In Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation you play as Amanda, the daughter of the series protagonist Ellen Ripley, who is unceremoniously shepherded to Sevastopol. She finds herself on this city-sized space-station after a group of salvagers find the flight recorder to her mother's ship, The Nostromo,...

Actually quite scary; Amazing environments; Excellent background world-building; Amazingly immersive sound design; Tense survival horror gameplay; Solid action horror gameplay; Slavish devotion to source material

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Deep, intelligent, intense, and utterly unlike any experience before it, Alien: Isolation presents all that's truly great about AAA, and also its evolution.

The Alien is truly terrifying; Amazing recreation of the Alien universe; Smart AI keeps the game unpredictable; Looks astonishing; It's a long game; but intense throughout

Lack of guidance will deter some

The Alien franchise is no stranger to adaptation, with games modeled on the series possessing a checkered history. Most attempts at translating the film series usually take the action route, fashioned after the second film in the series Aliens.

Proceeding 15 years after the ominous events that took place on the Nostromo in Ridley Scott's Alien , Amanda Ripley is informed of a device on board the Sevastopol, which contains information on what caused her mother's disappearance.

Alien: Isolation is a first-person survival horror experience that will focus on capturing the horror and tension evoked by Ridley Scott's 1979 classic film.

Love the setting like being in the movie cant wait for part 2.

A shorter, sharper campaign would condense the high points more potently, and some better characterisation would make the plot twists hit harder. But if you're looking for a game that really sinks its teeth into what makes this iconic movie monster endure, look no further.

While it has a few rough patches and may prove too slow and drawn-out for some players, Isolation does an amazing job of capturing the essence of a classic film and recasting it as a video game.

Ready for a challenge That is the one thing you have to ask yourself before you play Alien: Isolation . If you're a fan of the venerable horror series, you already know you want to play this game. The question then becomes - do you have the nerves for it

Genuinely scary; Nice length; with a pace that requires planning; Oozes authentic ambiance

Clunky crafting interface; Despite random AI; is fairly predictable; Glitches can break immersion

In 1979, Ridley Scott and company introduced the world to Hollywood's most petrifying extraterrestrial, and we all know I'm not referring to Spielberg's kindly, soft-hearted E.T. but rather the heart-ripping endoparasitoid that invaded our nightmares for years to come.