+Horrorfreak106 Having to like constantly have the worry that the thing infiltrated your little unit. Or have a member get separated only to rejoin and have you and the person who was with you, question if thats really them. Or maybe even have you separated and be suspected and have to win over your companions trust but not in a single section, more of a overtime trust kinda thing that if done right could even have anatural progression feeling Or the people arguing over who gets the flamethrower thinking it gives them safety when it makes them a bigger target. Give it that claustrophobic feeling because you cant survive outside if you want to leave on foot. In any case. it would be amazing
+Jacob Glaze Yes it would be amazing - not just as a game, but easily the greatest feat in the history of artificial intelligence and computer games. NOBODY has ever made a successful computerised representation of a human being yet. Alien Isolation was great with the robots and alien - but rubbish, like every other good game out there, with humans. We're too complex to be put into a few megabytes. For "The Thing" to succeed, you would need to be convinced that The Thing - and indeed the other humans - were convincing people. It would be very difficult to do - and they would still 'only' get 2.1 million sales (not enough apparently) for all their hard work.
Once I only had one bullet for my gun, and I had to get through a room of human enemies. I knew the alien was around, so I pulled out my gun, and I fired at one of the enemies and quickly ducked into a vent. There I waited...and listened. The xeno came into the room (presumably from the vents) saw the men making all the noise, and brutally dispatched them (the sound did a great job of playing out their fates in my imagination lol). After sniffing around for awhile, she was convinced that there was nothing else around to kill so she exited the room, and after a few more minutes, I continued on my way. This game was amazing.
Gabriel Carrion I've had it for ages. I've been looking for the best time to play it. I guess tonight will do. I'm just getting out of work as I type this.
I can go a few steps better. Try this. Play at night, alone. Lights out. With headphones. Then when you're done, eat a cheese heavy pizza and go to bed and fall asleep. You wont believe what happens next lol.
StrokeMeYouInsolentHumanCuzIAmACat well myself being a completionist I have to say I don't value it tbh....... I want collectibles to add something to the game like lore or something. audio logs are good collectibles.
Apparently it's also becasue he ran towards the scene at 1st; and the Alien not only heard it through it's savage killing but memorised it lol (unbound computer AI still rocks though)
I know, right? I commented this earlier until I saw you beat me to it. In a real situation, his head was completely exposed and the alien noticed it. Also with his knowing of no running because it can hear that, of course it saw him. Very neat game. I haven't played it yet, but I may one day.
@@zacoman2225 There is no confirmation, as far as I’m aware, that the Alien can’t see. It has no visible eyes, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have any.
This is one of the few games where having a save point system actually improves it. You feel an incredible sense of relief when you finally make it to a spot where you can save your game.
Yeah. To me, it kind of borrows a bit from the original Resident Evil. That sigh of relief when you made it to the next typewriter safe room. Though this doesn't have the limited saves due to needing an inventory item like ink ribbon, as in RE.
Critical Mass I started it yesterday. Picked it up for £1 used. Glad I finally got round to playing it . Never realised how many noises my house makes ! 😂
The guy who made the video is not an Alien fan either, he is more like aliens fan and that is why this review is wrong in many ways. The game is perfect.
@@eastcoast1005 Yeah this has a Ridley Scott vibe over the James Cameron action style run n gun. Most people who didn't like the prequels I would put in the same boat. Prometheus and Covenant were great additions IMHO too bad they didn't receive the acclaim they deserve.
Hello World i just watched the first one through a playlist on TH-cam! Youre doing yourself a disservice if you havent watched it, the movie stands the test of time and looks GREAT for something made in 1979. I would definitely watch it! Its really neat to see how closely the game resembles the movie it comes after.
Brandon Reid they recently remastered it in 4K UHD and it’s hands down the best experience in this format. If you own a 4K hdr tv it’s a great pickup for your collection and the best way to watch it for that atmosphere that Scott was trying to convey. Many sci fi horror fans would put Alien as the best of the genre, aliens and resurrection are fun movies but don’t have the same feeling of isolation and fear factor. If you did enjoy the original I’d recommend giving Prometheus and Alien Covenant a watch.
And a few people at Thanksgiving after Grandma's mashed potatoes are placed on the table and everyone gets a double-scoop. Dang those were good mashed potatoes....
The Sound and Atmosphere, are both absolutely amazing, however... for some people, hiding from an invincible monster gets horribly repetitive. Plus, it's not CoD or Halo so minus points for that
When they played the demo they said they loved it. But for some odd reason they made their call of duty reviewer do a review on the game (Not hating on COD btw) I think he was expecting the game to have more action (like call of duty) so he didn't get what he expected
Justin Gochioco I personally disagree, the slow pace is what builds up suspense and that fuels the game itself, you're constantly waiting for the alien to show up and when he does you're terrified, if it was fast pace it would ruin the fear effect of the alien, a good example of this is colonial marines...that was a relatively fast paced game and look how that game turned out
I just got it on sale on PC and it looks great my only complaint is the characters in cutscenes look kinda unnatural but other than that it’s great so far
Do not play this game without headphones. I REPEAT, DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME WITHOUT HEADPHONES. Being able to accurately hear where an enemy is without excessively relying on your tracker makes this game much, much less frustrating. Just be patient and use the audio clues and you'll spend a lot less time replaying areas.
I guess thank god for the headphone jack on my xboxone controller that automatically sends all sound to the headphones as soon as you plug them in and i can adjust the volume level from the volume knob on my headphones.....very very nice.....
12:10 this was not a random "cheat" by the alien ai. you were running to see the alien killing the guy. as soon as you run you attract the alien. you were queued to be chased by the alien as soon as the script kill of the guy ended. THE TIP ON THE DEATHSCREEN AT 12:25 EVEN CONFIRMS THIS....
In my opinion save points were one of the best parts of the game. They not only added to the immersion of the game, paying homage to the 80s future feel with the emergency key card stations, but also providing that extra nerve racking feel whenever death is close. Do I have time to reach that safe locker or room with an emergency door, or will I have to risk hiding under this small hospital bed where I'm easier to see? It's these decisions that the game forces upon you simply due to the save system that makes the game so tense. The A.I. is amazing, learning from both its and your mistakes. You spam that noisemaker much, it learns to determine where you are from which way it rolls. You use flares too much, it learns to ignore them. The flamethrower, your best friend, becomes your worst enemy through overuse, as the aliens learns to trick you, staying back letting you waste your ammo and even then charging at random moments to take you by suprise. It also becomes more resistant to the fire, and eventually you run out of ammo and are forced to retreat back to your roots of hiding, something you unfortunately might have forgotten after running around thinking you own the station. The sound too made the game terrifying. Though the alien itself had a few jumpscares when you first experience each unique death animation, the sound was what really did it. Being able to hear every creak, thud and clang the alien makes above you, knowing its right above you then realising the vent just to your left, hearing that oh so spine chilling screech as it drops down in the distance, or even worse behind you, and trying to distinguish the sound of it leaving and entering the vents in just another desperate method of survival, you come to learn to track it using sound, and just as soon as you do a portion in the med bay takes that away from you, masking the aliens sounds by a wailing sirens. It can hear you, but not the other way round and you're forced rely on your motion tracker, all the time you use it risking the alien will hear it. This game perfectly captures survival horror in the alien universe, and the alien itself, like it should be, the unstoppable monster, the bloodthirsty killer, the perfect organism, and you are trapped with it, unable to kill it, your only weapon being your own mind, using it to outwit the beast you are stuck with after each futile attempt of escape. If this game isn't a true survival horror legend, I don't know what is.
Who Dat Ninja dude back in the day it was way worse. Its excusable because its part of what creates the tension and the relief when you actually find a save point. How could you have survival horror when youre not afraid to die?
Conformist Bastard exactly, if we could save anytime it would have almost ruined the game. And like you said, back when these movies came out, you had to either beat the next level one at a time and only save after each level, or complete a full checkpoint section. And it's not just about back then, it speaks relatively to type of game and moment to moment immersion levels: in a huge open world game like Skyrim I obviously just want to save the game, but a game like this, why would you want to just save anytime? To achieve the feel of the original two movies, the devs must make you lose your natural sense of well-being, as you drink your Coke and scarf down Twizzlers, when you walk away from a save-point, the loss of control with fear and tension, you must be driven by your survival instinct and guided by your wits, as they're all you have left, while you make your way to the next little moment of respite so you can take a breathe and plan your next move. That's just how it felt as I watched Aliens as a 9 year old. I watched Alien after that because I wanted more when I discovered how terrified they made me watching them, and for a little while afterwards, but also that Aliens had become like my top five favorite movies all time from the total quality package.
