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Aliens Versus Predator 2 is a video game developed by Sierra Entertainment which was released through Fox Interactive in 2001. The game is a sequel to Aliens vs. Predator which is based loosely on the movies of the Alien and Predator series. Similarly to its prequel, it is a shooter that uniquely gives the player a choice of three characters/species, each with their own distinct set of weapons and abilities. Sierra released an expansion to the game titled Aliens vs. Predator 2: Primal Hunt in 2002. // History Main article: History of computer and video games The first primitive computer and video games were developed in the 1950s and 1960s and ran on platforms such as oscilloscopes, university mainframes and EDSAC computers. ...
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2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
To date (Autumn 2004) there have been two Aliens versus Predator games released for the PC and Mac. ...
Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, is an extremely popular and influential science fiction/horror film that spawned several sequels and imitators. ...
Predator is a 1987 science fiction movie that was directed by John McTiernan and released on Friday, June 12. ...
Shooter games cover a fairly broad spectrum of sub-genres that have the commonality of controlling a character who is usually armed with a firearm that can be freely aimed. ...
The bayonet, still used in war as both knife and spearpoint. ...
2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Setting
Decades after the events of Aliens and Alien³, the Weyland Yutani Corporation followed the flight telemetry of the derelict spacecraft found on LV-426 and discovered a world full of life and dotted with the ruins of an extraterrestrial civilization—and infested with xenomorphs. 154 min. ...
Alien³ is a science fiction/horror movie that opened May 22, 1992. ...
Weyland-Yutani is a fictional corporation that forms an essential part of the setting of the Alien movie, and its sequels. ...
LV-426 as seen in Aliens LV-426, also known as Acheron, is the name of the fictitious moon (frequently but erroneously referred to as a planet) where the Alien was first encountered by humans in the movie Alien (1979) of the Alien Series. ...
The Xenomorph is a deadly fictional monster from the Alien universe, designed by the Swiss painter H. R. Giger. ...
The Company establishes a long-term research facility under Dr. Eisenberg to study the planet, the ruins, and the aliens. The facility consists of a Primary Operations Complex and a network of five massive Forward Observation Pods suspended over a canyon.
Characters Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Major Characters - Dr. Eisenberg is the head researcher in charge of the LV-1201 facility. He was the only survivor of a disastrous first expedition; when a massive storm cut off his outpost's security systems and communications, he was forced to kill and eat his colleagues. He suffered severe acid burns during a rescue attempt; as the game progresses, it is revealed that he only "survived" because his father, a major figure in the synthetic human research industry, was able to port his consciousness into an identical android body. Because of that event, Eisenberg harbors a deep hatred—--and a paralyzing fear—of xenomorphs.
- General Vasili Rykov is the head of the Iron Bears, a group of mercenaries hired to assist operations on LV-1201. Years ago, he was a colonial marine stationed at a Weyland-Yutani bio-weapons facility on the planet Korari when it was attacked by a Predator. Rykov was severely injured; he was paralyzed until he underwent an experimental procedure which replaced his spinal column with its synthetic equivalent. The treatment was only partially successful; Rykov must take powerful black-market narcotics in order to function. Rykov has since become obsessed with wiping out the Predator race.
- The Empress is the name given to the Xenomorph Queen by Eisenberg. He wants to capture and control her, but she is more than willing to send all of her minions to wipe out the human presence on LV-1201.
- Major McCain is the commanding officer of the Marines dispatched to LV-1201 under Weyland-Yutani's request. He is a fine leader, but is oblivious to what Rykov and Eisenberg have in store for him and his men.
Supporting Characters (From left to right) USCM Sgt. ...
The xenomorph is a fictional extraterrestrial life form of unknown origin from the Alien universe, created by writers Dan OBannon and Ronald Shusset. ...
- Duke is a marine under the command of Major McCain. Both sarcastic and egotistical, he is considered an annoyance by the other marines.
- Johnson is the premier dropship pilot aboard the Verloc. Carries out the marines dropship missions, and rescues Harrison in the end.
- Decker is a marine private in Sergeant Hall's team. Badly burnt in an alien ambush, and put in an APC to heal. He heals quickly, and is later seen guarding McCain and the APCs.
- Jones is a marine under the command of Major McCain. A heavy weapons guru, his weapon of choice is the Smartgun.
