Each character comes with their own scenario so you essentially have three different games to play on one cartridge.ĪvP’s graphics are primarily digitized environments with some 3-D mapping to help flesh out the details. You can play the game as an alien, a predator, or a marine. When you’re ready to start a game, you are given the option of choosing one of three characters.

If you then let the menu screen run, you are treated to the story, complete with stills, of how the aliens and predators arrived on your training base ship. Right out of the gate, Alien vs Predator shows how exceptional it is with great menu screen music setting the eerie and foreboding tone. Remembering that AvP was released in 1994 and that 3-D graphics were still in their infancy, the most important thing to judge AvP on is its fun factor. Instead of two analog thumbsticks, you either had to use the keypad (awkward) to strafe or else not at all, which is how I play the game. Since AvP is played in a first person shooter style, it suffers a bit when played in hindsight due to the advancements in the genre that have come since, most notably the lack of easy strafing ability useful in keeping enemies in your sights as you move. The question that seems to follow AvP around these days is whether or not it holds up today. It is a rare exclusive for the Jaguar that is not only playable, but very well designed and in ways, an exceptional game. As a result of this version of AvP being different than any other, it is often cited as one of the key reasons to own an Atari Jaguar.

Rebellion used the Alien vs Predator comic books as source material along with the respective motion pictures to create a completely unique first person/dungeon crawler type of game.

This incarnation of the Alien vs Predator game (there are other, unrelated AvP games available on the SNES as well as the arcade) was developed by Rebellion Developments and published by Atari Corp in 1994. Super Nintendo Updat… on Super Nintendo Final Thoughts…Īre you Team Alien or Team Predator? Do you prefer the Ridley Scott/James Cameron Alien films of the 70s and 80s or are you a bigger fan of the Arnold Schwarzenegger Predator film? Maybe you are a survival horror game fan? Or, just possibly, you’re a fan of all of the above? Whatever you choose, the standout Atari Jaguar title, Alien vs. Microsoft Xbox Updat… on Console of the Month (July 201…

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