I bought Alien Isolation on release and got stuck into it only to find that, despite me being a seasoned horror movie fan, I was so absolutely crippled by fear that it left me too terrified to play on. The San Cristobal medical facility level, with its confusing layout and open areas combined with the oppressive atmosphere generated by the game's audio was so fantastically done that it scared me too much to play on, which I look back on now with amusement. It took a few attempts and I didn't actually play it properly until 2-3 years after release, but once it 'clicked' with me I realised that it was (and still is) quite simply one of the finest games that's ever been made. I'm playing it through again right now on hard difficulty, and despite being a decade old it stills plays better than a lot of newer games. Even the graphics, with the exception of the character models and cutscenes, still hold up and the thought of that open ending leaves me pining for a sequel. I doubt it will ever come though, sadly - but there's always the hope that it will.
1000% agree, V similar experience… but I’ll add that this is the first game where I actually look forward to the “whatever-gen” remaster that will hopefully keep everything game wise the same except resolve the character models, anti aliasing and give the Big Chap the lips and saliva he deserves lol
@@dustinyancey2194 once you know how to "move" it's pretty easy actually, even at Nightmare difficult. But I played that game like one hundred times. 😉
10 years later - I still play Alien: Isolation. Sevastopol station basically became my second home. I enjoy walking around and exploring every part of the station, sometimes I watch tru windows and enjoy the space and the sun
Someone once said that the next Alien Isolation should let you play as Newt. It would allow you to experience the fall of Hadleys Hope and end with her being found. I think that would be amazing.
No crafting, no engineering or computing knowledge, no physical strength.. The gameplay would be limited right down to just stealth. Would make a good 3 - 4 hour DLC.
Maybe you play as Newts mom and the game ends with you sacrificing yourself to make sure Newt gets away or something. Then there could realistically be crafting mechanics, Weapons, etc. The story starts out as like a squad management, Tower defense type things where you and other NPCs try to build barricades and fight off the Aliens but as NPCs disappear and more Aliens show up it morphs into a survival sim, the game ends with Newt hearing the Marines arrive after her mother (you) are taken.
It's hard to underestimate the impact that one review had. People had _no_ faith in Alien as a gaming entity after the Colonial Marines debacle, and many had zero faith in Isolation being any different, and when they saw _that_ review they just wrote the game off as yet another disaster. The game had no momentum after that review dropped.
You've been blessed with news. It has been confirmed... that indeed it's happening. It's in early development while being worked by the same director. My friend. *It is happening.*
Idk, this game is a cult classic amongst survial horror and horror fans. Its definitely known and loved. I mean Fede Álvarez, the director of Alien: Romulus, played this game and took heavy inspiration from it for the film. Its impact is felt even today and people are still discovering and loving the game
"has now faded to relative obscurity " This is just a straight up lie, lmao. It's still played on the reg on twitch getting a bunch of views. essays on yt still get a ton of attention etc.
Alien Isolation was one of the hardest games I've played. It went from making me jump to where I got pissed off and wished for a pulse rifle. To feel better I chased the alien around with my flame thrower. When running out of fuel I'd restart the game and chase him all over again. It made me feel better.
This is gonna sound weird, but I found the androids scarier than the actual alien. Atleast you can hear the aliens footsteps, I think I'm being real slick sneaking around and then I just hear "There you are."
@@KevinS47It almost certainly won’t. It will be nauseating fan service and little more, since that’s what makes money these days. And the director has already flat out lied in interviews about practical effects vs CGI.
I think the story for the sequel should follow Ransome - the Seegson executive largely responsible for the outbreak on Sevastopol, who got abandoned by Weyland Yutani. The idea would be that Ransome got off the station with an alien specimen, trying to sell it to a rival corporation. He gets captured by Weyland Yutani and frees the specimen in order to escape - causing another outbreak.
The more you play Alien Isolation, the better it gets. I'm talking about when you've played it so much, to the point of knowing every inch of Sevastopol, that you no longer need the map. You know when it's safe to run, and roughly when and where the alien is likely to appear. The game of cat and mouse becomes more fast paced, and in my opinion, so much better for it. I'm not sure a sequel could match the gameplay of Isolation, as it's close to perfection as it is. All it really needs is an updated re-skin, to make it even more epic.
Who the hell would play it that much. It's a once or twice game. Like all horror. It loses it's appeal after the first time. It's not a game you play multiple times. Unless you're slow & missed the beats or you just want to look around It's not the type of game where I need to know every corner. It kind of voids the point of being on a big ship that you're a stranger to 😂
@@MrAden1307 not really, other horror games lose their appeal cause they're scripted. But the alien has an unpredictable AI (for the most part), this makes it fun to create so many cat and mouse scenarios based on its behavior. The alien also has a learning mechanic, the more you use a trick, the more the alien stops fallin for it. On harder difficulties, the game is insanneee.
Yep looking forward to the new JP game. There's also another dinosaur game that looks a little like Alien Isolation style gameplay - The Lost Wild: th-cam.com/video/_TzkPQ6j1ZA/w-d-xo.html
I never thought about it, because I am not a Jurassic park fan, but a game like AI but set in the Jurassic park universe with a geneticley modified super dino hunting you actually could be really cool.
11:04 I think the topic of people underutilizing their gadgets in Isolation is more complicated than it first seems, and is more a sign of "double-edged sword" in this aspect of game's design. From what I've personally seen and read, it's not that people simply forget, or disregard to use their tools, but rather find themselves too scared to even consider try some of, if not all of them, and for understandable reasons. There is a high risk tied to almost any action you can perform in the game, in particular in using your items, with how vulnerable you are and how powerful enemies are, especially the Alien. At the same time, your ability to fight back is, while not nonexistent, but still is rather limited, and, most importantly, the success in effectively utilizing your options is never guaranteed and at the same time punishment for failure is very high, and usually highest with the Alien. All this can make it really difficult to break out of that overly passive and 'safe' playstyle where all the player does is hide in lockers and waits around for 20 minutes, because, when your ultimate goal is trying to survive, taking risks, especially in the game both as oppressive AND punishing as Isolation, can be naturally off-putting, and it's smth I can relate to rather closely as I myself had that outlook on certain items for a very long time, them being Revolver, Smoke Bomb, Maintenance Jack and Rewire Boxes. For me even considering to use those items was off-putting, as I thought back then the risks involved were far too high, in particular for the Revolver, Maintenance Jack and Rewire. And that's also what I think drives most of the disagreement on the design and implementation of tools in the game, as for others, that were put off of using the items, it made them feel they are meaningless and pointless, as technically you can beat the game without ever touching them. I, personally, became only more in awe of the game's design by how it can essentially scare you off of engaging with its mechanics, requiring YOU to push yourself over your primary instincts and do your best to remain rational instead. And, as a side note, an aspect of Isolation that I only grew to appreciate significantly more when the game would put me in such situations where I was 'forced' to explore the utility of the aforementioned items and made me realize that, no, they are not useless, and there are no inescapable situations in Isolation. Everything is in your hands. 