Three-three in our favor I'm not a fan of any "Aliens" or "Predator". I do not like playing with disabilities and uncertain parameters. Soon whether to end the level? How Alien need to shoot, so they stopped to climb with all my holes? Where can I get ammo? Idiotic questions that are good in general should not arise in a decent game. But I am writing this entry before the start Aliens vs. Predator. Because I have no idea how I will when I get back.
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... Leap forward, turn 180 degrees - froze. Who designed this ugrebischnuyu station? Outer darkness, even where hard light of the lantern. Scanner traffic vereschit and provides a point ten feet straight ahead. Ahead of solid anthracite ... where are you, plague ... creation of acid ... there is movement! On the balustrade! Suddenly, includes music - damn bar ublyudskaya planet! Hard industrial enters in resonance with the heartbeat, somewhere on the periphery of distraction holographic strippers. Pick up the barrel, giving the queue. On a completely black background - green splash. What has eaten, snake? Summing debit with credit: twenty bullets at one another's. Consumption is normal, you can move on.
 | |  | Army ksenomorfov ran to smash the base. And at number six - his work and care. | | Fatal Eggs. If the tip is not opened, then surely creep out of the womb litsehvat. |
"You deal, Private?" - Rhetorically asks the radio. Private cope. Private yet how to do. Private show acid such and such a mother and other relatives Kuzma, just give access to ... that for? Attention is drawn to the wall with a heavenly pattern. Covered with black material - such as mucus, and the like and solid. Roofing material? No answers consciousness is wrong. The radio voice of Corporal Tequila picks: "Holy shit, yes there is a beehive!". I can, and slowpoke, but it seems to me that this is not good ...
Stepping on a crisp squalid, but harmless oviposition, stumble on a regular diary of a scientist. "It seems that all our theories converge. Architecture hunters directly demonstrates their ritual relations with ksenomorfami. What kind of news? What the fuck, "hunters", what the hell, "the relationship with ksenomorfami? Egg heads little creatures for the study of acid or something? Damn planet ...
1994: On the platform Atari Jaguar comes first "tripartite" shooter Alien vs. Predator, the game has received numerous awards press.
1999: On the PC goes Aliens vs. Predator with a similar, but the great idea of recycled and some incredible multiplayer.
2007: The game based on the movie Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem comes to the PSP and a deafening fails.
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The Marines landed on the planet stripping ksenomorfov. But, of course, not everything goes according to plan, but in the process turns out that here also predators involved. Nevertheless, the main opponent of the campaign are wrong.
Play for the Marines really scary. Each weapon has its drawbacks: automatic mercilessly smears, uninteresting shotgun at long range, long recharge sniper, flame thrower does not cast the enemy in smartgana too quickly run out ammo ...
 | |  | In the last issue of "mail" readers have complained that the FPS is not visible legs protagonist. Friends! You do not see them - and they are! | | Gyulchataj, open face, eh? However, for a tattoo United States Colonial Marines could be forgiven for any deficiency. |
On the other hand helps a partial recovery: Health is divided into three strips within each life is restored automatically in five seconds. Nevertheless, every 15-20 minutes I had to stop the game and relieves stress, a couple of minutes aimlessly exploring news online or reading stories. Middle of the night, yeah.
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In the last issue of the Right in his demoprevyu Aliens vs. Cyril Predator Carriers slightly wrong, lamented the shortcomings of Unreal Engine 3. That is, in principle, I agree with him, that's just the fact that the game uses the engine Asura - is seriously modified by the developers of the Rebellion id Tech 4 engine (which created the Doom 3 and Quake 4).And you can not say that it is exclusive for AvP, since Asura make an array of games for various platforms including PSP. (Ups. Apparently, not only at night all cats are gray, but all the game engines similar to Unreal Engine 3. But the shadows there is still worse than Doom 3! - Approx. Cyrill.) In the list of titles, for example, includes Call of Duty: World at War - Final Fronts, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron, 007: From Russia with Love and others. Son of the Regiment [Incoming message]
Lights! How much light! What is this room? Behind the glass - the food in a white dress ... she tells me? Number Six - it's me? Food-in-my-head laugh. Food-in-my-mind stronger. Obey the food. As long as I obey. It is necessary to remove the light ... hit the tail of the source? It worked. Well. Darkness - a friend. Darkness - life. Darkness - mother.
 | |  | The strange liquid. But this is not exactly ksenomorf. And then who? Captain, ay! | | There is a strong feeling that I already saw somewhere. Far Cry? Jurassic Park? |
Food in white enters the food in my room in blue. She is frightened. Food in the blue does not like darkness? Six loves darkness. Six loves food. Six jumps down, yum-yum. Delicious! Enter the food in the red. Ouch! Foods in the red bites! It hurts! Jump into the darkness, waiting, re-re-no-ri-ro-vat! Lights! Fire! Jump to food, yum yum! What is it? Wen-ti-la-chi-ya? Six could run here! Six climbs upward, but the air was sweet and sleepy ... Six sleeps ... food in a white outwitted Six ...
