Rebellion's 1999 original for the PC was notable for being one of the first truly compelling online games and, sure enough, the 2010 version shares that focus, with six multiplayer modes (some team based) while others mix aliens, predators and human marines in Deathmatch free-for-alls.
Plenty of games come to be seen as ahead of their time, but few are afforded the luxury of a remake using the full force of modern technology.Ĭambridge developer Rebellion, though, managed to enlist the backing of Sega in order to revisit its 1999 classic, uniting two of the most iconic terror-inducing alien creatures from the movie world – the dreadlocked xenomorph from Predator, and the terrifyingly-jawed, acid-spitting eponymous alien which took its original bow from inside John Hurt's stomach.