- Sergeant Hall is the marine second-in-command to Major McCain. During the raid on the POC, her squad is ambushed and she is captured and impregnated by the Xenomorphs. She dies when Harrison finds her.
- Sergeant Blackwell is a marine under the command of Major McCain. He is head of Harrison's squad until they were separated. He and Shugi retreat back to McCain and guard him for the rest of the game.
- Shugi is a marine under the command of Major McCain. He is part of Harrison's squad until they were separated. He and Blackwell retreat to Major McCain and stay in a marine APC or Dropship for the majority of the game.
- Tomiko is an assemblyman's daughter who signed up for an internship on LV-1201 to find out what had happened to her brother, Kenji, who she suspects was murdered. She blackmails Harrison into finding a disk with evidence on it and later helps him out.
- Major Dunya is a member of the Iron Bears. When Corporal Harrison disabled the security network in the tunnels connecting the POC to the Pods, he inadvertently disabled the security at the Pods themselves as well. Dunya's fiancé Dimitri was killed in the resulting xenomorph attack, and she holds Harrison personally responsible.
- Ivan is General Rykov's right hand man, whose sees to it that all of the general's orders are followed. He is killed by Harrison.
Note: Strangely, Ivan is encountered in Alien campaign even if he's supposed to be already dead. It is believed that the designers simply re-used Ivan's skin for another Iron Bear just as they did with Dimitri's. - Chekov is one of General Rykov's henchman. While returning from escorting his superior to the Hive, he is killed by The Alien.
- Dimitri is a foot soldier in the Iron Bears and is Dunya's fiancé. He is killed when out on patrol outside the pod when Harrison shuts off the security grid.
Player Characters - Corporal Andrew "Frosty" Harrison" is the main human character in the game. A USCM Marine, he is not given much background, but is characterized by a refusal to abandon his fellow marines. It was also mentioned in the game from the other marines that Harrison is nicknamed 'Frosty' for being 'cool' in very hot engagements. (aka A large swarm of xenomorphs chasing after him)
- Predator Prince is the main Predator character in the game. 19 years before, he and his clan attacked a Weyland-Yutani outpost, where he chased and downed a Colonial Marine known as Rykov. Now, knowing he is still alive, has come to LV-1201 to finish the job. It is implied he is a prince by the conversations of human scientists studying his mask after he is captured.
- The Alien is the main Xenomorph character in the game. An unusually intelligent and aggressive drone, it caused the Incident in attempting to escape from the Primary Operations Complex back to the hive.
Playable Characters
Human Each species of playable creature has its own unique weapon selection. The human's weapon selection is as follows: Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu(extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens Homo (genus). ...
The bayonet, still used in war as both knife and spearpoint. ...
Humans recover life by picking up life packs. Combat knives are mainly used in close combat, hence the name combat knives. ...
For the coin, see pistole For the part of a flower, see pistil. ...
A pump-action and two semi-automatic action shotguns and boxes of ammunition A shotgun is a firearm typically used to fire a number of small spherical pellets, the shot, from a smoothbore barrel of relatively large diameter. ...
The M41A Pulse Rifle is a fictional assault rifle employed by the United States Colonial Marines in the motion picture Aliens. ...
A grenade launcher is weapon that fires or launches a grenade to longer distances than a soldier could throw by hand. ...
A weapon off of the science-fiction movie Aliens. ...
Ruchnoi Protivotankovye Granatamyot (RPG) or (Cyrillic) Ручной противотанковый гранатомет (РПГ). Often mistakenly called a Rocket Propelled Grenade in the West, RPG is the Russian acronym for Ruchnoi (Handheld), Protivotankovye (Anti-Tank), Granatamyot (Grenade Launcher). The RPG is a hand-held, shoulder-launched anti-tank weapon capable of firing an unguided rocket containing an explosive...
Look at this it is a gatlin gun that originally had wheels GAUSE-17/A (GAU-17/A) Gatling Gun on USS Philippine Sea CG-58 in February 2004 A Minigun is a multibarreled machine gun with a high rate of fire (several thousand rounds per minute), employing Gatling-style...
A U.S. Army soldier peers through a scope mounted atop his M-21 rifle during operations in Iraq A sniper rifle is a somewhat vague class of rifle used for sniping, but it can be defined as a rifle used for selective destruction of specific small targets from a...
