Good stuff! I don't think I like it as much as I do Cadillacs & Dinosaurs or Final Fight, but it's a lot of the same goodness. The issue I think is that a lot of the enemies feel very samey, since most of the game's minions end up being Xenomorph variations. For that matter, two of the player characters being Predators is a cool idea, but they end up feeling pretty interchangeable on first blush (though I did end up favoring the Hunter, so maybe I just wasn't paying attention).

Capcom did a good job, though a lot of things I take for granted in Capcom arcade games feel wildly out of place here. Food pick-ups like blocks of cheese or turkey roasts, a martial artist samurai, banter amid the full party - all of this looks really silly when you're playing as a Predator. This isn't necessarily an objection, at least on my part. I'm sure a contingent of Alien and/or Predator fans object to this game implying you can beat a Xenomorph by slapping it hard enough. But hell, that's part of the fun.

Why is Dutch a cyborg now? Again, not a complaint, just wondering what happened to him.

Reviewed on Jul 09, 2023


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