Aliens Vs Predator 2010 Retro Review - When Games Were Great
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We were totally spoiled for choice in 2010 when this came out which is why it got quite a bit negative feedback but when you play it today and compare it to shite they shovel at us for £50+ it's just way better. Just listen to what games released in 2010 compared to 2024, we got RDR, Starcraft II, Mass Effect 2, God of War III, Halo Reach, AC, Civ V to name but a few.
Back when games were good and movies. I picked this AVP on a discount for like 2 quid off steam. You can get the upgraded version which I did. Still as excellent as it always was, been going through some of the old retro games. I managed to get the game Outlaws one of the lucasarts games when they were decent too. If you go back to play the retro games and how they used to be you will never be disappointed, and neither will your pockets.
Please review those gold old classics
I have AvP2 up and running in Win10. She was a bit finickety. I think there's a few good guides out there. Oddly AVP3 refused to run last time i tried, have it on steam.
Broketober and you are reviewing a 15 year old game. Just goes to show the absolute state of the gaming industry!
I do miss the classic games more they are more creative. Still think 2023 was one of the best years for games releases.
i loved this game. those were the days you could blind buy aaa games. no bs agendas, games were made for the target audience that actually bought them.
I recall it being pretty mediocre compared to the original, which kind of shows how crap things have become given it's seen as amazing compared to the shite we have now.
@@TalesOfWar yeah it was considered a budget title when it came out. i think it was only 40 bucks. lol
@@TalesOfWar It felt a lot heavier than the PC versions which were admittedly better but this game for sure has its place as a top tier entry into the AVP series and gaming as a whole. It strayed a bit from the OGs but it also built its own thing and it was rather respectable, the main killer of the game was the dreaded X to instant kill, I feel like that's what largely killed the multiplayer with Aliens just turbo running past you with high sensitivity while mashing X.
The multiplayer is good with the honour rule of little to no cheese executions, the executions look PHENOMENAL though and shocked me with their brutality despite being a big fan of Gears of War 1 and 2 which were seriously brutal themselves. I was stunned when in the Predator campaign I killed the first dude and heavy attacked the other, grabbed him and stabbed him in the stomach, caressed his face then ribbed this spinal cord and head out through his stomach... I've never seen anything like that before.
Heard of aliens, colonial marines?
Got ripped off hard with that one
If this game was released in 2024 the anti-woke morons would be crying about the final cutscene of the marine campaign which reveals your character is black... "waaah forced diversity" lmao.
Memories...buying a full game with no content held back for "DLC", game works day 1, no shop attached to the game.
Man multiplayer in this was beyond awesome.
In the basic gamemode we had all 3 factions duking it out.
Marines sticking to each other and constantly shitting bricks since they all were ranged glass cannons, dying to a heavy-light combo that often came from a ceiling (flexing on xenos with a buttstock to the face interrupt into light attack block and knocking on its nogging again to drop the alien on the ground gave an indescribable feeling). Plus, the vision difference from the campaign is carried over, humans cant see in the dark, xenomorphs dont care and predators have their visor modes. That made the MP the only FPS deathmatch survival horror i have ever seen, at least when playing as the marine.
xenomorphs scuttering around on ceilings at mach speeds and lunging at your face.
Predators sniping everything that moved from stealth with occasional dueling with xenomorphs.
All of it happening organically while accompanied by a great soundscape of distant real struggles.
Im still getting phantom buttclenching when remembering it. (marine main here)
True was great as i remember for online and was balanced well i think as as humans you had to stick together so if you had good group humans could win easy while the others 2 were really fun trying to scare and brake the humans up to pick them off god was good back then to what we have now.
for a 14 year old game...... graphics hold up pretty well!
Artistic sense will always trump higher polygon & pixels count.
2010 was a good year
It was an amazing year, RDR, SCII, ME II :)
@@WorthABuyreviews BioShock 2, AC: Brotherhood, Black Ops, Just Cause 2, Metro 2033, New Vegas, Halo Reach, Mafia II, Force Unleashed, Fable III, Dead Rising 2, Skate 3.
Damn. Compared to what now? I haven't bought a single new triple A game in two years.
I'd love to see more retro reviews on WAB. Retro and indie are killing triple a.
More like AAA is killing AAA...
It is honestly incredible how shit AAA has become
Aliens vs. Predator (2010) was such a classic . I still put it up as one of my favorite games of all time to this day
The original 2000s AvP games blow the 2010 one out of the water though.
I didn't touch this one as it looked like a cheap reboot.
Never had the chance to play the originals, why were they better?
