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Aliens vs. Predator 2: Primal Hunt

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8.6 User Score:

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Based on 16 critic reviews
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Game Info

Publisher: Sierra Studios / Fox Interactive

Developer: Third Law Interactive

Genre(s): Action

Players: 32

ESRB Rating: M (Mature)

Release Date: August 13, 2002

Summary

On a routine hunt on Planet LV1201 a lone Predator finds a mysterious Artifact with the power to keep the savage Aliens at bay, and as legend has it, even control their minds. The Predator triggers a stasis field, trapping him for 500 years until Dunya, a human Corporate mercenary, unwittingly frees him and escapes with the Artifact. Meanwhile, a lone PredAlien seeks to destroy the Artifact to preserve the sanctity of the Hive. Now the hunt is on to retrieve the mystical Artifact before Dunya escapes back to safety. [Sierra]

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What The Critics Said

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Game Informer

This iteration is good enough to make Matt holler with delight, but the action seems to have been turned up to a frantic pace. [Oct 2002, p.93]

GameZone

This title doesn’t advance the series; it’s really more like a watered-down version of AVP2.

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PC Gamer

The story's perplexing, the AI is unimaginative, and the Predator and Predalien missions just aren't that interesting. [Nov 2002, p.146]

ActionTrip

I imagined many cool innovations in terms of gameplay - and let me tell you, I found only a few. But then, sometimes I have a vivid imagination and it's a shame that this expansion pack cannot fulfill even the slightest portion of it.

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Gamers' Temple

If you found the first game to be very challenging, this expansion has the potential to frustrate you to no end. It also lacks the elements that made the first game suspenseful and packed with atmosphere.

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Game Over Online

With aliens preying upon predators, it becomes brute force upon brute force, making it less about finesse and more about action. That in itself does away with the horror and terror that the franchise, both film and game, is known for.

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Armchair Empire

A serviceable expansion pack but casual fans need not apply as it can in no way be considered essential to the original.

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IGN

Boring, stale, frustrating, and plain, Primal Hunt tarnishes the good AvP name and pulls us further out into a cartoonish and overtly straightforward sea.

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GameSpy

This expansion seems to ignore most of what was good in the original and instead concentrate on fast-paced, frustrating, and nearly mindless action.

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GameSpot

The single-player campaign is frustrating and boring in equal measures, and nothing really noteworthy has been added to the multiplayer game.

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Computer Gaming World

Primal Hunt is going to take the Best Blueballs award for not delivering on what could have been a great expansion. [Nov 2002, p.118]

G4 TV

Middling level design along with an over-reliance on mobbing the player with nearly impossible situations make Hunt a disappointing release.

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GamePen

This is one of the poorest expansion packs for any game in recent memory. It’s so bad, in fact, that I want my money back.

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Gamer's Pulse

Offering no new gameplay styles, limited map enhancements, and unorthodox NPC AI, Aliens vs Predator 2: Primal Hunt seems to be just that, a primal update to an excellent storyline driven series.

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Computer Games Magazine

Primal Hunt is a collection of annoying "Quickload" moments resulting in a thoroughly annoying game. [Nov 2002, p.84]

2404.org

First off the Solo Missions, suck. There is no suspense like in the first, and just jumps into BORING action.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Ger D gave it a3:
Get the game, don't get the expansion. Had to resort to cheats to get past the turret part where you're waiting for Dimitri. So badly done, first off, even if you carefully spend your ammo. It's bugged, after a while your rounds stop hitting the aliens, leading to death. If you go ape and spray everywhere, you'll run out of ammo and blam dead. There's no health and no ammo pickups, so there's no effective way forward for me now other then to cheat or to restart the entire fucking game. Pathetic sh*t really.

Shadiaco V. gave it a10:
It's a great game realy,couse of the great sounds and lightning.And the story is also good. I'm giving it 10 couse i just liked this game a lot.

Sidney G. gave it an8:
Good game. You could play it at fast pace. But if you slow yourself down and use all resources its a challenge. i enjoyed.

Dan D. gave it a 10:
Omg goooooood game i loved the expansion.

James K. gave it a 10:
It is soooooooo coool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michael Z. gave it a 10:
This is the best game I've ever played.

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