Variety was in no short supply with three radically different characters to choose from and this was heightened by random enemy placement. The game's focus on tactical play also set it apart from the influx of shoot-anything-that-moves Doom copycats that had begun to arrive on the market by the mid-1990s. The decision to omit in-game music worked wonders atmospherically, conjuring up the same tension and sense of jeopardy the original Alien pulled off so well. Private Lewis's objective was to escape from a military base besieged by Aliens and Predators, activating the self-destruct command on his way out.Īlien vs Predator was rendered on flat-plane environments with 2D sprites, an art style that is starting to look dated and rough around the edges, but it was state of the art back in 1994, a time when few other games were capable of displaying scaling quite so smoothly. For instance, Lewis could use both air ducts and lifts to reach higher levels, while the deadly extraterrestrials were limited to one or the other. Let's face it, the marine - known as Private Lewis - was the least cool of the bunch, but he did have access to some of the same attributes as the other two. The Alien's ultimate goal was to rescue its queen from her prison on a Predator spacecraft.
Xenomorphs could also lay eggs in the corpses of felled marines as a means of earning extra lives. Players had access to an impressive arsenal, could heal themselves with medikits and turn invisible at will - though honour points were lost for carrying out kills while cloaked.Īliens were a more nimble species, offering greater speed and the ability to travel through air ducts. When playing as the Predator, the objective was to hunt down the Alien queen and claim her skulls as a trophy. The game offered three entirely different experiences. Players had a choice between three characters - Alien, Predator or Marine - each with their own skills and attributes. The Atari Jaguar may have ended up as a huge black eye for its platform holder, but it did give us one of the best and most atmospheric first-person shooters of the 1990s in Alien vs Predator.ĭeveloped by Rebellion and published by Atari Corporation in 1994, the game drew inspiration from the Dark Horse Comics crossover series of the same name as well as the Aliens and Predator movie franchises.Īlien vs Predator was no mere Doom clone, delivering scares and tension like few other games of its generation and encouraging tactical play at every turn.
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