Predator: Hunting Grounds Review - Not Enough Pencils Pushed 

"2 randos randomly shooting at trees" They were just staying true to the film.

There's something in the trees... It runs in circles and has numbers in it's name. We're all gonna die.

They really should have made this set in the 80's with weapons accurate to the movie and time period.

Oh gman didn't you watch the extended director's cut of predator? After the movie was over Arnie respawned his team via a reinforcement radio and they lived happily ever after

Funny how the AVP games weren't even asymmetrical, yet did a MUCH better job of letting each race feel as powerful as they should be.

Every Aliens or Predator game will inevitably be measured against AVP GOLD from 1999 and I have YET to see one that measures up...although I enjoyed AvP 2010 on Xbox360. AvP2 was well received but a large number of people never actually played it. It’s astonishing to me that the industry won’t simply remaster the 1999 version and that sequel

"It's not AI, it's just A" Peak Gman 😂

* hears little rumbling in the trees * *So anyway, I started blasting*

I don't like how the game doesn't focus on horror. The predator shouldn't just be a bullet sponge, the predator should require strategy, deception, recon, and more importantly, op weapons. Shooting the predator at least once should be a big deal, seeing the predator should be a big deal, it should only take like 3 or 4 shots to kill the predator, but getting the chance to do so shouldn't be so easy. The predator should be scary, but also vulnerable. I'm not replying to anyone misinterpreting my comment anymore, if you hate my opinion then read my replies. Maybe they'll answer your questions. I'm tired of hearing the same misinterpretation of my comment over and over again.

This looks like a mode no one plays in a single player game, honestly.

The best part of the game for me has to be everyone being weirdly thirsty over Predator females. It's great.

*Predator Spotted* Fireteam: Alright Gentlemen, Grenade Launchers

I think they missed the mark by not having it based in the 80's, with authentic weapons and equipment of the era.

You'll probably get more mileage out of AVP 2010's predator multiplayer mode.

shiet this game's pace is bonkers. Everyone running around at cod speed. A premise like this I think a slower, more deliberate pace should be better. Like Splinter Cell spies vs mercs.

All I want is a remaster of the original AVP games. Those two games, at a Lan with a full match of players..... oh gawd, some of the best memories I had lanning with mates.

Set the game in the 80's so radio comms would be more clunky therefore staying together is more important/splitting them up is more powerful. Remove most HUD elements and increase damage on both ends, predator has instakill moves and soldiers have weapons that can kill quickly. Make silencers be a trade off, they're quiet but they reduce ads speed and damage range. I think having more horror based gameplay would be far more interesting, with gunplay more akin to insurgency or squad. It'd be far more immersive imo

It's embarrassing see the predator become the prey in this game.

"Its not ai, it's just a" I actually laughed. You touched my cold soul gman

>Exclusive to the Epic Store So, not available on pc at all.

The amount of predator lines in this review is great haha

"exclusive to the epic games store.." Me: "ok, nvm then"

BRUH IM PRETTY SURE IM THE PREDATOR THAT DOWNED THE ENTIRE FIRETEAM IN THAT ROOM

There was a popular mod for Half Life 2 called The Hidden: Source, released back in 2007. It was an asynchronous multiplayer PvP game before any of these commercial titles ever existed and it's still far better than any of them. The killer was effectively a predator. Invisible, highly mobile, surgically precise and deadly but with the caveat that it wasn't an invincible killing machine. It hunted and stalked using stealth to succeed, not overwhelming force. The killer goes up against heavily armed soldiers and absolutely couldn't win in sustained head-to-head confrontations. This game makes the predator such a bullet sponge while also making him as powerful as tissue paper. I was almost looking forward to this game on the hope of it delivering a similar kind of gameplay as The Hidden all those years ago and/or the power fantasy of being the predator realized. Disappointing.

0:35 Glad "Predator" 2 gets some recognition too.

I was super interested in this game when I first saw it right up until I read the name ilfonic. These guys are 3 for 3 with mediocre games that do not live up to their price tag. Why is it that huge ips keep being given to mediocre studios that can't make a solid game to save their ass?

I can appreciate their efforts into this game.. but it was a sloppy mess with framerate issues, balance problems, incredibly slow matchmaking, clunky animations and dodgy hit detection. I just can't believe they charged $40 for this let alone $60.. I would support this game if it was $20 just because it plays like an unfinished arcade game.. I supported Friday 13 and Aliens Colonial Marines.. but the gameplay issues turned me off. It will die out in a month.. 2 if you're that hopeful..✅🙄

The first movie is too iconic, this doesn’t feel like it does it justice.

