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SNES-A-Day: Aliens Vs. Predator

Paul plays all the smelly SNES games he found under a pier.

Aliens vs. Predator

Time played: 2 minutes

Skulls collected: too few

I recently watched Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, a movie I had previously enjoyed, and came to my senses that that movie sucks. So that makes two shitty AvP movies. Looking back at the game side franchise, it's not doing so hot. Besides a pretty good PC game from 2001 and a bizarre Capcom arcade cabinet that twists the Aliens/Predator universe into something Japanese and strange. I haven't read the Dark Horse comics yet but I heard they're the best of the bunch.

What was I talking about? OH YEAH

Grokk the Predator punches like a bitch

This is a crappy AvP brawler from Activision. You play as a Predator and beat the shit out of fat-looking Aliens. I'm talking nerd chunky fat. This game plays terrible and is super stiff and awkward. It's also one of those games where you forget what button does what after a few seconds because there is a terrible delay from the keyboard controller to what's on screen. You press a button, see nothing happen, then press another because you're impatient, and the Predator shoots, but then you press the last button you pressed and it throws a knife at a wall. It's all terrible.

The only cool part is that you're supposed to pick up Alien skulls for your collection. BRAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

About Paul

Paul has been playing games since he cut his teeth on an old Atari 2600 in the early 1990s. He has played every console generation since, and currently jams on Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and DSi. He proudly does not own a Wii, and goes back and forth on whether he'd want a gaming PC (he did his fair share of Mac gaming back in the day though). Games-wise, Paul came up in the world a pretty big JRPG nerd, but now he's mellowed plays mostly anything good or weird. He does maintain a pretty impressive collection Playstation 1-era RPGs.