Late to the party here, but I redownloaded it after watching Alien Romulus (pretty good movie btw) and Alien Isolation is STILL really good. I don’t scare easily but Isolation gets my blood pumping and genuine yells of fear out of me
still looks great to this day, I just got it again after watching Romulus for $10 on Steam and added a graphics mod and looks even more gorgeous than ever. This game is ten years old and is better than most games today.
+Torva Messorem Outlast was just jump scares, I found this way more scary, I think it basically comes down to horror movie preference, I prefer suspense and tension horror so I found it really scary
I agree with Giovanni. Suspense and tension is real horror. I find that with jump scares I'm over it after two or three of them. After that it's just not scary.
+Ted Owen Tbh Sega doesn't need to apologise for ACM. Gearbox Studios scammed those poor bastards. It is Gearbox who deserve to be screwed to bankruptcy for breaking our trust.
+Azariachan Not true, SEGA could be putting up straight ports of their classics but went to some serious trouble with the 3DS classics. Overall they're a good publisher, nothing too sleazy like EA, Activision, Konami or Ubisoft.
I love that being a gamer I don't play "ALL"the games that come out first launch . Nothing like playing something 8 years later and having a great time on the series x
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+Magnus Smith Dead Space is not even really that scary...its tense and it had me nervous but not scared one bit and i fucking hate horror games because im so chicken shit. This game had me lying in a locker for 30mins.
I just started playing blind last night, I only have made it as far as the first human encounter. But fuck me, 3 hours in. Terrified as hell to the point of crouching everywhere, and it took 30 minutes just to get out of the torrens due to the amazing detail I was admiring lmao, btw, that scene right after axel, waiting for that lyft.. That has to be the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced, and seeing the Alien booking it to me right after I closed that door.. this game is amazing.
I'd love to visit the place and mess around... other than the part where I'd deffinitly be murder-death-killed by the Xenomorph, or a Joe. Seriously awe-inspiring work, I really would love to get more
@@trevorfrenk4137 it definitely nails the atmosphere better than Fireteam Elite does. But I think that’s for gameplay because FE is a horde shooter, but still wish we got more claustrophobic scenes like Isolation.
@@RangerHouston yeah, i just feel that a shoot-em-up isn’t suitable for this franchise. the perfect organism wouldn’t be mowed down that easily. the stealth horror angle was really on-brand
JediJackalope Totally! I just finished the game last night...and holy crap! What an experience! Truly one of the best survivor horror I've ever played!
Alien Isolation was mentioned in the Weyland Yutani Report encyclopedia and Aliens Colonial Marines wasn't anywhere to be seen. The defiance comic and Out of the Shadows audiobook references Isolation multiple times too...Perhaps things have changed?
I've seen the Alien Wiki - and it appears that the REAL story, including Amanda is in there, but not Colonial Marines. Fox gave their blessing to this game big time - they could see that the devs were taking the lore seriously, as did SIgourney Weaver who became involved in a video game for the first time.
I think my favorite thing about this game is Amanda Ripley's voice actress. Talk about a fucking phenomenal job voicing a video game character. She was perfect. She truly felt like a real person, it was believable and grounded in reality. Nothing I hate more than really stiff and bland voice acting in video games. I could understand it in the 90s, but not in this day and age. When Amanda was in a scary situation in the game, the voice actress sounded BELIEVABLY terrified. When Amanda was angry in the game, the voice actress sounded like she was fucking furious and it sounded totally authentic. I was hooked right away with Amanda as the main character. Awesome character design, awesome voice acting, she's not a mary sue but she's not a damsel in distress either and I wish more games would do their female protagonists like Ripley Jr here. She's gonna go down as one of my favorite female video game characters ever, right up there with the likes of Jill Valentine, Claire Redfield, Female Commander Shepard, Ellie from TLOU, Lightning from FF13, Samus of course and so many others.
"I'm coming back to the Bureau ... we can discuss your 'methods' there ..." I agree that she's not a Mary Sue - unless your brilliant gameplay makes her win! I like how she's an engineer ... so she can believably craft stuff if she's seen a blueprint. Andrea Deck's performance is superb ... she IS Amanda Ripley.
This game is truly a rare gem, it goes against everything people want and expect from a game and it's unashamedly tough. That's why the true decent gamers love it and why IGN despises it.
Adolf Hitler A rare gem in this day and age is what I mean. It has old school difficulty with no autosaving or hand holding. I've actually played a few horror games in the past and for pure dread and atmosphere, this game is up there.
It's not that ppl still watch IGN reviews, it's that the IGN review continues to have a bad effect on this game. It's one of the reasons we probably wont get a sequel because of how the review would have affected sales....and ppl are still pissed off about it. They haven't even had the decency to scrap that review and cover up their mistake. The damage is done now. and thats why ppl are still pissed. We WANT a sequel.
yes - I was amazed to find that the facehugger that scuttles across the floor in Aliens was a practical puppet that could literally do that! It looked absolutely brilliant - convincing real-life effects like that will ALWAYS beat CGI. But you need really clever people to pull that off. (They basically made a mechanical spider - just wow!)
+Mai Nem I disagree, CGI has reached a point of realism where practical effects just can't mimic the real thing as well anymore, but a mix of both sometimes seems to be even better.
IGN are a bunch of Halo fanboys, they need their shields and over-shields and their pew-pews to be in every game. So do what I have done ever since they started, pay them no heed, you will not be disappointed.
This is one of the best gaming experiences ever created. It's a shame that Creative Assembly and SEGA didn't get more recognition for this work. It's unbelievably true to the original film, even going as far as having the sounds from the film as well as the look. The VR experience of this game was second to none. There is no AAA VR experience that even remotely comes close to the roller coaster ride this game packs and Creative Assembly didn't even finish the VR support. In fact, it only works on the DK2 version of the Rift. We need to contact SEGA and plead that they get this game finished and playable on the consumer version of the Rift as well as the Vive. This game is THE killer VR app. Nothing else comes close.
They never did. Because of over complicated VR motion controls making every game have to be specially designed just for VR.. I wish they never created the motion controlers. It toally turned VR into a small niche genre. Better to make easy Direct VR integration with the 3D Head Tracking, into all the normal mass market games.
Well there was one time I had the thing cornered at dead end, so I flamethrowered it a whole bunch. It socked me in the jaw and ran off. It was a moment of levity, I actually laughed, and I've only done that in Resurrection and AvP2.
There needs to be a game like this but with the Predator, I mean think about it, you and a squad of soldiers are put in a jungle and have to complete objectives then the Predator show up and starts picking your squad off. It would be like the first predator movie and if the Predator ai is done as good as the alien ai in this game, the experience would be amazing.
+JUMBO DEUCE make that the predators movie, sure the movie is less good, but it gives a lot more options as there are different predators with each different specialties, the map would be more interesting since it is on an alien world, and it would also allow the use of the pred hounds and the lesser insectoid aliens in the movie as well. you could also pick a character more fitting with your play style, changing the story depending on who survives.
+JUMBO DEUCE The only problem with that idea is the mechanics would have to change. Remember the Pred's various vision modes? Mud does not actually block thermal sensors well enough to hide you. That was a deus ex machina in the original Pred and proven not to work in Predators when Royce covered himself in mud but was still quite visible to the Berserker Predator. How will you hide from Pred? How will you be able to sneak by him? The sneaking mechanics will either have to be overhauled or done in a completely different way to accommodate the Predator's various abilities to defeat your efforts. But don't get me wrong. If someone can make a game like this and make it work, I'd be stoked. I've been a Predator fan for over a decade and a half, so even though I'm skeptical that it will ever happen I'd be absolutely over the moon if it did.
+JUMBO DEUCE "DILLON! You son of a bitch!" *~Steroid muscle explosion man-shake~* In all seriousness though, that would be awesome. Predator is arguably Schwarzenegger's best movie. Man he was so 'roided up in that movie!
+JUMBO DEUCE that is the worst idea for a video game I've ever heard. So, let me get this straight; a Predator game where you can't fight the Predator, where the Predator will run awkwardly AROUND easily maneuverable debris to kill you, and where getting killed by the Predator yields the same obnoxious death animation over and over and over? No thank you.
11:52 Those are not tricks. At 12:09 you were running for a short while, but Alien's AI noticed the noise and remembered it. That's why the Alien started to immediately run to your location after killing that NPC survivor.
