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Aliens vs. Predator for PlayStation 3
Aliens vs. Predator for PlayStation 3 is a science-fiction action game with three separate campaigns showing one conflict. You play as a human Colonial Marine, an Alien and a Predator. Each perspective changes how you use the environment and which threats you feel. Research facilities and dark passages consequently become different playing spaces each time. Where the marine fears movement overhead, the Alien can use that same height to approach a victim.
As a marine, you rely on firearms and equipment to detect enemies before they get too close. The Alien moves along walls and ceilings, using claws, speed and surprise attacks. The Predator combines physical strength with camouflage and hunting technology. Each campaign therefore requires a fresh assessment of distance, routes and attacking opportunities. An approach that helps the marine may not work when you hunt without a gun.
You play the three stories separately as one player. The campaigns intersect but give their own view of events and protagonists. Combat is explicitly violent, including the film creatures' close-range attacks. This is Rebellion's 2010 PS3 game, not the older PC game Aliens versus Predator 2. The campaigns described here can be played offline; expansion maps or collectible extras are not offered as included.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 3 games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Aliens vs. Predator for PlayStation 3 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Aliens vs. Predator
Rebellion developed Aliens vs. Predator, and SEGA released it in 2010 for PlayStation 3 and other platforms. The studio already had experience combining the two film worlds through an earlier PC game from 1999. This release returned to the idea of three perspectives. It allowed the game not only to show fear of a monster but also to let players experience how that monster approaches its prey.
The developers had to give recognizable film creatures different movements and tools. A human soldier entering a corridor with a raised gun uses space differently from an Alien high on a wall. The Predator added a technologically equipped hunter. Animation and close combat helped make those differences visible. The shared story connected the campaigns while their controls and available resources remained clearly distinct.
This structure distinguishes the game from a single film adventure recreated scene by scene. You examine a conflict between humans and extraterrestrial hunters from several sides, recognizing locations differently as your role changes. This release stands independently within the series and should not be confused with Aliens: Colonial Marines. That later game also uses the Alien universe but has a different development history and its own campaign. Three perspectives remain the defining feature of Rebellion's game.
Similar games for PlayStation 3
Alien: Isolation also lets you experience danger in dark technical spaces on PlayStation 3. Amanda Ripley cannot simply shoot the main Alien dead and must often hide or distract it. Aliens vs. Predator gives its marine more direct firepower and also lets you hunt as an Alien. Your vulnerability and the pace of confrontations consequently differ.
Aliens: Colonial Marines also uses human soldiers, familiar firearms and the Xenomorph threat on PlayStation 3. Its campaign stays with the military side of the conflict. Aliens vs. Predator lets you switch between three separate stories and adds the Predator as a playable hunter. Players interested in experiencing the film creatures' movements and hunting tools get different possibilities here.
Dead Space also builds tension in technical environments where monsters suddenly come close on PlayStation 3. You control Isaac in third person and aim at limbs. Aliens vs. Predator uses first person and changes movement abilities by species. Both make sounds and sightlines important, but preparing an attack works very differently.
DOOM 3 BFG Edition takes you as a marine into dark research spaces full of monsters on PlayStation 3. Its similarities to the marine campaign lie in weapons, sounds and unexpected attacks. Aliens vs. Predator expands that idea with two other roles hunting from concealed positions. DOOM 3 keeps its main adventure to one human perspective and demons on Mars.
Resistance 3 also combines human survivors, strange weapons and hostile creatures on PlayStation 3. You follow one protagonist through a changed America. Aliens vs. Predator uses three campaigns and changes how the environment works when your species changes. Recognizing enemy behaviour helps in both games, but here you also learn what controlling the monster feels like.
