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Aliens versus Predator 2: Primal Hunt is a prequel expansion for the PC game Aliens versus Predator 2. It was released in 2002, two years after the release of AVP2. It was created by Third Law Entertainment and published by Sierra Studios and the now-defunct Fox Interactive. It runs on the Lithtech engine as its predecessor did.

Setting

The expansion takes place in two time periods. The first is roughly two centuries ago, or about five hundred years before the events in AVP2. The second time period is in 2230, about five weeks before the beginning of the Alien's game in AVP2.

In both time periods, the game takes place on the planet LV-1201, the site of AVP2. The expansion revisits the Forward Observation Pods, a group of elevated habitation modules which comprise one of two main human facilities on the planet. Specifically, the player visits Pod 5, which was destroyed prior to the events in AVP2. The cause of its destruction is revealed in the expansion. The player also visits "Zeta Site," a portion of a Xenomorph hive alluded to in the main game. Zeta Site contains Pilot technology and Predator ruins.

Characters

The player can choose from three characters, each of which plays a different role in the expansion's intertwining storyline.

Major Dunya is a member of the Iron Bears, a mercenary group employed by the Weyland-Yutani
Corporation to maintain security on LV-1201. She also plays a small but important role in AVP2 as a non-playable character. She is engaged to Dmitri, a fellow Iron Bear.
The Ancient Predator was the first of his species to hunt on LV-1201. He discovered a hive of xenomorphs there, and his clan quickly built a facility among the hive from which to organize their hunts. When the hive facility was breached, he was accidentally put into stasis while trying to make repairs.
The Predalien started life as a facehugger which assaulted the Ancient Predator as they went into stasis. It birthed from his chest five hundred years later in the human-built Pods.

Two other characters also play important roles.

General Rykov is the leader of the Iron Bears, who runs an operation smuggling Pilot technology off-planet behind the facility administrator's back. He sends Dunya on a mission to retrieve one such piece of technology at the beginning of her campaign. He plays a crucial role in AVP2; he is the final enemy faced by the Predator Prince.
Dmitri is Dunya's fiance, who is endangered by xenomorphs in the expansion. He appears briefly in AVP2 before he is killed by xenomorphs. His death gives Dunya part of her motive for her actions in that game.

Plot Summaries

The Predator's plot

Roughly five hundred years before the Incident of AVP2, a Predator spacecraft encounters the planet LV-1201, which was previously unknown to them. A lone Predator is sent out to hunt game. He encounters a verdant world, full of dangerous prey including a carnivorous, moose-like creature, a hulking, bipedal reptile, and a wormlike organism which attacks from underground. Quickly, however, the predator discovers more dangerous prey: xenomorphs. The Predator follows them to their hive, through ancient Pilot ruins, where he discovers and activates an ancient Artifact which has the power to keep xenomorphs at bay.

Six weeks later, the Predators have built a sort of hunting lodge or base camp around the Artifact from which to organize hunts deeper into the hive. The player's Predator descends, with some companions, deeper into the hive, in search of the xenomorph queen. However, an alarm from the facility cuts their hunt short. The Predators return to the facility to find it overrun by xenomorphs; the Artifact has been powered down. The Predator fights through hordes of xenomorphs, restores power to the artifact, and then attempts to restore power to Pilot-built stasis fields keeping bays of xenomorph eggs from hatching. While manually repairing one field generator, the Predator is surprised by a facehugger—and both are caught in the newly-activated field.

The Predator awakens five hundred years later, when the field is deactivated. He recovers his mask and makes his way to the now-ruined Artifact Chamber, where a human (Dunya) is making off with the Artifact. He pursues her through the infested ruins of the Predator facility. Finally, he tracks her to the Pods. He infiltrates Pod 5, inadvertently allowing hundreds of xenomorphs inside with him. He hacks into the human systems to learn the location of the Artifact, which he retrieves. He then breaks into a communications room and transmits a signal to his fellow Predators in the Nodus Secundi system, five weeks away. Presumably, this transmission is the reason for the Predators' visit in AVP2. Immediately after sending the transmission, the Predator is killed when the alien chestburster incubating inside him bursts from his ribcage.

The Alien's plot

The alien begins its game as a facehugger inside the Predators' facility, five hundred years before the Incident. The facility's integrity has just been breached, and the facehugger must sneak through the complex, seeking a solitary host. If it attacks and subdues a Predator in the sight of others, it will be killed before it can implant its embryo. The facehugger scurries through vents and under floor grating, using occasional xenomorph attacks as diversions. Finally, it locates one Predator attempting to repair a stasis field generator below the facility. It strikes—but both creatures are overcome by the rising stasis field.

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