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Topic: AVP: Movies vs. Game (Read 12738 times)
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IGN has written up an article comparing the Alien, Predator and AVP films against what they'd like to see in the upcoming Aliens vs. Predator video game. Most of what they picked couldn't realistically be incorporated into an AVP game but a rather interesting idea of a Modern Warfare style aerial gunship assault by the USCM on an Alien infested planet sounded really awesome! Apparently the Preds searched for a "backwater" planet (Earth) to breed Aliens several hundred years back, then had a jolly old time hunting them - only the aliens weren't the easy prey they thought, and ended up breeding like mad and overrunning the place. It's an amazingly barmy and frankly terrifying piece of imagery that brings to mind entire worlds overrun with nasty Aliens. Maybe a Modern Warfare-style gunship mission, with your Colonial Marine donning some thermal-imaging goggles and gunning down hundreds of critters would be a neat way to incorporate this idea.I love replaying that gunship level in Modern Warfare and a USMC version would be amazing. The article covers all the films so there's a lot more to checkout at IGN.
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Dark Star
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Well i'll agree with everything they posted except for this part were they talk about the predator homeplanet. How awesome would a storyline involving a full-scale Colonial Marine invasion of the planet be - one that changed the tone of the game from scary shoot-em-up to full scale epic sci-fi warfare? Very awesome is the answer.
Well id really not want to see this because i dont think it would fit right. Could Marines even breathe the air? Would they need clunky armour... ect |
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I thought aliens didn't show up on thermal imaging....
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I thought aliens didn't show up on thermal imaging....
Well they dont. only electro magnetic... |
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Sebastian
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Aliens are electro-magnetic?
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Aliens are electro-magnetic?
I believe the electrical activity produced by their muscles (nerve impulses? I dunno) makes them visible in the Predator's E.M. vision mode. You'd wonder why humans don't show up on E.M. vision then, though. |
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Sebastian
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Maybe the aliens run on battery!
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I believe the electrical activity produced by their muscles (nerve impulses? I dunno) makes them visible in the Predator's E.M. vision mode. You'd wonder why humans don't show up on E.M. vision then, though.
I'm guessing the Predators can adjust the range within a given spectrum so that certain targets will show up better when targeting via the mask. Example: Dutch and his team were extremely visible in IR given the fact that they were in a jungle and the ambient temp was pretty high. Another example is how well the aliens appear when next to humans (see the opening of AVP). Since the Predators were hunting aliens I would assume their masks would have been set to filter out bio-electric activity that was outside the range of the aliens. This way the aliens would stand out like a beacon. |
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I'm guessing the Predators can adjust the range within a given spectrum so that certain targets will show up better when targeting via the mask.
Example: Dutch and his team were extremely visible in IR given the fact that they were in a jungle and the ambient temp was pretty high.
Another example is how well the aliens appear when next to humans (see the opening of AVP). Since the Predators were hunting aliens I would assume their masks would have been set to filter out bio-electric activity that was outside the range of the aliens. This way the aliens would stand out like a beacon.
That would explain why the predator's vision was washed out with heat when he took off his helmet (when fighting Dutch). In the sequel, this didn't happen due to him being in a chilled slaughterhouse, totally logical, IMO. |
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Seems like all of their ideas have an emphasis on making the Aliens less scary and more bug-like. The total opposite of how I think they should be portrayed.
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And for some reason in both the films and games the Predators are getting more and more powerful.  |
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I always bring this up:
Despite the fact that I'm not really into Steve Perry's views on the Aliens' intelligence; he wrote in AvP Prey a scene where a group of Aliens tear a Predator apart limb by limb if I remember correctly. We're getting way too far from that scene.
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Sebastian
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The pyramid flashback scene in AvP might not've been too far away from that though.
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BlackWatch
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Until the Predator set off a nuke killing thousands of Aliens...
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Sebastian
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Yeah. Bomb squad got stuck in traffic I guess..
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