That Xeno'sAI is impressive and terrifying, I'd love to see him used as the basis for AI in some more games, especially the 'learning your habits' and 'not ignoring obvious slip-ups'
Crazykirby6131 If you don't mind delving into quite old games there are a few. Fatal Frame, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Dead Space 1 and 2, Silent Hill 1 to 4, Outlast, Eternal Darkness and System Shock 2 are ones that come to mind. Some of these are harder to find than others, though.
Crazykirby6131 right! i gave this game a chanfe at gamestoo it was for 20 and brand new so i got it because of the cover. then while installing it looked at reviewa and was convinced i landed a gen. mknth later i pass the game in hard and stopped 3/4 of the way in insanity or wate er the highest difficutly is called . this was last yeaf. but man as it sits in bedroom i always look at it and smile . such a great game.
Best survival horror game I have ever played was System Shock 2. Brilliant level design, great mechanics, awesome soundtrack and intense atmosphere. This game didn't have a single flaw, I swear to god (aside from final cutscene).
The ACTUAL reason is that they were dithering around, and the alien saw them through the window from miles away. (you can just about hear it squeal when it sees them)
Mr Smokey Agreed. Its a 10/10 for me apart from the cut scene glitches. When you think the game is over.... your only halfway through.. soooo much content. Played it with headphones at night everytime. Pure balls to the wall tension 😂
Good alien game, maybe. I wouldnt know, havent played any other alien games. Good horror game? No. Not for me, i wasnt scared even ones becose the alien, working joes and humans were not scary in any way. Only time i got scared was when the god damn sudden explotion happened
I think the Reason you never see the Xenomorph on any walls or on all fours is because we never really saw that till Aliens. and the suit from Alien was way to stiff for that. and it is clear this is based off the first movie, a slow horror movie rather than a fast paced shooter like every other alien game, for some reason every game has tried to be Aliens and up and this looks like the first game that tried to be Alien.
JustAnotherGaian Yeah they do that, its just a mechanic in the game that the creature has to move around on the ground to find you. Crawling on seals and floors would be scary but to actually see it sprint is very terrifying and scary, which is why CA thought that was more important.
+Corn Bread By the looks of it, they tried to make it as Alien as they possibly could, perhaps they thought that, Aliens on the wall would make people complain about how they aren't seen when hiding under a bench or bed when the Alien clearly has the angle to spot them? Plus, have you noticed those walls? They have so many bumps and objects protruding from them, for the Alien to crawl along that, do you know how long it would have taken them to make a consisting, repetitive climb motion over the various obstacles? And make it flawless so it's not pointed out IMMEDIATELY? (I've seen so many games where things that can crawl on walls, just kinda, hover a little bit out from the wall) That's not including beta testing for the times it breaks the Alien from getting stuck on something (trust me, it happened in the AvP game back in 2010, on the mission where you're the Marine and you're entering the temple by crossing the big ass bridge hanging above lava, one of the Praetorians got STUCK trying to jump over a box and kept turning to face me while hovering in mid air). In the end, it might have just seemed easier to light the path/floor and tunnels with receptors that give the Alien a thumbs up for accessing.
I might sound dumb for this, but i honestly did not realize i was back tracking in the game, for one i was too immersed to care, and the station looks too similar across thr board to be super aware of it for me.
I'm the same. There were moments were I'd go somewhere and go "wait a minute" but for the most part, the backtracking was implemented well. You only really went through short sections to go unlock a new area in that old section with a new tool anyways. The backtracking definitely wasn't bad.
I felt the station was a little disorientating at times. I concentrated more on where the alien was than on remembering where I was or where i'd just come from. So easy to lose track.
To be fair it's hard not to revisit areas when in a confined space. The back tracking in Dead space was more prominent and its not really backtracking since in Isolation you open new doors to shortcut old areas. This "backtracking" as a negative in Isolation is laughable.
osskeet Too many people. Trust me, there's way too many angry 10 year olds out there looking for arbitrary scores to justify their taste in video games.
You know, a survival horror game featuring the Predator would be pretty interesting too. In my opinion, it would be even more intense since you know it could be watching you at all times, or you could end up walking into it's traps. There could even be two ending: One where you end up outsmarting it and killing it. Another where you end up dead and flayed as a trophy.
***** Well, I was thinking near the end of the game, you start to retaliate in a sort of all or nothing scenario and if you lose, the Predator gives you a more respectful death since he considers you a worthy opponent. (Wearing your skull) As opposed to just dying in the game, eh... I got nothing.
Well, in the comics, there are two factions of Predator. The hunters, who are the ones from the films. They have honour and prefer worthy prey. Then you have the Killers, who the hunters hate. They slaughter everyone they can. They also use Xenomorphs as hunting hounds. Bet that got your attention.
interesting concept. i bet the game would start with you fighting some local militia in the jungle and the pred is attracted to conflict. you're the only one left alive so the pred hunts you down. while the other faction of predators arrive and you have to survive those too
This game is hard, even on the "easy" setting. This causes some hate, but don't let that dissuade you. This is possibly the best horror game ever made, and you should definitely play it if you haven't already.
Same here. I started this morning because it was on sale. I don't normally like these games because I hate having to quit them due to work/life etc. And when I boot it up again it takes over an hour for me to get immersed again.
for once i disagree with joe this game is trash bought cuz i love dead space 2 and had no where near as fun as that game in the beginning, and its the best parts of this game? 💩💩💩
1) Outlast and Alien Isolation have different publishers and game designers. So i don't know why you asked that second question. 2) Alien Isolation didn't sell very well and it barely broke even. Sega is still thinking about whether or making a sequel would be worth it
Just finished it. It's a 'huge' game. logged 67 hours on steam. Probably would have been quicker if i had not have been looking around in awe admiring the map so much. Can recommend it more highly. Awesome.
It's hard not to admire the map, the atmosphere and style matches the movie so well that it's obvious that the art design team spent most of the game's dev time just binging those first two movies to nail down everything, and I love them for it, really need more games that so carefully recreate the stuff their based on. and yes I want a sequal to this, a right ptopper Alien:Isolation 2 or something that takes this up another notch and refines the original
Kalain Reinard It made me more upset than creeped. I heavily prefer Cameron's interpretation of the Aliens being more hive-minded. It also gave way to allow for multiple xenomorph classes such as drones, warriors, soldiers, and then the bigger ones like praetorians and what not. More variety, more interest :D
nmheath03 It would also depend on if Christer was talking of the xenomorph drones or of the Newborn, because that would definitely be a haunter of mine. Seeing a xenomorph would be bad enough, but that Newborn,,, it's childish innocence made it so creepy in addition to it's horrifying appearance. Truly a monster I'll remember.
I hope so too - but the temptation to just descend into a normal FPS is far too great for any of today's AAA software houses. What you're asking is actually way more difficult to do convincingly than an "unarmed victim takes on invincible alien" scenario like this one. You want an FPS where there's real danger and aliens that cause suspense and terror in the soldier involved (and hence the player too). If it's just another fast-paced shooting-practice kind of game - then, what's the point? That's been done countless times before. But I agree with you that it might be possible for a very brave software house to attempt (and would take several years to perfect and release - this game took 4 years!).
Mai Nem so pretty much this same game except there's pretty much an entire hive, complete with a queen and plenty of aliens and face huggers. The hard part for the developers would be balancing the damage! If they could make it where it takes like half a clip to kill an alien but in turn that would bring more down on you that would be pretty cool!
Mai Nem: I read some of your posts and you seem to be very knowledgeable about this game. I am getting Alien Isolation next week and want to play it on hard, or nightmare, to experience the full potential of the game. What strategic advice can you give me so that I don't have to reduce the difficulty setting? I am a huge fan of the Alien movie series and feel that playing on a reduced difficulty setting will lessen the overall experience.
