Original AvP released on Steam

[toyota]

is this game as good as AvP 2? that was the very first pc game I played and it hooked me on gaming. if it is just as good I am still going to have trouble looking at those 10 year old graphics though. lol

 

[Liet]

The gameplay was far superior, imo. Graphics are severely outdated, but the gameplay is spectacular.

 

[toyota]

The gameplay was far superior, imo. Graphics are severely outdated, but the gameplay is spectacular.

okay I might give it a shot then. I cant believe I ever played the second one but ignored the first one. hopefully there are some mods to at least improve the graphics a little bit though.

 

[EnzoLT]

I have the AvP Gold boxed edition (and currently playing). Its pretty hard on Director's Cut. Both the engine's age and some wierd anomalies piss me off sometimes because it does what you dont expect it to do.

Overall, AWESOME game especially the Alien part.

I am currently looking for AvP2 Gold Boxed complete if anyone has it, ill take it for the right price, haha.

 

[toyota]

I have the AvP Gold boxed edition (and currently playing). Its pretty hard on Director's Cut. Both the engine's age and some wierd anomalies piss me off sometimes because it does what you dont expect it to do.

Overall, AWESOME game especially the Alien part.

I am currently looking for AvP2 Gold Boxed complete if anyone has it, ill take it for the right price, haha.

I have the AvP2 that includes the Primal Hunt expansion if thats what you are talking about.

 

[Liet]

Overall, AWESOME game especially the Alien part.

Yeah, I think the Alien gameplay was pretty revolutionary at the time. Hell, so was playing such an super powerful (but somehow still super fun) hunter like the Predator. Self-healing? Yes please.

Whoever was responsible for implementing the wall-running Alien code is brilliant. They actually screwed it up in the 2nd one iirc, where running over a tiny ornamental outcropping perpendicular to the main wall you were running on would tilt your camera 90 degrees. Ugh, painful!

I seem to remember that the original AvP had some brutally large levels, too. I used to play the Marine-lands-on-space-station-and-runs-into-Predator-in-5-seconds level over and over and over.

 

[Crow550]

98% of issues with AvP gold could be fixed by renaming the AvP.exe file to whatever like avpgold.exe as in XP I remember the videos not working, when I renamed the .exe file it worked fine.

I might pick this up for $5, if people play it multiplayer....I'll wait till the mulitplayer add-on is released and see how many people play it online....

I use to play on GameSpy all the time.

 

[ZzZGuy]

Bought.

I'm mainly waiting for the MP. Now if only they'd bring back AvP2 with MP.

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

Bought it to be able to play it again.

However, it's nowhere near as entertaining as I remember. It's still evilly hard, and still impossible to see - both of which I remembered. However, the entire game is ludicrously fast. I'm not talking about the alien either - the marine moves like he's a kenyan champion runner on coke.

Something equivalent to slomo .85 is desperately needed. Right now only the original UT is faster.

 

[toyota]

Bought it to be able to play it again.

However, it's nowhere near as entertaining as I remember. It's still evilly hard, and still impossible to see - both of which I remembered. However, the entire game is ludicrously fast. I'm not talking about the alien either - the marine moves like he's a kenyan champion runner on coke.

Something equivalent to slomo .85 is desperately needed. Right now only the original UT is faster.

some old games are just crazy fast compared to modern games. I have tried to go back and play HL1 but every movement is just so abrupt that its just not very enjoyable to play. I think I will skip this game because of that too.

 

[styrafoam]

If you had a subwoofer the chain gun in this game was the best one yet when it came out. It boomed instead of the usual plinking that most games had been using. They did an awesome job of capturing the atmosphere of the aliens movies with the game too. The motion tracker, environment, everything was really intense.

 

[Zenoth]

Bought it to be able to play it again.

However, it's nowhere near as entertaining as I remember. It's still evilly hard, and still impossible to see - both of which I remembered. However, the entire game is ludicrously fast. I'm not talking about the alien either - the marine moves like he's a kenyan champion runner on coke.

Something equivalent to slomo .85 is desperately needed. Right now only the original UT is faster.

