Valley of Death Skirmish - Predator - AvP2 Custom Map (Complete Playthrough)

Aliens vs Predator 2 singleplayer custom map titled "Valley of Death Skirmish" - predator version.

Map author: DoomGuy

Download:

https://www.moddb.com/games/aliens-vs-predator-2/addons/valley-of-death-skirmish

Map review:

Valley of Death is a custom map that takes the original first level of the marine campaign (m1e1) and reworks it to be a singleplayer skirmish map. This is the predator version of the map and it's very hard to beat. Although, it's a bit easier to beat than the marine version of the map. The map starts with the player spawning in a safe garage area to gear up for the onslaught. As soon as the player opens the garage door, there are non-stop chasing aliens that will continuously respawn. The strategy for the player is to keep moving while shooting off the aliens. However, the aliens slowly chip away at the player's health. Therefore, the player must constantly be hitting the ammo boxes, which serve as a health replenishment as well.

Unlike the marine version of the map, where fully automatic guns and the flamethrower excel, the predator's arsenal differs a bit. The spear is useful in fending off multiple aliens, as are the plasmacaster and pred pistol. Although those two weapons run out of energy fairly quick with so many npc enemies on this map. The speargun and netgun don't help much here. The last major weapon at the player's disposal are the bombs which have a high risk in using as it's easy for the player to blow themselves up. Like the marine version of the map, there are several traps the player can trigger to destroy the aliens such as the explosive barrels on the bridge and the blown up truck on the hill.

The player can beat this skirmish map by eliminating the three queens that spawn on the map and then reaching the exit. The real trick of this map is to get the aliens and specifically the queen into the traps. I preferred using the bridge with the explosives. This trap deals massive damage and eliminates all the aliens rather quickly.

This playthrough was my first time playing this map with the predator. I died a few times primarily due to either blowing myself up or one of the aliens blowing me up by attacking the explosive barrels while chasing me. Overall, the difficulty here is significantly lower than the marine version of the map due to the predator's ability to run and jump away significantly faster. However, anytime I made a wrong turn and got cornered by aliens, it was game over. This is a nice change of pace for a skirmish map and it's super fun blowing the bridge up over and over. I would highly recommend this map to players who are looking for a challenge.

Note: I'm using some HD textures via Yaji's High Quality Resolution Textures v2 and my Blood n' Guts mod for the gore.