11:52 I am much more critical in that aspect...of the people. I really, really, really struggle to comprehend how people get confused and lost with navigating around in the game beyond M11, as open as I try to be in conversations about this game, with how much experience I have with it. I mean, yes, sure, it isn't a completely streamlined, linear game a la Call of Duty or Uncharted, it has its alternative paths and routes (sometimes) and very often filled with all sorts of rooms. It's metroidvania-ish, altho probably light one, in its level design. And, also, truth be told, M11, the Solomon's Galleria, does have some significant issues with environmental sign-posting (it's better explained in this video: th-cam.com/video/duPzudtOa5w/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tsII5fVn11yt-W9D). But beyond that I just really think it's a case of lack of patience and poor attention spans, because, as you said, there are both very player-friendly map (that, might I point out, many people still somehow struggle with understanding even tho all the instructions are RIGHT THERE) and the Motion Tracker that point you to your objective. I mean, hell, personally I think that Objective Bar on the Motion Tracker is redundant, as it takes away navigation as an element of gameplay almost entirely, when it could have benefitted the game in creating and maintaining tension only further. Altho, that said, it would benefit the experience ONLY if, at the same time, bringing up the map wouldn't pause the game. So yeah, pet peeves of mine, among quite a few. 16:40 Sooo I assume this video was long time in the making, cause...Hyenas was cancelled a week before it was supposed to be released. And with it many of the staff were sacked, cause of course they were, and not the execs who were the ones responsible for pushing an idea that was never going to be profitable. Yeah, this year really sucked in that regard for game dev. On one hand - lots of amazing AND profitable games, on the other - tons and tons of unjust and nonsensical lay-offs. Anyway, on the topic of Isolation sequel - not gonna happen and the hope realistically has died as long as in 2017 tbh. By that point many of the original staff had switched studios, opened their own (No_Code), Sega has probably lost the rights to the license, and CA itself had already released Halo Wars 2 with its console team and with the same team was fully involved in the development of Hyenas. All 'rumors' are just a sentiment bait that is being made and recycled by shady, unreliable outlets every 2 or so years, hence why you only see them being reported by these shady, unreliable outlets (The Gamer, GameRant and the bunch). But for anyone still holding out slight bits of those hopes, Sega, after the catastrophe that was Hyenas, went out of their way and buried that rotting corpse: www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-says-creative-assembly-will-return-to-genres-it-knows-best-after-hyenas-cancellation/
When I first played this game back in 2014, it was in San Cristobal, where the first encounter with the Xenomorph is. I just couldn't go though. I spent an age checking rechecking and looking out for where it is, only to sneak back to safety. All the buildup to it and the constant worry about where or when will it strike left me frozen. I came out to go to the kitchen (at night) to get a glass of water or something and just stayed there trying to calm my nerves. A flatmate came out for something and saw me in the kitchen, and when "My God, what happened to you?! Are you ok? You're pale like you've seen a ghost" I think I was in shock. 10/10 never played it again. (after I finished it eventually lol)
Can't believe the title of this video cause I've been wondering the same exact thing for about 5 yrs. Alien Isolation was such a damn good game and the way it ended; lights flashing across Amanda's face while she's floating in space in her suit. Plus not knowing if those lights that we see flash over her face are from a friend or foe. That ending just about drove me nuts the first time I saw it. 👍🏼😀
What if the story of amanda being dead was fake to get Ellen to help them? I mean, seeing what amanda went through I don’t think she’d be smiling so genuinely
IF they had to hop on to Aliens, Newt’s Tale would be amazing to try out in that style! They could do an Alien 3 game in that style, too, I think that’d work wel, too! But yeah, I’d love a direct continuation with Amanda! I freaking love that game!!
Amazing idea. Any idea that pretends Alien3 didn't happen is good with me. David fincher is a fine director but I NEED the end of Aliens to have meant something.
@@catvr_18 I think the biggest issue is that they set up another chance for Ripley to be a mother again and in the first 3 minutes newt is dead and also they kill Ripley at the end and have a random character nobody cares about it really knew as the sole survivor also the film was about 5 scripts mixed together
Yeah I don't think alien 3 was badly made or anything but... I think the way that the first scene said Hey! Remember the last movie? Now forget about it." Was really dumb.
I think, if they were gonna make a sequel, it should be exactly the same as isolation, but set during the first Alien movie. just a play through of the first movie, but make it like Isolation where you can follow directions and stuff, but you can also go your own way and scavenge or something. they could even make it just a DLC for Isolation, but better than the ones they've already made.
The attention to the aesthetics of the original movie is a big selling point for the game for me as well. Being able to actually explore those retrofuturistic environments is quite a treat. The gameplay is a mixed bag but I enjoy it personally, I've always been the type to prefer sneaking around. I totally understand people who don't enjoy it or find it boring though. The story does come across as dragged out, but it's not really supposed to be the focus anyway. 11:50 I notice _so many people_ ignore or miss the glowing white map terminals. I guess they blend in too well as a realistic part of the environment.
They took it too I far in soke ways though Things like the radar device telling you where your next mission objective is at all times, was immersion breaking. Not being able to step over a 2 ft tall object on the ground. The docking release device at the end being a copy of the self destruct device from the movie, made no sense and was clearly just copying the movie, and so was even more immersion breaking.
I replayed this game a while ago, and I can tell you it's a real gem of the stealth horror gaming. It's a shame we haven't gotten a sequel yet, even though the game was released almost a decade ago. Luckily, there might be some hope because there have been some rumors that Alien Isolation 2 has been secretly in the works for 3 years now and is about to be announced on the 10-year anniversary of Alien Isolation.
I can't believe this video only has 2300 views, what?? I thought way more people would be in awe at the idea of another alien isolation style game, just pure survival horror with the creepiest creature ever conceptualized, the Alien. Thanks for the video, I already watched all the others that you also recommended haha By the way, it may sound funny, but this game gave me actual nightmares for years after I had played it... some of the most intense hyper-realistic and horrifying nightmares I've ever had (all with the Alien as the protagonist of my death). I even woke up with a panic attack and hyperventilating at times, could hardly breathe! No horror game or movie has ever had such an effect on me, I just completely immersed myself into that world while I was playing. Alien Isolation delivered the perfect horror in my opinion, just like the original movie intended to do.
THERE ARE sequels to this magnificent game. A series of Dark Horse comic books . "Aliens: Defiance" [2 volumes, 2016,2017], "Aliens:Resistance" [2019], and "Aliens: Rescue" [2020]. Pretty good stories. I highly recommend them!
I’ve always wanted an Alien Isolation 2 set during the events of the Hadley’s Hope infestation on LV-426. You play as a child (Newt or a new character) and have to survive on your own during the chaos of the outbreak.
I like the idea of a sequel where you can do more with boobie traps and demolition-add something like Half Life 2 mechanics so that you spend more time devising strongholds and defenses. The best part of the Android levels was the C-suite alamo standoff where you could think on your feet. You know if they were to do something like Alien Isolation with multiple xenomorphs, then being able to erect baricades, cut through walls and most importantly, have someone to protect. The worst part of Alien Isolation, was there was nothing to summon your courage but simple terror and having died so many times as a coward. Having someone like Newt that you have to look out for just people that you risk your safety to help, would make that second layer of the story that Aliens added. Does it break the horror? Not necessarily.
I saw a let's play back then and was equally thrilled as the player himself and stunned by the looks and atmosphere. After playing it myself for several times, even in VR (nibre's motherVR mod), I consider it one of the best games I've ever played. I would really love a sequel
Dude you gave such an in depth explanation and love for this game, its definetly a huge obsession of mine and it did so well, the fact they made a co-op shooter instead of an alien isolation 2 is really insane. but I also ask where would the series even go? maybe it had a proper end.
Just a small remark: According to Cameron's Aliens, Amanda Ripley-McClaren died at 66 years old. Carter Burke is telling Ellen during that cut-scene mentioned. But in fact that should only be a cover story to keep Amanda safe as she suffers from cancer and preferred to wait for a cure while laying frozen in cryo. The Narcissus was found only a year later after Amanda was frozen. If things weren't bad enough.