The M240 flame-thrower (from the movie Aliens) is a lightweight, carbine style flame-thrower in use by the [[|United States Colonial Marines|USCM]]. It uses pressurized and thickened Naphthal fuel as a base and is ignited by a nozzle burner. ...
Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu(extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens Homo (genus). ...
Predator Each species of playable creature has its own unique weapon selection. The predator's weapon selection is as follows: Yautja, more commonly known as simply Predators or (in the movie) hunters, are a fictional alien species that first appeared in the movie Predator, followed by Predator 2. ...
Predators also have a Medicomp device that allow them to heal, and an Energy Sift device that allows them to recover energy for their equipment. The introduction of this article does not provide enough context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. ...
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Plasma rifles are weapons often used in science fiction. ...
Fictious weapon in the Predator movies. ...
Netguns are non-leathal weapons designed to fire a net which intangles the target. ...
Alien Each species of playable creature has its own unique weapon selection, but Aliens only get to participate in mêlée attacks. Their claws, stunning tail whip, and pounce attacks are their real source of damage. However, they are able to climb walls, and make better-than-human jumps. To heal, they must eat from the body of a Predator or human. Aliens are also able to regain extra health by eating the heads of their opponents. The xenomorph is a fictional extraterrestrial life form of unknown origin from the Alien universe, created by writers Dan OBannon and Ronald Shusset. ...
Mêlée generally refers to disorganized hand-to-hand combat involving a group of fighters. ...
Fatale is also the title of a comic book published in the mid-1990s by Broadway Comics. ...
Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu(extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens Homo (genus). ...
For other uses of the word head, see head (disambiguation). ...
Plot Summaries Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Human Plot The human story begins aboard the Conestoga-class USS Verloc, carrying a small contingent of U.S. Colonial Marines to planet LV-1201. The Weyland-Yutani facility there has not been heard from in six weeks, and the marines are to rescue survivors and secure the facility until the 6th Battalion arrives.
Two dropships are deployed to the Primary Operations Complex (POC), but they are separated by hurricane winds and one is damaged. It falls to Harrison to restore power and activate the landing beacon. When he tries to restore the local security grid, he awakens the xenomorphs which had lain dormant following their conquest of the POC. Most of the marines are able to evacuate, but Sergeant Hall is captured by the aliens. Harrison tracks her to a part of the POC which has been converted to an alien hive, but he finds that Hall has been impregnated with an alien. She dies as Harrison finds her. Shown in the film Aliens, aboard the United States Colonial Marine vessle Sulaco, are two dropships. ...
The marines then attempt to reach the Pods via the tunnel network connecting them to the POC. Harrison is sent ahead to deactivate tunnel security so the marines' APCs can proceed through. In the process, he cuts the security to the Pods themselves.
When the marines reach the Pods, Eisenberg and Rykov inform them of the security breach and claim that three archaeological teams have been stranded within a massive nearby hive. The marines volunteer to rescue the teams—but the "rescue mission" is actually part of an elaborate ploy by Rykov and Eisenberg to kill the marines themselves.
As Harrison tries to establish a communication link with the POC and the Verloc, Major Dunya knocks him out and throws him in a prison cell within the Pods, used to hold convict laborers. The marines are told that Harrison was killed in a confrontation with an escaped convict. Harrison escapes, and during his flight he kills an escaped predator-alien hybrid and unknowingly releases a captive Predator. Later, Harrison is contacted by a mysterious person using a voice scrambler. This person instructs him to pick up a data disk hidden in one of the labs in exchange for help returning to his team. He reluctantly complies. In biology, hybrid has three meanings. ...
As Harrison reaches the Pod's lowest levels, he sees the Predator he'd freed escape rather dramatically. Harrisons pick up new gear and kills Rykov's right hand Ivan and 2 Iron Bears, before taking out another mercenary in an "Exosuit," a bipedal armored combat vehicle, before escaping the Pods.
As Harrison returns to the POC to find White Team, who had been stationed behind, he learns that the mysterious person who contacted him is Tomiko, an assemblyman's daughter who signed up for an internship on LV-1201 to find out what had happened to her brother, who she suspects was murdered. The data disk contains records of all the illegal activities taking place on the planet, which Tomiko wants to present to her father in an attempt to hold Weyland Yutani accountable for its crimes.
