Premise:  In the year 2049, the Vega 4 colony is beset by an invasion of xenomorphs.  The colony's frantic distress calls are picked up by a travelling Predator, who offers to hunt down and destroy the Aliens for the sheer sport of the chase.

Comments:  Despite the excellence of the franchise upon which this is based, this arcade conversion does a severe injustice to its endless potential.  In other words, it's just another sidescrolling punch-and-walk with pretty pictures, like oh-so-many others we've seen before.

Rating:  4

Variants:  This was to have been based on the Cacpom arcade game of the same name.  It is sometimes confused with Rebellion's excellent DOOM-style shooter for Jaguar that was later updated and re-released for PC systems

Sidebars:  Aliens vs. Predator is a side storyline in the popular Aliens and Predator franchise by Fox Entertainment.  It is a "what if" concept inspired by the appearance of an Alien skull inside a Predator's trophy case from the 1990 feature film Predator 2.