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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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.

Alien: Isolation will make you scream in both frustration and euphoria but succeeds where many games of this franchise have failed

Alien or Aliens : which is the better film? It's one of cinema's oldest debates, with Ridley Scott's seminal 1979 classic perfecting the art of horror and science-fiction fuelled suspense, while James Cameron's 1986 action-packed sequel set the template for over two decades of video game culture to...

In many respects, the Ripleys of Alien fame are a lot like the Brodys from Jaws. The heads of the family - Ellen and Martin, respectively - are just trying to get by in life doing less-than-stellar jobs in mostly unexciting places until some arsehole monster comes along to ruin it all.

"Let me see if I have this correct, Lieutenant - it's an 8-foot creature of some kind with acid for blood, and it arrived on your spaceship. It kills on sight, and is generally unpleasant." -Superintendent Andrews, Alien 3 Alien is one of my favorite films of all time.

Through no fault of its own, Alien: Isolation had a lot to prove right out of the gate. Critics were universally disappointed with the last attempt at incorporating the ‘Alien' franchise into a video game experience with Aliens: Colonial Marines from Borderlands developer Gearbox.

It has been a rough few years for the Alien games, but their unlucky streak is close at an end. Alien Isolation is a far cry from the previous games and is far more true to the movies.

Atmosphere | Scary | Controls | Stealth | Alien AI | Graphics | Sound

Too Much Padding | Cinematics Need to be Improved

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.

Proving to us that a first person shooter doesn't need to be all shooty, is the latest in a string of hit and miss games set in the Alien franchise. Set between Alien and Aliens, Isolation is a fairly solid cat and mouse game.