You forgot the taunt button actually has a use in the Alien and Predator campaign; you can use it to lure Marines and civilians closer or even make them panic. The auras around humans when playing the Alien is actually their emotional state: blue is calm, red is aggressive, and so on. It can be useful to make a Marine empty his pulse rifle into the shadows so you can eat his face or rip his spine out while he's reloading... ...okay it's more for fun, but still.
@Civvie11
4 ай бұрын
I had read that the "Classic 2000" version had some bugs with the aura colors on the Alien campaign, which led to my dismissal of it.
@tommahkun
4 ай бұрын
@@Civvie11 Wow, didn't know that, I'd likely never have noticed. Thanks for covering a game I adored as a kid, and keep on keepin' on.
@metalmollusquetv
4 ай бұрын
I thought the taunts were just for multi-player
@oanisd
4 ай бұрын
@@metalmollusquetv That's AvP2. can't use it in singleplayer campaign.
@metalmollusquetv
4 ай бұрын
@@oanisd what I meant was that I didn't thought the taunts had uses in single player. I've only ever used them in multi to "communicate"
@clintkarklus5523
4 ай бұрын
So the alien heads throughout the assorted media are 2 different permutations of the same head. The skull with the grooves was originally underneath the smooth shell. James Cameron decided to rip the shell off during production of Aliens because the things kept breaking when shooting action scenes. Now we have 2 styles of xenomorph head.
@rakninja
4 ай бұрын
more, actually. the one from 3 combined elements of both. the ones in resurrection are close to the winston design, but there's enough differences to point them out as a new design. if memory serves, one of the AVP movies outright reused the winston molds, but the other gave us yet another variation.
@clintkarklus5523
4 ай бұрын
@@rakninja I see that someone else watched the special features discs. Respect.
@v8matey
4 ай бұрын
Dont they class them as two different types now. The Alien 1 is a Drone alien thats much taller. And Aliens is a warrior type class?
@kaggykarr
4 ай бұрын
@@v8matey Or maybe they just matured enough to drop their shells? Judging by movies alone it's hard to tell, at least in the third one Ripley acknowledges the difference
@aegis6485
4 ай бұрын
@kaggykarr They're two different types according to the wiki. Drones are smooth like in Alien, warriors are ridged like Aliens.
@JamieGriffiths-z6x
4 ай бұрын
Colonial Marines receiving orders from British parachute regiment soldiers in a live action cut scene is the jank I so dearly miss in video games
@TeKett
4 ай бұрын
The good old command and conquer cutscenes, i miss that stuff in video games, it was fun
@JamieGriffiths-z6x
4 ай бұрын
@@TeKett SpAcE
@michaelandreipalon359
4 ай бұрын
@@JamieGriffiths-z6xSorry, not a fan of RA3.
@warellis
4 ай бұрын
To be fair, with how the Alienverse is set up, you could probably squint and say these Colonial Marines have, once again, been hired out to Weyland-Yutani by the UA basically. Considering the UK is part of the Three Worlds Empire in the setting.
@pokehybridtrainer
4 ай бұрын
The green screen cutscenes in Mechwarrior 4 always warms my heart.
@Innomen
4 ай бұрын
The best thing about playing as alien imo is how the clever wall walk turns a human setting into an alien one because it's constantly rotated strangely and you move through it too fast to retain orientation. So you really feel like an alien raiding a weird nonsense human hive.
@alexdemoya2119
4 ай бұрын
Really cool observation. The stairways and gantries are an annoyance and hinderance for aliens.
@Innomen
4 ай бұрын
@@alexdemoya2119 Yeah, and you don't even register them as stairs, when you're focusing on prey and survival you just see obstacles. It's a brilliant way of getting the player in an alien headspace. The inverted color vision makes it even more alien.
@Summersong2262
4 ай бұрын
I did NOT think of it that way, good job, that makes a lot of sense.
@Innomen
4 ай бұрын
@@Summersong2262 It really is amazing how orientation dependent perception is. I remember as a little kid sitting upside down on the couch and thinking how weird the room looked with the floor as the ceiling. Clearly some developer somewhere had a similar moment XD
@TheExFatal
4 ай бұрын
1:32 the fact this game was only EVER re-released on a giant arcade stick shaped like a Capcom logo is a crime against humanity, we need a proper port for consoles and PC
@ZeOHKay
4 ай бұрын
My guess that getting it re-released comes with same problems as trying to get the older MvC games re-released: having to deal with Disney fuckery. Because apparently they're okay with gimmicky re-releases of older games, like that Arcade1up cab and the aforementioned plug-and-play stick, but not an actual wide release on platforms that most people actually own...for some fucking reason.
@StoneStephenT
4 ай бұрын
@@ZeOHKay Could come down to licensing costs being higher for console/PC ports than for ports to stuff like the stick and the A1UP cabs, for whatever reason. It's probably why A1UP got the Marvel vs. Capcom series while a proper console/PC compilation of that franchise is non-existent.
@adam1984pl
4 ай бұрын
We got this on aracde cabinet,but i prefered Vendetta or Cadilacs and Dinosaurs.
@Mario_bland
4 ай бұрын
I think the only reason they can ship it as a toy is liscencing, similar to how mvc2 can only get a re release as an 1up cab but not a game.
@gssarin2765
4 ай бұрын
Fitecade has a good version and the multi-player works as it should. It has Cadillacs and Dinosaurs too
@Crowley9
4 ай бұрын
Nice detail in the game: If you cut off an arm from the androids, they have an entire separate one-handed reloading animation where they place the gun in their lap.
@DaveMiller6042
Ай бұрын
I fucking love small details in games
@TheMC1102
4 ай бұрын
I think I already know what Civvie thinks of AvP Jaguar: "A lot of these areas are copied and pasted, whole hallways, rooms, so it gets a little confusing"
@hasantz
4 ай бұрын
For real it's like that?
@hazukichanx408
4 ай бұрын
There's something about this comment, like it's copied and pasted, whole phrases, words, so it gets a little nostalgic...
