consensus on pc multiplayer demo: terrible demo, maybe ok game.
The game doesn't seem too bad, but they picked deathmatch as the only mode on a crappy dark map for the demo. You pick a species, which it hard to figure out because the menu interface is really bad, and kill everything that movies including other players using that same species. As a marine I was shooting marines, aliens, and predators. Biggest problem is that this game is context sensitive heavy with unnecessarily long animations. Like, both Alien and Predator have insta-kill moves from behind, and this is context sensitive, and even after you land it there is a five second animation of the kill. Another example is how the predator has a leap move that is done by holding down a button, then aiming a cursor on the world to find an acceptable spot to jump, then having to watch the jump animation.
Still, the biggest problem was the demo selection. Multiplayer only, crappy map, crappy game type, no introduction how to play whatsoever. Team deathmatch would have been preferable. The other modes like horde and whatever seem like they could be fun, you just can't try them in the demo. Same situation with single player. But I don't know what it says about a game if they thought this was the mode to show off in a demo