I'd argue the only bad Predator movie is 'The Predator.' I really liked Predators. The AVP films don't count.

"Deelan, yu san ova beech!"

Simply put: ten years ago this is a mode that belongs to another game; now they sell a mode as a whole game. I'll pass this one, thanks.

"Maybe an escort mission." No. Oh God no.

It's on the epic game store!? So in a nutshell this game is only on ps4.

"soldiers can pull out a syringe and heal almost instantly." "Predator can solo fire teams with the Combistick." Almost as if the two have some sort of connection 🤔

-This game looks interesting, I might give it a try. EPIC EXCLUSIVE -Nah, I'm ok.

It doesn't help barely anyone bought it because they took the money and went epic. Now the game will die.

Hey Gman! I've noticed something... You've never played Hunt: Showdown. I would legitimately love to hear your opinion on that amazingly underrated, under advertised shooter. Love you man! Watch all your vids.

concealing bushes everywhere, like in the 80's XD

"only on the epic games store" well there's the entire review for me, no thanks

I thought Predators was a good movie. What annoys me is this doesn't have a single player campaign/offline mode. If it did I might have given it a go

Thanks for immediately starting with it being epic store exclusive

PSA: this game is not full price, the deluxe edition is 60, regular game is 30/40 depending where you live.

"Epic exclusive" is a byword for "mediocre or bad."

I see why they released it on epic games. To hide the broken shit mess this game released as. And people won't be able to leave the well deserved reviews.

Friends: "We should play some games together, got any ideas?" Me: names off all the games I've bought specifically for coop and general fun for groups of friends and parties that can either be played online or through steam remote play. Friends: "hmm...nah not in the mood to play any of those. let's all play Overwatch instead." and my friends wonder why I don't bother buying games to play with them anymore...

Great video. I don't understand this trend of online only games, if we could have a proper Predator game with great AI, I bet it would be pretty cool. The AVP game that came out last generation had decent single player content, that could have been worked into a sequel if they polished all the gameplay elements. This feels like it should have been the MP for a single player game, like Doom's battemode which I'm also not a fan of

Maybe there should have been more thought in the 'setup; phase. Basically like the initial compound attack in Predator, but the human team would need to use actual surprise, tactics, and superior arms to attack a large group of NPCs (with actually solid AI), and how much damage they take/how many people they kill/what supplies they secure helps dictate how well prepared they are for the coming attack by the Predator. Meanwhile, the Predator would _not_ be attacking them yet, or even all that far away. Instead, the Predator would be watching them during this attack, invisible among the trees. During this time, the Predator has permanent cloaking, but the humans gain 'points' if they spot him (presumably by seeing him, zooming in, and 'scouting' him like they might one of the NPCs). It would bring to mind Dutch's team being that much less caught off guard by the cursory sightings of the Predator before properly meeting him in combat. Meanwhile, the Predator has an equipment/skill loadout that is at least partially judged by how much they can 'scout' the human team while also remaining unnoticed. Hell, maybe the Predator has a chance to pick off NPCs that flee the combat area before the human team can kill them to net himself a bonus of some sort. Or the Predator can also lay 'traps' in the form of mutilated corpses that impose debuffs to accuracy, put false positives on the minimap, etc, to reflect how he's rattling these otherwise veteran soldiers. Point is, this is a hard game to get right, even by the standards of video game adaptations. Friday the 13th and Dead by Daylight had the advantages of making the humans basically helpless by design. They didn't have controls that would let a veteran Dark Souls player thrash Jason/one of the killers right out of the starting gate.

haha " the kind of bush they had in the 80s " = GOLD.

I didn't mind Predators

I totally thought this was a free to play game until you mentioned it's actually a fully priced retail game

Im still praying for a game that was like Predator: Concrete Jungle on PS2. But noooooo, lets make multiplayer only garbage all the time.

I just want a good single player Predator game where I'm surviving in the jungle as a human or I'm a Predator hunting down stolen technology and/or skilled warriors like Dutch. Why does it always have to be some usually crappy multiplayer thing? Can you imagine Alien: Isolation but Predator with a tiny bit more combat? Like say you can set up traps or injure a Predator enough they have to flee the area. You've got to escape with some shit you found that they want back, all your friends are killed after your truck gets blasted but you land in some wet mud, quickly realizing they can't see you. Add in some survival mechanics so you've got to risk breaking stealth to catch some food, purify water or treat wounds. These games where one guy gets to play the cool monster while others have to be survivors always die pretty quickly, as such I never have any interest in playing them because what am I meant to do when nobody else does because another similar but more trendy game came out?

