Aliens vs. Predator demo hitting LIVE on Thursday Options

[OS Perry]

As hinted at by an Xbox Live Spotlight ad which briefly appeared yesterday, a demo for Aliens vs. Predator will be released on Xbox Live, PSN and Steam tomorrow. A Sega Europe blog post which announced the demo's imminence revealed that the trial gives players access to all three of the game's species, who can battle it out Deathmatch-style on one of AvP's multiplayer maps. You can bet we'll hop on this one as soon as it's available -- who knows, maybe the fanged proboscis which will soon bore into your skull will belong to one of us!

[JAWSFAN]

....I can't wait for this! Hopefully I will forget the painful MAG experience with this.

[WiFi Pirate]

can't wait to dig into this one. I can only hope they do all three factions justice.

[OS Perry]

Sega press release:

LONDON AND SAN FRANCISCO (3rd February 2010) – SEGA® Europe Ltd. and SEGA® of America, Inc. can today reveal that an online multiplayer demo will be released for the upcoming FPS action sci-fi title, Aliens vs Predator. The demo will be released simultaneously on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and STEAM on 4th February.

The multiplayer demo will allow gamers the chance to play as all three species – the Colonial Marine, the Predator and the Alien – and pitch their skills against each other in Deathmatch mode on Refinery, one of the game’s multiplayer maps.

“The team at Rebellion has created a truly immersive multiplayer experience with three completely different and compelling playable species. We believe that Aliens vs Predator offers gamers a unique alternative to the current FPS multiplayer games on the market, and sets a precedent for the evolution of multiplayer gaming in the genre,” said Gary Knight, European Marketing Director of SEGA Europe.

“Multiplayer was a huge part of our original AVP game back in 1999, and we’ve kept the spirit of that classic experience in creating the multiplayer for our new Aliens vs Predator. With the demo now gamers can get to grips with each of the three iconic species so they can hone their skills and be ready for when the game launches and battle commences,” said Jason Kingsley, CEO and Creative Director of Rebellion.

Aliens vs Predator allows players to take the role of each of the three infamous species; the Colonial Marine, the Predator and the Alien. Each of the three species has its very own distinct story-driven single-player campaign mode that interweaves with the campaigns of the other two species.

Aliens vs Predator also features unique 3-way online multiplayer, giving gamers the chance to pit the three species against each other in the ultimate battle for survival and for the right to be crowned the deadliest species. Aliens vs Predator has seven multiplayer modes in total: Infestation, Survivor, Predator Hunt, Domination, Deathmatch, Species Deathmatch and Mix Species Deathmatch.

Aliens vs Predator is set to be released on Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and PC Games For Windows on February 16th in America and February 19th in Europe.

For more information please visit www.sega.com/avp.

[OS Perry]

Worth downloading and trying out... Alien species is my favorite to play, although you can get mixed up if you are crawling along the ceilings. They all seem pretty well balanced. I wish it had been Team Deathmatch in the demo, as opposed to just Deathmatch.

Graphics are decent... I might put it in my Que for GF.

[JAWSFAN]

Worth downloading and trying out... Alien species is my favorite to play, although you can get mixed up if you are crawling along the ceilings. They all seem pretty well balanced. I wish it had been Team Deathmatch in the demo, as opposed to just Deathmatch.

Graphics are decent... I might put it in my Que for GF.

I've download the demo but everytime I try to find a game it just tells me searching for game......

[OS Medic]

You gotta be patient with it. It took me about 3-4 min. to find a game the first time I played it.

My thoughts are that I will be skipping this one. Maybe if enough OS'ers get it I will be its really not for me.

[JAWSFAN]

You gotta be patient with it. It took me about 3-4 min. to find a game the first time I played it.

My thoughts are that I will be skipping this one. Maybe if enough OS'ers get it I will be its really not for me.

I actually managed to get into a game late last night. I thought it was pretty good, I'd be interested to play the "horde mode" where you take on wave after wave of aliens. Not sure I'll be buying it though at this point.