Firstly - play on Hard. Nightmare means not having a map, no health and ammo counter onscreen and VERY few pickups - certainly worth doing on a second playthrough though. Tactics - that depends on your playing style. I've identified four main types of player (but these strategies often get mixed up a bit): 1. Lockerhoppers - these players hide in lockers as much as possible, only coming out when they're absolutely sure that the alien's gone away. It's a very time consuming strategy - as the alien very rarely leaves for a long enough time on Hard difficulty. I've seen one Lets Play where the victim spent a whole 20 minute episode debating when to come out of the locker! 2. Flamelooters - these players loot as much as possible so that they can gather enough flamer fuel to take on the Alien. The danger with this strategy is that the alien takes more fuel to push away every time - and it's highly likely that they will run out with some of the hardest levels yet to play. Typically, these players find the other strategies very difficult 3. Dancers - these brave players sneak past the alien by ducking around tables, boxes and furniture at close range - avoiding lockers like the plague. It's not a good strategy for beginners, because it requires a good knowledge of just how much you can get away with at close quarters. This strategy is learned after many many alien deaths - trial and error - very useful if you've run out of fuel and distractions though 4. Distractors - this type of player crafts noisemakers and flashbangs, and also uses flares to send the alien away from their location and into the opposite direction of where they want to go. This strategy requires clear thinking and cleverness under pressure. This kind of player will also plant bombs under the ceiling vents - so that the alien is given a nasty surprise if it comes down. The strategy I use is mainly between 3 & 4, with 2 in dire emergencies and 1 as a very last resort. General tips: pay attention to the environment and computer terminals - or you can miss a useful or even mission-critical object quite easily Don't run - unless you are just a few paces away from safety Stay calm - decide on an action and don't change your mind unless you can hear the alien hissing Be prepared for the worst - "what could I do if the alien drops from that vent in front of me?" Always save! Good luck!
Mai Nem: Wow! Thanks for taking the time to answer my question so thoroughly. You went above and beyond what I was expecting. I will try playing on hard and use a combination of strategies 3&4 as you have suggested. I hope this game lives up to the high expectation that I have. I am a personal fitness trainer, so if you ever have any questions about working out, dieting or weight lifting feel free to ask and I will return the favor. Thanks again :-)
I got 41/51 trophies for this game. Saw one of the achievements I needed say "Complete the game without dying" , I just turned off the system. Like, who can play this game and not die?
No Auto-Save!? Awesome! I just might get this game then! I frickin' HATE auto-save in horror games! Also, finally a horror game with some backtracking! I hate roller-coaster-type play-&-forget level design in horror games! Backtracking gives a personality and immersion to the environments. The only problem would be if the backtracking is overdone but... is it? Anyone can answer that question?
***** Exactly! The backtracking is what makes you remember your environment. You'll make the effort to think about how to get somewhere without taking too much risk of encountering enemies. You'll notice every detail. You'll learn about your environment and how it is laid out. A great example is the mansion in the Resident Evil 1 Remake. You remember the mansion, almost as if it's a character in itself. Also, a great scare tactic is to have you run through the same corridor multiple times, only to have monsters coming out when you least expect it. Now you'll be scared wherever you go even if you remain inside the same mansion. When you just go through multiple areas without coming back, you only go through some locations that you completely forget after you've gone through them. Doesn't leave room for you to sink in and get comfortable only to surprise you later with a scare.
The flamethrower is only a temporary asset. Since the Alien adapts to the player's strategies and movements, he'll eventually just ignore the fire and kill you anyway. It's stuff like that which makes the Alien such a great opponent.
I understand the Alien having a certain level of resistance, but the Xenomorph was never fireproof or bulletproof for that matter. Just seems a bit silly to me for it to take a shotgun blast and still stand.
He doesn't learn that much. He's always afraid of fire. He may charge you, but as long as you are firing at him, he'll just strike you and run away unless you are low on health.
***** There are times when he will either rush through the fire or step back and pause for a moment, raising his stature as if to challenge you, then lunge. But he won't outright ignore the fire.
Imo Alien: Isolation is just the perfect game. The atmosphere and graphics are just top notch and they stayed so true to the original series. They also made the xenomorph perfectly. It's just so stressful whenever it's close by since it's really unpredictable while actively searching for you. I get very anxious playing it and that's also the problem. It's too scary. They perfected the monster so well that it's just incredibly hard to play through the game even on easier difficulties. I think that's why the game didn't sell that well and it's sad. Cuz what these developers did is just god damn amazing and I doubt we will see a game as polished as this one in a long time.
Yeah, it's bullshit when a great game doesn't succeed. While they sell the same type of shooters and all kind of crap in large amount, with less effort. Kinda like games like Eternal Darkness for GameCube. The game is fantastic, the sales were really poor.
I am a HUGE Alien fan. I own every movie (even the not so good ones) and I just now started playing this game last night. I literally had to stop playing for ten minutes to let my heart rate go down after the first jump scare 🤣
What is so brilliant about this game is how much attention was given to the alien. In most games everything is static. The Alien however is ever changing, always moving around like a real creature, able to hear even the smallest sounds including realistic things like a closing of a locker, the beeper from the tracking radar, etc. It will run away and trick you only to come back and kill you like a real predator. It's amazing to me. Never to my knowledge has their been a game that has accomplished this much in A.I. and immersion to such a famous and fantastic fictional creature (and universe as well). Ladies and gentlemen you will almost literally face against the perfect organism itself in this game and it lives up to its name.
+William Gregg according to the level difficulty you picked the xenomorph can instantly gets you from your hiding place if you used the same trick too often
+William Gregg according to the level difficulty you picked the xenomorph can instantly gets you from your hiding place if you used the same trick too often
Auto saves ruin the experience, specially for a game like this. Oh dear I died never mind I will just load up the auto save. Not the best punishment if you ask me if you die. This game has the best saving dynamic I have ever seen if you want to save then you have to take the risk of being caught. I do agree with some that we all don't have the time to play none stop and were all very busy these days and saving allows us to stop when we have to and continue when we have more time, but it really dose ruin the game the way a lot of people abuse the save system to get that perfect score or whatever. If you treat the game like real life you only have one life and for some games I feel when you die you have to start again from scratch. For games like Skyrim for example or Minecraft Hardcore mode, I like to play using the one life rule, when I die, I die. I have to restart from scratch and I find sometimes it can be much more rewarding. But that's just my opinion.
Well saying "You die when you die" and you go back way before you were,that can get annoying. There is a perfect balance in between making save points too far away and too close to points where you might die,and not a lot of games will ever get this right,so I find it best just to not complain about it as I don't think it's one of the things that very seriously effects gameplay
I agree, I was just saying that's how I prefer to play some games for the extra challenge. (Edit:) I remember back when games saved your progress by giving you a code at the end of a level. I think it was a much better system in some ways, while having to type in a code each time you play can get annoying. People these days don't get a sense of reward or accomplishment like they used to cause they die and just load a saved state. Example: You'r character is standing in-front of a window a door to your left to enter the room, you see 6 guards patrolling the area looking in the window. (instead of thinking up a strategy and deciding on the best course of action to get to your goal without getting killed.) People will literally Save there game, run in guns blazing and repeat over and over till they succeed. Its a mindless strategy, so why bother playing when you can just save every time there's a risk of death. Auto saves and save states can ruin a gaming experience, among other things like acting and bad design, blah blah. but as I said this is just how I feel about some games and Alien Isolation, at least to me seems to have got it right from what I have seen.
Azreal Dragoon Yeah I can see where you're coming from ,I like an extra challenge too sometimes,I just never seek it in the form of "You died so fuck you,play that hour of gameplay over again" XD
That guy gave this game a 5.9 because THE AI WAS TOO HARD AND INTELLIGENT AND BECAUSE THE GAME WAS TOO LONG! No real gamer sees those things as flaws. Don't believe any Ryan McCaffrey review, this game is one of the best horror games ever made.
there could be a level that is identical to the raptor kitchen scene: the objective to either confuse the raptor so you can escape, distract it so you can run, or trap it so you can be safe. three different rooms are linked and the last room has a door with a lock. you have the keys so you need to get to that door which leads to the outside the building. you cant be safe in the two other rooms because the raptors apparently can open doors. a stealthy section that would be the most intense level in the game.
I think what I like about Joe is that he comes at games as a gamer FIRST, and a then a reviewer second. The turds in the punch bowl over at IGN and Gamespot play the game as a REVIEWER, seeing the game through a different, more sterile lens than the normal gamer would.
I'm sorry that is there job as a reviewer. Reviewers are as different as night and day when it comes to any media. Its not Joe reviewing games as a gamer but rather Joe reviewing games from a different POV. It is simple a game people will love or dislike
Nah the people at IGN and Gamespot aren't reviewers. They are advertisers, getting paid to advertise certain games. Joe is a reviewer. Like many other reviewers her reviews games based on his experience. Sometimes we agree sometimes we don't. If we don't agree it doesn't mean they aren't real reviewers....but IGN, Gamespot and like minded sites aren't reviewers as they don't really base their scores on their experience. Go read their reviews, often the reviews don't explain at all why it scores high or low...you get to read a very negative review and still see a 8 and it makes you wonder how the hell it got a 8 if he didn't like the game...and sometimes you see a rather positive review and it scores a 5...no indication what so ever why it was only a 5. And that is what i like about Joe....he explains things. You know why the game is the score that it gets and with him a game can get a 6 and still get his approval but just knows that there are things wrong with it that will stop it from being great for the bigger audience.