Harrison finds several members of White Team, but they are all killed by aliens and Predators before Harrison can activate the landing beacon for an incoming dropship. Harrison manages to kill a predator himself before reaching the dropship. Tomiko transmits the coordinates of an old entry site to the hive, and Harrison, now in his own Exosuit, proceeds after his fellow marines whom Rykov has stranded. Along the way, he must clear an infestation from some ancient extraterrestrial technology. His exosuit is damaged during a fall, and he must proceed the rest of the way on foot. He locates his team, subdues an alien queen, and manages to evacuate via dropship. The queen, which apparently survived, follows him, but she is killed by a barrage of missiles from the dropship.
As the dropship puts distance between itself and the hive, Tomiko overloads the fusion reactors in the Pods, destroying them and (apparently) killing herself. When the marines return to the Verloc, Major McCain recommends abandoning any further rescue or salvage attempts on LV-1201.
Predator Plot The Predator arrives on LV-1201 with two clan members for a 'hunt'. It is gradually revealed that your Predator is a high ranking clan member, possibly a prince, with better armor, helmet and weapons than your clan mates. After a quick human slaughter and a meeting with some of your other clan mates, who provide you with new weaponry, the Predator discovers his two clan mates have been captured by the Iron Bears. Pursuing the mercenaries into the facility, the Predator eventually succumbs to experimental elctro-magnetic pulse grenades which render his equipment useless and result in his capture.
Rykov, with his hatred for the Predators, places the third and final Predator in a lab where it remains in stasis for over six weeks. It is revealed that this Predator is responsible for Rykov's injuries and his burning desire for revenge. Saved from being implanted by the alien and inadvertently released by Corporal Harrison, the Predator, despite being infected with several diseases, powers through a horde of humans, reclaims his equipment and sets off in pursuit of General Rykov.
After a dramatic escape aboard a dropship, the Predator fights through the alien infested caves and tunnels beneath the pods and eventually manages to signal his clan using human technology. The Predator clan promptly arrive and re-arm the Predator, who then sets off to finish Rykov, the man who escaped his wrist blades twenty years ago.
Following Rykov, now encased in an 'Alice' exosuit, deep into the Alien Hive, the Predator fights his way into the heart of the Hive for a climatic battle with General Rykov. Overcoming his enemy, the Predator claims Rykov's synthetic spine as his trophy after twenty years of chase.
In a final cut scene, the USS Verloc is seen departing LV-1201 with the US Colonial Marines. As it heads into deep space, the Predators can be seen stalking the ship in their own sleek battleship, chasing their next 'hunt'.
Alien Plot In an introductory flashback, we learn that Dr. Eisenberg is the only survivor of one of the first expeditions on LV-1201. It's heavily implied that he ate his colleagues to survive. Look up flashback in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Cutting back to the timeframe of the game itself, Dr. Eisenberg is discussing some of the facility's problems with a Company auditor. Those problems include the loss of Pod 5, missing artifacts, and unauthorized research, and the oversight committee is getting worried. Eisenberg will have none of it.
Meanwhile, Major Dunya delivers a large container to Captain Richter, operator of the cargo vessel Aurora. He has apparently been smuggling artifacts stolen by the Iron Bears, but this crate is larger than normal. He attempts to scan it, but the container is shielded against scanning. Richter is called away to a meeting with Rykov shortly before liftoff. The crate is knocked over and opened when the ship is bumped during the refueling process, revealing the egg within. The egg opens and the player-controlled facehugger emerges. The facehugger leaves the ship through umbilical ductwork and begins to track an irritable guard through the POC. When the guard retires to his quarters for a nap, the facehugger springs on him and infects him.
In due time, a player-controlled chestburster hatches, killing the guard. It flees through an open window and proceeds through the POC until it finds nourishment—cats apparently kept for research purposes. It molts, and when it is next seen, it is a full-grown drone.
The drone fights its way through the POC, releasing other xenomorphs being kept as test subjects along the way. It reaches the lower levels, finally encountering a Predator that has been stalking it, probably believing it would make a suitable challenge. It fatally wounds the Predator, which activates its self-destruct mechanism, thus blasting a hole into the POC's drainage system and allowing the alien to escape. Incidentally, the hole also allows thousands of xenomorphs into the POC, thus causing the Incident to which the marines respond.
