The game is a fairly simple first person shooter in practice - you choose either a marine, an Alien or a Predator to play as. The original entry into the whole pantheon of AvP games (and films, to be honest) began with the Jaguar version.

I've also played the arcade and PC versions, but they don't count (and this is still superior to the arcade (SNES) version, which is a side scrolling beat 'em up anyway). The main focus of this article is the Jaguar-based representation of the Alien universe, and as a self-confessed expert in the field, I can't help but say (write) that it's the best console-based Alien Vs Predator game in existence. Even sadder is that I own a Weyland Yutani jacket and actually wear it in public.but that's another story.

Likewise, I have seen Predator and it's sequel on multiple occasions and could quote you any number of lines from any of them. I'm something of an aficionado when it comes to the whole Alien franchise - I've seen Aliens (the second film) more times than I care to remember, and I have a similar fondness for the other films in the quadrilogy. I suppose it was safer to do this than invest a lot of time and effort in a new platform and Atari were not big contenders in the market at that time.īack to the core though, I believe a lot of the system is actually there including Tom and Jerry, but the 68000 portion is almost certainly more complete as this already very well supported in other cores.The game that the Jaguar is famous for, and one of my favourite games of all time - Alien Vs Predator. This is why a lot of current console/computer games were ported to it rather than a lot of new games as it was quick and easy.

The core contains this more basic chip that a lot of Devs used to make the games, that didn't harness the systems full potential.Īctually, the system wasn't that difficult to code for, developers were lazy so used the 68000 CPU as they were already familiar with it. It also had a less powerful Motorola chip found elsewhere that was easier for Devs to code to, but isn't as beefy. Please correct me if I am wrong but my basic understanding of the Jaguar is it has powerful chips in it that haven't had cores made, and game developers found them hard to develop for.

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