Good times! I remember having a week of LAN with mostly AvP running all day erry day. Playing as Alien was freaking crazy, jumping all over the place and barely seeing anything at all but killing everything in my way.
@@juauke Nostalgia googles. Very thick rose-tinted nostalgia goggles. Don't get me wrong, they were great for their day, but haven't aged well. The marine campaign from AvP2 is still decent I suppose, but that's about it.
Aliens vs Predator (1999) and Aliens vs Predator 2 (2001) and yes by a mile.
I have a very unfortunate memory attached to this game. I was playing the demo of it on the 360 the morning my brother died in a car accident. Treasure your loved ones, friends, and try your hardest to never take them for granted.
Sorry my friend. 🙏
So sorry for your loss 🫶
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Ah man, rest in peace to your Brother mate, sorry to hear that.
Why do people feel it’s appropriate to bring up the deaths of their family members to strangers on youtube?
Incredible how well this game aged, especially with the character models. The people in this 14 year old middleware game somehow look more alive than the ones in Slopwars:Outhouse.
The online in this was a good laugh back in the day.
It's still a good laugh today. Just gotta watch out for hackers.
The 3 team nultiplayer is so fun man. I'm shocked this has been rarely done in modern gaming.
Wasn't that the game with one button press finishers? It was so stupid. Someone finishes you and another one stands behind that player waiting to press a button...that ruined it for me.
@@kageshimunamae Yeah that was the worst part, like a congo line of finishers. Devs really should have disabled that for multiplayer.
Damn... to this day the sound of the Motion Tracker still gives me goose bumps, i love old alien games.
Yup, even in his gameplay I was getting nervous!
This was one of those great games in 2010. It's interesting comparing gaming today to back then, where AVP was over shadowed by just how many great games were coming out each year.
I remember this game, it was great. Each faction had its own feeling - the marine missions were a horror game, the predator missions made you feel very powerful sneaking around invisible and armed to the teeth, as the alien you were very fast, but only with melee attacks.
I remember playing the original Alien Vs Predator 2 on a friend's PC back in 2002 and being awe-struck at how all the cutscenes were in-game. He also had a surround sound, so listening to heartbeats and the predator's roar as he cut someone's head off was an experience. Good times that are never coming back.
This game has been installed on every machine ive had since its release. The visceral, intimate, violent first person action is unmatched by anything thats come after it. First person melee is SO hard to gsr right and this series nails it.
Don't relax just yet marines...
The game...where the alien's tail goes through the ass and mouth of a female soldier,...and no one screamed rape !!! I miss those times when the games had balls !!! 😢
Nobody can hear you scream in space.
It's just an absolute masterpiece why oh why haven't we got a remake/remaster
This was the remake lol.
It didn't sell as well as it was supposed to. Some of the melee mechanics are janky. The insta trophy kills in online almost killed off online play, it was so annoying. The devs should have added an option to disable trophy kills from behind, only allowing frontal trophy kills and you can only use them when your enemy is on his last bar of health.
Just play Isolation, it's amazing.
@@XpRnz You can't be a predator or a marine or an alien in Isolation.
@@mkultra2456 True true, still a great Alien experience though. Would be awesome if it had a Marine campaign!
I loved the online portion of this... I became almost invincible as the alien.
Now? I thought it was a video from 8 years ago. I'm very happy to see you cover old gems.
That clip of you waiting as the motion tracker increased in volume was terrifying!
You must be psychic Mack. Everytime I go to play an older game like this, Deus Ex Human Revolution, and Far Cry 2, I would end up finding a retro review from you uploaded around the same time 😂. Cheers Mack
We need a WorthABuy livestream meetup in AvP!
REALLY fun going back to old games. I recently played Wolfenstein 2009 - and I remember everyone hating the game back then, myself most likely too. But man was it fun, especially when the game gives you experimental weapons. SHOW me FPS today that think outside the box. Game devs have completely lost the magic of game design.
Whats fascinating was that Wolf2009 spent most of it's development as an open-world game before the devs realized it just wasn't working. Elements of that still exist with the hub world levels being the sole remnants of it's initial open-world design so it's real surprising the game turned out as great as it did. Makes you wonder just how much better it would have been if they went with the hub-world approach from the get-go!
Playing as three different types was great.
playing this game online as the alien gave me actual bloodlust, I quickly abstained from that heh
Man this and AVP2 were such good games. I played a lot of MP and LAN with friends on AVP2. I loved playing marines and (sometimes) abusing the autogun
This is one of my favorite games of all time! The xeno player wall running mechanics in this game are INCREDIBLE. The PVP was so awesome and the campaign was great too. This was a great game man. Very refreshing to see you enjoy this Mack
Still have my copy on the 360! Multiplayer was so fun, remember camping in a dark room with buddies as marines while aliens were crawling on the walls/ceiling. The only thing that killed me with multiplaer was the trophy kills but other than that so damn fun and immersive.
