Short answers yes, long answer even more YES. If you haven’t had the chance to play it or take a look at it before the version I’m talking about is this one:
The game covers three different characters: The space marine outfitted with all the iconic “aliens” weapons, the frantic Alien, and the super advanced Predator. Together they deliver three really different campaigns. The Predator relies on technology to stalk and hunt humans while aliens, the marine provides the traditional FPS experience, and the alien is a frantic slaughtering experience where you just try to kill or run from everything.
While there have been many trans-media versions of AVP (Comics, two movies, at least three other games), this game has two things going for it. First this is a very interactive experience. All the games do a good job of allowing you to feel like your in some sort of cannon universe where the marines guns sound so much like the ones found in the movie or where you actually do feel like your the alien and your about to actually about to eat someones head. The Predator actually taunts by doing the girrrr thing while cloaked. When it came out this was the best movie to game translation ever (by 1999 standards), showing that Rebellion was really good with the source material.
The second thing this game did well ( and even better than the sequels) was how linear the gameplay could be. You could play the game in a more traditional FPS style or play slower and use your characters strengths for each class. The Alien is fantastic at steath play ,the Predator does ambushes really well and the marine…. Well he kinda of stuck doing the run and gun combat, but it relies tactic at a lot of junctures especially when facing multiple enemy’s in big environments. And one more little side note, there are a lot of open areas in the game that allow you room to attack enemy’s at your pace.
I really recommend your first time thru jumping from campaign to campaign and doing like two missions apiece from each faction. That way your quickly exposed to all campaigns and prolong your gaming experience.
Don’t get me wrong thought the game has some major flaws with its early 2000 level design and with the way on harder difficulty the game can be cheap at times (also the graphics are terrible by today’s standards). But if you can look past all of it, this is the best version of AVP to date 🙂
Words As My Weapon 