I've always had the idea that the story Burke told Ripley about her daughter was fabricated by the Company Or, a lie of some kind It would allow for potential sequels to exist
@@SamuelBlack84 A cure for cancer, made possible by research on xenomorphs and leading to the reunion of mother and daughter, would have been a story with a bittersweet happy ending.
@@SamuelBlack84 That doesn't really work because this scene is before the inquest into the Nostromo incident where Ripley detailed everything, including the co-ordinates to the derelict. Burke had no reason to lie. If Burke was not responsible for this cover up then it is too convenient that Amanda happened to pass away just before her mother was found. How would the company know when to make Amanda's death at that time? It just doesn't work. The game should have ended with Amanda going into hypersleep.
Would be nice to have a sequel where you start powerless and later on get a way to kill aliens permanently. Then the game would introduce an invincible queen that would stalk you, culminating in a boss fight where you get to pilot a loader.
On replaying this time I realized there is a way someone, even a few someones, could have survived Sevastapol. Ok so there are 2 hospital shuttles. One is destroyed attached to the Anesidora, the other one Ripley fly's back to the station and they say it's damaged ("It's done" is the line Ricardo says I believe) BUT on replaying this time I found another short range shuttle attached around the KG348 project area (not the part you separate but the part right before that). So someone could have tried to escape in that.
it would be such a cool start for the sequel if Amanda boards the ship the same time the one drone at the end of AI. She knows this and the game kicks into high gear trying to find it while people go missing and may be the ship crash lands on a moon of the gas giant (LV-223?). lets hope we get a good sequel to this timeless masterpiece!!
Great video. One of the best things about Isolation IMHO is that we got a better idea of how the politics and economics of space travel work (and don't work) in the Alien universe. If Isolation gets a sequel, I'd like to see more of that (as well as plenty of Xeno horror).
Alien has been my fav since I was 6 years old. Alien isolation is the most immersive game I've ever played. The game designers went above and beyond, criminally underrated.
I think a good explanation for Amanda being an old woman in that deleted scene is Wayland Yutani lied to her claiming she died of old age. It would be a cover story to hide that she might have had some other adventure that put bad publicity on their company.
Can't believe I put off this game until 2023. Got it on a PSN sale and it just took over my life for a couple months after work or late into the night. Hope we get a sequel.
I enjoyed the game a lot I played on nightmare mode, I am a very “cheap” gamer so I didn’t use any of my craft able items until the finial mission I also ended up have a lot of ammo by the end it of it. I did get lost a few times. I also learned the alien learned when it’s okay to run and also how powerful it is to simply hid in a corner and bang on walls to get the alien to do the dirty work or do melee humans if the Xeno didn’t come. The only thing I found very frustrating was the alien ignoring the androids.
6:55 The tech not having changed in those few years makes even more sense when you think of how long it would take to even get to new tech, considering the distances and therefore time it would take to let´s say, upgrade a ship or deliver a new device. So in the Alien Universe, being 50 years or even hundred years behind the most advanced technology is really nothing unusual. The game nailed it. It´s just one of the best games of all time. That is also the explanation why prometheus and covenant looked more modern. Even tho I would prefer not talking about those two.
Excellent review and suggestions. I love this game and have played it through probably 20 times. When it first came out, it did not have nightmare mode, but was released a couple months later. A real game changer on the survival horror when it did. My first playthrough was ..... I did not conserve resources well enough. So the alien had me cornered in the very worse level. Eventually, I had to back out to an earlier save point so I could beat the game. I haven't played it in about a year, but now I might try again.
I completed this game a few years back now when it came out, it was terrifying at times, but so glad I finished it. Patience is certainly the key to this game, but I remember the graphics of the interiors which were absolutely stunning and still are to this day, the attention to detail is spot on from the original Alien film. Those working Joe's were well creepy, and say no more about the Alien 👍 Creative Assembly made an amazing Alien game here, but I still would a sequel made by them please!
Even with a sequel we know that Amanda Ripley will never find her mother who is still drifting in deep space in the escape pod. Based on the Aliens movie we know that Amanda will die on earth in her sixties from cancer. It is odd that in the Alien Romulus movie the xenomorph that attacked Ripley in the escape pod and was ejected into space was somehow found alive drifting in space by the Weylund Yutani corporation and brought to a research space station where it wrecks havoc and possibly also the Narcissus escape pod which Ripley was in but nothing further is mentioned about that. But we know that the escape pod will be found years later in deep space again still undisturbed with Ripley and Jones the cat in stasis. But some viewers think that the found escape pod in Alien Romulus was another one from the Nostromo that somehow managed to survive the self destruct explosion of the ship's fusion engine.
Im glad i experienced this game, but i personally dont want to replay it because its a bit too long. I will admit it had me scared the entire run though
An amazingly, good, frightening and difficult game to play. I tore through the game and its DLC. I've been very disappointed that there was never a sequel.
I'm not a huge survival horror fan, Alien Isolation though I loved as I've always loved Alien and Aliens, so then getting to play in something that captured the atmosphere of them was amazing. I'm not entirely convinced they could make a sequel, it'd be a huge challenge to create something with as good a story (ignoring the annoying slow walk bit on LV-426) and that captured the same atmosphere, without just remaking this one.
I just Played Alien Isolation for the first time and wish they'd develop a sequel. This game also solidified the original Alien as my favorite in the series.
There is an offical kind of Sequel called "Alien: Blackout" exclusively on mobile phones. But I was removed from the stores some time ago. I've you've downloaded it, you can still play it but there will be no updates whatsoever.
I just played through it again. I felt the game was overlong when I first played it, but after playing it a few times & knowing what to do, I don't think it is that long. However, my opinion on the ending has always remained the same. It is BS. After this long stressful experience, we get this cliffhanger crap. It should have ended with Amanda getting back on the Torrens & into Hypersleep. That is how Alien & Aliens ended. I also dislike what happens to Ricardo. There is no real reasons why Facehuggers should be roaming all over the station. As we see in the first two films, the eggs hatch when a potential host comes near. Ricardo should have survived. It is also a bit of a shame that you don't see the other main characters (Waits, Samuels etc), very much. I would like the concept of Colonial Marines done properly. I enjoyed the game, & there ARE a lot of good things in it. It just needed to be developed by people that weren't criminals. I mean, the visual blueish hues, the environmental designs, the co-op squad based idea, playable movie characters, the motion trackers etc are all elements that can work perfectly, but needs a company that cares to pull it off. These days, everything is all focused on monetization & live service crap. What Randy Pitchford did with Colonial Marines is something the industry loves. He is considered a hero by the entire gaming industry for what he did. And yes, while I said I enjoyed the game, I do not support Gearbox or their criminal actions with embezzling Sega's funding, however, most gamers (especially Borderlands lovers), & everyone in the industry, did support that.
This is my second favorite game next to Last of Us. I read the conic sequels to this game. I lived how well they made the game's atmosphere match up to the mo vies.
I bought and sold it 3 times before I finished it because it caused me so much stress. I then went on to Platinum trophy the game. Top 3 fave games of all time.
Calling special/practical effects “graphics” around 2:29 when referring to a live action movie is a pet peeve of mine. Must be a generational thing cause the only ones I’ve seen doing it a twenty somethings. 🤷♂️
I'm someone who doesn't really enjoy the gameplay loop of Amnesia, Outlast, Resident Evil, and the like - but I've run Alien Isolation dozens on release on my Xbox 360, then on PC afterwards. The world is so beautiful and just oozing with atmosphere and attention to detail. The story is simple, yet compelling and grounded. The soundtrack is fantastic. Of course, the star attraction is the Alien and the incredible AI being used... You actually feel as though you're working to outsmart a living creature, which feels fucking awesome to achieve when you do pull it off. Absolute masterpiece of a game, even with a few minor flaws in the mix... I can't believe it's been 10 years and we don't really have any other titles that tried to use sophisticated enemy AI like this.
