The first few missions for each of the three races (Colonial Marines, Aliens and Predators - duh) demonstrate a reasonable balance, despite the diversity of forces on offer. Which is a pity, because in many respects Extinction shows a lot of promise. It's the game's biggest fault: units constantly bounce off tiny obstacles and then decide a better route involves all four corners of the map, units stop moving when they bang into one another and then wait to die, and units flagrantly disregard orders and stand around getting slaughtered.

It's like C&C never happenedĪctually, for 'sloppy AI', please read 'inexplicably cretinous AI'. AVP: Extinction isn't about to rewrite history, but apparently it is happy to re-enact some of the genre's most frustrating crimes of the 1990s: sloppy AI and path finding, dodgy low-res visuals, and unbalanced units. This is probably because as a genre, RTS games thrive on high screen resolutions, mouse control and online multiplayer options. Historically speaking, consoles haven't done very well with real-time strategy games.

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