@selphconscious
4 ай бұрын
.. the older I get, life is nearly identical lol
@sheets75
4 ай бұрын
The hard thing with the Jaguar game is figuring out/mapping the air ducts. Once you get that down, the game is actually pretty good, although it's slow and ponderous. The speed of the PC game feels like Rebellion maybe overcompensating a tad for how slow the original was.
@bildo1977
4 ай бұрын
@ArianneKiryloPiss off with your irrelevant spam. 🖕🏻
@Mr_Wholegrain
4 ай бұрын
"Your tail stunlocks the Predators" It's double funny because in the 2010 game you can do the exact same thing.
@jakbenimbel2521
4 ай бұрын
I appreciate the use of the White House from Duke It Out in DC
@michaelandreipalon359
4 ай бұрын
No wonder it seemed familiar.
@theintern2960
4 ай бұрын
Red Lobster's Endless Aliens vs. Beefeater Marines vs. A Short Bus of Predators from the "No Yuatja Left Behind" Remedial Hunting clan on field trip.
@joeschmoe13593
4 ай бұрын
"Remedial hunting clan" haha
@Taldaris
4 ай бұрын
Love how the Aliens felt like... well, aliens in these older games, so unpredictable, sporadic and dare I say, menacing. The facehuggers in these old AvP games, are still nightmare fuel, to this day.
@charlietwoteas3676
4 ай бұрын
My favourite bit of this game was taking out the lights as an Alien then hanging about on the ceiling and pressing the hiss button until the humans panicked and flame throwered each other. Hated the marine campaign, don't think I ever finished it but those alien levels I played a LOT
@brandonobaza8610
4 ай бұрын
One of my friends used to call the androids "Milk Duds". "Milk," because of the blood, and "Duds," because there's no health reward for killing them 😁
@NinjaRunningWild
4 ай бұрын
Maybe he's latently homo for them? Wanting to eat the "milk duds".
@Mrkabrat
4 ай бұрын
9:23 That "Brazil" soundtrack for the bureaucracy bit, 10/10
@xwingx1gt
4 ай бұрын
What song is it?
@Mrkabrat
4 ай бұрын
@@xwingx1gt Its the "The Office" song from Terry Gilliam's movie 'Brazil', which is a dystopian comedy (more or less)
@xwingx1gt
4 ай бұрын
@@Mrkabrat Thank you so much
@DiagonalByte
4 ай бұрын
@@Mrkabrat Also one of the best movies ever!
@alexello1189
2 ай бұрын
@@MrkabratI thought it was a Hermes / futurama reference “Ah the cycle of bureaucracy”
@Leprechaunproduction
4 ай бұрын
Fun fact: If you had the disk version of the gold edition, the second CD held all the music tracks for the game and had to be inserted for said music to play. However, you could put any music CD in and the game would play that instead. So, if you wanted to, you could run around blasting Xenomorphs while listening to Enya singing away in the background. It was hilarious.
@oz_jones
4 ай бұрын
Same with Quake.
@Nin_the_Shinobi
4 ай бұрын
The very first Aliens vs Predator comic released Nov 1989. Predator 2 released in 1990. The Alien skull in P2 was an easter egg to AvP
@JJRodriguez
4 ай бұрын
10:24 Fun fact: the American accent that's closest to a UK accent is Boston Brahmin. It's really rare, so it's a miracle it made it to the space age 🙃
@LammasuRex
4 ай бұрын
I prefer to think that the US annexed England in the future.
@exonut2477
4 ай бұрын
Also there was an Atlantic accent but it was limited to movie stars and hollywood. It osunded just like here - a British person trying to speak american.
@arandompasserby7940
4 ай бұрын
I believe that classical deep south "Plantation English" is also one of the closest to UK English. It's RP English just a little slower and with words drawn out a little more.
@Vmac1394
4 ай бұрын
@@exonut2477 The Mid-Atlantic accent was an attempt to create a fusion accent between British and American. It was popular in the early 20th century in private schools. That's why FDR and several people in Hollywood had it. It fell out of favor pretty quickly since it was an artificial accent only taught to rich kids. Now obnoxious rich people think that the greatest linguistic thing to aspire to is to sound like they're from Ohio.
@Radnugget
4 ай бұрын
There is a few accents on some small islands that are very british sounding.
@MenxiGoblinQueen
4 ай бұрын
This series really is just Marines vs Aliens with special guest stars, a handful of Predators
@4thSurviver
4 ай бұрын
It probably would hurt the Predators' street cred if they got massacred by the dozens by a single human or xenomorph.
@MenxiGoblinQueen
4 ай бұрын
@@4thSurviver I guess, I just always felt the Predators always felt like an after thought in these games. Aside from AVP2 and Primal Hunt, they feel a bit more involved.
@jamescollinge5043
4 ай бұрын
Its almpst like the two franchises arent a great fit
@RugsterClaps
4 ай бұрын
@@jamescollinge5043 well now thats just an incorrect statement
@matthewyeldig4608
4 ай бұрын
To be fair, preds do tend to hunt in *small* groups. This likely is why they seem numaricly mini against the other two litteral armys.
@trifontrifonov4297
4 ай бұрын
I remember when the local game magazine reviewed AvP. It was the version without saves, where you had to finish the level. Two decades later it still stays with me, because it's the first time I felt both somebody's burning hatred and deep respect for a video game. That man both hated and loved this game in equal parts. Also warned us about the flamethrower or as he called it the delayed suicide button.
@denismayak
4 ай бұрын
When I played it as a kid, every time I would use a flamethrower I would set myself on fire because I would do it while running forward and into the flame. When I replayed it later with more experience with shooters, it wasn't that bad.
@AlexeiVoronin
4 ай бұрын
I also remember reading about AvP in a gaming magazine, and the main focus was on how tough the game was (so there was a whole separate article with "tips & tricks" too). I remember parts of the text... "the marine's armor is tough enough to withstand about half of an alien's tooth, if you're lucky" :D First time playing was the Marine demo (which is actually the "Invasion" mission in the full game) and I remember I was dead less than 30 seconds after starting. I was standing in the APC, still getting used to the controls, when an alien just came in and tore me to shreds.
