I am pretty excited for this game. I used to play the old one on PC back in the day. I played the demo for a few rounds and it seems pretty cool. My only gripe at this point is how long it takes to get into a match. The matchmaking system could have been better.
 
 
Well after spending some more time with it I can't say I love the multi-player. Let's hope the single player part is better.

Well I'm thinking of making rice.
 
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Jokes aside, people said on here that they were having trouble connecting so it might just be a hiccup of the demo.

I'm having a ton of fun with it.  No connection trouble on the 360.  PC was having some pretty bad connection troubles last night, haven't played PC version today.  All three classes feel just... right.  Alien is my favorite so far.

First of all, we already have a demo thread. 
 
Second, just so my stay here is not unwelcome. I've played it. The PC I had trouble connecting, so I downloaded the Xbox version. (Same demo.) It's just multiplayer, deathmatch, 8-players. For the most part it's people just walking up behind others and doing an instant kill. I think the campaign will be much better, as well as the other modes. Deathmatch seems kind of a bad fit and especially an unusual choice for a demo. They should have made it a level from the campaign...

playing as an alien is so fucking confusing. Jumping from surface to surface.... its too hard to keep track of enemies :/
 
also the matchmaking is rubbish.

" First of all, we already have a demo thread.  Second, just so my stay here is not unwelcome. I've played it. The PC I had trouble connecting, so I downloaded the Xbox version. (Same demo.) It's just multiplayer, deathmatch, 8-players. For the most part it's people just walking up behind others and doing an instant kill. I think the campaign will be much better, as well as the other modes. Deathmatch seems kind of a bad fit and especially an unusual choice for a demo. They should have made it a level from the campaign... "

" playing as an alien is so fucking confusing. Jumping from surface to surface.... its too hard to keep track of enemies :/  also the matchmaking is rubbish. "

playing as an alien is so fucking confusing. Jumping from surface to surface.... its too hard to keep track of enemies :/

Only played a few games but it was really fun. Never played an AVP game before. Haven't gotten a chance to try Predator but the Alien is pretty fun. Playing as the marine is actually pretty scary with all the aliens hissing and your radar beeping when they're near by.

Maybe if I could get into a damn game. Playing on the PC. I heard you have to join a group with 7 other people if you dont want to wait 30 mins to get into a match, which I don't want to do.

All three races seem pretty balanced. I didn't have any problem connecting on the Xbox, and it was lots of fun.

I was thinking about the balance and really it's not too balanced.
 
The predator can turn invisible, has the vision modes, have the most powerful short range attacks and most powerful long ranged attacks, and can move the fastest both in normal moving and sprinting.
 
The alien can walk on walls and ceiling (really not terribly useful unless you're playing against idiots), and can see enemies through walls (much better than marine radar).
 
The marine just starts with a long ranged attack and has the vague radar system, and has to pick up health.

Tons of fun for me so far, I really like it. There are issues with the match-making and lag in online play, but I'm willing to bet those will be ironed out pretty quickly. The game itself when you get into a smooth game is a total blast to play.

Skip This One

I was just bitching at my brother to get off my computer (he's playing the BC2 beta) when I realized at the very least I could go download this on my 360 to check it out. Downloading....now.

• Took too long to connect to a match
• The voice function is not push to talk, it's just talk
• You can't talk to anyone in-game
• The radar thing is annoying as hell
• The menu background static menu is annoying as hell
• The sensitivity is so botched it almost makes everything seem laggy.
  

While I loved the original on the Jaguar, I feel this game has been made a dozen times already, and it feels less and less meaningful every time.  It's like all they do is make the same game every time there's a new DirectX.  It's almost like they've been making this game for 15 years and releasing every build since then.
 
It looks good since it basically does what they've all done, so maybe if you've never played one of the AvP games then you'll enjoy it.  My only problem with the games is none of them ever had a good story, the characters are generic and there isn't an over-arcing storyline that connects them.  Read that first AvP comic book series from forever ago and you see a great story that gives a purpose to the events.  After playing a few of the past games, I never really knew or cared why the three races were there, or even where "there" was.  This is partly due to the state of fps storytelling of the time, but so far i've not seen anything in this game that changes that.  Maybe I've missed something, but so far it looks like AvP Ver. 4.0.

My experience so far was that it took forever to find a game, then when I found a game, I had to listen to a couple people on their mics breathing.  In the game I had no idea what I was doing, it didn't give any explanation, and the controls didn't feel great, so I quit and deleted it.

I think they might have fixed up the matchmaking a bit.  Got an update on Steam and now I connect to hosts on PC pretty quick.  edit - then again it is afternoon here on the east coast, first time since the demo was released.  First game was really laggy and I lagged out quickly.  Second game was good, but when I started kicking ass the host left the game and the game ended.  More and more the combat seems like a melee cluster fuck.  To really win try to get behind your opponent (jump over them as an alien) then tap quick attack rapidly.  People who block simply never get a chance to attack.

Playing as a marine is so boring. Fail on Rebellions part.

Alien sux.
 
Human is fun.
 
Predator is fun but you are way overpowered when you get his weapons.  I wish the leaping was a little better.  Sometimes it won't allow me to leap up to surfaces until I get the reticle in the precise place.
 
Deathmatch sux because I'd rather be helping my fellow species rather than killing them.  Only one game so far me and 3 other human guys teamed up and destroyed every single alien/predator we saw.
 
