1st impressions of AVP -
Available mode is only deathmatch. - the few games I tried seemed to be mainly aliens v predators.
oooh, its dark, theres 1 level & seems to be a weird meshing of marine ship/base with alien ground merging into it.
Overall, the netcode seems fairly well, couldnt see any discernable lag. Theres currently plenty of people playing it, but as its just gone up, its hardly surprising.
However, saying that, the time taken to search for games seems to take some time?
Also, the menu is a bit cack.. it starts off to choose 'Player Match' or 'Invite Friends'
selecting player match, its then an option to invite friends or quick match... so its a pointless screen for this..
Different controls for each species, make note of that & learn the three or you'll end up like a dead squirrel.
On the menu screen, theres odd noises coming from the sound like its bad feedback or something - anyone else get them?
players can run through each other - eg, a predator & alien are coming to each other.. they will actually walk through each other missing each others attacks. The Melee fighting (as with most 3D FPS tbh) seems to be wonky (for not wanting to say broken)
playing as marine - The flashlight is on by default.. meaning that other people can easily see you.. Surely it should remember the last used position?
- The ping from the detector seems to ping oddly when theres multiple people about.
- getting killed is far too easy.. seems a couple of bullet shots is enough to kill you.. (edit - actually this is true of all characters)
- could be a bug? - when you kill someone else (marine), they start shooting constantly and then seem to drop through the floor.
Playing as an alien : - Your view is really close to the ground, but marine bullets seem to go way overhead but still shoot you as if you're a regular-height sized model.
- Different controls to attack from the marine, - until you realise, its a serious wtf thing going on..
- Some of the grab kills look great.. but when they're performed on you, they happen so quick you don't see what's being done as the respawn cam takes over - should have been longer!
- the transition from floor to wall or ceiling sometimes just doesn't work. as well as it being confusing (which perhaps is the intention!)
- Seems the sensible defence against aliens is to stand ontop of crates/boxes, the aliens dont seem to be able to attack people up on them!
Playing as Predator - The Focus Jump attacks are great
- As are the grab attacks - but they only work on sneaking on people.. & the close combat melee system is a bit meh (tbh, it is with the aliens too)
- The 3 different colour view things make little difference as you can see everyone in the normal light.
- The cloak, great except that you can be seen easily too - they should have altered it so if you dont move then you are fully invisible (but equally, couldn't attack)
Overall, its not the 'Rock paper scissor' system I was half thinking they where planning to use, its just everyone has ways to kill & that's that.. guns for the marines & melee for everyone else..
I hope the other MP options are much better than this, & the single player has to be able to hold up its own.. as I just get the feeling that the demo here is going to put a number of people off the game - certainly has with me
and half of that go's to some charity or another. 
I will be going for that demo the minute I get through the front door tonight.
2nd
Linear Mode
