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If there was good stuff in the AvP movies it was in establishing the early years of the Company and why it might have become so driven to 'build better worlds'. 'They're still pursuing their weapons programme, which was established by Asli in the first film and Carter Burke in Aliens.' 'The Company is still up to its nefarious ends,' says Mackman, referring to Weyland-Yuntani, the all-pervasive corporation that finances extra-solar expansion and is hell-bent on capturing specimens of alien life, regardless of the long-term risk to humanity, or short-term risk to its staff. Obviously the colonists are soon host to the acid-blooded uglies, while the silenced airwaves attract the intervention of US Colonial Marines.

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The difference between the site of the eggs in the Aliens movie and this game, is that they are found in the apparent ruins of another alien civilisation - that of the Predators'. The doomed colonists have stumbled across a cache of alien eggs, each one a home to one of those oh-so insistent and creepy facehuggers. This time the setting is Freya's Prospect - a colony not unlike Aliens' Hadley's Hope, which is on a planet bearing a slight resemblance to Predator's Guatemalan jungle setting. Basically, you can be fairly certain that Ellen Ripley won't be making an appearance. This latest AvP is set roughly 200 years from now 30 years on from the events on Fiorina 'Fury' 161 shown in Alien3:20 before AvP2 (movie) and 170 before the comical happenings in Alien Resurrection. Underrated Alien3 probably provides the better entry point for those keen to immerse themselves in the new game's timeline. But we take inspiration from anywhere that's appropriate really.' Of all the movies, the

Reference point film-wise, James Cameron's Aliens, Ridley Scott's Alien an also the original movie. 'There's good stuff in there.' (true, the credits were particularly pleasing) '.but to be fair our primary

'I don't think it's fair to say that we're ignoring the AvP films,' says Paul Mackman. However, there's the sense that the team are pleased to be going back to the source material that directly fed the Dark Horse comics, and Rebellion's own early game translations. The three senior developers fail utterly at revealing any inner turmoil that might exist over how the AvP backstory lias been developed in the time that it's been outside Rebellion's influence. One way or another we've been working towards making this game for a very long time.' 'Our passion for the AvP franchise lias never diminished. 'I think that's true for all of us,' interrupts Jones, pointing out that Rebellion have changed a lot since 1999. 'I'm coming to it as much of a fan as a developer.' 'I joined Rebellion just as A vP was being finished up,' adds lead designer Alex Moore.ДЎ played the title at university,' chips in producer Paul Mackman, keen to establish his veteran credentials at, the expense of arousing the suspicion that, being a student, it wasn't a legit copy he was addicted to.

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'It feels like the franchise is coming home in many ways,' says Tim Jones, AvPs project leader, who like many on the team was around, albeit in a more junior capacity, when the original PC game was being crafted. This is in spite of Hollywood going Phantom Menace on what was a serviceable premise in the time since Rebellion last pitted US Colonial Marines against the galaxy's most persistant stalkers. Overlooked for the 2001 Aliens versus Predator 2 in favour of Monolith the Oxford-based team have every right to consider the franchise as theirs.

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back when Atari and SEGA made consoles and Doom set the benchmark for FPS fun.ДЄnd it's in this arena of game design excellence that we await the arrival of a new Aliens vs Predator, a full 10 years since Rebellion last had a go at the best movie mash-up since Godzilla went Technicolor on a guy in a gorilla outfit. There are some duffers, but most are far beyond average compared to when the first.ДЄliens vs Predator game appeared. When You Think about it first-person shooters are pretty darn amazing: all-pervasive, all-conquering, and almost always excellent.

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