Has anyone blocked an attack before?  Every character has a block but I'm not sure how effective it is.  I tend to die by being executed from behind.  Which is the biggest problem.  Executions take far too long and you end up getting grabbed from behind when you try to do them yourself.  Which is one of the reason being an Alien sux.  Can't count how many guys I've snagged just to be grabbed from behind by a fellow Alien.  At least have the courtesy to not kill your Alien friend while he is ripping a human's head off :(

First match on got onto I was playing the predator,which felt a bit clunky, I also couldent find any weapons for it.2nd match I played I was marine which was actually pretty fun.Despite the connection issues,Im liking it so far,the level design is very detailed and close to the movies.I'm not really sold on it yet though.

Only played one game, finished 3rd with an Alien with 12 kills.
 
Didn't really like it that much. Trying to navigate with the Alien seems harder than it should be, particularly in tight spaces, and the combat is fairly boring since you just end up hitting the attack button. The stealth kills are pretty cool, though I can see them getting old, and the Predator seemed too overpowered with both the ranged and close quarters attacks. I was never really interested in it to begin with despite my love for both film franchises, and this demo did nothing to pursuade me otherwise. I'll give it another go just to try the other classes, but I doubt I'll pick it up unless it reviews favourably.

" First match on got onto I was playing the predator,which felt a bit clunky, I also couldent find any weapons for it.2nd match I played I was marine which was actually pretty fun.Despite the connection issues,Im liking it so far,the level design is very detailed and close to the movies.I'm not really sold on it yet though. "

i wasn't a fan of the predator, the alien was pretty cool when you killed someone (awesome gore) but my favorite was the humans, running around with a flashlight, motion sensor beeps, spray and pray, being the humans are really intense
 
im probably never gonna play the game but being humans was awesome

i'm not impressed. so far...

On the PS3 i have been unable to get into any game

" People who block simply never get a chance to attack. "

" @Diamond said:

" People who block simply never get a chance to attack. "

That's not true. Blocking an attack can throw an enemy offguard, and you can follow up with an instakill ability. "

The game flat out sucks.  It's basically Turok without dinosaurs. 

I have to say that I enjoyed the implied potential of the demo moreso than the actual demo. Running around as an Alien was a blast in the old games and continues to be a blast. The Predators feel like the stealthy killing machines(too bad their finisher animations take so long to run through). That leaves the bait-I mean the marines, while they are still insanely fun to play with the feeling of vulnerability; I've yet to see a marine actually win a match. Of course this could be due to the relatively low skill level of the playerbase and might even out as people get better with their chosen species
 
The hot-button topic at the moment seems to be the melee combat, personally, I like it. Its simple enough that the inexperienced can still go around flailing and pick off a couple kills, but for me the real fun meat comes in when you've got multiple experienced players in a melee duel(except when its ruined by an explosion, so disappointing)

" I was thinking about the balance and really it's not too balanced.  The predator can turn invisible, has the vision modes, have the most powerful short range attacks and most powerful long ranged attacks, and can move the fastest both in normal moving and sprinting.  The alien can walk on walls and ceiling (really not terribly useful unless you're playing against idiots), and can see enemies through walls (much better than marine radar). The marine just starts with a long ranged attack and has the vague radar system, and has to pick up health. "

I thought it was fantastic and very well balanced. I was able to have success with all three consistently, even in the mayhem that is 8 player deathmatch on that map. Looking forward to the full game.

" The game flat out sucks.  It's basically Turok without dinosaurs.  "

So far it seems pretty interesting. Playing as an alien is pretty awesome and grabbing some unsuspecting fool is always satisfying. Though, in the end it all seems kind of like a gimmick. Hopefully the final game expands more on the ideas set in motion.

I was able to round up several friends last night and play it even though that matchmaking BS had a problem and at first I was like....well I dunno about this, everything seems so much different from the other two games. But then after a few hours it started to grow on me and become fun. Tonight after steam FINALLY came back up I played for an hour.  I decided to JUST stick with Marine for the time being because it seemed the hardest for me to get used to last night. The verdict for tonight is that I had an absolute blast playing the marine. I ended up with like 24 kills and 3 deaths in the end with a 16 kill killingspree. Fun fun fun
 
If you are having a hard time with marine I would recommend that you bind Melee to a good button or key. For the time being I have mine bound to the F key. But really, it seems so far that Marines rely heavily on the melee. I had two aliens and a pred on me and was able to take them out with the help of melee. I would also recommend picking up the Pulse Rifle grenades. They are good for double kills and if it doesn't kill the enemies it stuns them I believe.

Downloaded it, booted it up, tried to get into a quick match..... to no avail. Still haven't had it work. This is on the PC, by the way. So if I get it to work I'll post with my thoughts. Based on the quick look, however, it seems as if it's fairly standard FPS fare.

" Downloaded it, booted it up, tried to get into a quick match..... to no avail. Still haven't had it work. This is on the PC, by the way. So if I get it to work I'll post with my thoughts. Based on the quick look, however, it seems as if it's fairly standard FPS fare. "

What were they thinking making a multiplayer demo, in particular a demo of the multiplayer mode that was far and away the least interesting in the other games. However I think it plays well enough that the single player will be good.

I'm enjoying it, albeit slightly less so than my first session. Those grabs from behind are a real pain in the arse, and I just can't seem to get the hang of blocking/countering (Though that could just be down to lack of practice) I think the other modes will be a lot more fun, vanilla DM always feels a bit drab to me.

The game so far looks good, except the marine class.

Well...  It's a step down from my favorite multiplayer game of all time, Aliens Vs Predator 2...  But I don't know the full feature set yet...  
 Just a question, as the marine, is the infamous counter for melee moves a Block and then fire, or a melee and then fire?

I don't know.  There seems to be far less weapons than AVP2 which have all been simplified...  Apparantly you can only change skins and not classes, which means there's only three skill sets instead of about 12...  It seems to me it's a step back from a game made 10 years ago.

How do you fire the damn plasma caster?!

hold on my stomach is churning ill get back to you..