Aliens Versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt
Aliens Versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt chronicles the initial breach leading up to the events in Aliens Versus Predator 2, specifically, the destruction of Research Pod 5. The story takes place across nine…
Aliens Versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt is a shooter developed by Third Law Interactive, released 13 August 2002 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Aliens Versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt is
Aliens Versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt is a shooter game developed by Third Law Interactive and released in 2002. It was published by Sierra Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on LithTech Talon. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Aliens Versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt chronicles the initial breach leading up to the events in Aliens Versus Predator 2, specifically, the destruction of Research Pod 5. The story takes place across nine total mission, with three per species (Predator, Predalien, and Corporate). Each of the three playable characters is out to retrieve a mysterious artifact with the power to confuse and repel the Aliens. New features in the game include the ability to play as a tougher Predator-Alien hybrid in single and multiplayer, a new "energy flechette" weapon for the Predator, and a new 360-degree motion tracker and deployable sentry guns for the humans. Multiplayer includes four new Deathmatch maps…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Alien series
Aliens Versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt is the 27th of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. It arrived 10 months after Aliens versus Predator 2. The next entry was Aliens Versus Predator 2: Gold Edition in 2003. Its critic score of 60 is 10 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Alien: Rogue Incursion at 90.
How it was received
Aliens Versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 19% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Aliens Versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt launched on 13 August 2002, within three weeks of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Mafia, Syberia and Medieval: Total War. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Mafia, Syberia, Medieval: Total War.
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