Not gonna lie, I liked Blackout and it was fun to see Amanda in a role reversal, now being the veteran advising people over comms as was done for her in Isolation and I appreciate them keeping the same voice actor.
Ever noticed that in the film Alien, they talk about breaking out the weapons before leaving the ship, but these are forgotten and not used once they know about the Alien? Always jarrs me when I hear that line.
How about this concept for a sequel. You play the part of a marine set to pick Amanda up. Xenos have got on the ship. If you fire your pulse rifle you will breach the hull so you cannot easily kill the alien (although there may be times when you can fire at will). If you breach the hull you may not die immediately until the breach is so big all the atmosphere is gone. Could be a good add on to the way of playing. Having the marines tech but only being able to use it at certain times. A slightly more open world would also be cool. Great video btw.
There is a sequel coming out. No idea if it’s gonna be good. It follows a black female from, I think a comic book tie in to the game, who knew the protagonist of the first game…somehow?
By the way, your comments about the deleted scene making it "canon" that Amanda dies at home in her 80s... That's what corporate told her. But what if they were covering something up? ;-)
Absolutely! No doubt Jim Cameron wrote that deleted scene as sincere, but he never got that the Company set up the crew of the Nostromo (making Burke solely responsible for exposing the colonists and the marines to the Xenomorph species) - giving the Weyland-Yutani company a bit of a bye in Aliens. Canon could be that post Isolation, Amanda ended up frozen in stasis (with Burke having foisted a cock & bull story off on her mother - because the company were responsible for all her suffering at Sevastopol, then lost her to deep space) until after the marines left to investigate Hadley’s Hope. The sequel could then perhaps involve her foisting one of Michael Bishop’s attempts to obtain a Xenomorph specimen for the Company (fleshing that character out a bit) either before or after the events of Alien 3.
A sequel should look to alien Romulus for inspiration. More scenario variety, zero g gameplay, more of the xenomorph life cycle, and different variants and mutations of the creature that behave differently.
I'd love to see a sequel, and yeah I think it could work. It could either be just like the first game but with a bunch of new mechanics or, and I kind of like this idea more, it could splice in more action-horror elements, similar to Dead Space but with an ethos more like Resident Evil 1 Remake. In RE1 you can shoot and kill the enemies, and in some situations that's what you have to do, but you don't have enough ammunition and kerosene to take them all out, so you have to pick and choose your battles, you have to weigh which enemies are the more important ones to take out and which ones are better off just avoided. Now imagine that, but with Xenomorphs that are far deadlier, there are less of them than the common zombies in RE1 to balance it out, and they're hard to take down, but you can do it and there will be situations where you'll really want to take them out, but you need to conserve ammunition for other targets and you can always just sneak around them so it's this constant juggling act of "do I take out this xeno and lose a bunch of resources but no longer have to deal with it, or do I just outsmart it, scare it away or sneak around?" That way it it fills the role of the series' version of Aliens, with more focus on action (could even go with the design from Aliens and make the Xenos fully grown like in that film), while also sticking to what made the original work so well by not empowering the player too much and keeping that survival horror aspect intact. I can definitely see a multitude of different ways that could end up not working, but if they made a sequel, I think that's the direction I'd like to see them go in if they can make that work.
I loved this game so much. I enjoyed the length of it and it didn't really feel like it dragged on to me. I love slow burn games, this one took me a week to finish
It's not only the best Alien game, it actually surpasses a lot of the modern Alien movies in almost every way.
I actually rate it above all the movies, but only just.
@@happyspaceinvader508alien and aliens absolutely not.
Probably the 3rd best.
Specifically Alien III and Alien Resurrection. 😀
Not really
Apples and oranges
The best alien game
The best game*
idk, i kind of like the 2010 avp game more
Aliens Dark Descent is my favorite.
You can thank IGN for that. They gave it 5.9/10 for being too hard, which dropped it's metascore to 79%, damaging it's sales.
it was a masterpiece , but fucktards at IGN ruined it
They somewhat killed Days Gone the same way.....
i would give Alien Isolation (2014) personally a 7.9/10 myself #AlienIsolation #SEGA
@@sladetuner8661 that would still be more fair than IGN.
Thanks 😊
I bought Alien Isolation on release and got stuck into it only to find that, despite me being a seasoned horror movie fan, I was so absolutely crippled by fear that it left me too terrified to play on. The San Cristobal medical facility level, with its confusing layout and open areas combined with the oppressive atmosphere generated by the game's audio was so fantastically done that it scared me too much to play on, which I look back on now with amusement. It took a few attempts and I didn't actually play it properly until 2-3 years after release, but once it 'clicked' with me I realised that it was (and still is) quite simply one of the finest games that's ever been made.
I'm playing it through again right now on hard difficulty, and despite being a decade old it stills plays better than a lot of newer games. Even the graphics, with the exception of the character models and cutscenes, still hold up and the thought of that open ending leaves me pining for a sequel. I doubt it will ever come though, sadly - but there's always the hope that it will.
Omg i just restarted and that part of the game is frustrating and i don't look forward to doing that again.
1000% agree, V similar experience… but I’ll add that this is the first game where I actually look forward to the “whatever-gen” remaster that will hopefully keep everything game wise the same except resolve the character models, anti aliasing and give the Big Chap the lips and saliva he deserves lol
@@dustinyancey2194 once you know how to "move" it's pretty easy actually, even at Nightmare difficult. But I played that game like one hundred times. 😉
Exactly! The game, at first, may be hard and frustrating, but once you understand the world and the alien, the game is super fun, even on Nightmare.
I actually had the same situation lol i was so scared shitless i left the game for a year only to come back and realise it's a masterpiece
It was officially announced this morning!!! IM BECOMING HYSTERICAL
You are becoming hysterical...
WHOS HERE AFTER THE NEWS DROPPED?
what news
@@mklizzar They just confirmed a sequel
@@maxgemstone7257 Yea i knew that, my comment UI was on on a new vid that was unrelated to alien. Noticed to late.
@@mklizzar Then why not delete the comment
@@maxgemstone7257 because illuminati did 9/11.
10 years later - I still play Alien: Isolation. Sevastopol station basically became my second home. I enjoy walking around and exploring every part of the station, sometimes I watch tru windows and enjoy the space and the sun
Someone once said that the next Alien Isolation should let you play as Newt. It would allow you to experience the fall of Hadleys Hope and end with her being found. I think that would be amazing.
Mmmm maybe as a dlc... I dont think as a 20 hour game that would work unless it was a small indie?
It would be hard to green light a game where a child is being constantly killed by a xeno lol
No crafting, no engineering or computing knowledge, no physical strength.. The gameplay would be limited right down to just stealth. Would make a good 3 - 4 hour DLC.
@@Mal_Freeman0451 And you'd have more than a few Aliens skulking around all at once.
Maybe you play as Newts mom and the game ends with you sacrificing yourself to make sure Newt gets away or something. Then there could realistically be crafting mechanics, Weapons, etc. The story starts out as like a squad management, Tower defense type things where you and other NPCs try to build barricades and fight off the Aliens but as NPCs disappear and more Aliens show up it morphs into a survival sim, the game ends with Newt hearing the Marines arrive after her mother (you) are taken.
