History VideoGame / AlienVsPredatorJaguar

* RespawnPoint: The player Alien can't restore their health, but can cocoon Marines to serve as a respawn point for when they die.

* RoadRunnerPC: Notably averted; the game came out during the days of ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', and ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'', when players moving at the speed of a car on the freeway was the norm. ''Alien vs. Predator'' stands out with the characters having much more realistic movement speed. Gameplay-wise, the player's speed is likely balanced around the cramp space station interiors and the Jaguar's render speed. Rebellion would later ramp up the speed considerably for ''AliensVersusPredator1999'' on the PC, with characters having a ''default'' movement speed of about 25 mph.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The shoulder cannon plasmacaster is the last weapon unlocked for the Predator, and the most powerful. It kills Marines and Aliens in one shot, deals splash damage that can one-shot if close enough, and is so powerful it can kill the Alien Queen in just 15 shots or so. However, because it's fire from behind your head, the projectile launches at head height and tends to randomly hit the ceiling and explode in your face, damaging you. The projectile also tends to get caught on corners, again causing it to explode and damage you if you fire from around a corner. Since the smart disc also kills Aliens and Marines in one shot, just about the only reason to use the plasmacaster is to kill the Alien Queen.

* GangUpOnTheHuman: Enemies from different factions aren't actually coded to fight each other, and will focus solely on killing the player. This can result in situations such as you failing to notice a facehugger crawling around as the Predator (especially in Predator vision mode) because there are Marines patrolling the room.

* MoreDakka: The Smartgun is the strongest weapon available to the Marine, and powerful enough to shred a Predator in about half a second of fire.

* VideoGameFlamethrowersSuck: Generally averted; the flamethrower fires a stream of projectiles and does decent damage, killing Aliens with just a few hits. The only big drawback is that ammo is quite rare, generally only found in the Armories on Level 2 and Level 4 where the 2 flamethrowers themselves are stored.

* AbsenteeAliens: Averted, unlike most other ''Aliens'' media. The med bay computer lists several other know intelligent or semi-intelligent alien species other than the Xenomorphs, including rock-men and tentacled blobs.

* LateToTheParty: The Marine was in cryostasis for a disciplinary infraction; by the time their sentence is completed and they're automatically revived by the base computer, they find the rest of the base personnel have been wiped out and the station is infested with Aliens and the occasional Predator.

* BossInMooksClothing: Enemy Predators are a lot tougher than Marines or Aliens (they can take about 10 shotgun blasts or a couple dozen pulse rifle rounds to kill, compared to 3 shotgun blasts or several pulse rifle rounds to kill an Alien). They also have a variety of powerful melee and ranged attacks; a wristblade slash or combistick stab, a plasmacaster shot, and a disc throw. They can also cloak to vanish from your sight. When you find one, it's often better to avoid or run away from it rather than fight it. A few Predators aboard the Predator ship are even tougher, being 2 or 3 times as tough as a regular Predator.

* EmergencyWeapon: Averted for the Marine; they have no melee attack or other emergency weapon, so if they run out of ammo for all their guns (which is quite easy to do without proper planning) and are unable to find more without being swarmed by Aliens, they're pretty much screwed. The Predator, in contrast, can always fall back on his wristblade or combistick.

''Alien vs Predator'' is a 1994 FirstPersonShooter for the UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar, and one of the first games developed by Rebellion (who would later go on to develop the 1999 PC game ''Aliens Versus Predator'' and the 2010 [[UsefulNotes/TheSeventhGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames 7th gen]] game ''Aliens Vs. Predator''). The game features grid-based levels similar to ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', and 2D enemy and weapon sprites similar to ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''. The game features digitized graphics, with texture-mapped levels and character sprites based on digital scans of real actors, similar to the early ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' games.

* GangUpOnTheHuman: Enemies from different factions aren't actually coded to fight each other, and will focus solely on killing the player.

* BossInMooksClothing: Enemy Predators are a lot tougher than Marines or Aliens (they can take about 10 shotgun blasts or a couple dozen pulse rifle rounds to kill, compared to 3 shotgun blasts or several pulse rifle rounds to kill an Alien). They also have a variety of powerful melee and ranged attacks; a wristblade slash or combistick stab, a plasmacaster shot, and a disc throw. They can also cloak to vanish from your sight. When you find one, it's often better to avoid or run away from it rather than fight it.

* ResourcesManagementGameplay: Resources such as ammo and health aren't spread evenly throughout the station, but rather tend to be found in specific areas, so as a Marine you'll often have to backtrack to a known stash before you run critically low on ammo or health. Pushing forward blindly can often lead to you running out of bullets and dying. The Predator is a bit more self sufficient, but still needs to acquire health pickups and ammo (though unlike the Marine, they can store health pickups as healing energy for later use).

* BossInMooksClothing: Enemy Predators are a lot tougher than Marines or Aliens (they can take about 10 shotgun blasts or a few dozen pulse rifle rounds to kill, compared to 3 shotgun blasts or several pulse rifle rounds to kill an Alien). They also have a variety of powerful melee and ranged attacks; a combistick stab, a plasmacaster shot, and a disc throw. They can also cloak to vanish from your sight. When you find one, it's often better to avoid or run away from it rather than fight it.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Averted with the Marine's starting weapon, a SPAS-12 shotgun. The rate of fire isn't terrible, but it's quite slow compared to everything else and it takes 3 shots to kill an Alien with it. You also can't carry that much ammo for it. Not so bad against one or two Aliens, but against swarms of several at once (which can be quite common) you'll want at least a pulse rifle or something even heavier.

* NintendoHard: Not too surprising since it comes from the ''era'' of Nintendo Hard. The levels have few landmarks and can be very hard to navigate unless you have a good memory or draw your own map on graph paper (thankfully nowadays you can look up a map online in a FAQ), ResourcesManagementGameplay is in full effect for the Marine and even somewhat for the Predator, and overall the odds are stacked pretty heavily against you.

* CoolVersusAwesome: It's not quite the ''first'' game to pit the Aliens against the Predators (with the Colonial Marines caught in the middle), but it is one of the earliest and most prominent of early ''Aliens vs Predator'' media.

''Alien vs Predator'' is a 1994 FirstPersonShooter for the UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar, and one of the first games developed by Rebellion (who would later go on to develop the 1999 PC game ''Aliens Versus Predator'' and the 2010 7th gen game ''Aliens Vs. Predator''). The game features grid-based levels similar to ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', and 2D enemy and weapon sprites similar to ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''. The game features digitized graphics, with texture-mapped levels and character sprites based on digital scans of real actors, similar to the early ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' games.

* AirVentPassage: Both the Marine and Alien will have to navigate the web of air vents on each level of the station to get around locked doors or find key items.