AVP: Evolution (2013): Mobile Game Overview

AVP: Evolution, also known as Alien vs. Predator: Evolution, is a third-person mobile action game developed by Angry Mob Games and published by Fox Digital Entertainment. Released in 2013 for iOS and Android, with an Ouya version following later, it gave mobile players separate Alien and Predator campaigns built around melee combat, finishing moves, character upgrades, and short mission-based levels. The game stands out in the Alien vs. Predator games lineup because it brought the Super Predators from Predators (2010) into a full Xenomorph conflict.

Game Overview

AVP: Evolution plays from an over-the-shoulder third-person perspective, with touch controls for movement, attacks, dodging, executions, and special abilities. Unlike the PC and console AvP shooters, the game focuses on close-range action rather than first-person gunplay. Players alternate between controlling a Xenomorph and a Jungle Hunter-style Predator, upgrading each character with stronger attacks, armor, weapons, and abilities as the campaign progresses.

The Alien side emphasizes speed, claw attacks, ambushes, and the life cycle, starting as a Facehugger before growing into a larger Xenomorph. The Predator side leans into Yautja gear such as wrist blades, armor, vision modes, plasma weapons, mines, and unlockable melee tools like the combistick and Predator whip. The result is a simplified but recognizable version of Alien vs. Predator combat built for phones and tablets.

Plot Summary

The story takes place on LV-412, where a clan of Super Predators captures an Alien Queen in an underground temple. Their goal is to control her hive and use the enslaved Xenomorphs as weapons against the more traditional Jungle Hunter clan. The setup extends the Predator civil war idea by showing the Super Predators trying to win their feud through biological warfare rather than a normal hunt.

In the Alien campaign, the player begins as a young creature escaping Super Predator control and gradually becomes a full-grown Xenomorph fighting to free the hive. In the Predator campaign, a Jungle Hunter warrior is sent to LV-412 after a distress signal reveals that the Super Predators are using the Aliens to threaten his clan. Both paths move through temples, hive chambers, Marine facilities, and Weyland-Yutani-controlled zones before colliding with the Super Predator plan.

Key Characters And Factions

The game is driven more by species factions and boss encounters than by a large named cast.

The playable Alien - A Xenomorph that grows from the early life-cycle stages into a hive liberator.
The playable Predator - A Jungle Hunter clan warrior sent to stop the Super Predator operation on LV-412.
The Super Predator clan - The main antagonists, using a captured Queen to control Xenomorphs against rival Yautja.
The LV-412 Queen - The hive monarch chained and exploited by the Super Predators.
Weyland-Yutani forces - Human and synthetic enemies occupying nearby research and military areas.
Predalien enemies - Predator-born hybrids that appear as late-game threats rather than playable creatures.

Super Predators And LV-412

A Berserker Super Predator from LV-412 in AVP: Evolution

AVP: Evolution is one of the few Alien vs. Predator games to make the Super Predators central to its plot. Their attempt to chain, dominate, and weaponize a Queen connects the game to wider pages about the Predator civil war and Predators fighting Alien Queens. The LV-412 conflict also shows how dangerous the Super Predator philosophy becomes when it moves beyond abducting prey and starts using Xenomorphs as controlled battlefield assets.

LV-412 itself functions as a compact mobile-game warzone rather than a deeply explored planet. Its levels include ancient Predator architecture, Alien hive spaces, exterior paths, and human installations where Weyland-Yutani has become entangled in the conflict. That mix lets the game pull from all three pillars of the crossover: Yautja temples, Xenomorph infestation, and corporate/military interference.

Xenomorph Types And Bosses

The Predalien boss from LV-412 in AVP: Evolution

The game includes familiar Xenomorph forms such as Drones, Warriors, Facehuggers, and the captured Queen, but its most important lore additions are the Predator-born hybrids. The Predalien from AVP: Evolution appears late in AvP game continuity, and the game features both a more traditional Predalien and a darker Super Predator-born Berserker Alien. These hybrids serve as boss-style threats and reinforce the idea that the Super Predator plan is unstable even when it seems successful.

Human and synthetic enemies appear as additional opposition in the Marine base and research areas. They give the Alien campaign living hosts and the Predator campaign armed targets, while also keeping the story tied to the familiar Weyland-Yutani pattern of exploiting dangerous extraterrestrial life.

Gameplay And Upgrades

The Predator whip weapon in AVP: Evolution

AVP: Evolution was designed around short missions, combat arenas, and character progression. The Alien can be improved with stronger attacks and biological abilities, while the Predator gains upgraded armor and Predator weapons suited for different enemy types. Finishing moves are a major part of the presentation, letting both playable species execute Marines, synthetics, Xenomorphs, and rival Yautja in brutal close-range animations.

As a mobile title, the game is much smaller and more repetitive than the mainline AvP shooters, but it still offered unusually ambitious production values for its platform at the time. Its best moments come from letting players swap directly between the Predator hunt and the Alien life cycle without a Marine campaign between them.

Development And Release

Angry Mob Games developed AVP: Evolution after previously working on the mobile game based on Predators. The studio reused and expanded that melee-action foundation into a two-species crossover, adding playable Xenomorph mechanics, Super Predator enemies, and upgrade systems for both sides. Fox Digital Entertainment published the game for mobile platforms on February 28, 2013, while the Ouya version followed later that year.

The game was eventually discontinued. Google Play removed it on 15 May 2018. By October 2018 it was also gone from the other major phone stores, aside from a remaining Amazon listing.

Legacy

Angry Mob's 2013 phone game put Super Predators from Predators into a Facehugger-to-adult Alien campaign on LV-412, plus a Berserker Alien hybrid late in the story. Google Play removed it on 15 May 2018. It is now one of the harder AvP games to play legally.