@TsunamiWombat
4 ай бұрын
Not mentioned for obvious reasons, the multiplayer for this game absolutely fucking slapped. This was one of the primordial ancestors of the modern horde mode, you had levels where everyone played a marine and the game would just endlessly spawn hordes of aliens to attack you. It wasn't very DIFFICULT, but it was fun to dick around in. I also have fond memories of the racial team deathmatch, where me and a handful of marines went up against one predator and he absolutely fucking stomped us despite using no electrical weapons. RIP Gamespy Arcade
@CommanderRedEXE
4 ай бұрын
The steam re-release has functioning servers via steam ;)
@Sonichero151
4 ай бұрын
So the multiplayer had a better version of the predator game that came out 2 years ago and costed less.......
@TsunamiWombat
4 ай бұрын
@@Sonichero151 we don't talk about 2016
@richardkipphorn3309
4 ай бұрын
I couldn’t believe the demo allowed unlimited play on one or two maps. I prob have 100+ hours in this game and never paid for the full game.
@Superscope64
4 ай бұрын
The alien defense multiplayer mode was absolute fire back in the day.
@filiplmao
4 ай бұрын
I love when Red Dwarf is mentioned.
@dallesamllhals9161
4 ай бұрын
SMEG 😀
@osiris4457
4 ай бұрын
What a guy!
@dallesamllhals9161
4 ай бұрын
@@osiris4457 Hear hear! Who does NOT adore Arnold Judas Rimmer 😍
@AveSicarius
4 ай бұрын
@@osiris4457 I hear they call him Ace nowadays, truly the man all men wish they were!
@throwback19841
4 ай бұрын
@@dallesamllhals9161he's much better than a garden strimmer. without him life would be much dimmer. and he will never need a Zimmer.
@WillKeaton
4 ай бұрын
27:28 The word that gets cut off is _Selaco._ Thank you for a robust transcript guys. It previously got talked about in the video ROUNDUP 4 - THE ALLUVION. Civvie was quite happy with it.
@quint3ssent1a
4 ай бұрын
Selaco also sounds suspiciously like the name of some other ship from Alien.
@KrazzeeKane
4 ай бұрын
@quint3ssent1a the USS Sulaco from *Aliens* (1985)? Nah, couldn't be related...
@Sonichero151
2 ай бұрын
Oh I get it, civvie is pissed cause hammer is selling fraudulent keys for Selaco that will cause substantial migraines and money troubles foe the dev.....
@CATASTEROID934
4 ай бұрын
When I did a very short QA stint at Rebellion a few weeks before the zombie expansion for Sniper elite V2 shipped the 2000AD boys were at the back of the big office in the Oxford branch and I walked into the giant Dredd vs. Death statue in the lobby and made a lousy (but amusing) first impression, I emptied the vending machine of the cherry coke got the minimum spec machine because of course I did. I got to momentarily witness the half-developed amniotic mass that was Evil Genius Online (for facebook or something I don't know) that wound up in a back alley dumpster not long after, it might be an NDA issue but I'm sure they're confident nobody will believe me when I say this, I'm not sure how much the staff got split between the Oxford and Didcot branches when the latter was purchased or whether the 2000AD and comic staff went over to the latter and the games staff stayed in the former, I know the Didcot branch was in a building which belonged to the The Times or another rag made by a news company I can't remember. They're good folks, I miss them.
@-abigail
4 ай бұрын
Hey! I worked at Rebellion at about the same time (2013-2015) as a coder. I remember being excited for EGO cuz i liked the original only to be disappointed by every single person I mentioned it to. I think it's for the best that it died, and hopefully the whole mobile games division there has too. I remember the QA team there being treated worse than any of the other workers. Rebellion loved to trade on its "indie" credentials but that didn't change the amount of unpaid overtime people were pressured into.
@CATASTEROID934
4 ай бұрын
@@-abigail Wow what a coincidence! You know that makes a lot of pieces fit together, dunno if you knew Tuttle but I think he dipped out not too long after as manager of QA, and I'd wager it was stress-related from what I heard down the grapevine. He pulled a couple of strings as a family favour for a work trial-y thing, and I considered going back but seeing how it pushed him over the edge a bit I never acted on it. Glad I can tuck that what-if away, thanks for the comment.
@-abigail
4 ай бұрын
@@CATASTEROID934 I'm so glad I ran across your comment! it's got me reminiscing now, I remember Tuttle! The relationship between a coder and QA manager is always a weird one because one of you is making all these bugs and the other is sick of all these bugs. I started as a purple-haired intern on the mobile games team that had more Steves than women. Do you remember when we made a jousting game because of whichever of the Kingsley brothers is into medieval reenactment? He has a whole KZitem channel of it (The Modern Knight I think).
@CATASTEROID934
4 ай бұрын
@@-abigail I don't think I did- I wasn't there long enough to take everything in and the lads doing QA on EGO and other mobile titles were sat directly behind the nook I was scooted into, though it sounds pretty accurately in-character for Jason from what I saw and heard and evidently that hasn't changed much in the last decade, he has a book and all now I think. I hope it wasn't too tense! I didn't really appreciate it at the time but given the circumstances there was a lot of points where people could've said no but nonetheless they got the paperwork out and scooched their chairs over and moved the castle of QA consoles over for me. I always hoped everyone did ok after that, it might be foolish to worry over people I knew for a few weeks over a decade ago but they made a real impression on me and it was valuable even if I didn't realise why I was going home at 5:30 an a bunch of people weren't until some time after.
@kyosokutai
20 күн бұрын
Ugh, I actually played that facebook demake of Evil Genius...
@OverwatchSniper
4 ай бұрын
I love the installer for AVP gold that has a screenshot with a caption that says "NEW EXCITING INGAME SAVE FEATURE"
@BadlanderOutsider
4 ай бұрын
Rebellion's been into comics and books for a while; they purchased 2000AD from Fleetway years back, so they're pretty much single handedly keeping UK comics alive (along with the Beano and Commando which will keep going until the sun burns out no doubt).
@ObsoleteVodkaYT
4 ай бұрын
They also own Dredd if I'm not mistaken
@Reven338
4 ай бұрын
Yet why Rebellion hasn't made a Dredd game in the past 21 years since Dredd Vs Death is a divine mystery.
