There were some dark times, but the Predator movie franchise's health has been almost fully restored in recent years with Prey and Predator: Killer of Killers. Now, we're eagerly awaiting Predator: Badlands' arrival later this year. Dan Trachtenberg's third entry in the long-running sci-fi series is taking us to a faraway future — with trailers already revealing that it shares elements with the Alien movies — but we've also noticed more than a few similarities to the old (and forgotten) video game, Predator: Concrete Jungle.
While 'solo' Predator and Alien flicks were having some downtime in the 2000s, both franchises were kept alive with comic books, video games, and the two divisive Alien vs. Predator movies. The extended universe that surrounded the series grew much larger, and we got excellent games like Rebellion and Monolith's Aliens vs. Predator first-person shooters. Hot on the heels of those two and the first AvP movie, developer Eurocom got the chance to make a standalone Predator title targeting the 'ultimate alien hunter' power fantasy.
