After a week of "rest", since I spent all last week playing retro games to make their respective reviews, I return once again. During this week I will try to upload one review per day (although I doubt that I will be able to do it) since there were several games that I played during the last week and well, today's review is of a game whose genre I have talked about hundreds of times and logically it is a title of the beat'em up genre.
The story of this game, like many games of the beat'em up genre is quite simple, and in this game, our main task is to destroy in the greatest possible way the grotesque and terrifying race of the Aliens, for that, the human race, represented by: Major Dutch Schaefer and Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa, will join forces with two of the Predator race, to put an end to the invasion of the Aliens. With this simple, but effective premise, we are presented with the argument of Alien vs. Predator, which is the just and necessary one to justify the massacre that we are going to cause to save our planet. Although I quite honest, I didn't pay much attention to the argument of this game, I just wanted to annihilate Aliens.
Alien vs. Predator stands out a lot for its graphic aspect, it is a game entirely in 2D but with a lot of very remarkable details on screen. The drawing style of both characters and scenery is quite unique in its style, with a use of colors quite distinctive from other games in the same genre.
On screen we can see a lot of enemies, with excellent designs and that perfectly recreate the designs of Aliens that we can see in the movies. Throughout the game we will be presented with "cinematics" which will tell us certain situations of the story, these "cinematics" are nothing more than a kind of comic with a little movement, but also present a style of high quality drawing.
The characters present a set of quite varied movements, they move with great fluidity and naturalness, so that it is quite comfortable to play when we are going to control our character. Even seeing the enemies move on stage is quite satisfying to watch.
I don't have much to say about this aspect, since in general terms, the soundtrack of Alien vs. Predator seemed really good to me, very much in line with the whole argument and situations that we are going to live in this mission to save the world. The soundtrack is very epic, with many melodies that will remind us of action movies, or music from high tension moments. The music of the final bosses is one of the best melodies of this game, since they know how to transmit the danger and the difficulty that what we are about to fight will cause us.
Alien vs. Predator is possibly one of the best beat'em ups in history, capable of competing with the best of its kind and still would be very high on the podium of the best beat'em ups in history. And this is not just me, many people consider Alien vs. Predator to be one of the best in its genre, because despite having fairly common mechanics with respect to the games of this genre, it is due to the great variety of things to do, enemies to defeat and excellently programmed mechanics, it makes Alien vs. And I believe that a game of this genre, which if it is not managed to do of suitable way can become quite monotonous and boring, and Alien vs. Predator that although with simple mechanics it is a quite good experience of game, it is a merit that few titles can manage to reach.
I have little to say about the playability of a game of the beat'em up genre that I haven't said before. Alien vs. Predator basically focuses on annihilating a whole horde of enemies (in this case Aliens) through a series of scenarios, we will have to advance through many of these scenarios until we reach the final boss of each stage, defeat him and advance to the next, but only we won't do this, because to not get bored of always doing the same, the game assigns us some different tasks to vary the gameplay a little. Alien vs. Predator has 4 characters, as I mentioned before, which have very different skills and stats between them, so we can choose the character that best suits us or the one we like most.
Alien vs. Predator is undoubtedly the best of its kind, and that's saying a lot since there is a huge amount of beat'em up in the industry, but very few are as excellent and outstanding as this one.
