I don’t know about you, but to me, this sounds like the setup to the greatest Predator movie never made. Returning to Earth to set things right, players embark on a perilous journey through futuristic landscapes, taking down criminals and collecting blood-soaked trophies from an assortment of grandiose levels, eventually squaring off against Xenomorphs, cyborgs and horrific genetic hybrids. Unfortunately, he’s too far away from the blast to be obliterated alongside most of the city, making him a pariah amongst his fellow Predators.Īnd so, 100 years of exile later, the game truly begins as Scarface is informed that New Way City has been rebuilt as Neonopolis, where Borgia’s descendants have been using technology recovered from his little hunting accident to capture and experiment on other Predators. To make a long story short, our protagonist is wounded (earning the nickname “Scarface” in the process) and is forced to enable the self-destruct function of his cloaked starship. You can’t say the game doesn’t have style! Here, players take control of an unlucky Predator whose hunting trip is about to go terribly wrong. The situation is only made worse by the presence of a certain “New Way Devil”, an otherworldly being hellbent on eliminating crime boss Bruno Borgia.

The game’s story actually begins in 1930s “New Way City”, as folks have been dealing with gang wars in the middle of a heatwave. Nevertheless, we’re getting ahead of ourselves, as Concrete Jungle’s setup to this new environment is a curious thing in and of itself. Instead of mercenary-infested tropical rainforests, Concrete Jungle boasts sprawling urban environments more reminiscent of a futuristic New York rather than anything in South America. Strangely enough, this genre-bending 2005 title is influenced a lot more by the under-appreciated Predator 2 than Schwarzenegger’s original encounter with the extraterrestrial hunter. Today, however, I’d like to take a step back and discuss one of the weirdest interactive experiments of the franchise’s past, a flawed but unique gem known only as Eurocom’s Predator: Concrete Jungle. Nevertheless, since the mid-80s, the Predator has been constantly present in interactive media, even gaining a completely new online game through IllFonic’s Predator: Hunting Grounds late last month.

It’s not that surprising once you consider that the titular creature has become an iconic character rivaling the likes of the Universal Monsters, but folks tend to only remember its crossovers with the Alien franchise when it comes to gaming. There are actually a lot more Predator games than most people seem to realize.

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