This week gamers finally get a chance to play as a colonial marine, the ever creepy Xenomorph or the Rastafarian space traveller himself the predator. The Aliens versus Predator demo gives you the chance to play a deathmatch as one of the aforementioned characters and although the control scheme works well I do have a few gripes about the demo.

Rebellion studios still have 2 weeks until their full retail release but if I am being completely honest this game looks absolutely horrible textures in the game look very pixelated and the character models look like anamorphous blogs from any distance ,the only time this actually improves is during the kill camera if you perform a grab. In general the game looks dated and I can't imagine that is going to improve for the retail release.

Secondly the controls feel slow, when you attack you don't get the feeling that you're in control of your actions and for a first person shooter that is really unacceptable.

The map is cramped, confusing and is very shoddily designed in every game I have played all the action happens in the big room with all the side corridors and smaller rooms practically left undisturbed which leaves me thinking the map design has just been thrown together with no thought for progression.

The game feels kind of unbalanced in favour of the human as any attempt to get close enough to one to kill it results in you being riddled with bullets, I will just put this down to inexperience as playing with alien and predator characters because the human is by far the closest to a traditional FPS setup that I'm used to.

I wasn't happy at all with the demo to say the least I think deathmatch was a poor choice to show off the game and I really think I could do with a little more polishing before it comes out.