I bought this on day one and it's been sitting in my Steam library ever since, never installed. One day I shall play it. One day.
I love when Mac does a retro game review. Reminds me of a time when games were made with gamers in mind.
I played this vs a friend online for the first time in 2016 and I remember how fun it was. It's got that classic game feel.
They should remaster these classics.
2010 was the BEST year for gaming!
AVP2, thanks for the reminder. I had the most fun PvP playing that game. Some straight out horror movie scenes. Loved playing the Aliens crawling up walls and hiding in vents. Two Marines walk down a dark tunnel. one turns around: "Wait, there was something." [pounce.] He turns back. His mate is there no more and the tunnel is silent again ...
There was also mode where the Marines had to defend a fortified position, while the Aliens had multiple lives relentlessly pushing from all sides.
And a honorable mention to the pathing in this. Specially the Alien in all 3 dimensions and the transition between them! Very, very well done.
This game was SUPER underrated, I remember playing the multiplayer and having a blast.
The Aliens Vs Predator 2 (2003) Pc game multiplayer was awesome back in the day, people still keep private servers going for it
I was 10 years old when this game out and I remember being completely awestruck by the graphics. I don't think there's any other game at the time that looked this good. Way ahead of its time.
yep, it's time to replay Alien Isolation this halloween season yet again
It's great to see you review classic retro games. I lost heart with the state of games today and keep revisiting my classic 2010's games list on steam. I miss great games too .
It's not just this game, I played my PS3 recently after about a decade and nearly shed a tear. Games used to be incredible.
Retro... I still remember when this game was just out.
Yeah lol, I thought this was going to be the 1999 game.
The 2001 AVP2 was the first muliplayer game I ever played alot of. Absolutley loved that game and still do. Nothing like the destinct different classes going head to head in some epic big battle muliplayer mayhem.
Well, as a sci-fi fan obviously I played this. However, remember that in 2010 the following games were released:
- Red Dead Redemption
- Mass Effect 2
- Civilization V
But, it doesn't look half bad actually.
I found this game to be a disappointment back when it released compared to Alien vs Predator 2, but still liked it.
Hope the franchise comes back and gets a good game.
They need to either remaster or remake this game, the multiplayer was on another level. One of my favs.
It was so cool to finally get a new game after the many years following AVP2.
Damn, I think I did the marine campaign on this 30 times as a kid. Was one of the best games at the time for me. The atmosphere was so immersive.
I am the same age as you Mack...and my surname is Mack.I remember all these games and agree with how things have become.
I forget what the mode was called, but the multiplayer game where any marine gets bit by an alien and then turns into one was brilliant!!
I remember thinking the future was bright for alien games... We haven't had a game to match this one in over a decade.
The online for this game was amazing back in the day.
I remember Humans / Predator were the most effective, but doing those Stealth kills with the Xenomorph was so much fun 😅
ah yes one of my favourite games of all times. i remember i could play the first two campaign maps as alien with my eyes closed, because i played it so much
the later game that came out with the same name was really good too in single player (not talking about avp 2 or 3)
A timely video. I've recently made a list on my steam account titled 'You started 'em, you finish 'em'. This is there.
Loved this game back then
Crazy that there has been as much time between Daggerfall and this or Killzone 2 as there has been between this and modern games. Really throws into sharp relief how everything stalled out in the 2010s.
Infestation on the pyramid map was the stuff of nightmares
Time has been very kind to this game. I always have it installed.
Each time i hear that scanner sound my heartbeat go up by 10-20.
Maybe it due to my dad rented the first movie when i was 8 and it was just pure horror for me to watch.
the multiplayer in this game was sooooo much fun back when it came out.
Ah man there are so many games id like you to review from back then.
I remember in Middle School changing my pre-order from Avatar to this. Thank GOD I did!
I remember feeling really disoriented and kinda motion sick during the alien missions back in the day. Super fast transitions from sprinting wall to ceiling to wall.
As a kid i was always disappointed in avp2 that the predator disk didnt cut people in half like in the first game, great series of games. Always captured the atmosphere so well especially for their time. Back in the day avp 1 and kingpin were 2 playground classics
AvP 1 and 2 were really amazing too. I can't believe that AvP 2010 feels like an old game now. It isn't the best of the three but I certainly remember it as a fun game.
2010 This Bad company 2 and NFS Hot Pursuit what a Golden Year
I've maintained for a while now that gaming peaked in the late 2000s to early 2010s.
