July 16, 2012well, the animation of the alien's signature actions (attack, defend, jump etc.) are much better than other games I [url=http://uk.ign.com/games/aliens-vs-predator/xbox-360-14322168]might have worked on[/url] but the overall impression is not a good one.
Especially that dead tail - no development team really knows how to deal with such a long supposedly-living thing. It's just treated as 'another element in the alien's animation set' and looks crap when a.i. has to turn the creature towards another target. The whole game's all so 'character on path', there's no real embedding, or foot placement; no skeletal helpers. And that tail is dead unless it's taking part in a tail swipe or other signature action. It's just 'in the way' until it's given some real a.i.
Tail a.i.? Sure... it'd help.
And did they initially show a RHINO-based alien, or was that supposed to be the Queen Alien stomping around like a bull-rhino in a chinashop? Oh, dear...
And that a.i.-less camera - dead as a door knob, characterless and totally unelpful. Nasty.
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