Alien: Isolation

Alien Isolation is the first proper first-person survival horror game I have played. While I don’t have a particular fondness for those games, I do really like the Alien movies, and having a video game sequel to the first movie got me interested. The game starts with you being completely separated from your companions, Taylor and Samuels. I think that the game does a really good job of making you feel alone. Some survival horror games have really dumb ways of doing this, such as RE1, where characters WANT to split up. Nothing feels forced, and it feels like a very “Alien” style setup for the plot. I also like that there isn’t a Xenomorph for quite a few hours, and you just get to see the desperation and the terror that comes from knowing that something dangerous is on the ship, but you can’t quite tell what it is. When you do eventually encounter it, it’s an amazingly done introduction to a multi-hour hide-and-seek game with the Xenomorph. The AI behind it is probably the single best part of this game, because it learns from your playing style. You can distract it one way for a while and then It won't fall for your trap again. This makes you experiment and try new things to get away from it. I like that It feels real. Nothing ever feels robotic or fake, this is a real Xenomorph, and it is looking FOR YOU. However, once you blow the Alien out the airlock, the game just keeps going, and you just have to fight a bunch of robots for a few hours. This is definitly the worst part of Alien: Isolation, because it just doesn't know when to end and provide closure. It just keeps trying to top itself, and I was kind of sick of the game. Again, it's good, but it has no respect for your time. When you eventually do complete the 18th mission and Sevastapol crashes into the gas giant, It again tries to top itself with a final, bombastic end with Mission 19, or rather, "Glorified quick-time event" that feels more clunky then it does epic. I am of the opinion that this is a sort of dream sequence and that Amanda doesn't make it to Verlane's ship and just drifts off in space, but It doesn't really matter. Now that we got the meat and potatos out of the way, we just have the little things. The game runs really good on Steam, but limit it to 60fps so the physics don't break. I actually had to set it to 58fps due to the awful input delay on my controller. The sound design is also excellent. I played this game with headphones, and every single sound makes you feel unsafe at every single turn. I have not had my heart pound so fast in a video game before. The visuals also look really good for a 2014 release. It does look kind of old, but in a good way. There honestly isn't too much more to mention, It's just good. While Alien Isolation is amazing in some moments, it stumbles so much that I am disappointed that the second half of the game didn't live up to the first. If it actually ended at a reasonable point in the story, this game would be 10/10, but the mediocity in the second half knocks it down to an 8.5/10 Pretty good, all things considered. Good job, Creative Assembly.

"I want to state for the record", that this games fantastic and should be played by any fan of the series and also it hasn't aged a bit. Signing off./

[h1]When playing the game its a little obnoxious that continue game is under new game.[/h1]

Alien Isolation è praticamente un capolavoro del suo genere, un perfetto sci-fi horror che ricrea in modo più che adeguato l'atmosfera del primo film di Ridley Scott, ottima sia dal punto di vista tecnico che di colonna sonora e realizzazione dei suoni. La trama è decisamente intrigante questo perché gli eventi collegati ad Amanda, protagonista e figlia della famosa Ellen Ripley, sono adeguatamente collegati con l'universo di Alien ed effettivamente sono logici nella linea temporale; i personaggi secondari fanno la loro parte e sono tutti abbastanza caratteristici anche se ci si affeziona in modo particolare solo a uno o due di loro. Personalmente ho apprezzato tutte le vicende e missioni che si susseguono nel corso dell'opera, momenti di tensione, imprevisti, una sensazione di smarrimento per via di una mappa labirintica, insomma l'ansia e la percezione di essere sempre braccati funziona molto bene. Una nota di merito infine alla già acclamata doppia IA dello xenomorfo, in cui una sa sempre dove si trova il giocatore e l'altra da una casualità ai movimenti di quest'ultimo simulando un vero e proprio stile di predatore-preda.

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Great atmosphere. Good gameplay and faithfulness to the alien franchise

I will start this review by saying, I'm not the kind of guy that likes horror games or movies, but this game is not the normal type of horror, the feeling of getting hunted by the creature is something I can't explain in words. The atmosphere is absolutely incredible, there's nothing else like this game. The sound design, the station creeking with every step, the creature scurrying through the vents, when you get spotted by the androids or hunted by the creature, the music shifts, it turns from quiet to better then even the thrilling movies, it's unmatched. Amazing game. Absolutely would recommend, doesn't matter if you like horror games or not.