Jorendo I guess you could say that if they weren't criticising the game when they were doing it with those scoring systems. Never the less I don't like them at all because of this dishonesty
I know this is an old video but I truly do love it when angry joe finds a game he actually enjoys. I see a lot of videos where he is disappointed and I'm sure that's the whole point of his channel I mean due to the name and all, but finding these videos where he is impressed makes me happy. To have such a good critic like a game really helps with my choice of purchase. And the reason I'm on this old video is because I've just been marathoning your videos you are a great critic sir!
I keep playing this game just cuz of the Amazing Graphics/Environment, the Scary alien chasing u, and the amazing kills he can do with you. This game is so Good 10/10 in my opinion
I agree with you Ductus Examplo. I do get a lot of enjoyment out of watching Angry Joe tear apart a bad game that deserves it. But watching him praise a game just makes me really happy just because there are few games that gets his praise. These reviews also do really have an effect on my purchase. Like his Blair Witch Review gave it a 4/10 and I was on the fence before the review, but now I’m definitely not getting it.
Here's an idea for a sequel . . . "Alien vs. Predator: Isolation!" Similar to "Alien: Isolation," you have to avoid getting killed by both xenomorphs AND predators, both of which have intelligent A.I. and have different methods of hunting, so you have to develop new strategies to avoid them or fight them off. Occasionally, a xenomorph and a predator will cross paths with one another and fight each other to the death, forcing the player to make a hasty decision to either make a quick escape or end up getting killed by either foe.
I wish that people would keep the Alien and the Predator universes seperate. It hasn't worked at all. Only the novelisations managed to pull it off, and even the majority of those were a bit hokey!
That's exactly what i want, it's not part of the actual story it doesn't have anything to do with the "Nostromo" or any thing in the 4 Alien movies. When i saw the first avp movie was like," Wow Fox, wow." With sarcastic clapping.
I just played this game for the first time, oh my god is it scary. I think this is the best horror anything I have experienced simply because the atmosphere is perfect, I've watched so many scary movies, played so many scary games, but this has already topped it all in my very short experience with the game right now. I just came here because my heart was racing so fast and my hands were shaking so hard I had to force myself to take a break.
@@jazzx251 Agreed 100%, I'd love to see them pull off a sequel of similar quality, just to enjoy the atmosphere, and scream like a girl when the Alien finds me in a locker
This game follows the first Xenomorph model "Big Chap" based after its designer, H. R. Giger. Its the one from the first Alien movie. And he didnt walk on the walls. That was itroduced first in Aliens and the overall design was changed for budged reasons (they need confortable and durable suits for the actors that play Xenomorphs). Later it was established that those Xenos in Aliens were warriors while the one in Alien was a drone.
Joe...about this particular Xenomorph "not crawling the walls and ceiling". Dude...seriously? Come on. It's the classic Drone type. Like in the first movie. If you watch the movie closely, you will see that Drone never ever climbed any walls or ceilings. Drones are too big and undeveloped for that. They're walker-type of Xenomorphs that mainly walk on their two legs in corridors and move through the vent shafts. They never use walls or ceilings to simply move about. The ones who climb walls and ceilings are Warriors, Runners and Predaliens, not Drones and also not Praetorians (too heavy and too big). The Queen also cannot climb walls or ceilings, by pretty obvious reasons. Xenomorph in this game is a Drone.
I know how did nobody else notice this??? I looked all over the comments and you were the only one I found that says anything about it... AHHHHH Help me!
It's actually two frames :) Hit SPACE to pause playback, then use < and > to step forward and backwards one frame at a time. Now I kind of wished I hadn't!
"It can take out the fun when you have to play a lengthy section multiple times." Shit that was the norm for us old timers back in the 80's, son. No saves at all! It's what made FINALLY beating a game like Castlevania or Ninja Gaiden EXTREMELY satisfying!
+John Doe I'm so sad to hear about this. I've recently played through Alien Isolation for its one year anniversary. It's still one of the best horror games out there. I really hope we get a sequel, and if they made a kickstarter I would throw money at them.
+John Doe Well, it was the parent company Sega who took the decision. They apparently thought they would get "Sonic the Hedgehog" numbers (a horror game? they must be kidding), and they are also in trouble with their games division losing money. Sega? More like Seegson ... their software division is being decomissioned faster than you can say "Sevastapol". Why? I do not know. Creative Assembly made a great game and are blameless.
+Shmandalf Total War community is very pissed with CA these days. They have done too many beta releases and also DLC-whoring. Strategy gamesdoes not make millions in sales either. - Played total war for over 10 years.
silphaatrata "As of 31 March 2014, the game has sold 1.13 million copies in Europe and North America" That's just for total war Rome 2. So they totally make millions in sales from the Total War games lol. At $40-$60 a pop they made anywhere from 40-60 million dollars off of it. Also look at Starcraft 2, that game has sold 4.5 million units, with its expansion being the top selling game in the first quarter of 2013 (they sold 1.1 million copies on the very first day). Strategy games make tons of money man.
Everyone take a minute and think about how awesome it would be if a Jurassic Park game was made with this exact kind of attention to detail and gameplay. Universal needs to look into it.
holy crap, i keep wishing for something like that!. I think an open world would be freakin awesome too, like an entire island for us to walk around and explore with dynamic weather and with all of our favorite dinosaurs (mine is spinosaurus). And have encounters like in this game.
***** That was my first thought when playing Alien isolation. Something about the mechanics felt like Jurassic Park tresspasser back in the day, which might look crap now, but was incredibly ambitious for its time. There weren't many other ambitious projects like that at the time, set in such vast locations.
Just done with it . 6 year old game that can kick other games' asses 👌this game aged well = extremely optimized stays 60 fps on my pc with all ultra settings + incomparable A.I. mechanics 💯
@@Bobman-ml5qf thats fr man . I'm mad how this game is criminally underrated man - it's so optimized even lower end pc can run this game at 60 fps and stays beautiful + how systematic the A.I + well-written story this has 🙁 im sad that they wouldnt consider giving this a sequel - i would fvcking buy that sequel even they could just recycle the engine they used for this and just change the storyline / characters. Thats how its graphics can still compete to newer gen games we have today.
The guy also bitches because the hardest difficult is too hard. Honestly, it sounds like he got 10 minutes in, gave up, watched other people play it, and then wrote the review.
One thing I hope they implement in a sequel is the Alien's curiosity. Like how it would play with and even molest its victims in the first movie. What if instead of straight out killing you each time, it slashes at your legs, forcing you to crawl away from it. All the while, it's slowly approaching you, walking as loudly as it can, intimidating, and toying with you. Or at other times, after it has killed someone else, it doesn't feel like killing you, instead knocking you out, and taking you with it somewhere deep within the ship, like with Dallas. That, I think, would make the Alien even more unpredictable and frightening.
I think they should make a movie of Alien Isolation, so that it can rightfully cement its place in the cannon of Alien films. My dream cast would be: Amanda - Jennifer Lawrence Samuels - Benedict Cumberbatch Verlaine - Juliane Moore Ricardo - John Boyega Waits - William Hope (he was Gorman in Aliens - and does a great job in the game, so why not?) Taylor - Carey Mulligan Murphy - Harry Dean Stanton Ransome - Lance Henriksen Axel - Robert Carlyle Julia Jones - Courtney Cox Hughes - Bradley Cooper Dr Lingard - Halle Berry Dr Kuhlmann - John Hurt Foster - Reese Witherspoon Marlowe - J.K. Simmons Heist - Bruce Willis "The Message" & "Opening Credits" (voice) - Sigourney Weaver Android voices - Ian Holm Alien - Simon Cowell Director: either Sam Mendes or Alfonso Cuaron I've chosen Jennifer as the lead because she made me shit my pants when she was about to go into the arena in the first Hunger Games. The fear on her face - wow, she would make the film extremely scary - brilliant actress who can do action as well as all of the emotional stuff. Plus - she's gold dust at the moment - all of my expensive acting choices would be bought and paid for if she was the star of the film. It would easily be the most successful horror film of all time. What does anyone else think?
