You forgot the taunt button actually has a use in the Alien and Predator campaign; you can use it to lure Marines and civilians closer or even make them panic. The auras around humans when playing the Alien is actually their emotional state: blue is calm, red is aggressive, and so on. It can be useful to make a Marine empty his pulse rifle into the shadows so you can eat his face or rip his spine out while he's reloading...
...okay it's more for fun, but still.

The best thing about playing as alien imo is how the clever wall walk turns a human setting into an alien one because it's constantly rotated strangely and you move through it too fast to retain orientation. So you really feel like an alien raiding a weird nonsense human hive.

Fun fact: If you had the disk version of the gold edition, the second CD held all the music tracks for the game and had to be inserted for said music to play. However, you could put any music CD in and the game would play that instead. So, if you wanted to, you could run around blasting Xenomorphs while listening to Enya singing away in the background. It was hilarious.

Nice detail in the game: If you cut off an arm from the androids, they have an entire separate one-handed reloading animation where they place the gun in their lap.

Colonial Marines receiving orders from British parachute regiment soldiers in a live action cut scene is the jank I so dearly miss in video games

"Your tail stunlocks the Predators"

It's double funny because in the 2010 game you can do the exact same thing.

1:32 the fact this game was only EVER re-released on a giant arcade stick shaped like a Capcom logo is a crime against humanity, we need a proper port for consoles and PC

I think I saw Cancer Mouse on a laptop in Abiotic Factor.  I'm glad he hasn't forgotten his roots despite his celebrity status.

This series really is just Marines vs Aliens with special guest stars, a handful of Predators

I love the installer for AVP gold that has a screenshot with a caption that says "NEW EXCITING INGAME SAVE FEATURE"

I think I already know what Civvie thinks of AvP Jaguar:
"A lot of these areas are copied and pasted, whole hallways, rooms, so it gets a little confusing"

1:31 The comic came first, the Alien head was specifically built for Predator 2 as a nod to the comic, and the director actively had to fight to keep shots of the alien skull in the movie.

I appreciate the use of the White House from Duke It Out in DC

The very first Aliens vs Predator comic released Nov 1989. Predator 2 released in 1990. The Alien skull in P2 was an easter egg to AvP

Love how the Aliens felt like... well, aliens in these older games, so unpredictable, sporadic and dare I say, menacing. The facehuggers in these old AvP games, are still nightmare fuel, to this day.

9:23 That "Brazil" soundtrack for the bureaucracy bit, 10/10

One of my friends used to call the androids "Milk Duds". "Milk," because of the blood, and "Duds," because there's no health reward for killing them 😁

32:27 The way the Alien and the Predator fall together and still duke it out mid-air is surprisingly cinematic.

Red Lobster's Endless Aliens vs. Beefeater Marines vs. A Short Bus of Predators from the "No Yuatja Left Behind" Remedial Hunting clan on field trip.

I love the 3 campaigns completely different styles. Humans is pure action-horror. Aliens is hunter/assassin fantasy. Predator is straight power fantasy. I always did the humans last as a kid because it was SO tense nonstop.