@ObsoleteVodkaYT
4 ай бұрын
@@Reven338 I guess they became so good at making sucessful Sniper Elite games over the years that now they're too afraid of trying something else and potentially failing at it.
@BadlanderOutsider
4 ай бұрын
@@ObsoleteVodkaYT That comes under 2000AD, I'd presume.
@ultravioletcombat5933
4 ай бұрын
Oh yeah, they also did that Rogue Trooper game that you can get on GOG, didn't they? Didn't know they also outright own 2000AD.
@Scotty-2-Shotty
4 ай бұрын
I was already super excited to see the follow up vid for Phantom Fury but now I'm also stoked to see you play through the other AVP games
@13mungoman13
4 ай бұрын
That scene at 9:23 reminds me that I never did get a 27B-6 clearance document for Civvie's electrical information retrieval bill
@strif3s
4 ай бұрын
This came out 4 minutes ago HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GET TO 9:23
@13mungoman13
4 ай бұрын
@@strif3s By being a hero and subscribing to the Patreon, thereby seeing it early :)
@kyon813
4 ай бұрын
Stickler for paperwork, eh?
@fimmywa
4 ай бұрын
Careful, it someone puts Bivvie instead of Civvie on the document, Civvie will end up being tortured by Michael Palin wearing a babies mask, but he'll also briefly meet Robert DeNiro, I guess. So that's cool.
@LordofSadFac
4 ай бұрын
So this is why he hasnt answered my mails, all this time they have been redirected to the White House...! Wonder if they too got my death threats.
@nathanmcdonald610
4 ай бұрын
You know Civvie, you're one of the very few content creators that I actually "watch" your videos, most of the time I put stuff on as background noise while I work or exercise or whatever it is I'm doing, but you make such quality content that when you put out something new I make sure I have time set aside to sit down and actually watch it with my undivided attention. I gather you and I are about the same age and have very similar taste and experiences in the games we grew up playing, I always love hearing your take on this stuff. Keep up the good work! I always look forward to the latest video of yours and often times enjoy backlogging your older content!
@Zeithri
4 ай бұрын
3:20 - The reason they did that was because they wanted to keep the horror aspect so you wouldn't save scum. You'd actually feel the terror of " _I'm down to my last clip and I must move forward._ " You see Civvie, I owned the og AvP back in the day and I read just about every video game articles of it. I was on Planet AvP and read all kinds of stuff. This game, I adored it with all of my being. I played it so much the disc physically exploded in the disc drive. I didn't even know that was possible!!! But it is, it's something like... 4.6 million spins in the disc drive will cause the structural integrity of the disc to break down leading to it exploding. I was devastated over that! Someone can correct me on the number of spins it requires before it explodes though, my numbers are off. 4:30 - I have a mod that replaces these portraits with the classic versions instead which I frankly think are better! 4:50 - THANK YOU CIVVIE! 🐯 6:20 - The AI is *surprisingly competent* if you study it passively! Marines will explore stages cautiously. Aliens will run across all over and can honestly sneak up on you and bite you in the back of your head without you ever noiticing they were there, and Predators will stalk the entirety of a stage for their prey. I'm serious. Do this: Play Alien Campaign until you reach the bonus level Invasion, complete Invasion. Now load up the game with cheat activated. Make sure you are Godmode. Run to the Marine starting location and do your best to fart out a dozen Marinebot's. But I'd caution against any Flamethrowers, Sadars or Skeeters. They'll always kill everyone including themselves. Avoid them from seeing you and run to where the Predator usually start on the map and spawn one singular Predator bot. Now run back to where you started and spawn a lot of Alien bots, a few predalien bots, at least one praetorian bot. Leave your computer for a bathroom break, and make yourself a sandwich. Come back and start slowly exploring the stage. You will find Aliens throwing themselves into fans if you haven't deactivated them in their hunt for the other two, you will find Marines having progressed all the way from the base level to possibly the staircase or further. The Predator could be anywhere. I once opened the door only to find the Predator decapitate one alien, turn around and kill the other. Seriously, it is incredible how competent the bots are. The only big risk is that if the Predator ever falls below a certain HP and they aren't fast enough to kill it, well, boom. That clears out the stage except you :p 11:10 - The best damn flamethrower that ever threw a flame in an FPS game! 18:20 - Alien is my favorite. It's so, enjoyable to put yourself into that role and make the enemies feel terror at your prescence. Even more fun in Multiplayer in all AvP games. I once hid along the wall in a dark room when I was chased by a Marine. Because I stood stll, he didn't see me as I seemed to just be part of the wall. And then, just like in Aliens. He got the tail and then the headbite. I love, Xenomorphs, so much. 18:28 - It is that important for me :( It really takes me out of it with the shifting color focus when Humans should be Blue, Aliens Red, Yautja Green, and Synthetics invisible with a shotgun in your face. 22:27 - The key as Alien is to embrace the darkness. Destroy the lights, and use your hiss. It'll attract enemies to your location.. But they can't _see you_ in the darkness. Then just sneak up, and do as the perfect organism does. 25:25 - One fully charged Tailstab brings a Predator down on their knees usually. Small stabs is a bad idea. 26:24 - That Legendary jump...! The key to quick death as Predator is taking a Minigun to the forehead. 33:22 - I fisted her.............. wait context CONTEXT!!!! This game, much love
@TheSoulHarvester
4 ай бұрын
huh, always wondered why my Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark CD exploded in the drive.
@terminator572
4 ай бұрын
It's called a magazine.
@CabezasDePescado
4 ай бұрын
Planet AVP, the nostalgia!
@Zeithri
4 ай бұрын
@@TheSoulHarvester The more you know! \o/ @terminator572 👍 @CabezasDePescado I was using the WayBack Machine to read ye olde Planet AvP just earlier this week as well! \o/ Man I miss the Planet sites!
@Nomis90000
4 ай бұрын
That's cool about the AI. I went to see if NPC Wars did an episode of AvP but not yet!
@Novous
4 ай бұрын
I love the 3 campaigns completely different styles. Humans is pure action-horror. Aliens is hunter/assassin fantasy. Predator is straight power fantasy. I always did the humans last as a kid because it was SO tense nonstop.
