Those rare times when you get a good look at it, you can see it methodically investigating, using its eyes and ears to find anything that might be hiding.
It's not just that it seems so formidable - early on you have no real defense against it, though that changes a bit once you get a flamethrower - but it's cunning in a way that gaming villains typically aren’t. The work paid off: the xenomorph is the most terrifying enemy I've ever come across in a game. There's only one in the game, and the developers spent a lot of time ensuring it was as authentic as possible. The xenomorph is really the core of Alien: Isolation. The scripted story is largely forgettable, and takes a bit of a weird detour towards the end, but it does a good job of pushing you through the station where you'll constantly be hunted by the alien creature. As you can imagine, things aren't going to well when they arrive: the station is a wreck, and the few survivors on board have become violent and desperate. The recorder turns up at a space station, and Amanda heads there with a small team to see what she can learn. Those moments are absolutely incredible, but the experience is unfortunately weighed down by a bunch of filler material that has you dealing with paranoid humans and murderous androids as well.Īlien: Isolation puts you in the role of Amanda Ripley (daughter of Ellen from the first film), who is searching for a flight recorder that will hopefully help her learn more about just what happened to her mother after the events of the first film. There's an incredible thrill in hiding in a locker, or underneath a gurney with a dead patient's leg dangling in your face, and seeing the alien stalk by without noticing you. The result is a game that’s exhilarating in its terror. The first-person survival horror game takes place 15 years after the original Alien film, and it aims to recreate that same sense of terror: you're stuck on a space station with a xenomorph, and you need to find a way to survive. This is Alien: Isolation at its very best.
As I hit the button to leave, I turn to see the the alien bounding in my direction, alerted by my noisy running. The xenomorph sprints after it, long tail dragging behind, and I stand up and run as fast as I can to the left where there's an elevator. Now that I know exactly where it is, I slowly make my way a bit further up the hallway, and then pull out a flare, light it, and toss it down the hallway to my right. Luckily, the light is just enough to illuminate the shiny floor, and I can make out the creature's reflection as it investigates a room to my left. There's a xenomorph walking around I can hear it, but if I pull out my radar to pinpoint its location the alien will surely hear the beeping.
Huddled in a dark hallway in an abandoned medical facility, the only light coming from a flickering fluorescent bulb, I'm crouched with my back to the wall.
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