The Marines' main advantage is that every unit has a ranged attack. The Marine missions are, in my opinion, the most difficult. The sixth Marine mission took me over two and a half hours to complete. The game is also reasonably long - I play real-time strategy games very cautiously, so I was spending easily an hour or so on each mission, at the least. Obviously you get to play as the Marines, Aliens, and Predators. There are 21 missions split up over three campaigns with 7 missions apiece. Unfortunately, there is no "epilogue" or any sort of closure after you beat any, or even all, of the campaigns. Even then, the storyline is quite bare-bones compared to other RTS games like Command and Conquer or StarCraft, or even other AvP games, such as Aliens vs Predator 2 for PC. The missions provide some insight into the grander plot, but you only really get a true sense of what's going on if you beat the campaigns for all three races. Predators have been hunting Aliens for a long time, humans show up and have an Alien infestation problem, all three races fight eachother. It all takes place on the planet LV-742, a Weyland-Yutani mining colony. While AvP: Extinction could have been an absolutely stellar game, it ultimately comes across as a reasonably mediocre real-time strategy game. I held out on buying it for a very long time, but I ultimately broke down and bought a new copy of the game recently. That instantly makes me biased in favor of this game. Let me start out by saying that I'm a huge Alien, Predator, and AvP nut. Generic units, playing as Marines is bland, sub-par audio quality Here's a copy-paste of my review for AvP: Extinction:ĪvP novelty is cool, playing as Aliens rules, ExoSuits are awesome