@ZlimBratSki
4 ай бұрын
I always knew Weyland-Yutani would put their dough in the right place by sponsoring a Civvie vid!
@f4c3lessgaming35
4 ай бұрын
When avp2 ?
@mikemurphy5898
3 ай бұрын
Right after half life 3
@hideshisface1886
4 ай бұрын
Xenoborgs have a weakspot on their head - a small glowing red light - couple of shots there puts them down for good. Alien claw attacks - humans are basically one hit kill no matter what, so against them, clawing is objectively the best. The only case when human will survive a hit from claws is when, once in a blue moon it registers a hit to their fingers... I'm not even kidding. Clawing corpses also restores your health. The more you shred them, the more health you get, though even completely shredded carcasses restore your HP - REGARDLESS of difficulty - even on director's cut. The difficulty description is a lie. Moreover - alien can "overheal" - eat beyond 100%, not sure how much. It will slowly deplete to base health after that. Tail attack is stronger and can be charged - good at taking down turrets - AND a charged tail attack brings predator to his knees. Headbite - you need to headshot the enemy, proximity alone is not enough - the game simply hides your crosshair. Also - some weird quirks - alien blood deals damage per drop - and the amount of bleeding is determined by where you hit - each body part has joints where it meets the other part and it can bleed from there. So potentially you can turn a xenomorph into an instakill acid pool if you shoot off all their fingers and back spines. This also means that the best place to shoot is obviously the head... but also the crotch - because this is the body segment that "holds" all others together. Also - current Steam release of the game works well, but older variants are a complete bitch to run on any modern hardware - with physics glitching out inanely - enemy AI basically breaking because of it - enemies sliding and blocking themselves on level geometry, xenoborgs able to crash the entire game by glithching out the particle effects.
@Degraine
4 ай бұрын
I don't know how many people have said this, Civvie, but I really appreciated the Half-Life video for the analysis of the game's structure, how its gameplay and story were tied together, and *why* it's one of the landmarks of videogaming's development as an art form. Just like how the Megaman vs. Megaman X Sequelitis from Egoraptor taught me new things about MMX, you always bring interesting thoughts to the table, which I look forward to no matter what the game is. Even when it's something terrible, one of the not-fun videos to make like DNF, especially with the DNF 2001 leak video to contrast against ('little moments are as important as big moments' was a standout observation) I still found your dissection worth the time to watch and think on.
@LaNoLaCola
4 ай бұрын
AVP Classic, lets go. And I'm not going to lie, the darkness during the marine campaign scared me so bad that I couldn't finish the first level. Doom 3 wished its darkness could evoke that level of dread that AVP inflicted on me.
@HorrorUberAlles
4 ай бұрын
To this day, I still remember plowing through the Marine campaign, until the level where you first run into a Predator. I somehow was not expecting a gahdamn Predator of all things in that level, but I froze and he took the opportunity to snipe me with the spear gun. Scariest fucking moment in my vidya life.
@AnAverageGoblin
4 ай бұрын
Doom 3 wishes it could be a lot of things
@GuntanksInSpace
4 ай бұрын
@@AnAverageGoblin I like Doom 3 but AVP 2000 has the DARK-ASS SPACE HORROR way better indeed.
@GorbadIronclaw
4 ай бұрын
Yeah shit i remember playing the demo bitd, the ass clenching action had me go in a small control room to catch a breather (bad idea), i looked around the room and before i knew it an alien was directly in my face slicing me up. I remember screaming out loud at that one.
@odie2763
4 ай бұрын
My favorite game of my childhood, and I remember spending hours with friends in some alien wave mode where you were just a huge cave and they just came coming
@timdoyle3436
4 ай бұрын
I literally bought this game the other day and wondered if Civvie would ever review it, neat coincidence.
@mrsubject1
4 ай бұрын
If you enjoy it try avp2 it's pretty decent!
@bigcapa1973
4 ай бұрын
(9:37) nice "Brazil" reference I'm sure all 12 people in your audience born before at least 1970, will have a good chuckle.
@Calvin_Coolage
4 ай бұрын
I know that song from the original trailer for WALL-E. All I remember about the movie Brazil is falling asleep in the English class I was watching it in lol
@bigcapa1973
4 ай бұрын
@@Calvin_Coolage I thought it was in Ratatouille.
@Calvin_Coolage
4 ай бұрын
@@bigcapa1973 It might have been, I haven't seen Ratatouille in ages
@Blackerer
4 ай бұрын
As for the darkness. Remember, we used to play this on CRTs. Thats OLED level blacks for those too young to remember :D. AvP games scared me sh*tless regularly. I couldnt even get through it as a teenager. The atmosphere is thick as concrete. Well, as a marine.
@theninjamaster67
4 ай бұрын
Well Civvie did say you can't see shit and he's not the type to bullshit about that type of thing. (also I had to turn up the brightness on my phone cause I couldn't see shit).
@Blackerer
4 ай бұрын
@@theninjamaster67 OLED phone? :D
@theninjamaster67
4 ай бұрын
@@Blackerer Upon looking it up it's an AMOLED screen so yes basically OLED lol.
@Blackerer
4 ай бұрын
@@theninjamaster67 close enough :D. Remember also that YT video codecs tend to crush definition in darker parts if the video.
@theninjamaster67
4 ай бұрын
@@Blackerer That wasn't the issue it was just too dark also hilariously I needed to turn my brightness back down when he start playing with the night vision cause I got flash banged when he dropped a flair in night vision mode lol.
@EuryBartleby
4 ай бұрын
The strategy guide for this game is where I first read the words "situational awareness" and "circle-strafing". Apart from having a walkthrough, it also had a section that taught you the basics of FPS. It's probably less in depth than I remember, but was a paradigm shift for kid me. It really upped my game, not just in AvP. Wish I had kept it.
@SnoopJeDi
4 ай бұрын
I had the same experience, the strategy guide's somewhat laborious explanation of circle straging stuck with me enough that I couldn't bring myself to throw it away. Legendary game.
@EuryBartleby
4 ай бұрын
@@SnoopJeDi Ah, so I remembered it right! That's pretty cool. Good on that author, he didn't half-ass it.
