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Game Info
4.2 / 5
73 votes
- Platform
- Atari Jaguar
- Genres
- Shooter
- Player Perspective
- First person
- Developers
- Rebellion Developments
- Publishers
- Atari Corporation
- Release date
- October 20, 1994
Summary
When Alien vs Predator finally hit Jaguar shelves in late 1994, I was instantly struck by its gritty, firstāperson immersion. The game grew out of a scrapped Lynx project, and Rebellionās team repurposed those early concepts into a cartridge that pushed the consoleās memory limits, even expanding capacity to accommodate the detailed pixelāart, airbrushed textures and scanned models rendered by the Jaguarās blitter and GPU.
The atmosphere feels genuinely terrifying ā the echo of alien hisses, the Predatorās growl, and the oppressive corridors of New Shanghai create a pulseāpounding hunt. Critics praised the dualācharacter selection and sprawling environments, though they noted the clunky controls and occasional frameārate dips. Still, the title scooped several 1994 awards, including Game Informerās Jaguar Game of the Year.
Decades later, the communityās release of the source code sparked fanāmade remakes and multiplayer tweaks, cementing AVPās reputation as one of the Jaguarās standout experiences.
Storyline
Alien vs Predator (often called AVP) on the Atari Jaguar drops players into a simulated version of the Golgotha training base, a Colonial Marines facility that has been overrun by two alien species. The game offers three distinct scenarios: you can play as an Alien, a Predator, or as private Lance J. Lewis of the Colonial Marines.
As the Alien, your mission is to rescue the Alien queen trapped aboard a Predator ship. You attack with a claw, a retractable jaw and a tail, can turn Marines into cocoons, infect up to three of them with embryos that become extraālife eggs, and after death you respawn from a fully developed egg.
Playing as the Predator, you must kill the Alien queen and claim her skull, using tools such as a health restorer, audio oscilloscope, wrist blade, invisibility camouflage and infrared filters, while earning points to unlock a combistick, smart disc and shoulderāmounted plasma cannon. As Lance J. Lewis, you must locate weapons, security cards and a motion tracker, navigate elevators and air ducts, use terminals to learn what happened, avoid acidic blood, acid pools and Facehuggers, activate the baseās selfādestruct and escape in a pod. The game ends when the chosen characterās health is depleted.
Edited by Maya Carter