Can't spell ignorance without IGN...
It's hard to underestimate the impact that one review had. People had _no_ faith in Alien as a gaming entity after the Colonial Marines debacle, and many had zero faith in Isolation being any different, and when they saw _that_ review they just wrote the game off as yet another disaster. The game had no momentum after that review dropped.
@@Eprosisyeah ign is terrible man
@@Eprosis Totally Agree! Isolation is fantastic but requires patience. This IGN reviewer fucked this game big time!
@@Eprosis people are still roasting IGN about it to this day.
@@purefoldnz3070 Rightly so. They need to own it and apologise.
You've been blessed with news.
It has been confirmed... that indeed it's happening. It's in early development while being worked by the same director.
My friend.
*It is happening.*
HYPED
ITS HERE
I love the way old tech feels very futuristic.
The fact that this game landed so well and has now faded to relative obscurity is mind boggling
It's 10yrs old though 🙄 does that not register with your brain
@@MrAden1307 And? Resident evil has been remaking its games for the last 5 years and those are going back almost 20 years
Idk, this game is a cult classic amongst survial horror and horror fans. Its definitely known and loved. I mean Fede Álvarez, the director of Alien: Romulus, played this game and took heavy inspiration from it for the film. Its impact is felt even today and people are still discovering and loving the game
"has now faded to relative obscurity " This is just a straight up lie, lmao. It's still played on the reg on twitch getting a bunch of views. essays on yt still get a ton of attention etc.
Alien Isolation was one of the hardest games I've played. It went from making me jump to where I got pissed off and wished for a pulse rifle. To feel better I chased the alien around with my flame thrower. When running out of fuel I'd restart the game and chase him all over again. It made me feel better.
I love that idea!!! I just finished the game today for the first time and now I'm definitely going to try doing that when I play again
This is gonna sound weird, but I found the androids scarier than the actual alien. Atleast you can hear the aliens footsteps, I think I'm being real slick sneaking around and then I just hear "There you are."
Gd your sad
romulus trailer just makes me want a sequel to this game even more
Absolutely, same here. I hope that Romulus will at least deliver what it promises and not got the "action" route of Aliens..
@@KevinS47 100% but i like Fede Alvarez and he seems to appreciate the classics
@@KevinS47It almost certainly won’t. It will be nauseating fan service and little more, since that’s what makes money these days. And the director has already flat out lied in interviews about practical effects vs CGI.
@@happyspaceinvader508 :(
Well better get my hopes down, hopefully I'll be surprised.
@@happyspaceinvader508source
I think the story for the sequel should follow Ransome - the Seegson executive largely responsible for the outbreak on Sevastopol, who got abandoned by Weyland Yutani. The idea would be that Ransome got off the station with an alien specimen, trying to sell it to a rival corporation. He gets captured by Weyland Yutani and frees the specimen in order to escape - causing another outbreak.
The more you play Alien Isolation, the better it gets. I'm talking about when you've played it so much, to the point of knowing every inch of Sevastopol, that you no longer need the map. You know when it's safe to run, and roughly when and where the alien is likely to appear. The game of cat and mouse becomes more fast paced, and in my opinion, so much better for it. I'm not sure a sequel could match the gameplay of Isolation, as it's close to perfection as it is. All it really needs is an updated re-skin, to make it even more epic.
Yes, I had a mixed reaction upon my first playthrough for several reasons, but subsequent playthroughs I've loved it a lot more.
Who the hell would play it that much. It's a once or twice game. Like all horror. It loses it's appeal after the first time. It's not a game you play multiple times. Unless you're slow & missed the beats or you just want to look around
It's not the type of game where I need to know every corner. It kind of voids the point of being on a big ship that you're a stranger to 😂
@@MrAden1307 not really, other horror games lose their appeal cause they're scripted. But the alien has an unpredictable AI (for the most part), this makes it fun to create so many cat and mouse scenarios based on its behavior. The alien also has a learning mechanic, the more you use a trick, the more the alien stops fallin for it. On harder difficulties, the game is insanneee.
I'm cautiously optimistic for the Jurassic park game that might be similar in gameplay to Alien: Isolation.
But yeah, I REALLY want a sequel too
Yep looking forward to the new JP game. There's also another dinosaur game that looks a little like Alien Isolation style gameplay - The Lost Wild: th-cam.com/video/_TzkPQ6j1ZA/w-d-xo.html
I never thought about it, because I am not a Jurassic park fan, but a game like AI but set in the Jurassic park universe with a geneticley modified super dino hunting you actually could be really cool.
JP 😂 you sound adolescent. Alien is a mature film for a matureaudience. JP is for the simple, adolescent minds
@@MrAden1307 No one asked. Internet loser.
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I think the topic of people underutilizing their gadgets in Isolation is more complicated than it first seems, and is more a sign of "double-edged sword" in this aspect of game's design. From what I've personally seen and read, it's not that people simply forget, or disregard to use their tools, but rather find themselves too scared to even consider try some of, if not all of them, and for understandable reasons. There is a high risk tied to almost any action you can perform in the game, in particular in using your items, with how vulnerable you are and how powerful enemies are, especially the Alien. At the same time, your ability to fight back is, while not nonexistent, but still is rather limited, and, most importantly, the success in effectively utilizing your options is never guaranteed and at the same time punishment for failure is very high, and usually highest with the Alien. All this can make it really difficult to break out of that overly passive and 'safe' playstyle where all the player does is hide in lockers and waits around for 20 minutes, because, when your ultimate goal is trying to survive, taking risks, especially in the game both as oppressive AND punishing as Isolation, can be naturally off-putting, and it's smth I can relate to rather closely as I myself had that outlook on certain items for a very long time, them being Revolver, Smoke Bomb, Maintenance Jack and Rewire Boxes. For me even considering to use those items was off-putting, as I thought back then the risks involved were far too high, in particular for the Revolver, Maintenance Jack and Rewire. And that's also what I think drives most of the disagreement on the design and implementation of tools in the game, as for others, that were put off of using the items, it made them feel they are meaningless and pointless, as technically you can beat the game without ever touching them. I, personally, became only more in awe of the game's design by how it can essentially scare you off of engaging with its mechanics, requiring YOU to push yourself over your primary instincts and do your best to remain rational instead.
And, as a side note, an aspect of Isolation that I only grew to appreciate significantly more when the game would put me in such situations where I was 'forced' to explore the utility of the aforementioned items and made me realize that, no, they are not useless, and there are no inescapable situations in Isolation. Everything is in your hands.
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I am much more critical in that aspect...of the people. I really, really, really struggle to comprehend how people get confused and lost with navigating around in the game beyond M11, as open as I try to be in conversations about this game, with how much experience I have with it. I mean, yes, sure, it isn't a completely streamlined, linear game a la Call of Duty or Uncharted, it has its alternative paths and routes (sometimes) and very often filled with all sorts of rooms. It's metroidvania-ish, altho probably light one, in its level design. And, also, truth be told, M11, the Solomon's Galleria, does have some significant issues with environmental sign-posting (it's better explained in this video: th-cam.com/video/duPzudtOa5w/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tsII5fVn11yt-W9D). But beyond that I just really think it's a case of lack of patience and poor attention spans, because, as you said, there are both very player-friendly map (that, might I point out, many people still somehow struggle with understanding even tho all the instructions are RIGHT THERE) and the Motion Tracker that point you to your objective. I mean, hell, personally I think that Objective Bar on the Motion Tracker is redundant, as it takes away navigation as an element of gameplay almost entirely, when it could have benefitted the game in creating and maintaining tension only further. Altho, that said, it would benefit the experience ONLY if, at the same time, bringing up the map wouldn't pause the game. So yeah, pet peeves of mine, among quite a few.