Glad to hear other people enjoyed this gem. Thought I was alone back in the day. Would like to play a VR port.
I played this so much back on my Xbox 360 and I'm happy to say it has backwards compatibility with Xbox One and Xbox Series. Great times with the species team based multiplayer. There was nothing else like it, with how asymmetrical the three factions were. It's a shame that there's nothing else like it.
One of the few games, that I finished on the highest difficulty, that marine campaign was so so so hard.
Ahh this game brings me back.
Use to play it in MP on PC, it was pretty fun for what it was and it was one of the best games in terms of giving you that creepy vibe that you are getting stalked and hunted(expecially when playing marine).
I recently played it on my ps3 and I even told some of my younger gamer friends how an old ass ps3 from 2007 with 500gb worth of classic games from that era, to me is worth far more than a ps4/5 with every single game for those platforms...
PS:I also played through space marine 1 on the ps3 right before getting into SM2 on PC ,I noticed that SM1 is just so much faster and the melee combat and violence is just so much more over the top that SM2(and the SM2 violence is pretty over the top, it's just that SM1 was that epic!)
I remember having this when I was little. Somehow scratched it and it’d crash at a certain point in the predator campaign so I just kept repeatedly playing the same missions until I got to the specific point it crashed at lol
Ah, the nostalgia hits hard with this one.
The marine campaign scared the shit out of me as a kid
Oh wait i ment the original avp game
More retro reviews please Mack! We need to remember what good games were like.
3 games in 1. Survival horror (marines), hack and slash (aliens), stealth based (predator). Such a great game 👌
I remember when this game first came out and a lot of people were disappointed and in particular I still recall many people making posts on the main forums talking about how all we'd have to do is wait a year or two for the "real" Aliens game being made by Gearbox. You know, Aliens: Colonial Marines. I still think back on those times and have a good chuckle.
Yeah, this was a real step down from AvP2.
lol
@@mrreloadguy This AvP came out in 2010. Colonial Marines was 2013.
i think lessons need to be learnt by these big studos. im going back to the old days
Sprinting backwards trying to shoot in every possible direction. Scary, scary awesomeness. A friend liked to play on easy mode as a predator. - not so scary, just cool
AVP was my 55th platinum trophy back in 2021
One of the few games I have still installed on my PC
I didn't even know there was a 2010 version. I played the original back in the day and it was amazing!
All they had to do for Colonial Marines was give us more maps for the single player. They fudged everything up spectacularly.
Duuuude I've been waiting so long for someone to revisit this, it's so fucking good it deserves more recognition
there's a small community for this game still that plays multiplayer in October so good timing for the review
Never had a chance to play this one! Love to see the retro reviews Mack, proper games.
I love this game, I play it every now and then, intense and scary.
This game was terrifying for me. So scary as a marine. I couldn't carry on
I remember playing this game when it came out was so good and loved the 3 different story's to it with each one for me the alien was best fun running up walls and stealthing it trying not to raise the alarm and the soldiers story was difficult i remember at times when you locked in dark room and only have flashlight and your radar with 5 to 6 dots beeping was tense. I cant remember much on predator story line must not been as good for me if i cant remember it from memory but i do remember online was fun and can be scary at times as vents with aliens can be anywhere and predator invisible on tress anywhere was good i remember.
This kind of makes me want to play it again will have to see as god was games good back then not like now i think most old games if they came out today would get a high score when they got low ones back then just because we have so much slop and failed games coming out one after the other.
More Retro Reviews please, if you got time. I still remember this game and I'm shocked it's already 14 years old. Games were better then...
Great game. Another great game was Splinter Cell Conviction. That “scene” with DJ Shadow in the background was brilliant. Stuff you’ll never see from Ubisoft ever again
i remember playing this in back in high school was a right laugh
MindPulp took a look at this game somewhat recently as well and reminded me how awesome it was. Such a solid game for the time.
Should organize a time with the community to jump in the Multiplayer. It's amazing fun.
I was really disappointed with this when it came out, only because of how much I loved AvP2. The campaigns were decent, but I had massively high hopes for the Multiplayer. But every match was just walking up behind people and pressing execute. Doing this left you open to getting executed mid execution. So the game play just devolved into conga lines of executions. The Alien movement was also incredibly dumbed down from the AvP2. Maybe I should give it another go at some point.
I have been thinking about this game recently so it is a suprise to see you retro review it. I would love to see you give Republic Commando a retro review. 👍
I was watching mack and mesh playing through Alien: colonial marines literally 6 hours ago and then this drops!
Man I loved this game so much! The second part was equally amazing. Had tons of fun in the multiplayer!