Playing as a Colonial Marine, you start off having just woken from cryogenic freezing to find your ship overrun with Aliens and Predators (Aliens inhabit the upper levels, and predators the lower levels – or vice versa, depending on which way you look at the numbering of the levels). Much of the gameplay followed the usual format – find your way around the somewhat complex map looking for ways to unlock your path until you complete the final objective however, each ‘species’ has it’s own objectives, starting point, and weapons. Levels were flat-plane, aiming was limited to left and right, and there was no jump button (nor was there any real need to jump as a result).
So in some ways, it was an important release (although I do recall there was some controvercy regarding its release, but I can’t remember the specific details – and I guess they don’t matter much in the context of this review anyway).Īs an FPS, though, it was as limited as its brethren of the time (by today’s standards at least) . Not only that, but you could play as a Colonial Marine, a Predator, or an Alien, an idea that was pretty damned AWESOME at the time, and has since become a staple of the AvP series. At a time when most AvP titles were side-scrolling beat ’em ups, this particular game was a first person shooter in the same vein as Wolfenstein and Doom (both of which were also released on Jaguar). Alien vs Predator, originally released for the Jaguar in 1994, was one of the flagship titles, and in some way much of the limited success the machine had can be levied against this particular title.
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