With no story to speak of, the game feels flat as a pancake with nothing keeping it together. It feels more like a sub-par total conversion mod for half-life in which you play little scenarios more than an actual game you WANT to play. There COULD be a story, but you'll have to fill the blanks quite a bit in your head for it all to make sense. While your heart does skip a beat quite often, something half-life didn't do, it doesn't save it from being mediocre. Fans will appreciate some of the tie ins from the movies, such the lv-426 colony, and other little tidbits, but really if you haven't seen the movies you'd ignore them completely as they're not especially relevent. The only thing the game did do right was the sound, a few of the weapons sound excellent and it feels awesome shooting a plasma rifle at a hoard of aliens (However, there is a noticable lack of "hoards" in this game) as it really puts you into the movies ala Ripley, not to mention the hiss and screech of the aliens. Graphics aren't a great deal to speak of, they're ok, but not great, you'll notice it most with the weapons as there can be clipping issues, as well as a few other annoying instances. All in all, what AVP2 became was what AVP1 should have been from the start, a game with substance and story line, rather than mindless scenarios and fanservice.