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Sooo I assume this video was long time in the making, cause...Hyenas was cancelled a week before it was supposed to be released. And with it many of the staff were sacked, cause of course they were, and not the execs who were the ones responsible for pushing an idea that was never going to be profitable. Yeah, this year really sucked in that regard for game dev. On one hand - lots of amazing AND profitable games, on the other - tons and tons of unjust and nonsensical lay-offs.
Anyway, on the topic of Isolation sequel - not gonna happen and the hope realistically has died as long as in 2017 tbh. By that point many of the original staff had switched studios, opened their own (No_Code), Sega has probably lost the rights to the license, and CA itself had already released Halo Wars 2 with its console team and with the same team was fully involved in the development of Hyenas. All 'rumors' are just a sentiment bait that is being made and recycled by shady, unreliable outlets every 2 or so years, hence why you only see them being reported by these shady, unreliable outlets (The Gamer, GameRant and the bunch). But for anyone still holding out slight bits of those hopes, Sega, after the catastrophe that was Hyenas, went out of their way and buried that rotting corpse: www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-says-creative-assembly-will-return-to-genres-it-knows-best-after-hyenas-cancellation/
I ain't reading allat but god damn kudos my bro
@@popovicialincatalin ya could've just scrolled past then but ok
Good point, man
I’ve always wanted an Alien game with gameplay like Dead Space and Resident Evil. So we get the horror of Alien and action of Aliens.
Have played thousands of games throughout my 42 years, going right back to the Atari 2600, C64 and NES era, and this game makes my top 10 of all time.
When I first played this game back in 2014, it was in San Cristobal, where the first encounter with the Xenomorph is. I just couldn't go though. I spent an age checking rechecking and looking out for where it is, only to sneak back to safety. All the buildup to it and the constant worry about where or when will it strike left me frozen.
I came out to go to the kitchen (at night) to get a glass of water or something and just stayed there trying to calm my nerves.
A flatmate came out for something and saw me in the kitchen, and when "My God, what happened to you?! Are you ok? You're pale like you've seen a ghost"
I think I was in shock.
10/10 never played it again.
(after I finished it eventually lol)
Clown 😂 you people sound embarrassing. It's a game that has an off switch. But you all still try to apply the game to your reality which doesn't 😂
I've played plenty of horror games but this one GENUINELY scared me all the way to the end
Thanks for making an extensive video praising this game! Never gets old.
with the success of Alien Romulus hopefully we might see a sequel at long last.
I replay this every few months. Absolutely awesome!
Can't believe the title of this video cause I've been wondering the same exact thing for about 5 yrs. Alien Isolation was such a damn good game and the way it ended; lights flashing across Amanda's face while she's floating in space in her suit. Plus not knowing if those lights that we see flash over her face are from a friend or foe. That ending just about drove me nuts the first time I saw it. 👍🏼😀
If Creative Assembly are not available for a sequel, I think Teyon just might be the pick considering their Terminator and Robocop games.
What if the story of amanda being dead was fake to get Ellen to help them? I mean, seeing what amanda went through I don’t think she’d be smiling so genuinely
IF they had to hop on to Aliens, Newt’s Tale would be amazing to try out in that style! They could do an Alien 3 game in that style, too, I think that’d work wel, too!
But yeah, I’d love a direct continuation with Amanda! I freaking love that game!!
I just realized you have like 300 subscribers. I really enjoyed this video, thank you.
I love your idea for a sequel
What I would do is a direct sequel to aliens with Ripley as the playable character and she’s with newt hicks and bishop
Amazing idea. Any idea that pretends Alien3 didn't happen is good with me. David fincher is a fine director but I NEED the end of Aliens to have meant something.
@@catvr_18 I think the biggest issue is that they set up another chance for Ripley to be a mother again and in the first 3 minutes newt is dead and also they kill Ripley at the end and have a random character nobody cares about it really knew as the sole survivor also the film was about 5 scripts mixed together
Yeah I don't think alien 3 was badly made or anything but... I think the way that the first scene said Hey! Remember the last movie? Now forget about it." Was really dumb.
@@catvr_18 yeah it was
@@catvr_18I know I’m late but I think the only film that was badly made was alien resurrection 💀
We're getting a sequel! WOO HOO!
Using the Wallace and Gromit theme while explaining the plot of Aliens is some weird tonal whiplash
Playing it again tomorrow, so cool finding this video 👍
Iam playing it now😂😂 iam at seegson
Iam playing it now😂😂 iam at seegson
Iam playing it now😂😂 iam at seegson
Iam playing it now😂😂 iam at seegson
I think, if they were gonna make a sequel, it should be exactly the same as isolation, but set during the first Alien movie. just a play through of the first movie, but make it like Isolation where you can follow directions and stuff, but you can also go your own way and scavenge or something. they could even make it just a DLC for Isolation, but better than the ones they've already made.
Damn i think youll be happy when i tell you this…
The attention to the aesthetics of the original movie is a big selling point for the game for me as well. Being able to actually explore those retrofuturistic environments is quite a treat. The gameplay is a mixed bag but I enjoy it personally, I've always been the type to prefer sneaking around. I totally understand people who don't enjoy it or find it boring though. The story does come across as dragged out, but it's not really supposed to be the focus anyway.
11:50 I notice _so many people_ ignore or miss the glowing white map terminals. I guess they blend in too well as a realistic part of the environment.
They took it too I far in soke ways though
Things like the radar device telling you where your next mission objective is at all times, was immersion breaking.
Not being able to step over a 2 ft tall object on the ground.
The docking release device at the end being a copy of the self destruct device from the movie, made no sense and was clearly just copying the movie, and so was even more immersion breaking.
I replayed this game a while ago, and I can tell you it's a real gem of the stealth horror gaming. It's a shame we haven't gotten a sequel yet, even though the game was released almost a decade ago.
Luckily, there might be some hope because there have been some rumors that Alien Isolation 2 has been secretly in the works for 3 years now and is about to be announced on the 10-year anniversary of Alien Isolation.
I can't believe this video only has 2300 views, what?? I thought way more people would be in awe at the idea of another alien isolation style game, just pure survival horror with the creepiest creature ever conceptualized, the Alien. Thanks for the video, I already watched all the others that you also recommended haha
By the way, it may sound funny, but this game gave me actual nightmares for years after I had played it... some of the most intense hyper-realistic and horrifying nightmares I've ever had (all with the Alien as the protagonist of my death). I even woke up with a panic attack and hyperventilating at times, could hardly breathe! No horror game or movie has ever had such an effect on me, I just completely immersed myself into that world while I was playing. Alien Isolation delivered the perfect horror in my opinion, just like the original movie intended to do.
THERE ARE sequels to this magnificent game. A series of Dark Horse comic books .
"Aliens: Defiance" [2 volumes, 2016,2017], "Aliens:Resistance" [2019], and "Aliens: Rescue" [2020]. Pretty good stories. I highly recommend them!
I’ve always wanted an Alien Isolation 2 set during the events of the Hadley’s Hope infestation on LV-426.
You play as a child (Newt or a new character) and have to survive on your own during the chaos of the outbreak.
Alien Isolation is 1 of my favorite games of all time....
Same, I've bought it for PC, PS3, PS4, and Switch. Have some 230 + hours in PC alone.
