The setting is in the future where people manage to leave Earth onto a planet called Ryushi. Predator Prey by Steve Perry and Stephani Perry. The enemy of my enemy is my friend which seems to be the theme in the book Alien vs. You can go ahead and read them after, but I'd say they're only worth reading once, just to have the full experience of Machiko Noguchi's story, one of my favorite female leads in a story. You've really gotta turn your brain off for the film and even when you know there's a lot of dumb things happening, really only the action sequences are worth checking out, regardless of the poor CGI.īut the book itself is more than just a few good fight scenes and the ending had me hyped to read the next two in the series. I've read the first three Aliens vs Predator books, but this is the only one I've considered re-reading.ĭachande "Broken Tusk" Predator could easily be seen as the inspiration for the underwhelming Alien vs Predator film and a lot of the same story elements can be seen throughout the film, but of course, the book is miles ahead in terms of greatness. The writing and characters are solid, the action sequences and serious moments are well-balanced and I'd label this as one of Steve Perry's best. If you want something more, there are, as I've mentioned, better books out there in the Aliens / Predator / Prometheus universe.Įasily the best of the AVP Trilogy. If you're looking for mindless AVP action, and a totally forgettable but enjoyable enough story set in this universe, this is the book for you. The shots were deafening in the closed area. The book also has no sense of dread whatsoever, which is usually a staple for films set in this universe, and the action, composed of mindless shooting of Xenos over and over again, was so repetitive the characters in the book even reflected on it: With the Yautja it's more understandable, because most of the ones in this book are still in training, they're not full blooded warriors, but I'd still expect them to be smarter than this. And the Yautja appear for the most part to be lobotomized morons, getting stampeded to death by animals and similarly dying off easily. In complete contrast with the movies, the Xeno drones of this book are incredibly dumb, getting killed off by the dozen and basically running right into the metaphorical meat grinder they employ no strategy at all and act like mindless cockroaches. This, by the way, brings up potentially the biggest question I could ever have about AVP: why the hell did Sigourney Weaver and Arnold Schwarzenegger never appear together in an AVP film?! But I digress. Similarly, in the film Predator, a single Yautja is able to systematically kill off an entire elite special forces team, minus, of course, Arnie ( "Get to the choppa!"). The Xeno hides, adapts, and is clearly intelligent. In the film Alien, a single Xenomorph is able to kill off an entire ship's crew of adept and armed individuals, minus, of course, Ripley. I also didn't like the inconsistent portrayal of the Xenomorphs and Yautja compared to the Alien and Predator films. This added little value, I found it weird as hell, and it felt more and more like a way to add pages to the book to get it to a publishable length as time went on. One thing that really grated on me as the book went on was how the authors would tell the exact same event from one character's point of view, and then immediately afterward they'd replay that same event, but from another character's perspective. Maybe he felt an AVP book needed to read more like a mindless action movie, I'm not sure. This is especially surprising given that both books were written by the same author. Earth Hive absolutely and spectacularly nailed the gritty, tense, hardcore atmosphere a book in the Aliens series demands (the same atmosphere all the Alien movies had), while this AVP entry was written like an ordinary novel and lacked this atmosphere completely. I've only read one other book in this universe so far, Aliens: Earth Hive, but found that to be infinitely better than this AVP entry. Overall I liked this book, but it was definitely disappointing, given it is often cited as one of the best books in the Aliens / Predator / Prometheus universe. The Predators breed the Xenomorphs on random planets and then hunt them as the ultimate prey, and the humans, as often happens in the AVP universe, get caught in the crossfire. Predator: Prey, Machiko Noguchi, the leader of the colony on the planet Ryushi, teams up with a Yautja (Predator) warrior to help defend the colony against a Xenomorph (Alien) attack.
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