@kosmosyche
4 ай бұрын
I really loved this particular iteration of AvP, especially the marine campaign. It was brutal and legit scary. You felt like your life was very fragile and literally any encounter with an alien or a group of aliens could end badly and yet you almost always had to move forward fast and finish levels as quick as possible, because staying in one place or lingering was even worse, especially considering that ammo for your guns was very limited. This game instilled a sense of survival like no other game before.
@Jade_The_Peryton
4 ай бұрын
Alien vs predator 1999 was the last game I ever played with my old baby sitter years ago, sadly he passed away from an accident. But we played the game a lot, even on multiplayer, so seeing this game brings back great memories for 7 year old me.
@Headbiter
4 ай бұрын
One of the first games we played at our LANs back in the days when we were just 3 guys and the origin of my online-handle to this very day. Go ahead, guess which one of the three races I used to play.
@ciscornBIG
Ай бұрын
Uhhhhh CT?
@TriarchVisgroup
4 ай бұрын
1:31 The comic came first, the Alien head was specifically built for Predator 2 as a nod to the comic, and the director actively had to fight to keep shots of the alien skull in the movie.
@TheBeastUnleashed87
4 ай бұрын
*1:10
@ouij
4 ай бұрын
I think I saw Cancer Mouse on a laptop in Abiotic Factor. I'm glad he hasn't forgotten his roots despite his celebrity status.
@unbearifiedbear1885
4 ай бұрын
You missed a trick with the Molotov enemies as the Alien - if you use your taunt, you can get the humans so scared, they will throw the molotov in your direction, even if there are several other humans stood there (you can also scare them to the point they drop the molotov) Usually, fire wielding enemies can be employed to kill other enemies in the level
@average_ms-dos_enjoyer
4 ай бұрын
Still got my CDs and boxes for AvP2 and the expansion, outstanding game. 🏴☠if you gotta, it's that good
@SWPAMGHONST
4 ай бұрын
Two words: shower Dunya
@deananderson6896
4 ай бұрын
1999 was a party, and this game was the thing to play. Good times great video. 👍
@deananderson6896
4 ай бұрын
Anyone else notice this game didn't have a sewer? I am happy that at least one game company understood you can't have sewers on spaceships or spacestations. But that does leave me wondering, WHERE DO THE ALIENS....GO?
@samouflage99
4 ай бұрын
Dude that Capcom AvP game is so damn good. Xenomorphs just SWARM the screen in the first level and the game wouldn't slow down. Just absolute crunchy alien-smashing carnage, will easily buy when given a proper port.
@atomicpanzer9537
4 ай бұрын
I've been waiting for you to do these games for eons, the avp games where my whole childhood and avp 2 still stands in my top ten games of all time. Stay Frosty civvie
@MrGreendude670
4 ай бұрын
I love how the world of civie has expanded over the years
@shaunroberts2037
4 ай бұрын
I seem to remember hearing somewhere that the Alien AI tries to avoid flamethrowers (or fire more accurately) while still trying to attack the player. However once they are ignited their self preservation drops to zero
@EddieSpaghetti69
4 ай бұрын
That's the gist of it. All of the AI's attempt to "avoid fire" but once lit on fire behave a few ways, humans hit with FF do run away but it also seems to just be a timer; "run around for 5 seconds" about, whereas predators and aliens when lit-up go absolutely bonkers.
@scooper8113
4 ай бұрын
Fuck yes, new Civvie
@Asmallcorneroftheinternet
4 ай бұрын
That Brazil gag was beyond just a bit. It's a God damn work of art.
@СергейМалышев-ю8щ
4 ай бұрын
The finisher with John Woo mode and dual pistols was so satisfying. But when you stood on a sentry gun I genuinely cackled. Great review, man. I really hope you'll cover AvP 2 with that awesome alien starting missions.
@fishpop
3 ай бұрын
20:06 "The alien is like a very aggressive kitty with permanent zoomies" Seems accurate
@icecold1805
4 ай бұрын
sidenote but: that you can't reload manually, I actually like it lore-wise, even wish Aliens Colonial Marines had it on their lore. Imagine a corpo-head decided to save money by ensuring marines don't waste ammo by not allowing them to reload until the mag is fully depleted, so guns jam the mag in until it is completely empty and you can't reload until you empty the mag.
@psxcsomething6114
4 ай бұрын
That makes a lot of sense
@Boltscrap
4 ай бұрын
Then they would waste ammo by shooting until they run out, which actually fits with Corpos making brainless cost cutting measures that only lose them more money.
@TheRhalf
4 ай бұрын
this is how crappy game design is born
@icecold1805
4 ай бұрын
@@TheRhalf Oh no no, I don't mean games should do this. I mean this should have been in the movie. Of course gameplay-wise the design would be awful to play with.
@OverwatchSniper
4 ай бұрын
I don't think Armat screws over the Colonial Marines, it was founded by an ex-Colonial Marine
@HoxMouse
4 ай бұрын
AVP Arcade being one of those games that never got a home port is so criminal, it's one of my favorite old beat em ups too.
@ChaseMC215
4 ай бұрын
It technically got a home port thanks to the Capcom Home Arcade, but we don't talk about that considerimg it used Final Burn Alpha, which they are not supposed to do.
@Rekettyelovag
4 ай бұрын
There's an old video on KZitem where Rebellion devs are talking about this game's development. It is very interesting and highly recommend it, if you want to understand some of the oddities of this game featured in this video. One of the funniest things is when they say that they were creating fun levels non-stop, but there were no coherent direction and story, so when the release date was on the horizon they tried to tie these levels together to have some sort of continuity. :D Back in the day, I couldn't finish this game because it was just super hard and had a very odd feeling while playing it. Rebellion had tons of idea for this game, but the design was lacking I guess. That's why I think Monolith's AvP2 was a better in every way. It was an iteration of this game, but they fully fledged out everything, preserving the look and feel of the original, setting a high bar what Rebellion couldn't jump with AvP3 (AvP2010). AvP 2's sounds, locations and weapons and enemy encounters were just so much better, for example. Also, I liked the fact they tied the 3 race's story in the campaign without the feeling of reusing maps. AvP3 failed in this regard completely.