I like the idea of a sequel where you can do more with boobie traps and demolition-add something like Half Life 2 mechanics so that you spend more time devising strongholds and defenses. The best part of the Android levels was the C-suite alamo standoff where you could think on your feet.
You know if they were to do something like Alien Isolation with multiple xenomorphs, then being able to erect baricades, cut through walls and most importantly, have someone to protect. The worst part of Alien Isolation, was there was nothing to summon your courage but simple terror and having died so many times as a coward. Having someone like Newt that you have to look out for just people that you risk your safety to help, would make that second layer of the story that Aliens added. Does it break the horror? Not necessarily.
God no, escort missions are the worst
Yes i like these ideas
i wish that Sega finished off Amanda's story, not left it halfway done.
Sequel has been announced
They are...
I saw a let's play back then and was equally thrilled as the player himself and stunned by the looks and atmosphere.
After playing it myself for several times, even in VR (nibre's motherVR mod), I consider it one of the best games I've ever played.
I would really love a sequel
Sequel confirmed!
Dude you gave such an in depth explanation and love for this game, its definetly a huge obsession of mine and it did so well, the fact they made a co-op shooter instead of an alien isolation 2 is really insane. but I also ask where would the series even go? maybe it had a proper end.
Not every game needs a sequel. You basically got two games with this anyways. Once with an alien, and once with synthetics.
This aged poorly lol
Just a small remark: According to Cameron's Aliens, Amanda Ripley-McClaren died at 66 years old. Carter Burke is telling Ellen during that cut-scene mentioned. But in fact that should only be a cover story to keep Amanda safe as she suffers from cancer and preferred to wait for a cure while laying frozen in cryo. The Narcissus was found only a year later after Amanda was frozen. If things weren't bad enough.
I've always had the idea that the story Burke told Ripley about her daughter was fabricated by the Company
Or, a lie of some kind
It would allow for potential sequels to exist
@@SamuelBlack84 A cure for cancer, made possible by research on xenomorphs and leading to the reunion of mother and daughter, would have been a story with a bittersweet happy ending.
@@SamuelBlack84 That doesn't really work because this scene is before the inquest into the Nostromo incident where Ripley detailed everything, including the co-ordinates to the derelict. Burke had no reason to lie. If Burke was not responsible for this cover up then it is too convenient that Amanda happened to pass away just before her mother was found. How would the company know when to make Amanda's death at that time?
It just doesn't work. The game should have ended with Amanda going into hypersleep.
@@filmbuff2777 I always imagined it was a lie given as an incentive to.make Ripley more malleable
Would be nice to have a sequel where you start powerless and later on get a way to kill aliens permanently. Then the game would introduce an invincible queen that would stalk you, culminating in a boss fight where you get to pilot a loader.
Graphics? Don't you mean groundbreaking practical special effects that won an academy award?!?!?!?
Yes. That's what I meant 😂
Hi.Just came in to tell ya'll a sequel is in fact happening 😊. Hope this brighten your day.
On replaying this time I realized there is a way someone, even a few someones, could have survived Sevastapol. Ok so there are 2 hospital shuttles. One is destroyed attached to the Anesidora, the other one Ripley fly's back to the station and they say it's damaged ("It's done" is the line Ricardo says I believe) BUT on replaying this time I found another short range shuttle attached around the KG348 project area (not the part you separate but the part right before that). So someone could have tried to escape in that.
it would be such a cool start for the sequel if Amanda boards the ship the same time the one drone at the end of AI. She knows this and the game kicks into high gear trying to find it while people go missing and may be the ship crash lands on a moon of the gas giant (LV-223?). lets hope we get a good sequel to this timeless masterpiece!!
When the xeno is stalking me from office to office, I’m not worried about Ripley dying, I’m worried about ME dying!
I'm so glad I've only ever watched the director's cut of Aliens
Those missions after the alien is off the station were my personal favorite, cause the game uses EVERYTHING it has to make the game scary
The market for this just got a lot bigger with the success of Alien: Romulus
Great video. One of the best things about Isolation IMHO is that we got a better idea of how the politics and economics of space travel work (and don't work) in the Alien universe. If Isolation gets a sequel, I'd like to see more of that (as well as plenty of Xeno horror).
Alien has been my fav since I was 6 years old. Alien isolation is the most immersive game I've ever played. The game designers went above and beyond, criminally underrated.
I think a good explanation for Amanda being an old woman in that deleted scene is Wayland Yutani lied to her claiming she died of old age. It would be a cover story to hide that she might have had some other adventure that put bad publicity on their company.
Can't believe I put off this game until 2023.
Got it on a PSN sale and it just took over my life for a couple months after work or late into the night.
Hope we get a sequel.
I enjoyed the game a lot I played on nightmare mode, I am a very “cheap” gamer so I didn’t use any of my craft able items until the finial mission I also ended up have a lot of ammo by the end it of it. I did get lost a few times. I also learned the alien learned when it’s okay to run and also how powerful it is to simply hid in a corner and bang on walls to get the alien to do the dirty work or do melee humans if the Xeno didn’t come. The only thing I found very frustrating was the alien ignoring the androids.
Yo what, the transition from the conversation with Taylor into “Alien: Isolation is one of my favorite games,” was incredibly jarring
With this game, I stopped taking IGN reviews seriously.
6:55 The tech not having changed in those few years makes even more sense when you think of how long it would take to even get to new tech, considering the distances and therefore time it would take to let´s say, upgrade a ship or deliver a new device. So in the Alien Universe, being 50 years or even hundred years behind the most advanced technology is really nothing unusual. The game nailed it. It´s just one of the best games of all time. That is also the explanation why prometheus and covenant looked more modern. Even tho I would prefer not talking about those two.
Excellent review and suggestions.
I love this game and have played it through probably 20 times. When it first came out, it did not have nightmare mode, but was released a couple months later. A real game changer on the survival horror when it did. My first playthrough was ..... I did not conserve resources well enough. So the alien had me cornered in the very worse level. Eventually, I had to back out to an earlier save point so I could beat the game.
I haven't played it in about a year, but now I might try again.
I completed this game a few years back now when it came out, it was terrifying at times, but so glad I finished it. Patience is certainly the key to this game, but I remember the graphics of the interiors which were absolutely stunning and still are to this day, the attention to detail is spot on from the original Alien film.
Those working Joe's were well creepy, and say no more about the Alien 👍
Creative Assembly made an amazing Alien game here, but I still would a sequel made by them please!
Even with a sequel we know that Amanda Ripley will never find her mother who is still drifting in deep space in the escape pod. Based on the Aliens movie we know that Amanda will die on earth in her sixties from cancer. It is odd that in the Alien Romulus movie the xenomorph that attacked Ripley in the escape pod and was ejected into space was somehow found alive drifting in space by the Weylund Yutani corporation and brought to a research space station where it wrecks havoc and possibly also the Narcissus escape pod which Ripley was in but nothing further is mentioned about that. But we know that the escape pod will be found years later in deep space again still undisturbed with Ripley and Jones the cat in stasis. But some viewers think that the found escape pod in Alien Romulus was another one from the Nostromo that somehow managed to survive the self destruct explosion of the ship's fusion engine.
Im glad i experienced this game, but i personally dont want to replay it because its a bit too long. I will admit it had me scared the entire run though
I want a sequel big time
One of the most immersive and scary games Ive played
Fantastic game! Wish they would make a sequel.
An amazingly, good, frightening and difficult game to play. I tore through the game and its DLC. I've been very disappointed that there was never a sequel.
I'm not a huge survival horror fan, Alien Isolation though I loved as I've always loved Alien and Aliens, so then getting to play in something that captured the atmosphere of them was amazing.
