=EP_Stigs

Ok guys this weekend I played AvP 3 with my mate on his PS3 and I gotta say what a game it is. We managed to finish all three campaigns in around 11 hours of gameplay on Hard difficulty.

We started off with the marine, i found it tense throughout the campaign, seeing bleeps go off on the tracker now and then was quite satisfying and kept us on edge throughout. The first alien encounter was awsome, gunning the bastard down with nothing but a pistol and a bad attitude. All 5 of the marine levels were good and enjoyed them all equally. Only thing i didnt like was you didn't get to actually fight the Queen alien, she just sort of stood there whilst you blow the shit outa her.

Next came the Predator, the iconic hunter whos sole purpose is to gain its honor by killing Xenos or anything in its path. Predator gameplay is sweet, jumping system is smooth and allows you to navigate to any platform with ease. Combine that with focus attacks and trophy kills the predator gives you some of the best melee action of them all.

The alien i must say was the shortest of the campaigns, I was a little disappointed with how short it was, however it proved to be quite challenging on the harder difficulty modes. The way the alien can tranverse any surface truly does give you a distinct advantage. I also love how the Alien can destroy light sources for it to blend more easily in its environment.

So as for the Single Player goes, it was a good AvP experience for me, it definiately brought back some of the classic memories.

The multiplayer however is where most of the fun is, ive played most of the game modes on PS3, and I gotta say I loved them all. Particularly the Predator Hunt, Infestation and Survivor modes.

Predator Hunt is amazing, because as the predator you have limited time to take out the marines who are looking for you. You also can use the environment effectively to plan your attacks and go in for the kill. The only problem i didnt like is the fact it doesn't give you much time as the Predator, each time you kill someone it gives you about an extra 30 to 60 seconds of time.

Infestation mode is also fun, similar to PH, but this time you play as the murderous Alien. Nothing more satifying then hanging from a ceiling as ur prey walks beneath you oblivious to what is above them hehe .

Anyways this game for me is just fantastic, I know the PC has issues, I am yet to see how it plays on my system, but it ran well on me mates PC which is similar in spec to preas, maybe slightly worse and he had hardly any trouble on XP 64bit. But they do need to optimise it.