Survival (Alien Campaign) - AvP2 Custom Map (Complete Playthrough)

Aliens vs Predator 2 singleplayer custom map titled "Survival" alien campaign.

Map author: Claudiusz "ARCHITECT" Dudek.

Map review:

Survival is actually one big mod consisting of three singleplayer campaigns for the alien, marine and predator. In this video I play the alien campaign which has five maps. The campaign can be completed in about an hour or more for a first time play. I found the alien campaign to be both excellent and extremely frustrating at times.

The alien campaign follows a similar structure to Monolith's default alien campaign, in that you will start as a facehugger, become a chest burster and then finally become a full grown alien. The level design and cinematics are done really well. The problem with the campaign is that you are frequently restricted in what you can do. The restrictions include time limits, low ceiling restrictions that kill you and alarms that result in a game over. The author really pushes the player to play a stealth approach to combating enemies, but the alien really excels at hack and slash tactics.

In my playthrough, I had to frequently quick-load to retry over and over because I was detected even if I was destroying all the ai. Some parts of the maps started to feel more like work than fun when I ran into these moments. I cut out probably an additional 15-20 minutes from the video where I experienced this because it was too repetitive to watch. It should be noted that Survival was released as a beta, so some of these moments probably needed a bit more polish to tidy everything up.

I'm not sure if there is a real ending to the campaign or if the alien just dies in the predator's self-destruct because I couldn't find anywhere to get out the blast, even with frequent restarts. All in all, Survival's alien campaign is fun, but frustrating.