I laughed so hard at "It's not an AI, it's just A!". Who would have thought that an Epic exclusive is completely shite beside the visuals.

A few updates and I think the game will be fine because I think it's a lot of fun. Just a rocky launch with a fairly new development team. Illfonic plans on supporting it for a long time and they are already releasing patches to fix balancing and bugs. Also the game is $40 and $60 for the deluxe edition.

Personally I love the game as it started, everyone on the fireteam actually doing the objectives and being actually somewhat concerned about the Predator. Recently as I've come back to the game, the fireteam always seem to completely ignore objectives and solely focus on the Predator and hunting it down with no fear and as someone who prefers trying a more stealthy playstyle instead of the "Berserker no thoughts head empty" charge and swing wildly playstyle it just... You can't really do much against it. Meanwhile playing with my friends, we can hunt down the Predator consistently and one of my friends is so good at the gauntlet shutdown minigame he can complete it within seconds every time.

They saw that DLC map in Cod ghosts and made a whole game about it.

When i saw the trailers for this game I thought it was for the playstation 2

Gggman your last video about VR was so good I was taking notes with paper and pencil. More content about VR mods on the future pretty please

I played this and it made me remember Evolve, which seemed to have a lot more depth. I think that came out in 2015. Different monsters, ambient wildlife, characters with different classes and abilities. Better gunplay and strategy.

"Kinda' bush they had in the 80's" - hat's off to You, dear Sir

Update 1.05 is out already and improved matchmaking. I want to see what further updates will bring.

Anything is more fun with friends. Even pissing in the loo.

6:31 "You thud so loudly, it's kinda like you're running around on wooden floorboards with concrete boots on." Yeah, I'm saving that for the right occasion.

Definitely needs a fear mechanic like you mentioned and you're the first person to make suggestions I have heard on how to implement them. Love it

Epic games store? Count me out...

... and yet Gman won't review Hunt: Showdown? Which is a far superior game to this one?

Honestly, it does seem like the 2010 release did a hell of a lot better job when balancing the 3 options for PVP, it all felt like a rock paper scissors game where each piece had the tools to beat up the other piece.

There's a streamer I watch who absolutely loves the game, and played it the day of and day after release pretty much all day. He exclusively played the Predator and WON 95% of his matches with a squad wipe. The issue right now isnt exactly that the Predator is underpowered, but that people are playing him like a fighter instead of a hunter. He's not there to walk up and brawl with you in the open, he's supposed to patiently wait and exploit mistakes of the squad (like being separated from the group).

WHEW boy this is another Evolve waiting to happen

I keep seeing no love for Predator 2, such a shame.

I just thought about it, it's really messed up that SOMEHOW the humans have better syringes than the predator...

1:40 that little AVGN reference is great.

"I'd like to pretend that every movie that came out after that never existed" You and us both Gman.

What a mess of a game, needed 1y delay for sure

Still waiting for a dedicated predator single player game like how alien got one with Alien isolation. So much love and heart to the Alien franchise, now I want that same love for the predator.

"I'm gonna have me some fun... I'm gonna have me some fun...! I'M GONNA HAVE ME SOME FUN...!"

I love how everything is unbalanced, like nothing in this game seems cohesive at all.

Hey Predators was good

man, a game based on the original movie that play's like AVP 2010, where you can play human or predator would be amazing.

It seems like a triple A version of an old game I played on Roblox: The Stalker. It's a game about a cloaked, very high damage, bullet sponge vs a group of soldiers. The stalker has to wipe out all the soldiers, the soldiers have to kill the stalker. The stalker has a few special abilities aside from invisibility that help it, like resurrecting corpses into zombies or teleporting short distances. It was pretty fun back in the day.

Happy to see a review from ya. I don't think the games perfect but i have a lot of fun playing with friends

Eh I really like it , it has flaws but it could get really good , they coming out with new content in less then a month :D

Imagine a predator Game like Alien: Isolation. First Person, a well crafted jungle setting with some variety in it (bushes, trees, uneven Terrain, rivers, lakes, caves, etc.) you can craft stuff like in Alien, but here you only have nature to provides for you. Like arnie in the movies you could build traps, bows, spears etc. Or use mud to hide etc. And if the AI and the whole ambience is so on point like Isolation was for Alien.. Holy shit....

"The first 2 films." I love Predator 1 and 2, and I haven't seen the others, so thanks for the heads up. But could you tell me what your opinion is on AVP?

"PUBG inspired compass" soo... a compass?

