Aliens Versus Predator 2 (PC)

I've just come from reviewing the Primal Hunt addon for this game, and didn't think of reviewing this until I saw it further down the list of games... If you've read my Primal Hunt op, don't think it applies to this game! This is well up on my list of Best Games Ever. Well, it would be, if I had one anyway. I'd read reviews of this game before I bought it, and quite honestly, I thought it was going to be a bit of a let-down. All the reviews told of how scary it was, and its even printed on the box, "The scariest game you're ever likely to play!" or something similar. They weren't lying, though! ...

I'm going to start by saying this: I /love/ the Aliens movies. Except the fourth one, frankly, that sucked. But the rest of them are simply sublime, and 'Aliens' is Cameron's tour de force - forget Titanic, or Terminator. I took a trip all the way down to London some time ago /just/ to go to the Alien War live action amusement in Leicester Square (Must do an op on that one day). I am, basically, a drooling fanboy, so it's fair to say there's no doubts that I'm going to like the source material for this game. So, here we have a first person shooter based on my favourite films - where not only can you play a US Colonial Marine, packed ...

I knew that this game was something special when my wife came to check why I kept screaming whilst using the computer. For best effect, play this game alone in a darkened room, and prepare to jump out of your skin. Some games are beautiful, some games are exciting, some games are atmospheric. This game however is simply the scariest, and for that reason, the most exciting I have ever played. It is not particularly difficult (I eventually completed the seven marine missions in just under a week), but when you get physically afraid every time a bady comes after you, it seems a lot harder than it is. The graphics, although impressive, are not ...