You can walk in AvP, just assign a key to walking and the problem is solved, but I agree that running is terribly fast and to be honest I really did not remember it to be that way. Also I had completely forgotten how easy it was to get "stuck" on walls and corners in that game, and it does bring back some forgotten memories on why I had quit playing the Colonial Marines campaign exactly due to that "bug", it was and still is extremely frustrating, but other than that, despite its age, I was surprised to be once more immersed in the dark alleys at least for the Colonial Marines campaign, and the music is very atmospheric, it fits with the game perfectly, I also forgot about that one, it had been so long, and I'm happy to play it again after all that time.

 

[toyota]

I cant get the audio to work correctly because some sounds keep cutting out.


EDIT: well I fixed it by using Alchemy for the game. not only did it fix the cutting out music it enabled sounds that was not even getting before.

 

[Zenoth]

I cant get the audio to work correctly because some sounds keep cutting out.

EDIT: well I fixed it by using Alchemy for the game. not only did it fix the cutting out music it enabled sounds that was not even getting before.

Hmmm, maybe it's a bug only related to Windows 7, because I'm on Vista x64 and I don't have issues with the sound by default, also ALchemy does not detect AvP automatically, but maybe that's because it's installed in Steam and not under the default retail installation path, or perhaps it's related to differently placed registry entries. It's a good thing however to have thought about ALchemy, I completely forgot about that one, so if I ever experience sound issues I'll certainly try ALchemy, thanks for remind me about it hehe.

 

[toyota]

Hmmm, maybe it's a bug only related to Windows 7, because I'm on Vista x64 and I don't have issues with the sound by default, also ALchemy does not detect AvP automatically, but maybe that's because it's installed in Steam and not under the default retail installation path, or perhaps it's related to differently placed registry entries. It's a good thing however to have thought about ALchemy, I completely forgot about that one, so if I ever experience sound issues I'll certainly try ALchemy, thanks for remind me about it hehe.

yeah I think I had only used it for Timeshift and that was a while back. in fact i didnt even have installed but figured I would at least give it try. all I did was go to the games folder under Steam and copy and paste in the "game path" under settings and then just added it to Alchemy enable games. I was really surprised that it worked and I just left the buffers, duration and max voice count at the stock values because I had no idea what else to do with them. anyway its all good for now so hopefully no more sound issues.

 

[Nik]

AvP was a horrible game! AvP2 certainly made up for it. I won't spend money on AvP, but if AvP2 comes out I might pick it up

 

[lothar]

I played one of them, I don't remember which but I would only be getting AvP2 regardless because I assume any gameplay issues from the original would be fixed in the 2nd sequel.

From the reviews I just read on IGN, I think it was AvP2 I played.

 

[Rebel44]

Update released:

Updates to Aliens vs. Predator Classic 2000 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Aliens vs. Predator Classic 2000:


Proper widescreen support. Previously the game allowed non-4:3 video modes (e.g. 1920x1080) but just rendered a stretched 4:3 image. Now the game renders at the correct aspect ratio (e.g. 5:4, 16:9, 16:10), with the vertical field-of-view remaining fixed and the horizontal field-of-view changing accordingly. (i.e. 16:9 modes now render more to the sides than a 4:3 mode).

By popular demand, added an “-unlimitedsaves” command line option. By launching the game with -unlimitedsaves in the command line, players can now save as many times as they like, rather than being restricted to a set number of saves per level. To set your command line options, please right-click on the game in Steam’s “My games” browser and select “Properties” and then “Set Launch Options…”. Alternatively you can edit the command line options directly if you are using a shortcut to the game exe.

Replaced timer code with a new high-resolution version for improved accuracy.

Frame-rate now locks to a maximum of 120 to fix gameplay issues when running at very high rates (e.g. when vsync is disabled).

Mouse sensitivity/accuracy improvements for mice with a high poll rate.

Fix for invalid characters in device name in video resolution menu causing rendering problems.

Fix for crash on machines without a sound card / where the sound drivers are invalid. (Game will now run correctly with no sound.)

 

[Liet]

AvP was a horrible game! AvP2 certainly made up for it. I won't spend money on AvP, but if AvP2 comes out I might pick it up

You're a horrible game.

 

[Nik]

You're a horrible game.

yer mom's a horrible game

 

[Magusigne]

yer mom's a horrible game

Damn dude.

 

[Nik]

Damn dude.

We're just foolin around, mate.

 

[Liet]

This is a horrible game.

 

[Nik]

Damn dudes are horrible games.

 

[Northern Lawn]

If they are going to work on the game they should have improved the graphics they way serious sam was.

AVP2 is one of my all time favourites but I really couldn't get into the first one.