You said it perfectly: It should be the other way around. I gave up on most games of this type because the devs are always scared for balance. I know its hard to do, but looking at battle royal-games and knowing that most people dont even have a double-digit winrate its clear by know that people care more about the way, rather then the endgoal. And the iron rule for me in these games is: make the monster/hunter whatever stronger then the team, period. As long as you are getting something just by playing and not tying the whole progression on winning the game, thats simply fine. I always want to feel like the hunted in these games and having the moment of finally beating the thing after many attempts. Anything else is just boring. I remember the AvP-Remake they did a couple of years ago and how broken that was - but it was perfect for making up own rules. The predator was just so broken that you could easily play 1v6-rounds just like in the film and have a very hard time beating the predator or even alien for that matter. Stop trying to make boring balance-crap.

8:34 "The kind of bush they had in the 80s". I see what you did there.

The amount of references made in this video made me wonder why Gman said everything twice.

We still havent had a good predator game since AvP 2, with concrete jungle being a fun but trial and error based game. AvP 2010 doesnt even have a fucking crouch button let alone good gunplay/ good alien play, with only the predator campaign being half way decent. Knew the moment I saw the trailer for this it would be bad, as though the 2010 visuals werent already an indicator

This is such a missed opportunity for a triple "A" game. Shame, looks so cool

Looking at this game, I can tell you a few features I'd have liked to have seen implemented. Maybe players can only coat themselves in mud after the predator is first seen or the predators first victim is claimed and strung up like he suggested. I'd like to see players have some negative consequences from costing themselves in mud like being reduced to melee weapons or having to make their own like in a real survival game. Hell, you could even give the player the choice to discard their weapon or keep it and by keeping it they run the risk of it jamming because of the mud and the muzzle flash giving away your position to the predator. Maybe give some actual tactics players could use around the map to distract or lure a predator to a different spot like a fire or explosion planted earlier in the round. For the predator, being able to use tactics like those seen in the movie like recording voices or trapping bodies would be great because you could hear players talking about the gameplay through their microphones and play it back to confuse someone or lay out a lure by killing a teammate and acting like they are downed. They should also definetly remove the screen icons showing downs, wounded, or deaths. You should have to communicate with teammates, not get a reading on a map like in Call of Duty.

This game would appeal to me a lot more if it were set in the 80s or in the future. I just find the modern aesthetic such a drag.

Feel like making this an exclusive for the Ps4 and the shit Epic Games Store is a poor move if you’re trying to grow a player base for Avp.

I’ve been kicking ass as the predator so I don’t know what all this “Predator NEEDS a buff” noise is. Play smarter and more carefully and you’ll be fine. Same with the soldiers. I think the only gripe this game deserves is that it doesn’t have much content and it’s got bugs. At least its a lot better than that shit show Dead By Daylight. It just seems like people never wanted this game to have a chance. It’s definitely an improvement from Friday the 13th. I’ve playing this game a lot and honestly it feels like most of the criticism isn’t deserved. It’s like people want the game to just die rather than improve, and that’s shitty. Edit: Also I disagree with the whole “Help Predator find the soldiers faster” thing. You’re hunting them. The point is that its a hunt... You have all you need to find them fast. Best thing to use is the sound pulse while in thermal vision. Straight up basically tells you where they are for a certain amount of time. Again. The game isn’t great but it’s not as bad as people think. Just actually take time to learn and get good at the game and you’ll be fine. Stop expecting it to hold your hand.

The tree movement looks fun. I just want a 4 player co op game of 4 predators vs all kinds of enemies, including xenos.

Whats the matter Dillon? CIA got you pushing not enough pencils?!

Right, I bought this game on launch and quickly learned how easy it is to make the predator my bitch. I had a game where my team ran off, didn't use mud or ping or play the objectives at all and got killed. Then the predator came after me. Fyi, I was playing scout, which has the lowest health pool out of the four classes. I just equipped my knife and proceeded to parry and stab the predator to death whenever it rushed me. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy this game, but that shouldn't be possible. Especially seeing as I had the double time perk on, with knife equipped you run fast. Fast enough to easily catch up to the predator and stab the shit out of it while it's healing. Again, what the fuck? Knife is the strongest weapon in the game, if you have it equipped itself much easier to parry as you don't have to wait till your gun switches back before you can try again. They defo need to make the predator stronger or this game is going to be evolve 2.0.

Feel like developers should get you to help play test games like these.

Friday was like this too. It'll update and get a lot better. One thing think would make it more interesting is pitting 2 fire teams against each other while the predator hunts them.

Reminds of the game mode in Crysis 3. That being said I really wish they could remake Predator Conrete jungle game.