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Posted by: G on Feb 15, 2010 at 02:52:35 PM

There's nothing quite like getting excited for an upcoming game than watching a badass trailer.  And thankfully SEGA has done just the job with a new Aliens vs Predator gameplay trailer, showing off the various multiplayer modes ahead of this weeks launch.

I've got nothing more to say on this matter really, other than I can't wait to get my hands on the final version and expect a full review very soon.

AvP will be hitting stores this week with a US release of February 16th and European release February 19th.

[Source: SEGA PR]

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Posted by: G on Feb 9, 2010 at 02:28:44 AM

Ok so you might have played the Aliens vs. Predator multiplayer demo and either thought; "Damn this is badass!" or "WTF is this?" Well AvP may have the same priniples as any other multiplayer title: kill or be killed, but it has a more subtle style of gameplay that players will need to adopt if they want to be top in the intergalactic-race war.

Rather than going all Quake or Unreal - running around using as much ammo as possible on your enemies until everything stops moving - you are going to need to learn how to use close combat techniques.  AvP might not give you a true Jackie Chan fist-fight experience, but the melee combat is a tad more advanced than most FPS titles out there.

Especially with the Alien (who doesn't have any proper long range attacks) you will need to understand

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Posted by: G on Feb 8, 2010 at 02:33:29 PM

Oh yeah! SEGA has now released a playable demo of Sonic & SEGA All-Stars racing on Xbox Live Marketplace.  The demo allows you to play as Sonic or Banjo (oh you love him really) and on one of tracks, "Lost Palace".

Weirdly though on the SOE Blog they say that you play across "a selection of tracks" - but it looks like you can only play on one - though that's not a weird thing for a demo.  But that doesn't stop it from being a really fun demo; I've already played through it about five times and that's only the single player, I'm still yet to tackle the multiplayer option.

The only downfall is that the demo is a pretty weighty 1.03GB download.  Not the biggest ever, but it'll take a little longer to arrive on your hard drive and if you are impatient, like me, then it's

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Posted by: G on Feb 8, 2010 at 03:41:42 AM

~In case you haven't seen it; the new Marines trailer~

In case you haven't checked, the Aliens vs. Predator multiplayer demo should now be available from a download service of your choice; XBL, PSN and Steam.  The demo was (supposedly) released last Friday 5th Feb, but I didn't see it appear on my XBL service until last night, maybe I'm living in a black hole or something.

The demo allows you to play with some friends and/or play a quick match against some randoms online.  There is only one level to play, "The Refinery," but you can play as all three species; Alien, Marine or Predator.

Anyway, it seems that PC and PS3 users of the demo over the weekend were plagued with some issues, which Rebellion has now apologised for; while the Xbox 360 version was unaffected.

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