Man Vs, Well, Everyone: AvP Marines Revealed

BRING ME ALIENS VS PREDATOR. BRING IT TO ME NOW.

We've seen the Predator at play already - and in fact I sat through a live demo of ol' crab-face in action just last week. In short - he's a lot more agile, a lot more outdoorsy and a lot more assassiny than the tank-like role he took in Rebellion's original Aliens vs Predator. Also, the spinal cord-removal death move is one of the most gruesome things I've ever seen a videogame do. Even so, I don't really give a single facehugger poo about the Predator. Always thought there was something oddly boring about him, at least when he's not wrestling with Arnie. For me, AvP is about the age-old conflict between the Aliens and the Marines. The latter may be the most vanilla of the three races, but survival horror always suited this IP better than anything else - so Marine is the campaign I know I'll be playing first. Bidee-bee... Bidee-bee... Bidde-bee...

And here's Mr Marine in action. Well, briefly - this trailer isn't an attempt to prove that the jarheads share equal baddassery-billing with the Xenos and Preds. Poor fella.

On that note - why still a fella (apparently)? The Aliens movies have always been about female protagonists, so it's a real shame that we're here defaulting to textbook macho yet again: it was a golden excuse for a woman character without resorting to base sex-appeal. Ah well. Perhaps I'll yet be surprised.

Here's the footage, anyway: I reckon it does a stand-up job of evoking the incredigood original game whilst also showing off its super-sparklo-graphics.