The level design also doesn’t do much to help alleviate this problem. There isn’t any ability to unlock new moves, limited use items, or anything else to add some desperately needed variety. These are basically just stat buffs, and not terribly useful in light of the game’s low difficulty. You can earn experience points and level up, and between stages you can purchase upgrades in the form of new equipment. The game makes a few efforts to include some depth. Why then, is its difficulty so terribly low? It’s brutal and violent and soaked in console convention. By all appearances this is a title targeting adult, core gamers. Even worse, they usually fill your life bar completely up. These execution moves are easy to do and the opportunities to perform them are almost constant. This last mechanic proves to be especially problematic. When enemies are weak, you’ll also have the opportunity to perform an execution move by swiping the screen, which fills your life bar. A second button allows players to leap/dodge, or block, and its implementation is a bit shaky. Apart from a few special abilities used in particular sequences, the two races play very similarly, with action consisting of basic button-mashing combos. This is a great opportunity to add variety to the usually repetitive hack-and-slash genre, but this opportunity is largely squandered. The story alternates between the Xenomorphs and the Predators, with the human Colonial Marines acting as a common enemy between them. It’s not the prettiest game on the market, but it’s able to hold its own against competitors like Wild Blood. On the higher end, you’ll see specular shading, normal maps, and light bloom, as well as some very detailed texture work. The graphics are absolutely gorgeous, and even allow users to select from three detail settings to keep things running smoothly on a broad range of handsets.

Alas, being well-made does not necessarily make a game fun.Įvolution does an awful lot right. This is the sort of game we always want to see more of a mature action game, marketed squarely at traditional gamers, and oozing with production value.

It’s the second Predator title on Android, but the first for the Alien series, and Fox has put some muscle behind making it a high-end, console-like affair. AVP: Evolution, the latest of the seemingly thousands of games in its franchise(s), is an impressive game, indeed.

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