14 DAY TRIAL // Aliens vs Predator is slowly turning its baby steps towards the launch date into Predator leaps, as more and more game content is beginning to surface. The game started making real press headlines when it managed something most violent titles could only dream about: an Australian release. After hitting a dead end with the Australian Rating Board, just like another dozen games that couldn't get past it, Rebellion took a rather defiant stand and said that it didn't plan on making the game any less violent in order for AvP to pass as a Mature 15+ game.
But, then, the game's publisher, Sega, managed to work some charms, and, at the decision's appeal, the Rating Board changed its mind and granted it a rating in its current form, preserving its violent theatrical scene. Since then, Rebellion began an onslaught of teasers, trailers and details for the title, and they're all as gory and violent as possible. The developer already announced that the game would get a pre-launch demo, it detailed its multiplayer modes to a certain degree and delighted us with the Story Trailer, as well as announcing that the voice and likeness of Lance Henriksen would be used in it.
In another attempt to advertise the game, Rebellion released the Steam Aliens Versus Predator Classic 2000, the PC game that started the legacy. And now, to take us to the peeks of ecstasy, it has released one of its best trailers yet. Entitled “Kill Moves,” the trailer reveals the special finishing attacks that we'll be able to perform in the title. And just as we came to expect from it, these are as violent as they can get.
In a frantic succession of “Finish Him!” scenarios, the trailer depicts several of the cinematic executions that can be performed, all unique for their own race. The Alien gets several head-bites and tail-impales while the Predator unleashes some devastating hand-to-hand combat, like wrist-blades to the face and neck-grabs. As he should be, the Colonial Marine is definitely the underdog in the fight, so he doesn't get much out of these kill-moves.
As the deer among wolves, he can barely squeeze a pulse rifle face-smash before going back to being “today's menu.” But this is how the gameplay should be, with the Marine on the run, hunted by both the Predator and the Aliens, in an endless succession of violence and slaughter.
Marvel at the Kill Moves below.