Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa (гѓЄгѓігѓ»г‚Їгѓг‚µгѓЇ)-Linn is a human cyborg who uses a handgun and katana as weapons and can execute several martial arts attacks. ScrewAttack included him on their 2011 list of top ten space marines in video games. Dutch is able to powerbomb enemies for massive damage. His attacks are powerful but slow, and he dashes forward instead of jumping. He is a human cyborg and has a cybernetic arm with a smart gun mounted on it. Major Dutch Schaefer (гѓЂгѓѓгѓЃгѓ»г‚·г‚§гѓјгѓ•г‚Ўгѓј)-Dutch is named after and roughly based on Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in the original Predator film. However, he compensates with having a more damaging jumping dive attack. He plays similarly to the Warrior, but lacks the quick recovery and high priority in many of his attacks. Predator Hunter (гѓ—гѓ¬гѓ‡г‚їгѓјгѓ»гѓЏгѓіг‚їгѓј)-The Hunter is the younger of the two Predators. Predator Warrior (гѓ—гѓ¬гѓ‡г‚їгѓјгѓ»г‚¦г‚©гѓЄг‚ўгѓј)-The older of the two Predators, the Warrior is a well-balanced and powerful character with no weaknesses he boasts excellent reach, damage, and priority in all of his attacks. Each character has varying levels of speed, strength and agility, and different attacks. Colonial Marines that ally with a pair of Predators. The game features four characters: two U.S. Linn asks the Predators why they chose to help them, and the Predators' vague reply makes her and Dutch wonder whether they will have to fight them the next time they return to Earth. The Predator warrior then gives his wrist blades to Dutch and Linn in recognition of their skills as warriors, before the Predators depart back into space. They board Bush's military ship as it lifts off, kill the Alien Queen after it kills him, and program the ship to crash into San Drad, triggering a huge explosion that eliminates all Alien life on Earth. After destroying the Aliens' hive, the characters discover that the Alien presence on Earth is the result of a bio-war project headed by the renegade General Bush working for the Weyland-Yutani corporation. The players take control of up to three of four characters: Dutch, Linn, a Predator hunter, and a Predator warrior, and battle the Aliens through seven stages. The Predators offer an alliance with the two cyborgs in order to stop the Alien infestation. Before they can be killed, a pair of the Predators appear and destroy the Aliens. San Drad (a possible mistranslation of Japanized English San Dorado, г‚µгѓігѓ»гѓ‰гѓ©гѓ‰), California, has been overrun by the Aliens, and the cybernetically-enhanced Major Dutch Schaefer and Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa of the United States Colonial Marine Corps have been abandoned by their superiors and are cornered by a swarm of the Alien drones.

The player can also find jewels for bonus points, or food and medicine to restore lost health. Dutch and the Predators can move and fight while waiting for their ammunition to refill, and unlike Linn's automatic pistol, their meters will gradually refill when not firing.ДЄssorted weapons such as grenade launchers and flamethrowers can be found or taken from fallen enemies, but these have a limited ammunition supply. Linn's ammunition refills the fastest and allows the most shots, but she is completely defenseless while she reloads. Ammunition is represented by a meter near the bottom of the screen when the meter is depleted, the character is unable to fire until it refills. Linn uses a rapid-firing handgun, Dutch has a smart gun in his cybernetic arm, and the Predators both use shoulder-mounted energy weapons. Dutch has no such weapon, but can hit enemies with his cybernetic arm in addition, he can hold and swing any melee weapon dropped by another character, instead of throwing it as the other playable characters do.Д®ach character is also equipped with a projectile weapon for ranged attacks. Three of the four characters are equipped with a melee weapon: a katana for Linn, a bladed naginata staff for the Hunter, and an extendable-retractable spear/staff for the Warrior. Four characters are available for the players' use: two cyborg soldiers, Major Dutch Schaefer and Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa and two Predators, a Hunter and a Warrior.

The default cabinet for the game allows as many as three players to play simultaneously, although some smaller cabinets only accommodate two players. Predator uses a control setup with an eight-directional joystick and three buttons: one to attack, one to jump, and one to shoot.

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