@understatedwalrus
4 ай бұрын
AVP deathmatch in 1999 was the coolest thing that had ever happened to teenage me. That smart gun, and the Predator spear, oh man.
@SinaelDOverom
4 ай бұрын
1:26 Uhh... First AVP comic book came out a year before Predator 2, so I'm pretty sure the prop in P2 is a reference to that comic.
@michaelandreipalon359
4 ай бұрын
Still, really good comics, Randy Stradley's run.
@theninjamaster67
4 ай бұрын
It's probably both a reference and a reuse of the prop cause I doubt they'd make a whole new prop just for a two second shot.
@stuffilike6755
4 ай бұрын
I wasted around 2 years of my teenage life playing this game in multiplayer online. The community tried its best to balance the species but rough edges aside, it's some of the most fun I've ever had playing a game online. The atmosphere and the authenticity of the experience is top notch. Great soundtrack too.
@pistol0grip0pump
4 ай бұрын
What an awesome surprise of a video about one of my favourite games as a kid! I remember getting so dizzy as an alien from the SHEER AGILITY of the wall climbing/running Awesome, I'm getting a fresh drink and snacks for this one! 🤙😃
@RyumaruMG
4 ай бұрын
Best credits montage yet. Hell yeah.
@saibot1246
4 ай бұрын
This is better than the next Paris Olympic games
@oz_jones
4 ай бұрын
Less aliens too
@ranchoth
4 ай бұрын
MAN, I hope this quote doesn't age tragically badly...
@DoomRater
4 ай бұрын
That pistol reload animation is GOATed
@CustodianVirgil
4 ай бұрын
This video with a talking, radioactive mouse, is a better love-letter to Alien and Predator than the last few movies combined.
@dimitar4y
4 ай бұрын
So many years of civvie and he hasn't lost his touch.
@richardtorruellas2370
4 ай бұрын
What we really need to give Civvie nightmares for the rest of his life is for Randy to make a AVP game that's a first person looter shooter because he can't stop making Borderlands games but then make the controls unchangeable and frustrating to use but make sure it's done boom shoot style with old school graphics so Civvie is obligated to play it. Also maybe ship a few hundred copies to Civvie as an accident. Signed by Randy with his greasy finger.
@schizofreniccunt1952
4 ай бұрын
Coughing Randy vs Thermonuclear Civvie
@theninjamaster67
4 ай бұрын
I know this is a joke but I really don't get the Borderlands hate like Borderlands 3 sure but 1 and 2 are dope.
@richardtorruellas2370
4 ай бұрын
@@theninjamaster67 I'm more making fun of the fact Randy can't stop making Borderlands content because all his company's other IP's are washed up at this point. I don't think I'd buy something just because it's Gearbox anymore but I'm a total Borderlands fan. Though he admitted Wonderlands was a cash grab and that BL2 was the best they've ever done. I'm just hoping BL4 learned from the mistakes of 3. Vaughn and Rhys were actually REALLY cool characters and to see them reduced to jokes was awful. It's obvious Randy needs to bring back the OG team and ditch the "modern developers for modern audiences" he's hired.
@theninjamaster67
4 ай бұрын
@@richardtorruellas2370 Personally I think Gearbox needs to start making expansions for other companies games again maybe it'll humble them a bit and get the creative juices flowing again. Borderlands 2 was definitely their best game but I think they had something special with the Half Life expansions. Although I will say Battleborn had some serious potential had they put the care and love it deserved and if they would've marketed it as not just Overwatch since they weren't actually similar in the slightest.
@J.DeLaPoer
4 ай бұрын
BL2 was an incredible game... Many, many wasted hours, same with the Pre-Sequel. BL1 was also good, but not great. 3 was garbage; "too much of a good thing" in every way, from wearing out the jokes to taking all the other aspects too far. I didn't finish it, doubt if I even got half way -- whereas with BL2 I beat every expansion, found every secret, and was honestly sad when it was all over. _Tiny Tina's Dragon Keep_ with friends = some of the best online gaming memories I have, and I've been a gamer since the 1980s.
@swedisheinherjer
4 ай бұрын
Way back in the day, I had one of those PC Games demo CD's (from the magazine PC Games). One of those CD's had a demo of AvP. That demo gave me PTSD. Man I had never played a game that was so unpredictable, dark and scary before. The demo starts on the level where you spawn in the APC. There were NO difficulty options as I remember. It was do or die. I always used to camp at the beginning thinking that the aliens would stop to respawn but no... That beeping montion-sensor gave my anxeity every time I played the game. And when you got hurt you sounded like flamethrower medic ''Cynthia Dietrich'', the marine that quetions if the aliens shows up on infrared or not at all. Her death screams when she gets caught... Once I got the Smartgun I felt my balls started to grow (a bit). But man... This might be one of those games that scared the sh!t out of me, but d@mn I still love this game!
@Atrahasis7
4 ай бұрын
Yeha that demo also traumatized me enough to save one money summer job and buy the game.
@bluesoystercultist7164
4 ай бұрын
I have the feeling Slipgate's incompetence will kill all the momentum of old school fps games brought by Dusk, Amid Evil, Ion Fury and the other standard bearers
@MagnitudePerson
4 ай бұрын
I doubt one company can kill a whole genre that has been around since the early 90s...
@DPedroBoh
4 ай бұрын
Nah. No way their failures are as influent as the success of the modern fps gems
@MagnitudePerson
4 ай бұрын
Also play Wizardoom, its good
@terminator572
4 ай бұрын
GOOD. This trend has lasted entirely too long.
@natedigger5678
4 ай бұрын
@@terminator572 God, I hope it all dies. For every interesting concept, every Cruelty Squad, and every old formula done better like Dusk, there are 20 releases that should have just been mods that barely justify being sold.
@DawnOfTheOzz
4 ай бұрын
Never played the OG Aliens vs. Predator game but I have played the 2010 AVP game. Not the greatest but I give it respect for getting unbanned under the old draconian Aussie Classification Board before they they eventually decided that adults play video games.
