Reading the Steam reviews for this game would have you believe that Aliens Versus Predator Classic 2000 is on par with games such as the original Half-Life or Quake 3. Though this comparison is mainly drawn because of the timeframe of these game's releases and not actually indicative of AvPC200's quality. Yes this game is kind of like Half-Life and Quake 3 in the sense that they all are FPSs that came out around the same time. However, I believe the comparisons end there as this game lacks any of the qualities that made those 2 games enjoyable. Quake 3 has fun gunplay, this game does not. Half-Life has great level design, this game does not.

Is it fun to shoot guys as Predator with a spear gun using heat vision? Yeah! Is it fun to run around slashing people as an alien? Of course! However those moments are strung together by upwards of 10 minutes of being completely lost in the maze-like level design. After a while the charm of playing as Predator starts to wear off when I'm sitting on the game over screen asking myself "am I even having fun?"

I write this review not to rag on this game because, yeah, I get it. It's a game that's over 2 decades old and is currently going for 4 dollars on Steam. Mainly I just find it interesting to see so many praise this game for so many different reasons and then to play it and get total whiplash as I find out, this game sucks ass actually! Many of the Steam reviews cite loving the game as a kid and this makes me wonder, would my opinion be different if I had also played this game as a kid? I spent a lot of time playing bad games in my childhood and even though I can obviously point out their flaws now, the nostalgia does still shield those imperfections from my overall vision of those games.

Maybe if I had played this at the right place and at the right time then I might have enjoyed it. But I didn't, so I didn't.