass Effect 2 and Red Dead Redemption. I haven't played it for a while, and coming back to it, other than the Predator missions, has actually been pretty fun today.
Just finished the marine's second mission. Pretty tense actually. The thing I like is that the game doesn't throw unlimited, non-stop hoards at you. It's balanced by the fact that they're way harder to kill in this game than in AvP '99, where there were so many, but a burst from a pulse rifle had a really high chance of killing them outright. Plus, back then the AI had them pretty much just running straight for you. I've always been impressed by the Alien AI in the 2010 game. They hide in the shadows and they don't bunch up if they're all out in the open together. Makes it pretty tough. It took me several tries to get past the bridge section at the early part of the level. Getting bum rushed and having to resort to the pistol for the last three or four was really tough.
The sequence going through the hive with Major Van Zandt or whatever his name is. The flamethrower was my best friend. It was a really quiet, tense playthrough and I was doing it on a big TV in a totally dark room. Really tense. Definitely getting fired up to do it with Isolation.