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Predator: Concrete Jungle (Xbox) | 
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| From: Sierra
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 7246
Platform: Xbox
Genre: action-games
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
ESRB: Adults Only
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Xbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3348542193055
ASIN: B0007KMUUG
Release Date: April 15, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Rare Brand New & Sealed UK Pal Version , 1 Player, " The City is Your Hunting Ground ! ", ( Factory Seal Has Pleated Rear Seam ), Immediate Worldwide Dispatch from the UK by Trusted 5* Seller.
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 Predator: Concrete Jungle July 22, 2006
Loki330
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Let's get this out of the way: if you loved the films Predator, Predator II, and Alien verses Predator, and revelled in the carnage you caused in the computer games Aliens Versus Predator and Aliens Versus Predator II when you played as a predator, then just go buy this game because I doubt you'll be dissapointed with it.
The plot is highly contrived, but then I've read many of the predator and aliens versus predator books, and they're not exactly very plausable either, so in that respect, the fairly silly plotline can be dismissed. In fact, the game has managed to capture the flavour and style of the books.
The plot is essentially thus: in 1930, the predator you play (Scarface from here on) somehow managed to botch a hunt spectacularly, and not only fails to kill himself after dishonouring himself, but left his equipment behind in human hands-essentially breaking the most important parts of the predator's hunting code. Taking a dim view of this, Scarface's fellow clan members exile him to a planet with nothing but his glaive (more on weapons below).
Fast forward 100 years, and humans have reverse engineered your hunting gear, and are using the tech derived from it to kill/capture Predator hunting parties.
The Predators are *really* not happy about this.
So Scarface is recalled from exile and sent to earth to sort his mess out, and in the process restore his lost honour.
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The missions themselves are well structed. The first few missions are straightforward enough-they're fights where the enemy aren't especially smart, well armed or well equipped so you can get used to the controls of the predator without having to worry about getting your extra-terrestial butt handed to you. Gamespy/IGN complained that the camera was too squirrily, but I found it to be perfectly fine. I had to edit the options (I inversed the horizontal rotation) but it was perfectly fine.
The AI is... well. Suffice to say, if you're expecting Half-life or Farcry standards of AI, then you're going to be dissapointed. It's not so much 'Can I outsmart these guys' it's more 'Can I cut a bloody swath through their ranks without getting mown down?' And on medium and hard, you will have to think that too. The game is actually best on hard I feel.
Difficulty scaleing is well done. Easy truely is, allowing you to shrug off pretty much any attack from any enemy in the game; you essentially can only die if you actively go out and try to.
On hard, you actually have to act like a predator should, employing stealth and discretion when picking off enemies, especially in groups; a direct assault-especially on many bosses-is pretty much suicide.
Scarface is done in impressive detail. He's built like a tank, even by predator standards, and his armour is rough, battered and blood stained. Simply put, your predator radiates pure bad-ass. His skin is done in great detail, and the sounds are perfect.
The volume of controls can be a bit daunting, but once I started playing I found they were actually rather simple. Movement is standard fair and if you've played any 3d platformer, such as Vexx or (Super) Mario 64 then you'll be fine with that.
Combat is also straightforward enough. You have three attack buttons. Ranged, Heavy Melee and Light Melee, and you can assign what the ranged and heavy weapons are (equip it, basically).
The Light Melee is the wristblades. However, you can retract the wristblades (handy for when you need to grab people, which you need to do occasionally). It's also incredably satisfying, walking up to someone, decloaking, and extending the wristblades with that trademark 'SHRING!'sound, and then taking their skull as a trophy.
You auto-target opponents, and there's a lock on feature, a la Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
You can go into first person mode also (the game being in third person) which is handy-it lets you zoom in (handy for sniping with the speargun) and coupled with the vision modes lets you scan for weaknesses in opponents-some are resistant to energy attacks, or blunt damage for example.
There are also fun extras, in the form of costumes and upgrades in the game. The costumes are not just new outfits for Scarface. They're completely different models of predators. These are unlocked by doing bonus missions, and if you do certain ones, you can play as the predator from the film Predator, the predator from Predator II and even one of the predators from the Alien Versus Predator film, just to name the 'official' ones-there are at least three other alternate costumes. Scattered throughout the game are hidden upgrades for your weapons or in the case of some of the ranged weapons, like the speargun, ammo. For example, one upgrade for the shoulder cannon increases it's blast radius.
I found the enviroments well done. There wasn't anything that made me stop and go 'Wow!' but then again there weren't any that made me stop and go 'Urgh!'. The textures and models for the NPC (Non Player Characters) are okay-they're not that good, but they get the job done and half the time you're not really looking anyway.
I could talk about the game for alot long, but I don't want to reveal everything. Suffice to say that all in all, I found predator to be a good fun game. It's no Half-life II, but if you want a game that encourages a little bit of thinking with your mindless carnage then you should like this. Or if you're just a Predator fanboy.
 Best predator game ever January 13, 2006
Tom
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great. Fantasic, if you love predator and aliens you are going to love this game. Many people have commented on the many controls and say that it is hard to use. It isn't, its easy. Just buy this game
EXCELLENT August 9, 2005
Matthew D. Fairclough (Bristol)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
i first heard about this game about 6 months before it came out , i was abit unsure about it, but after playing it for about 4 hours i would definitly reccommend it to any adventure game fan and every predator fan , there is a huge amount of weapons to chose from and endless gadgets and things to do.
now you might hear that the controls are weird or awkward and it takes along time to learn and by the time youve gone through the training you will have forgotton half of it............................??????? what?? are you retarded or something , not at all , there are alot of controls but then again all games have lots of functions and controls look at grand theft auto everyones used to that by now.
The games controls are very useful and are all the appropriate buttons and combos are well planned out on the control pad.
it's an ace game and provides hours of entertainment especially the skinning people alive cut scenes. highly reccomended
absolutely awesome!!! May 8, 2005
MR S P YOUNG (NORWICH, NORFOLK United Kingdom)
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
I think that Predator is a good game because it has 27 levels, plus 8 ritutal challenges.The Predators weaponary consists of wristblades, combistick, glaive, maul, spear gun, smart disc, plasmacaster, mines(plasma,pulse,fire,sonic) The predator can see in 4 different modes. These are: normal, thermal,tech and neuro.The Predator can jump extremely high and can turn invisible.Overall I think Predator is a top game.... BUY IT!!!!
It's good fun - but could have been better April 18, 2005
Simon Blackburn
13 out of 21 found this review helpful
This is a game I've been waiting for, and the final product is entertaining and fun. You get to be a Predator and carry out a number of 'hunts'. The game starts with you on the run on Earth in 1930, trying to get back to your ship. However, things go wrong - and you end up being dishonoured by your clan. Leaving some of your technology on Earth, you are banished to a remote planet for 100 years - where upon you return to Earth to seek revenge. However, apart from the first (very short) level, the entire game is based in 2030. As such, you don't see much in terms of background story. The graphics are good, but not great. The play-ability is fine, but again it could be better. For those who have played the PC games AVP 1 & 2, this new game might seem like a bit of a let down. Nonetheless, its fun - and die-hard Predator fans will be happy. Overall, this is an ok game - but I think it's one that, after a couple of weeks, you will forget about.
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