Frankie Theoret Because physical acting and voice acting are different skills. Both Amanda and Ricardo were physically modelled on different people to those that played their voices. You'll see two names in the credits for each character. In other video games, you get a very convincing 30 year-old playing a teenager. But onscreen, that obviously just wouldn't work. I agree that Alien was a great success because it used a few relative unknowns in amongst the British thespians (Hurt & Holm) - all very skilled theatrical actors slightly under the radar. But that wouldn't make a good debate here on TH-cam - because any unknown actors I came up with would just make people go "???" - so I veered wildly, and expensively, to - mainly - the current Oscar contenders.
I think this is the Alien-game, I've always wanted to play ever since whenever. I think it is almost obvious that there'll be a sequel, this time where you'll get to shoot at the bugs. Root 'em out of their nest, marine-style. Actually, I think this game is canon. I don't know about making it into a film. I think that the industry should focus on remaking "resurrection" from scrap. Plenty of great storylines out there, in books and comix's, that has the same implications on the universe of Alien as "Ressurection" do. Don't know why Hollywood didn't team up with some of those guys, instead of keep on belching out even worse crap. Twice, they did allready! So, no, I don't think they should make 'Isolation' into a movie, ontop what's already out there, movie-wise. Guess I should have stayed with that.-) Edit: clarifications and stuff.
The other reason for the lack of auto-saves and the save points is how the Alien gets redeployed every time you load. It's pretty clever stuff, since it gets around you being stuck behind the Alien in an unfortunate area. Also, look into how the Alien AI works. For when the game came out, it's very clever stuff.
Ryan Roach I can kind of confirm, at least I got the “don’t die by the alien in the fifth mission” one by doing this trick. Makes me wish I hadn’t tho the trophy wasn’t satisfying to pop like this
Nooooooooooo! The alien is an - well "alien" - extremely fast and deadly. If a human controls it, then it's just a rubbish human controlling it and not catching people. Like a man in a rubber suit chasing people around a table, it would be pathetic! Multiplayer is fine - you can be a human or an android, but not the Alien. That's off limits. It is much superior to us humans and should never be played by one because it is lightning fast (we aren't) and has heightened senses (we don't).
***** But as with Alien vs predator from years ago, if a person playing the alien is forced into the right alien mindset, then the experience can be extremely rewarding for both players. A lot of the time with the old game people playing the alien would play a running and charging style. A few players however realised that horror was a part of the experience. Lurking in the shadows motionless to avoid the motion trackers etc.
Al Paca Mindset doesn't come into it. In my own mind, I'm the fastest computer gamer that ever lived! (so says me!) .. but if I was to control the alien in multiplayer, I wouldn't represent this terrifying character at all accurately. "fast human" is not the same as "alien". The Alien is a terrifying threat to all humanity; not your best friend chasing you around some boxes and failing to catch you! (while "Yakety Sax" plays in the background) This thing kills you the moment it sees you, it can't be reasoned with - it is far quicker than any human. A human playing the alien makes it - well, not alien anymore. Just a human in a rubber suit who may or may not win when he sees his opponent. The Alien should ALWAYS win - it shouldn't be a fair game! You should always be terrified of the alien seeing you - but if it's your best friend controlling the alien, the horror is completely gone - you're up against your best friend, and not the alien. No-one should ever get to play the Alien. Full stop.
***** By this logic, no serial killers in horror movies should ever be "human" since this apparently isn't very scary. Sneaking around and "killing" your friends can be very fun, it's the same play style used by stealth games for the last 15 years only you're hiding from (and killing) a human instead of an AI all they have to do is make the playing field level, "Infestation" game mode in AVP does this amazingly well.
Al Paca That's NOT my logic at all. I'm even allowing you to be an android; slow and creepy, extremely tough to kill and, to all intents and purposes, this game's genuine version of remorseless (but beatable) serial killer. We both know what would happen. You would play as a human, your friend would play as the alien. Rather than a tense game of hide and seek (as in the actual game) - it would be the pair of you running around some boxes aimlessly. Hilariously, one look at the flamethrower would have your "alien" friend running into the nearest vent! It would be so shite :) Ok. Let's say Creative Assembly's next videogame was a "tense, horror experience" based on the original "Halloween" movie. In which you must avoid the terrifying Michael Myers at all costs. The rules are the same - nobody should get to play Michael Myers in multiplayer. Because he then loses all scariness.
One of THE best Alien games I've played. It was pretty much everything I expected, and for a die hard fan like myself, it was not a let down one bit. Not boring at all if you went in for what you expected. Hide. Love to have this game on my PS3 library :)
I mean its a single player horror game its not that impressive 😂 make the game coop online where me and a friend can play together and survive together and then I'd def play it.
@@subzero308 there’s other games out there where you can survive with friends. Saying this game isn’t impressive is disingenuous and you’re just trying to be argumentative
That's why I love Angry Joe's reviews. IGN only whined "Too long! Too frustrating!" Joe gave us the good, the bad and the honest, rating the game after he thoroughly played entirety.
My favourite thing to do in this game: Go up to a wall/solid surface and absolutely batter it with a wrench. And then run like crazy to a hiding place. The most euphoric/terrifying sensation ever haha!
I bet its even more fun to do that wrench banging near some defenseless sap and watch the alien eat them, right? Or am I the only one that's an ass to random video game characters?
I've seen a few people do that in playthroughs. The most amazing thing happened once: The humans managed to force the alien off with overwhelming firepower! It ran off, then crawled outta the vents and snatched one of them. At which point the remainder couldn't get enough bullets into the critter before it up and ate each of them too. It was really cool knowing you're not the only one able to fight of the alien (although it DID highlight why a single person (i.e. the Player) should never never use a pistol on an alien).
Kelkuza that's really interesting lol i actually in a desperate oh fuck it moment shot the alien with my shot gun in its face and it stammered! I of course died but I was like yeah fuck you lol
Mijail Jones sure. I got a kooler story; I played Alien fuckingfuntasticrefreshingoasisofgoodnessinCorpriddledb$landoffuckingDLCb$grindfestdayn'age Isolation.
+Mijail Jones But you said you paused the video. That means you paused it in the frame of Joe's crotch, so why are you surprised that the same frame is still there when you come back?
*Rapidly presses Pause/Play button to figure out what that split second image was at **02:30**.* Aaahhh!! Damn you Joe for making me curious enough to find that image! Damn it!
Now all Creative assembly need to do is make a version into a tactical shooter where you have a squad of marines trapped on some colony and you have to make it to a extraction point, however your will need to creep about seal doors place drone guns seal air vents but oh no you missed a vent, and then its fight the wave of intelligent aliens or alien and fall back to a more secure location. Have say 10 guys under your control and you can jump from marine to marine but that's all you have 10 guys when there dead they are done and gone ,so it makes the game less gun hoe requires sneaking and tactics now that would be a game worthy to the aliens film.
Nah never too late people love a good game that's what sells,although some company's CA for one with Rome 2 used a solid franchise to off load that shit that was Rome 2 tut tut
2 weeks ago, before I got the game, I would have laughed at you. But towards the end of this game, they showed it's more than possible to have more than one intelligent alien. They would need at least another 3 years of development time, but it could well be worth it.
Good idea but i think its gonna go balls up because todays fps devolpers seem to suck but yeah if well made that would be a good idea it could even have an day night system like the little girl in Aliens said "Its gonna be dark and then they come to prey" (or something like that) hope that in the Crew expendable DLC (wich is broken sadly because of the characters) when you die it would say something like "I can't lie about your odds"
Just thought it should be known that the IGN reviewer for this game said that you should instead play Slender: The Arrival. If that doesn't represent the simplicity of IGN reviews then the complaint about "too much walking" is sure too.
IGN is a hit and miss review. alot dumb games get high ratings, and alot good games get bad. its really a bad place to get reviews. Thats why I subbed to Joe, his reviews are more accurate.
The reviews on IGN or only based upon if the company has payed for a good review or not. Most games they give a high rating don't deserve it at all, and the games they give a shit rating don't deserve it. For a game they'll give 10 strong positives and 1 minor negative and it will get a 7/10 some how. IGN is a waste of time if you want an honest review.
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The same guys who made this game should do a survival horror game based on John Carpenter's The Thing.
Dude that would be amazing
Yeah, that would be cool.
+Horrorfreak106 Having to like constantly have the worry that the thing infiltrated your little unit. Or have a member get separated only to rejoin and have you and the person who was with you, question if thats really them. Or maybe even have you separated and be suspected and have to win over your companions trust but not in a single section, more of a overtime trust kinda thing that if done right could even have anatural progression feeling Or the people arguing over who gets the flamethrower thinking it gives them safety when it makes them a bigger target. Give it that claustrophobic feeling because you cant survive outside if you want to leave on foot. In any case. it would be amazing
+Jacob Glaze
Yes it would be amazing - not just as a game, but easily the greatest feat in the history of artificial intelligence and computer games.
