Aliens vs Predator 2: Primal Hunt Review

By CVG Staff for computerandvideogames.com

Hold onto your entrails and enter the gore-splashed planet

If the thought of biting the head off a jelly baby makes you feel a bit queasy, be warned: the official expansion pack to last year's chest-bursting first-person shoot 'em up is not a game for the faint-hearted...

Set nearly 500 years before the carnage of the last game, Primal Hunt sees three deadly species, predator, corporate mercenary and new boy on the block, the Predalien, compete over a highly prized artefact which, if it falls into the wrong hands, turns acid-drooling aliens into obedient pets.

There are only nine levels in the single-player campaign. Each one is fairly big, though, and rammed to the rafters with aliens, alien sub-species, predators and marines intent on either gibbing your scaly hide, sucking your brains out or making a trophy from your freshly skinned skull.

ABSOLUTE BADASSES!

The action in this update takes place on the same planet, but there are brand new locations to steam around. Take the Predator Ruins level, where orange volumetric fog swirls around your feet. Several of the previously off-limits human level areas, such as the reactor room and morgue, provide countless hair-raising frights, too.

There are gory new weapons and the inclusion of four new multiplayer maps helps pad out the game. Nonetheless, you're effectively subscribing to more of the same, as opposed to any genuine gameplay enhancements. Brutally addictive... while it lasts.