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First Person shooters for me are the pinnacle gaming genre, I know some of you are shouting ‘Nooooo RPG FTW’ Or ‘No, you will have much more fun balancing on a board and pulling silly poses!’

Well biased opinions aside, I can safely say AvP breaths new life into, what some may say, is an overdone genre. Here at Eurogamer I got to get a good session in, with the multiplayer deathmatch, and take it from me - this game has been brilliantly thought out in game play, character style and level creation.

From the get go I got to choose from Alien, Predator or Human Marine. I dove straight into using Predator, if you’re a fan of the films you would understand, this beast is an unstoppable killing machine, using stealth to its advantage. With a mixture of a strong melee attack and huge proton blasters, this is one hell of a character to play as. Fans will love to hear that predator has the invisibility and the heat vision.  What he lacks in though is speed, he is the tank character, and lets face it, he has to have some weakness.

After I had my go with Predator I went on and played as the Alien. I will tell you this now, this is the trickiest of all three characters to play, and personally, I love it. The alien can scale any surface, jump great distances and has immense crawling speed. Granted the Alien has no ranged weapons,the only weapons it has is its tail and its claws. But the speed this creature goes at it pretty impressive, I mean the first time you hit the left stick in and sprint like crazy, is somewhat disorientating but I found myself getting used to it rather quickly and executing some great kills.

Now, I didn’t get to have a go with the Human Marine, I did however observe how he played. All you FPS veterans will be right at home here. The marine has a lot of weapons at his disposal, also he has some good pinpoint accuracy. He is the most ranged of the three, you may think he would be the weakest of the three; but he has the weapons to overcome both the Alien and the Predator.

From the multiplayer demo I played, I got the opportunity to play through two levels. One forest type level and another Aztec-like level. These are your typical multi platform FPS death match levels, with hidden nooks for the campers of you out there to hide in and the open spaces for your grudge matches. Both of these levels catered for the three character types well, to be honest I was a bit sceptical as the Alien can scale all terrain, so I was pleasantly surprised that the levels catered for the alien too.

This was only the Alpha build of the game, so graphically it isn’t up to scratch. But I can safely say that the graphics will be pretty damn good come the games release. If you know me at all, you will know that I love attention to detail in games. And AvP has it - you know, those little bits in games you can’t help but smile at. I can’t say for the marine, but both Alien and Predator have stealth kills, this is when you’re behind your opponent and you take them down in a one hit kill. The alien will grab the opponent and stab its tail straight through their body, while the Predator will pick up a its prey and either slice it’s throat with its blades, or in the case of the alien, pick it up by the head and stab it in the face. The beauty of this really shines through when you are the victim of these attacks, seeing an alien tail protruding from your stomach really does make you jump. It’s really well done.

For me Alien Vs Predator is a must get game for AvP fans and FPS fans alike. It will make you smile, it will make you scream and it will have you glued to your TV for hours.

-Garv