I'm not entirely convinced they could make a sequel, it'd be a huge challenge to create something with as good a story (ignoring the annoying slow walk bit on LV-426) and that captured the same atmosphere, without just remaking this one.
I just Played Alien Isolation for the first time and wish they'd develop a sequel. This game also solidified the original Alien as my favorite in the series.
For me, it takes roughly 3 days to get it done. Depends on how fast you move.😅
There is an offical kind of Sequel called "Alien: Blackout" exclusively on mobile phones. But I was removed from the stores some time ago. I've you've downloaded it, you can still play it but there will be no updates whatsoever.
Theres also some comics with Amanda.
While this game isn’t a direct sequel to Isolation, it still continues the story of Amanda’s journey in the post-Isolation years.
I just played through it again. I felt the game was overlong when I first played it, but after playing it a few times & knowing what to do, I don't think it is that long. However, my opinion on the ending has always remained the same. It is BS. After this long stressful experience, we get this cliffhanger crap. It should have ended with Amanda getting back on the Torrens & into Hypersleep. That is how Alien & Aliens ended.
I also dislike what happens to Ricardo. There is no real reasons why Facehuggers should be roaming all over the station. As we see in the first two films, the eggs hatch when a potential host comes near. Ricardo should have survived.
It is also a bit of a shame that you don't see the other main characters (Waits, Samuels etc), very much.
I would like the concept of Colonial Marines done properly. I enjoyed the game, & there ARE a lot of good things in it. It just needed to be developed by people that weren't criminals. I mean, the visual blueish hues, the environmental designs, the co-op squad based idea, playable movie characters, the motion trackers etc are all elements that can work perfectly, but needs a company that cares to pull it off.
These days, everything is all focused on monetization & live service crap. What Randy Pitchford did with Colonial Marines is something the industry loves. He is considered a hero by the entire gaming industry for what he did.
And yes, while I said I enjoyed the game, I do not support Gearbox or their criminal actions with embezzling Sega's funding, however, most gamers (especially Borderlands lovers), & everyone in the industry, did support that.
I don't see anyone mentioning these in the comments but apparently Amanda Ripley's story was continued in some comics released in 2019.
This is my second favorite game next to Last of Us. I read the conic sequels to this game. I lived how well they made the game's atmosphere match up to the mo vies.
I bought and sold it 3 times before I finished it because it caused me so much stress. I then went on to Platinum trophy the game. Top 3 fave games of all time.
Calling special/practical effects “graphics” around 2:29 when referring to a live action movie is a pet peeve of mine. Must be a generational thing cause the only ones I’ve seen doing it a twenty somethings. 🤷♂️
Didn't even realize I said that lmao - if I had it would have annoying to me as well
I'm someone who doesn't really enjoy the gameplay loop of Amnesia, Outlast, Resident Evil, and the like - but I've run Alien Isolation dozens on release on my Xbox 360, then on PC afterwards. The world is so beautiful and just oozing with atmosphere and attention to detail. The story is simple, yet compelling and grounded. The soundtrack is fantastic. Of course, the star attraction is the Alien and the incredible AI being used... You actually feel as though you're working to outsmart a living creature, which feels fucking awesome to achieve when you do pull it off. Absolute masterpiece of a game, even with a few minor flaws in the mix... I can't believe it's been 10 years and we don't really have any other titles that tried to use sophisticated enemy AI like this.
Awesome video, a remaster or sequel would be incredible, I still play A:I regularly, along with CP2077, the two best games ever made for me
I think a remastered version would be better.
I do think that Alien: Blackout served as a spiritual sequel to Alien: Isolation & its Dark Horse comic book sequels.
Not gonna lie, I liked Blackout and it was fun to see Amanda in a role reversal, now being the veteran advising people over comms as was done for her in Isolation and I appreciate them keeping the same voice actor.
Devs are probably scared that lightning wont strike twice for em
Ever noticed that in the film Alien, they talk about breaking out the weapons before leaving the ship, but these are forgotten and not used once they know about the Alien? Always jarrs me when I hear that line.
Think about this. Shooting an alien with acidic blood wouldn't be a smart choice, especially when you're in an airtight ship in the middle of space. 🤔
How about this concept for a sequel.
You play the part of a marine set to pick Amanda up. Xenos have got on the ship. If you fire your pulse rifle you will breach the hull so you cannot easily kill the alien (although there may be times when you can fire at will). If you breach the hull you may not die immediately until the breach is so big all the atmosphere is gone.
Could be a good add on to the way of playing. Having the marines tech but only being able to use it at certain times.
A slightly more open world would also be cool.
Great video btw.
There is a sequel coming out. No idea if it’s gonna be good. It follows a black female from, I think a comic book tie in to the game, who knew the protagonist of the first game…somehow?
By the way, your comments about the deleted scene making it "canon" that Amanda dies at home in her 80s... That's what corporate told her. But what if they were covering something up? ;-)
Absolutely!
No doubt Jim Cameron wrote that deleted scene as sincere, but he never got that the Company set up the crew of the Nostromo (making Burke solely responsible for exposing the colonists and the marines to the Xenomorph species) - giving the Weyland-Yutani company a bit of a bye in Aliens.
Canon could be that post Isolation, Amanda ended up frozen in stasis (with Burke having foisted a cock & bull story off on her mother - because the company were responsible for all her suffering at Sevastopol, then lost her to deep space) until after the marines left to investigate Hadley’s Hope.
The sequel could then perhaps involve her foisting one of Michael Bishop’s attempts to obtain a Xenomorph specimen for the Company (fleshing that character out a bit) either before or after the events of Alien 3.
Well would ya look at that...
Ripleys daughter died at 66. Not in her 80s. Ripley was on her way home for her daughters 11th birthday when everything happened
We found the Actually Karen.
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A sequel should look to alien Romulus for inspiration. More scenario variety, zero g gameplay, more of the xenomorph life cycle, and different variants and mutations of the creature that behave differently.
I'd love to see a sequel, and yeah I think it could work. It could either be just like the first game but with a bunch of new mechanics or, and I kind of like this idea more, it could splice in more action-horror elements, similar to Dead Space but with an ethos more like Resident Evil 1 Remake. In RE1 you can shoot and kill the enemies, and in some situations that's what you have to do, but you don't have enough ammunition and kerosene to take them all out, so you have to pick and choose your battles, you have to weigh which enemies are the more important ones to take out and which ones are better off just avoided.
Now imagine that, but with Xenomorphs that are far deadlier, there are less of them than the common zombies in RE1 to balance it out, and they're hard to take down, but you can do it and there will be situations where you'll really want to take them out, but you need to conserve ammunition for other targets and you can always just sneak around them so it's this constant juggling act of "do I take out this xeno and lose a bunch of resources but no longer have to deal with it, or do I just outsmart it, scare it away or sneak around?"
That way it it fills the role of the series' version of Aliens, with more focus on action (could even go with the design from Aliens and make the Xenos fully grown like in that film), while also sticking to what made the original work so well by not empowering the player too much and keeping that survival horror aspect intact. I can definitely see a multitude of different ways that could end up not working, but if they made a sequel, I think that's the direction I'd like to see them go in if they can make that work.
Well I can’t have alien isolation but this quite place game seem like spiritual successor.
Space Truckers 🤔 That explains Brett’s hat.
Absolutely ALIENS: RIVER OF PAIN. Styled like Isolation
I loved this game so much. I enjoyed the length of it and it didn't really feel like it dragged on to me. I love slow burn games, this one took me a week to finish