Anyone who passed on Aliens vs. Predator -- there were a number of good reasons to do so, in my opinion -- might want to take a second look at Rebellion's latest. Throughout this weekend, Steam is offering the first-person shooter for $33.49 (regularly $49.99 for the PC version).
At that price, it should be significantly easier to justify. That said, I can easily picture future sales that will drop Aliens vs. Predator to far lower prices. Likewise, it might be better to wait it out, hoping that some of the more broken aspects of the game get patched.
Then again, it's not very often we get a game about Xenomorphs, Predators, or in this case, both. To quote my old psych professor, "suck it up, cupcake!"
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Yeah, sucks.
OT: Worth it for the Marine and Alien campaigns if you ask me.
Multiplayer is a bit of a mixed bag. Some modes are never played from what I've seen. I never see a server for mixed species deathmatch, or species deathmatch. It's always Infestation, team deathmatch and deathmatch.
Infestation is pretty cool until there are an equal amount of aliens to marines, at which point the match spirals downward as it becomes a spam fest of aliens just constantly running in, clicking wildly while mashing the "Interact" key. No tactics, no fun, just spamming.
The spawning in Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch, in an apparent attempt to utilize the whole map, has you spawning in COMPLETELY random segments of the level. This means you could be a Marine spawned in the same room as 2 aliens and a predator from the opposing team.
If you want to play multiplayer, choose matches with a low number of players, I find this is when I have the most fun. It's most definitely worth $30 bucks.
But I had to laugh when I saw that they were charging for the map packs on PC. That's pretty lame.
http://www.aliensvspredator.net/forum/topic/5813-aliens-vs-predator-pc-patch-3-notes/