Become the Ultimate Hunter!
I originally bought this game brand new, completed every mission and even earned a few bonus items. I got into a selling frenzy and not realizing my possible oversight, sold this game. I immediately regretted selling it. It's difficult to find but I managed to get a good version with no instruction booklet.
The story follows the same plots of Predators 1 & 2 with a really cool time travel twist and some VERY impressive cutscenes between, during or after missions. You really find yourself in the thick of a great plotline that would've made a great movie version of Predator 3. Some of the villains and bosses are hokey but hey, ya gotta have someone with a spine and skull to rip out, otherwise your goin' home trophyless. Speaking of violence and horrible ways to die, Predator has many, many ways to dish out nasty punishment at his disposal. You could begin with a face grab and mega kick or go all out and rip a guy in half. Heck why not throw a fool ten feet in the air and impale him on your combistick if he chooses to step up for a taste?
You have access to EVERY piece of Predator tech! Cloak, vocal mimicry, wristblades, combistick (staff, which you can upgrade to a double edged sword or glaive.), smart disc, speargun, shoulder-mounted plasma cannon, pulse mines, fire bombs, every vision tech (heat vision, night vision, and psychoanalysis!!), you can climb certain walls, do backflips, megajumps and basically be as bad as you want to be. But not too bad now, you can only kill so many humans that are running or scared per mission. You have honor to maintain. Save the pain for the drug dealers, voodoo mystics and mafioso that have stolen your tech and brought you and your clan much shame.
There are plenty of bonus missions, alternate costumes, and upgraded weapons to earn if you choose to become the true Predator. I must admit this game is a challenge if you are trying to earn bonuses. It's difficult enough as it is. Especially the latter stages where you really have to ration your energy and health.
The play controls are perfectly responsive. My only beef with this game is the rotating camera, left goes right and vice versa. It takes some getting used to. The camera angle is too dependent on the right analog's position. There is no way to lock it in. Which comes in handy at times for blind jumps and such but proved too distracting for me. It also makes it very difficult for Predator to run fast if the camera angle isn't parallel to his shoulders. Making some of the bonus tasks (which are ALL about speed) nearly impossible.
All in all, this game is very fun and highly addictive once you realize how many items and moves are at your disposal and the option to be stealth or show yourself and just be as ugly as you are mean. One of my favorite missions is waking up in a lab stripped of every piece of your tech and realizing just how much there was available. I appreciate the fact that you can replay previous or favorite missions at your leisure or go for a checkpoint run and try for some new items. There is PLENTY to do in this game. I still play my new (used) version when I complete my newer, easy games. *Watch out for some familiar foes, they come in droves and can be quite a nuisance!Read full review
