History Franchise / AlienVsPredator

* ''Aliens/Predator'' (1997)

* SequelDifficultyDrop: The second and third games are generally easier than the original 1999 PC game, especially if playing as the Marine; Aliens are no longer constantly respawning throughout the level, and the third game gives Marines the rather odd ability to block melee attacks. Aliens are also much slower in the third game, to compensate for the fact the player character is also much slower (whereas the characters in the original game moved at Doom Marine speeds).

** GrayAndGreyMorality: For the most part. While the leaders of that big corporation are a bunch of greedy assholes, most of the employees are just people doing their work or innocent victims. The marines are often just trying to get whatever snafu the Company just created under control. The Xenomorphs are obviously nasty bastards but in the video games, it's ''their'' territories that are being invaded and their queen violated, so really they're just fighting a war of self-defense against the humans and Predators, though with rules that aren't exactly what the Geneva Conventions would allow. The Yautjas are just there to hunt, even though their targets for said hunt are hives of aliens and any armed human they come across, but they do have standards on who the hunters are allowed to kill; women, children, sick and old are forbidden but for the rest, it's open season with whatever nasty and violent way they want to use.

* [[/index]]''Predator vs. Franchise/JudgeDredd vs. Aliens: Splice and Dice''[[index]] (2016-2017)

* ''Aliens vs. Predator: Evolution'' (2012; Android, iOS)

* ''Aliens vs. Predator'' (1999; PC, Mac)
* ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredator2'' (2001; PC, Mac)
* ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredatorExtinction'' (2003; [=PS2=], Xbox)

* ''Aliens vs. Predator 2'' (2001; PC, Mac)

''Alien Vs. Predator'' is the [[CrossOver combination of Fox's two hit alien monster movies]], and the stories of the innocent humans caught in the middle. The series started with a comic by Creator/DarkHorseComics, featuring colony administrator Machiko Noguchi, who finds her newly-settled world has just become a hunting ground for the Predators as they seed it with Xenomorph eggs. Dark Horse would follow on this with other comics, such as ''Deadliest of the Species'' and ''War'', as well as crossovers with {{Franchise/Superman}}, {{Franchise/Batman}}, and even ''{{Franchise/Terminator}}''. Riding the popularity wave of ''{{Film/Predators}}'', the Machiko story was picked up again in the mini-series ''Aliens vs. Predator: Three World War'', in which the humans and Predators team up against a second race of Predators (similar to the "black" ones from the film) and their Alien pets.

* [[/index]]''Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/{{Batman}} vs. Aliens and Predator'' (Jan-Feb 2007)[[index]]

* ''Aliens vs. Predator Annual'' (1999)

* ''Alien vs. Predator 2: Civilized Beasts'' (2006)

* ''Alien vs. Predator: Dead Space'' (2008)

* ''Aliens vs. Predator: Deadliest of the Species'' (2015)
* ''Aliens vs. Predator: Three World War'' (2015)

[[AC:Video games]]
* ''Alien vs. Predator'' (1993; SNES)
* ''Alien vs. Predator: The Last of His Clan'' (1993; Game Boy)
* ''[[VideoGame/AlienVsPredatorCapcom Alien vs. Predator]]'' (1994; Arcade)
* ''Alien vs. Predator'' (1994; Jaguar)
* ''Aliens vs. Predator'' (1999; PC, Mac)
* ''Aliens vs. Predator 2'' (2001; PC, Mac)
* ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredatorExtinction'' (2003; [=PS2=], Xbox)
* ''Alien vs. Predator'' (2004; Mobile)
* ''Alien vs. Predator 3D'' (2005; Mobile)
* ''VideoGame/PredatorConcreteJungle'' (2005; [=PS2=], Xbox)
* ''Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem'' (2007; PSP)
* ''Alien vs. Predator 2 2D: Requiem'' (2007; Mobile)
* ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredator2010'' (PC, Xbox 360, [=PS3=])
* ''Aliens vs. Predator: Evolution'' (2012; Android, iOS)
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' (2015; PC, [=PS4=], Xbox One): The tenth installment of the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series, which features an Alien and Predator as DLC {{Guest Fighter}}s.

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** The Primal Hunt expansion allows [[DarkActionGirl Major Dunya]] to carry and deploy up to two sentry guns. Unfortunately, the turrets have poor tracking and do surprisingly little damage and [[OneHitPointWonder are destroyed by any amount of damage whatsoever]], incluiding the [[BloodyMurder acid blood]] of the very aliens they might be shooting at, so don't count on them to cover your back. Besides, most enemies spawn pretty much on top of you, so you rarely have time to actually deploy them.

* LoweredMonsterDifficulty: Two accounts.
** In the second PC game, the PC Predator is much less resilient than his NPC kinsmen.
** The Aliens are nigh-undefeatable badasses in the films, but for gameplay reasons tend to get the mook treatment in most games.
** Mostly averted with the Rebellion FPS games, where even one Alien can ruin your day. Both are considered to have a high learning curve.

* ContinuitySnarl: In ''Film/ThePredator'', the tail spear from ''Film/AlienVsPredator'' is shown in a display case, implying ''Alien vs. Predator'' is still canon to the Predator half of the crossover.

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** Interestingly enough, ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' contains a Xenomorph and Predator as guest characters, making that game an extension of the ''AVP'' brand. Aside from the ''MK'' series, it also marks a crossover with ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' and ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' thanks to the appearance of Jason and Leatherface.

** ''Alien: Invasion''
** ''Alien vs. Predator: Armageddon''

** In the RTS, even if you ended the mission with an army, you'll start the next with a handful of units. Occasionally explained in the Alien story, with situation such as [[spoiler:A Queen starting a new hive, a recently decimated hive trying to reclaim it's captured Queen.]]

* CanonForeigner: Linn Kurosawa, the two predators, and the cyborg iteration of Dutch Schaefer are not mentioned outside of ''VideoGame/AlienVsPredatorCapcom'', though Linn Kurosawa has made cameos in a few Creator/{{Capcom}} games.

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