@SmokingBeagles
4 ай бұрын
43 minutes of Civvie on one of my fave games from my childhood - yes please
@xenosmoke8915
4 ай бұрын
I feel like the whole weakness to fire thing that’s stuck all these years stems from a misunderstanding of the first movie. They were using fire because shooting it would have ruptured the ship’s hull. I imagine fire did no damage at all and if the movie had gone on any longer the alien would have figured that out.
@ICARUSLIV3S
4 ай бұрын
If I had a beer for every reference in this video I would have died of alcohol poisoning by now.
@Rastafarianinja
4 ай бұрын
I just recently got epilepsy a couple years ago, and I’m still having difficulty adjusting. I was an avid gamer prior to my situation, much like how I love watching this channel. I decided to brave through b/c I can’t miss an opportunity for a good civvie video. To me, it was worth the risk b/c I don’t wanna live if I can’t do the things I love to do anymore dammit
@revenantproxy9100
4 ай бұрын
I knew Civvie was going to upload because I woke up feeling bad, glad I have this strange sixth sense.
@fabrizeantonio4425
4 ай бұрын
Greatly appreciate Civvie's nonsensical in universe lore going from "the whole world is dead" in DNF 2011 to "inmates can send project proposals to the US president through FedEx" now
@manners8782
4 ай бұрын
I remember thinking that dual pistol reload was the slickest thing ever as a kid.
@ic3olate
Ай бұрын
I only played AvP 2 as a kid and while I absolutely loved it I still haven't played this one, that animation alone has almost convinced me to do so lol.
@lolmao500
4 ай бұрын
Aliens vs predator photorealistic version of it in VR would be epic.
@rakninja
4 ай бұрын
oh god, civvie did forget how to pounce as the alien and superjump as the predator.
@andrewmartin3671
4 ай бұрын
Did he also forget that the Predator had some kind of handheld lightning absorber which can refill your energy quickly? I seem to remember that from when I played it.
@OverwatchSniper
4 ай бұрын
@@andrewmartin3671 That's only in AVP2, the energy sift device. Pretty sure alien pouncing and superjumping predator is also AVP2 only
@rakninja
4 ай бұрын
@@andrewmartin3671 yes, but that may have been an addition from gold, i'm hazy on some details of the first game.
@SolidStateSimulations
4 ай бұрын
@@rakninja The first game doesn't "really" have the pounce for the Alien, however there is a bizarre "super jump" if you press crouch and jump. The Predator on the other hand gets jackshit in terms of movement abilities in the first game beyond "no fall damage unless the level has a kill trigger" and slightly higher speed than the marine. You might be thinking of AVP2 where they added the pounce and swapped the super jump to the Predator.
@rakninja
4 ай бұрын
@@SolidStateSimulations nope. to be clear i meant "pounce" as a movement mechanic, not the AVP2 attack. now i could be misremembering the pred having a super jump in 1, but i know my alien, and i have too many fond memories of ricocheting around the level at a very high rate of speed.
@DGneoseeker1
4 ай бұрын
The acid does surprisingly little damage to the predator because predators apparently have alkali blood.
@YoungClarke
4 ай бұрын
My enjoyment of video games will never again reach the peak of playing alien vs predator 2 as a kid. Survival mode on a good server in that game was just an absolute blast, decades later I am still nostalgic for it
@1247theGreatest
4 ай бұрын
those live action FMVs are kind of charming
@deathsyth8888
4 ай бұрын
[Insert Alien or Predator reference here] "If it bleeds, we can kill it!"
@deathsyth8888
4 ай бұрын
"Game over man. Game over!"
@abloogywoogywoo
4 ай бұрын
ZAAAAPPPP!!
@AJ_DOZAC
4 ай бұрын
GET TO DA CHOPPA!
@schizofreniccunt1952
4 ай бұрын
If it breathes, we can breed it!
@NostraDavid2
4 ай бұрын
Brazil mentioned! Not in the way you'd expect, but still.
@STEPAN1983SPLAV
4 ай бұрын
"Reversing the level by another creature" is literally how is the third AvP game made. The same fecking levels
@MrClawt
4 ай бұрын
Playing this gem without saves was nerve destroying. I was able to beat Marine and Alien , but I don't remember finishing the Predator campaign.
@Emu0181
4 ай бұрын
Civvie manages to get a whole Terry Gilliam bit into the video without getting tazed about Monty Python, possibly a first.
@christopherwall2121
4 ай бұрын
Ironically in a bit about overused references.
@Dr.GmcGee2099
4 ай бұрын
The dark horse comic Predator vs Alien came out November 1989. The skull was a nod to the comics and Easter egg for fans.
@jasonblalock4429
4 ай бұрын
9:40 Stopping your video dead for an extended reference to a totally unrelated movie that at least 90% of your audience hasn't seen? THIS is the quality content I subscribe for!
@J.DeLaPoer
4 ай бұрын
What sort of uncultured swine hasn't seen Brazil?
@putinforgod3072
4 ай бұрын
So after making this review, Civvie is now officially an Interespecies Reviewer.
@DOPRDragon
4 ай бұрын
Now I'm really hoping you do AvP2 sometime, since that was one of my favorite FPS shooters. The way the stories intertwined was fantastic and made playing through the other campaigns memorable.
@MKVProcrastinator
4 ай бұрын
35:10 Gearbox already beat you to the punch with the Commander Lilith DLC for Borderlands 2.
@elinfini
4 ай бұрын
Or Capcom with the Separate Ways DLC for Resident Evil 4.
@RacoonCitySlayer-cb6mo
4 ай бұрын
Something I love about Civvie's videos is how much research he does. We always get at least a little bit of a peek behind the curtain.
@mrgbig6237
4 ай бұрын
You used the tedium track from Brazil, you've earned that like.
@BungleJoogie68
4 ай бұрын
The use of the Brazil version of Brazil during the mailing scene is *chef's kiss*
@DIEGhostfish
4 ай бұрын
24:20 The original Aliens sequel comic before 3 added a company even stupider than WY, who actually stored a whole ass queen GROUNDSIDE on earth.
@jasonxhx7854
4 ай бұрын
I LOVED THIS ONE. Replayed the Predator early missions a hundred times or more
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