On top of that, taking down enemies is as easy as pressing both shoulder buttons to lock on and using your preferred ranged weapon to kill them from afar the need to mix up weaponry never once arises. The price for drinking at this fountain of eternal life? Your energy bar (which fuels cloaking and certain types of optional weaponry) depletes for a brief 10 seconds. Your health bar can be depleted, but if you're feeling particularly low you can simply bring up the map screen and literally choose the ability to restore all your health.

When it comes to fighting, you're basically invincible. Unfortunately, that novelty quickly wears off as you discover there's rarely any strategic purpose in using any of it.įor this you can thank a combat system balanced too heavily in your favor, as well as level objectives marked out in painfully obvious detail. There's early promise when you gleefully toy with the predator technology at your disposal, such as invisibility cloaking, three types of special vision modes, and a handful of neat weapons. Along the way, you'll also encounter a smattering of humans, both of the military and unarmed civilian variety. In short, an alien ship has come crashing down in small-town Colorado, and you (the predator) must destroy all traces of this newfound extraterrestrial life in the area. Prepare to carve through these aliens like a hot knife through butter.Įver the movie tie-in, AvP shares a similar plot with the upcoming film of the same name. Although it's true that a game's difficulty is hardly the sole indicator of its overall quality, every other part of the game is far too mired in blandness to prevent you from drifting off under the spell of mindlessly simple gameplay. There's not a single moment in this third-person shooter when you feel the least bit challenged, whether in terms of combat, scavenger hunting, or its occasional attempts at platforming. Predator: Requiem is an incredibly easy game.

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