Flashes red. Behind the glass screaming food, it smells like fear. The door is open! Run. Food - enough! Where next? Surface with red tubercles. Food concerned tubercle and opens the door. Six bite the hump! The door is open! The new premises ... behind the glass - the Queen! Bump? Bite the hump! The Queen is free! Running in the Beehive!
 | |  | In general, such an abundance of flat teeth - a sign of herbivores. Maybe, in the absence of foreign people are forced to chew the leaves and bark? | | Tequila Corporal something like Ripley. The same luck. The same charm. And the ending is a bit like the final movie "Alien" ... |
The ceiling, floor and walls - the same way. Six - at the top, the food at the bottom. Food does not love the darkness and did not know where Six. Food - yum-yum! Two meals - yum-yum on the queue. Tail of the light source, the tail of tubercles on the wall ... darkness. Life.
Queen calls. Queen bad. Six runs to help. Ouch! Ancient Enemy! Hard to kill. But the sixth from the right. Six will remove the mask from the ancient enemy and unleash litsehvata.Six - clever! Six - Hive Hero!
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The combination of visual and three-dimensional sound is very important for the game, causing the user adrenaline rush. In the case of AvP artists and designers may be slightly nedotyanuli, but the musicians, perhaps, have got a point. Sly ambient sounds alarming periodically explodes, causing the nervous twitch and look around. However, over time you get used to such hooliganism - a sharp change continues to strain, but much smaller. [End of message]
Unlike previous AvP, then crawling on other people's walls and ceilings are not turned into an attraction for the daring spirit and the vestibular apparatus. Head is not spinning, well, maybe I quickly got used to. Automatic jumps, the instantaneous change in the plane and the two strike helps a lot in open conflict - for example, to escape or, conversely, to take a stand for the jump, followed by stroke.
Purpose of the assignment set by telepathic means, are on the same level (they are very big, so it's no deja vu), which run through the remaining characters of the game. Despite the mental connection, take part in a mass marathon ksenomorfov not work - Number Six is acting solely on its own.
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Each of us sooner or later becomes a young blood, and sent for testing. For some, it ends with death. This means that they were weak, frail individuals, capable only of killing on the sly. They can not, do not want to look death in the face, which means that they are not in demand among the living. And we need only our soldiers. This world needs only to warriors.
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Young brothers who went to the Planet of tests, they sent a distress signal. I feel it does not bode well, but there are no obstacles to a strong spirit.And nothing is impossible for a true hunter. I'm leaving immediately.
On-orbit spacecraft notice people. We have already encountered this race. Negligible biomass, although occasionally there and worthy warriors. In any case, shoot the ship and heading for a landing. Signal no longer received, which means that young blood, died ... I must find them and find out they deserve military honors or were weak and irrelevant to our race.
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The company was founded by Charles Weyland Bishop Ueylandom in 1985. She worked on robotics, nanotechnology and other products for the future. Charles Bishop Ueyland died in 2004 in Antarctica during the events of the movie Aliens vs. Predator. However, the corporation managed to obtain important information about technology and foreign predators. In the same year in the hands of Mrs. Yutan, founder of the company Yutani Industries, horrible weapon predator, they lost in the movie Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Thus, once the two companies have begun to develop alien technology. And in 2089, when the company for a certain reason, Weyland was on the brink of financial collapse, there was a proposal to unite with Yutani - so there was the corporation Weyland-Yutani. About three hundred years, she oversaw such important aspects of the human race as a colony in outer space, freight, delivery of arms and high technology, mining ore, etc. In the end, was purchased sverhglobalnoy corporation Wal-Mart. Every sentient being deserves such an investigation, if both should be considered.
I find the first body. It is torn, lying next few mutilated snakes. I notice several skulls - the young blood has been tested and succeeded before his death to become a hunter. But the planet discovered people, which means that the rules have changed. Turn on the mechanism of delayed self-destruct device in the blood of the young and confident step forward.
I jump on Snake. As always, secretly, by the crowd. This is not a warrior, a victim, cannon fodder for this hunter. A shot from a plasma spray spreads to the acid remains of one enemy, a powerful blow to the wrist blade breach the skull of the second. However, the hissing stops. Defending blades mask and waited ...
 | |  | These beautiful here, "wheels" in the walls can easily be ksenomorfami, waiting for his victim. | | The fact that the original concept was a small mandible, for twenty-five years has turned into some straight klychischi! |
... Man flies, but does not produce weapons out of the hands. I grab it with one hand behind his neck, the other - carefully separating the head from the torso. Fair fight - an honest trophy. From around the corner pops another person. Jump to him and the force of inertia beat blades, aiming at the face. But the one time obscured by arms, and the block is not punctured. Nanoshu a series of powerful blows from which not everyone keeps at his feet - a man continues to keep weapons in the face and yells something.Where have so much endurance and patience? Perhaps they really our distant relatives, according to some thinkers? One step back, and throw spears allows dilemma. Nearby voices - a man still managed to call his fellow tribesmen. Include a disguise, are repelled from the surface and landed on the roof of the nearest building. Hunting should continue ...
