By 1993 games like Streets of Rage 2 and Super Double Dragon were upping the ante and making combat legitimately fun by giving you so many options. Even the original Double Dragon gave you more tools to work with. The predator has a basic punch combo, a jump kick, a throw, and a slide kick.

You have a bare bones assortment of attacks even by beat em up standards. If you are wondering why I am focusing on the weapons first it is because the basic gameplay is weak. Too bad they did not include the wrist blades as that would have been awesome. The rare cloaking device makes you temporarily invincible and lasts a surprising amount of time. The spear and disc drop from enemies but feel powerful. The plasmcaster is the strongest weapon but needs to be charged first, leaving you vulnerable. The Predator is large and can use its signature weapons like the plasmacaster, combistick, and smart disc. The game nails the look and feel of Predator which is about the only praise I can give it. How? Why was it so hard to capitalize on such an easy concept? But I digress. It is baffling as to how many of the Alien vs Predator products are so bad. It has the look but fails to be interesting with its mediocre gameplay. Alien vs Predator predates that game by a year and is long forgotten.

Let’s get this out of the way now this is not the beloved Capcom arcade game that finally received a home port a few years ago. Sensing worth prey the Predators head to Vega IV looking for a fight with the humans being an afterthought. Predators looking for their next hunt pick up their signal rather than Earth. But not before the colonists manage to send out a distress signal.

These quickly hatch and the newborn aliens overrun the planet. One the planet Vega IV human colonists find a nest of Alien eggs. Alien vs Predator for SNES is not a good one however. Eventually we would get some games out of it too. And while the long delayed movies were awful we did get some good comic books out of it. When the alien skull was among the many trophies in the predator ship in Predator 2 everyone knew it was on. The ultimate hunters’ vs the ultimate prey. Publisher: Activision Released: 1993 Genre: Beat em upĪlien vs Predator is one of those concepts that is literally a match made in heaven.

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