Six weeks later, the alien infiltrates the Pods during a brief security failure caused by Corporal Harrison. It takes the opportunity to wreak havoc, killing dozens of guards and scientists, releasing a Predator-alien hybrid, and finally liberating an entire artificial hive within the Pod. Along the way, it kills scientists who are about to infect another Predator with an alien chestburster. In biology, hybrid has three meanings. ...
Eisenberg has taken advantage of the marines' arrival to initiate the Large Mass Specimen Extraction, a project to capture the alien empress. As part of the plan, combat synthetics have wired explosive charges throughout the tunnels of the hive. After leaving the Pods and armed with this information, the alien must disable these explosives as it tracks the empress.
The empress is successfully captured, but the alien pursues her captors, including Eisenberg himself. It tracks them through an archaeological site, killing guards, civilians and Iron Bears, to a dropship landing pad. It kills two Predators and sabotages the pad's support machinery, causing the dropship to crash. Furious, Eisenberg attacks the drone directly. When the alien incapacitates him, the game ends. A cutscene reveals that Eisenberg (in his current incarnation) is an android, and he has been cocooned within the empress' chamber. His limbs have been removed and his screams echo through the hive, as the empress and her rescuer gloat.
Screenshots
 Alien : hunting in the dark |
 Alien : preparing a headbite |
 Alien : attacking a Predator |
 Marine : fighting a Predator |
 Marine : tackling the Alien Queen | |
 Predator : beautiful hunting grounds |
 Predator : infra-red tracking |
 Predator : meeting the PredAlien | How Aliens see in the dark Although Aliens players principally see the world in the same way as human and Predator players, they can switch to an extra-sensory vision mode that allows them to hunt in total darkness. ...
How Aliens see in the dark Although Aliens players principally see the world in the same way as human and Predator players, they can switch to an extra-sensory vision mode that allows them to hunt in total darkness. ...
Preparing to headbite Similarly to AvP, Alien players in AvP2 can use their claws, tails and jaws to attack enemies. ...
Preparing to headbite Similarly to AvP, Alien players in AvP2 can use their claws, tails and jaws to attack enemies. ...
Attacking a combistick-wielding Predator Near the end of the Alien campaign, Alien players must stop both human and Predator enemies from capturing and transporting the Alien Queen in a dropship. ...
Attacking a combistick-wielding Predator Near the end of the Alien campaign, Alien players must stop both human and Predator enemies from capturing and transporting the Alien Queen in a dropship. ...
Face to face with a Predator In this screenshot, a shotgun-wielding Marine comes face to face with a Predator. ...
Face to face with a Predator In this screenshot, a shotgun-wielding Marine comes face to face with a Predator. ...
Fighting the Alien Queen Near the end of the Marine campaign, players find themselves deep within a facility constructed by the alien race whose spacecraft is discovered in the film Alien. ...
Fighting the Alien Queen Near the end of the Marine campaign, players find themselves deep within a facility constructed by the alien race whose spacecraft is discovered in the film Alien. ...
Escape! After defeating the Alien Queen, and the Praetorian Aliens (see corpse) that protect it, Marine players must quickly depart the area before nuclear weapons are used to destroy the alien facility. ...
Escape! After defeating the Alien Queen, and the Praetorian Aliens (see corpse) that protect it, Marine players must quickly depart the area before nuclear weapons are used to destroy the alien facility. ...
Beautiful hunting grounds AvP2 takes place on planet LV-1201 which, although overrun by Aliens, provides an attractive background to the action. ...
Beautiful hunting grounds AvP2 takes place on planet LV-1201 which, although overrun by Aliens, provides an attractive background to the action. ...
Tracking corporates in infra-red As in AvP, Predators in AvP2 have access to several vision modes to aid their hunt. ...
Tracking corporates in infra-red As in AvP, Predators in AvP2 have access to several vision modes to aid their hunt. ...
Meeting a PredAlien As part of its experimental programme, Weyland-Yutani capture Predators on LV-1201 and implant them with Alien embryos. ...
Meeting a PredAlien As part of its experimental programme, Weyland-Yutani capture Predators on LV-1201 and implant them with Alien embryos. ...
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