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Beauty queen, on a lateral
pose...
"hello" - she
said :)
Bring the queen to the
trap [easy to write, hard to do]...
..then be quick enough
to protect yourself from the big suction! Notice the queen being
pulled back, while trying to climb out...
"Realistic" success!
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AvP
Marine success!
Aliens versus Predator [AvP] is much easier on the "Realistic" difficulty
setting, relative to the "Director's Cut" [DC] option. I've
noticed that today, when returning to my computer, after one week of
almost total bit abstinence. AvP has been a regular subject of these
pages, since 13 July 1999;
I've reached episode V playing the DC version of the game, but by the
end of the Tyrargo episode, you have to fight a Predator on invisibility
mode, after crossing an enormous dark corridor, full of nasties that
slowly shop your ammo, armour and life, leaving you in a precarious
state to face the final bugs :)
Because so many other games are waiting my attention,
I've made an option on not insisting with AvP DC, and instead enjoy
it in a more "Realistic" way. After just a few minutes, it
was very obvious that AvP becomes a completely different challenge...
a much easier one, yet very hard for the casual player.
By the end of the Tyrargo episode, you finally put
your hands on the mini-gun, Marine's most deadly weapon, firing 30
bullets per burst... and a burst is just a click way... You shake a
lot when firing the mini-gun, but it does wipe any creature on range!
It is massively strong: for example, the Predator that required me
hundred of smart-gun shots - and the smart-gun is the 2nd best weapon!
- drops dead in 2 or 3 seconds... it is green blood all over the place.
Well, after finishing Tyrargo, you get to access
the Hangar episode. If you complete this one, it can be said that you've
completed AvP, as the Marine, which is a little disappointing, since
I was expecting more episodes. This means that I _only_ did NOT manage
to finish @ DC, the final segment of episode 5, and the total of episode
6 [Hangar], which I found to be easier.
@ the Hangar, you only have your pulse riffle, a
single beast to worry about, and a single room to learn... too easy?
Not really... the single beast is a very strong Alien - a queen, I
presume - that you can't kill, even when managing to explode three
missiles on her head and emptying your ammo, while she is on the floor!!
The only way to get rid of the final superb alien, is to send the creature
to outer space, and to do that, you have to override the security system
that prevents the out door to open, access a control panel, open a
trap, drive the bug to the trap, make sure that the queen does fall
inside of it, then run way to save your life, as everything else gets
sucked out of the room.
On your left, you have some screen shots of the
final fight.
So after episode 1 [Derelict], episode 2 [Colony],
episode 3 [Invasion], episode 4 [Orbital], episode 5 [Tyrargo] and
episode 6 [Hangar], the Marine adventure ends, unless you are willing
to cross the BONUS levels: Temple, Vaults, Ferarco, Gateway and Waterfall...
Waterfall comes with a surprise - you can only play
it IF you complete AvP in the DC difficulty setting! This means a hell
of work...
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