NOBODY has ever made a successful computerised representation of a human being yet.
Alien Isolation was great with the robots and alien - but rubbish, like every other good game out there, with humans. We're too complex to be put into a few megabytes.
For "The Thing" to succeed, you would need to be convinced that The Thing - and indeed the other humans - were convincing people.
It would be very difficult to do - and they would still 'only' get 2.1 million sales (not enough apparently) for all their hard work.
+Horrorfreak106 lol then you would really be alone cuz anyone might turn out to be the thing
Once I only had one bullet for my gun, and I had to get through a room of human enemies. I knew the alien was around, so I pulled out my gun, and I fired at one of the enemies and quickly ducked into a vent. There I waited...and listened. The xeno came into the room (presumably from the vents) saw the men making all the noise, and brutally dispatched them (the sound did a great job of playing out their fates in my imagination lol). After sniffing around for awhile, she was convinced that there was nothing else around to kill so she exited the room, and after a few more minutes, I continued on my way. This game was amazing.
Iron Hobo I haven't played this game yet, but now I'm really looking forward to trying that.
ReloadPsi WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU? Get this game NOW. And always play at night alone
Gabriel Carrion I've had it for ages. I've been looking for the best time to play it.
I guess tonight will do. I'm just getting out of work as I type this.
ReloadPsi So you played it in the end? Or did aliens abduct you coming back from work
I can go a few steps better. Try this. Play at night, alone. Lights out. With headphones. Then when you're done, eat a cheese heavy pizza and go to bed and fall asleep. You wont believe what happens next lol.
I thought the ID cards were a unique way to put the developers in the game.
Yeah i thought that was a cute idea. No idea why Joe was so bemused by it tbh.
it was a good idea from that standpoint but I get why hes annoyed because its a really pointless collectible that doesn't add anything to the game.
StrokeMeYouInsolentHumanCuzIAmACat The IDs are completely worthless though.
no this is patrick
But it does add another challenge to the game though. I'm sure a lot of completists value it.
StrokeMeYouInsolentHumanCuzIAmACat well myself being a completionist I have to say I don't value it tbh....... I want collectibles to add something to the game like lore or something. audio logs are good collectibles.
"No way he saw me" - standing in a bright light, leaning over a railing in clear view.
Apparently it's also becasue he ran towards the scene at 1st; and the Alien not only heard it through it's savage killing but memorised it lol (unbound computer AI still rocks though)
Haha yes
I know, right? I commented this earlier until I saw you beat me to it. In a real situation, his head was completely exposed and the alien noticed it. Also with his knowing of no running because it can hear that, of course it saw him.
Very neat game. I haven't played it yet, but I may one day.
Isn't the alien blind though? The only thing it tracks by is noise.
@@zacoman2225 There is no confirmation, as far as I’m aware, that the Alien can’t see. It has no visible eyes, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have any.
Joe is almost smiling all the way through this review, which show how much he appreciate this game. Angry Joe is not angry at all :p
watch colonial marines review lol
Watch ride to hell retribution review
Watch the Godzilla review lol
Yet he rated that game only 8/10.
He’s funny as hell when he reviews bad games, but it’s really cool to see him enjoying himself and reviewing some really good games.
This is one of the few games where having a save point system actually improves it. You feel an incredible sense of relief when you finally make it to a spot where you can save your game.
Yeah. To me, it kind of borrows a bit from the original Resident Evil. That sigh of relief when you made it to the next typewriter safe room. Though this doesn't have the limited saves due to needing an inventory item like ink ribbon, as in RE.
Some of those save points weren't so safe, though. That made it even more nerve-racking at times.
@@WorldWalker128 the “hostile nearby” when i want to save always scares the shit out of me
Yep. Just like back in the 90s with ps1 and some of the game in snes.
"In the name of science i will put my face in" classic LOL
For Science!
Game Hunter o
FOR PORN...... no wait
First time seeing a vagina
Game Hunter that is literally what happened in Alien Covenant, and this review was done 2-3 years before that movie.
The only problem with Alien Isolation is that you can only play it for the first time once
Critical Mass I started it yesterday. Picked it up for £1 used.
Glad I finally got round to playing it . Never realised how many noises my house makes ! 😂
@@spokemon015 How dare you, cheapskate - the Aliens do not approve; I'll fetch the Xeno on you naow if I din't see more banknotes!!
Play it on Nightmare. It will change the experience drastically. Trust me.
@@Cain353 I ,, I think I'll puss, I mean, pass on that thanks
=)
Also that 6 years later it's all we ever got that was decent =(
*In the name of science, I'm gonna put my FACE in it*
Science class has never been so hardcore
This was what inspired the idiots in Prometheus. A look, black, alien death-goo. Im gonna put my finger in it.
+sfoth91 Well in that case it was " In the name of SCIENCE!!! I'm gonna touch this alien wierner snake"
jean c rolon Why you ask? WHY? FOR THE GLORY OF SCIENCE OF COURSE!
+sfoth91 yeah There no way this could end badly for Science!!!!
I want a survival horror Jurassic Park game. I feel it would do justice to the franchise if done right.
This game shows that it can be done.
Doi Doi Like Dino Crisis.
Doi Doi that would be great
Play Dino Crisis. It's basically Resident Evil with dinosaurs.
Der Speedrunner Can you get Dino Crisis on Steam?
Bro this game a 10/10 for me and I’m not even an alien fan.
i frkn love this game !
The guy who made the video is not an Alien fan either, he is more like aliens fan and that is why this review is wrong in many ways. The game is perfect.
@@eastcoast1005 Yeah this has a Ridley Scott vibe over the James Cameron action style run n gun. Most people who didn't like the prequels I would put in the same boat. Prometheus and Covenant were great additions IMHO too bad they didn't receive the acclaim they deserve.
Hello World i just watched the first one through a playlist on TH-cam! Youre doing yourself a disservice if you havent watched it, the movie stands the test of time and looks GREAT for something made in 1979. I would definitely watch it! Its really neat to see how closely the game resembles the movie it comes after.
Brandon Reid they recently remastered it in 4K UHD and it’s hands down the best experience in this format. If you own a 4K hdr tv it’s a great pickup for your collection and the best way to watch it for that atmosphere that Scott was trying to convey. Many sci fi horror fans would put Alien as the best of the genre, aliens and resurrection are fun movies but don’t have the same feeling of isolation and fear factor. If you did enjoy the original I’d recommend giving Prometheus and Alien Covenant a watch.
I think despite the criticisms this still deserves a 9/10. I thought it was an incredible game.
The easiest achievement in this game, is being killed 100 Times by the alien.
I call it an "unachievement" - the only one I've ever had from any Steam game. :)
I fell 4 deaths short on Nightmare mode - I died 96 times.
***** wow, I thought I sucked at this game, but now I know it's easy to die.
When i got that achievement i was like wow, didnt realize i died that often lol
lunatiksAlterEgo me too
The Boss Stage1 I played through it, I didnt get the trophy. Did I do good?
"in the name of science, ima put my face in it!" every alien cherecter ever.
Pretty much.
Xenobiology rule #1 if it looks alive put your face in it.
I guess I'm going to have to yell "For SCIENCE!!!" tonight :p
And a few people at Thanksgiving after Grandma's mashed potatoes are placed on the table and everyone gets a double-scoop. Dang those were good mashed potatoes....
IGN seems like they were the only people who gave this game a really bad review...
The Sound and Atmosphere, are both absolutely amazing, however... for some people, hiding from an invincible monster gets horribly repetitive. Plus, it's not CoD or Halo so minus points for that
that's because IGN does not know what the fuck there on about. i will NEVER listen to anything Ignorant Gaming Nerds have to say
When they played the demo they said they loved it. But for some odd reason they made their call of duty reviewer do a review on the game (Not hating on COD btw) I think he was expecting the game to have more action (like call of duty) so he didn't get what he expected
Candy Cox
I am not hating on it for not being like any of the RE games, I just think it should be more fast paced and with more action.
Justin Gochioco I personally disagree, the slow pace is what builds up suspense and that fuels the game itself, you're constantly waiting for the alien to show up and when he does you're terrified, if it was fast pace it would ruin the fear effect of the alien, a good example of this is colonial marines...that was a relatively fast paced game and look how that game turned out
It's crazy how good that game still looks over 4 years later
It still looks like a AAA title right now. Even better then some titles. *I'm looking at you Fallout 76!*
Yup it still looks amazing
and its runs even on a nintendo switch :O
I just got it on sale on PC and it looks great my only complaint is the characters in cutscenes look kinda unnatural but other than that it’s great so far
@@bakashinji man, it's now free on Epic
Do not play this game without headphones. I REPEAT, DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME WITHOUT HEADPHONES. Being able to accurately hear where an enemy is without excessively relying on your tracker makes this game much, much less frustrating. Just be patient and use the audio clues and you'll spend a lot less time replaying areas.
