Difficulty:

Hard

Time Spent:

40 to 100 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Masterpiece"

I write this short review as symbolic act of my appreciation. I was reviewing the list of my tracked games and I poped on AvP, and wow, emotions came in waves. I recalled first missions I had played as marine, going through endless corridors, with confusing lights, seas of sounds and fear in bones, fear of the alien watching and waiting.

I must admit I liked marine for his nervous fragility and passionate wish for survival, I adored alien for hers animality, adaptability, lust for killing. Predator gives me the memory of superb hunter, over-ecquipped, over-powered gadget man. I liked predator the latest.

I played tons of FPShooters, FPSneakers, FPShi.... nevermind. And today, almost 9 years after, I still believe 10-mark requires the additional +, to become 10+. AvP was breakthrough in concept, and it transfered the movie to the PC quite succesfully. I recall it as substantial fun with marine's fear-sweat, alien's thrill or predator's feeling-of-power, respective for the subject of the play.


And BTW, I played just the hardest difficulty level, with no saving, no second chance.