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Aliens vs. Predator - a typical example of the so-called "crossover» (crossover). This is where the author combines two existing in separate universes, trying not to break their internal logic. The easiest way to cross superheroes - for example, Marvel holds regular meetings in their comics the Fantastic Four and X-Men. Usually (and AvP - no exception) crossovers are made for additional benefits that can accrue from not enough popular franchises.
Sometimes such intersections podselyayut third party. For example, there is a comic book Aliens vs. Predator vs. The Terminator. You understand what a fusion mixture (although there syuzhetets frankly rather weak). But there are also paired crossovers where the characters are united against other heroes. One such product is called kryshesnosyaschih Superman & Batman vs. Aliens & Predator. Not comics - the plague in its pure form!
However, Aliens vs. Predator is a good crossover by itself, without any third party. For the first time encounter alien and predator was held in the release of Comic Dark Horse Presents № 36 in February 1990. And at the end of that year, the cinema appeared sequel to "Predator" in which the camera pulls out trophies alien, and among them are clearly visible skull of another. The beginning of the crossover was laid.
Since then, came a lot of comics (including with guest stars), two movie novelization, all sorts of figures, and of course computer games. There have been, given the individual games of strangers, and some of the predators ... 37 pieces! Among them was a primitive arcade a la Pacman (Alien, 1982), and even a MMOFPS (Alien Online, 1998). In its pure form as Aliens vs. Predator has 14 games - basically, it's shooters, but there are also action (Alien vs. Predator, 1994, SNES), and even real-time strategy (Aliens vs. Predator: Extinction, 2003).
We must assume that, if successful, the new Aliens vs. Predator (and the chances are very high) Sega will order the developers, if not a sequel, then at least complement. Maybe a new comic book release, and even a cartoon series ...
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Predator is something average between the Marines and ksenomorfom. He is good at a distance, and melee combat, has the tools of mass destruction and point, do not regenerate, unlike colleagues, but it can quickly detect the enemy. Actually, all six levels the player chooses a way of destroying the enemy - pour it be plasma, from a distance, throw a spear, sneak up in stealth and stab wrist blades, put a mine on the road patrol, throw the disc ... That's probably why the game offers its campaign in third place - with this option is not so easy to manage as it seems.
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Exhalation New AvP is so distinctive, that to compare it with the prequel a decade ago - is meaningless, if not criminally. Her foundation, for that matter, was laid fifteen years ago. And the fact that they have not changed - rather a plus than a minus. Indeed, in our time, when all genre clearing thoroughly trampled, the player is to rely only on quality, while maintaining the process. And best of all - it's all here is: and balanced rules, and its audio-visual realization. If you purposely ask the comparison, I would have thought first of all The Thing (2002). These two games, significantly separated in time, were the only ones that made me do 15-minute breaks to catch his breath and calm the nerves. Just do not say that you wanted an unbiased opinion and Dead Space as a guiding star. I'm from another test, buddy.
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Despite the fact that Lance Henriksen played more than a hundred films, he is most known for his role in only three of them: "Alien", "Alien 3" and "Alien vs. Predator." In the first two he played the android Bishop, and the last - Charles Bishop Ueylanda. In all three cases appear the same name - it is no coincidence. Model android created in the image of the company's founder Weyland.
In the game Aliens vs. Predator developers to recreate the image severely director of the almighty corporation (the fact that he is an android, he never interferes), and made it so cool that have received respectful reviews from the mouth of the Henriksen. No wonder - because he voiced the character.
However, it is not the first time took part in the development of computer games. He has already voiced Admiral Hackett in the English version of Mass Effect and revolutionary piers of Red Faction 2. A recent project can be noted Dechera character in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena and General Shepard of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
It's time to set the tune Eulogies Rebellion.One single Aliens vs. Predator they redeemed a decade of sin and shame, followed by a succession of mediocre shooters (for example, Rogue Warrior - see the review in last issue). I suspected the worst and threw his suspicions in the introduction, however, was mistaken: the enemies are not infinite ammo enough to AI can always find a way, and generally a solo run through the campaign in the same breath. Nevertheless, in the entire game is slipping some secondary: Still can not change anything in the nuanced world, linked rigid rules. What was in the superhero Batman: Arkham Asylum, it is hardly possible in a world where three races are fighting a life and death. On the other hand, most likely, the developers and did not pursue this goal. They just wanted to raise the bar for quality, and they succeeded. Let us hope that we will not have to wait for their next hit another ten years.
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