I guess thank god for the headphone jack on my xboxone controller that automatically sends all sound to the headphones as soon as you plug them in and i can adjust the volume level from the volume knob on my headphones.....very very nice.....
I know this is a year old but...I played on my surround sound loud as shit the other day and holy fucking shit. That's all I need to say.
I have surround sound.. fuck headphones
No joke. If I'd played with only the TV, there's no way I'd have died as few times (and by few I mean about 25 times) as I did.
or a good surround and bass works well too
12:10 this was not a random "cheat" by the alien ai. you were running to see the alien killing the guy. as soon as you run you attract the alien. you were queued to be chased by the alien as soon as the script kill of the guy ended. THE TIP ON THE DEATHSCREEN AT 12:25 EVEN CONFIRMS THIS....
Haha perfect
Exactly...
Spot on, I did the exact same thing Joe did at that part. Decided to walk/crouch the rest of the game....
In my opinion save points were one of the best parts of the game. They not only added to the immersion of the game, paying homage to the 80s future feel with the emergency key card stations, but also providing that extra nerve racking feel whenever death is close. Do I have time to reach that safe locker or room with an emergency door, or will I have to risk hiding under this small hospital bed where I'm easier to see? It's these decisions that the game forces upon you simply due to the save system that makes the game so tense.
The A.I. is amazing, learning from both its and your mistakes. You spam that noisemaker much, it learns to determine where you are from which way it rolls. You use flares too much, it learns to ignore them. The flamethrower, your best friend, becomes your worst enemy through overuse, as the aliens learns to trick you, staying back letting you waste your ammo and even then charging at random moments to take you by suprise. It also becomes more resistant to the fire, and eventually you run out of ammo and are forced to retreat back to your roots of hiding, something you unfortunately might have forgotten after running around thinking you own the station.
The sound too made the game terrifying. Though the alien itself had a few jumpscares when you first experience each unique death animation, the sound was what really did it. Being able to hear every creak, thud and clang the alien makes above you, knowing its right above you then realising the vent just to your left, hearing that oh so spine chilling screech as it drops down in the distance, or even worse behind you, and trying to distinguish the sound of it leaving and entering the vents in just another desperate method of survival, you come to learn to track it using sound, and just as soon as you do a portion in the med bay takes that away from you, masking the aliens sounds by a wailing sirens. It can hear you, but not the other way round and you're forced rely on your motion tracker, all the time you use it risking the alien will hear it.
This game perfectly captures survival horror in the alien universe, and the alien itself, like it should be, the unstoppable monster, the bloodthirsty killer, the perfect organism, and you are trapped with it, unable to kill it, your only weapon being your own mind, using it to outwit the beast you are stuck with after each futile attempt of escape. If this game isn't a true survival horror legend, I don't know what is.
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In a stealth game, having no autosave or manual save is inexcusable.
Who Dat Ninja dude back in the day it was way worse. Its excusable because its part of what creates the tension and the relief when you actually find a save point. How could you have survival horror when youre not afraid to die?
Conformist Bastard exactly, if we could save anytime it would have almost ruined the game. And like you said, back when these movies came out, you had to either beat the next level one at a time and only save after each level, or complete a full checkpoint section. And it's not just about back then, it speaks relatively to type of game and moment to moment immersion levels: in a huge open world game like Skyrim I obviously just want to save the game, but a game like this, why would you want to just save anytime? To achieve the feel of the original two movies, the devs must make you lose your natural sense of well-being, as you drink your Coke and scarf down Twizzlers, when you walk away from a save-point, the loss of control with fear and tension, you must be driven by your survival instinct and guided by your wits, as they're all you have left, while you make your way to the next little moment of respite so you can take a breathe and plan your next move. That's just how it felt as I watched Aliens as a 9 year old. I watched Alien after that because I wanted more when I discovered how terrified they made me watching them, and for a little while afterwards, but also that Aliens had become like my top five favorite movies all time from the total quality package.
This game is 9 years old WTF? It still looks amazing I thought this came out in like 2017 or something.
Late to the party here, but I redownloaded it after watching Alien Romulus (pretty good movie btw) and Alien Isolation is STILL really good. I don’t scare easily but Isolation gets my blood pumping and genuine yells of fear out of me
@shadowofdread7018 Yeah, I'm surprised they haven't made a sequel to this. Might be licensing idk. But glad Romulus is good, I should go see it
still looks great to this day, I just got it again after watching Romulus for $10 on Steam and added a graphics mod and looks even more gorgeous than ever. This game is ten years old and is better than most games today.
@@purefoldnz3070 do they have a mod that takes the scary away >.
We need a sequel now more than ever
I know it's an amazing game by not playing it.
How?
Because I'm too chicken shit to play it in the first place.
It's not that scary honestly. Not at all. Outlast was scary as hell.
+Torva Messorem Outlast was just jump scares, I found this way more scary, I think it basically comes down to horror movie preference, I prefer suspense and tension horror so I found it really scary
I agree with Giovanni. Suspense and tension is real horror. I find that with jump scares I'm over it after two or three of them. After that it's just not scary.
+y2kplus9 I think its more like a reflex, makes you jump, not feel fear
Giovanni San José Yeah, exactly~ XD
I think this game is probably Sega's apology to the fans of the Alien franchise after what they pulled off in Aliens: Colonial Marines.
+Ted Owen
They can now beg our forgiveness for not giving us a sequel.
+Mai Nem I'll forgive them when we get a sequel ¬_¬
+Ted Owen Tbh Sega doesn't need to apologise for ACM. Gearbox Studios scammed those poor bastards. It is Gearbox who deserve to be screwed to bankruptcy for breaking our trust.
+Ted Owen Apology, sure... Sega doesn't give a fuck about players and they're perfectly happy to take money for shit games.
+Azariachan Not true, SEGA could be putting up straight ports of their classics but went to some serious trouble with the 3DS classics. Overall they're a good publisher, nothing too sleazy like EA, Activision, Konami or Ubisoft.
I love that being a gamer I don't play "ALL"the games that come out first launch . Nothing like playing something 8 years later and having a great time on the series x
Just playing it myself for the first time. It’s freaking awesome.
lol. I'm playing the game now on Series X with FPS boost.
Can't wait to get it on sale so I can enjoy it on my PS5 but this is also why I love Joe, you know you can trust his reviews, let's goo.
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Alien Isolation is the best horror/aliens game ever made. I think we can all agree
Dead space 1 for the win!!!!!
+Magnus Smith Dead Space is not even really that scary...its tense and it had me nervous but not scared one bit and i fucking hate horror games because im so chicken shit. This game had me lying in a locker for 30mins.
Aliens vs Predator 2 deserves an honourable mention, still my favourite multiplayer game I ever played
I have fond memories of Clive Barker's Undying and at my age now, I doubt anything can scare me again like that.
this game makes that child'splay
I stopped countless times in this game just to admire the amazing work put into the environment.
I just started playing blind last night, I only have made it as far as the first human encounter. But fuck me, 3 hours in. Terrified as hell to the point of crouching everywhere, and it took 30 minutes just to get out of the torrens due to the amazing detail I was admiring lmao,
btw, that scene right after axel, waiting for that lyft.. That has to be the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced, and seeing the Alien booking it to me right after I closed that door.. this game is amazing.
I'd love to visit the place and mess around... other than the part where I'd deffinitly be murder-death-killed by the Xenomorph, or a Joe.
Seriously awe-inspiring work, I really would love to get more
Amen to that.
It's better than some PS4 games and this came out in ps3 too
I wanted to do that more, but Xenos had a tendency to eat my face.
12:30 Obviously the alien saw you standing straight up there staring at him while he was enjoying his meal.
Rude.
lmao
Joe actually sprinted like a pair of numbnuts to the edge and if he had it on hard then yeah he's boned.
He actually heard him running.
Just a friendly reminder, it's 12:03, isn't it? He ran and stood straight up there lol.
Lucas Lemos yurp
Update: Still 6 years and this game looks amazing
I play it once a year.
tbh i think it looks better than fireteam elite 🤭
@@trevorfrenk4137 it definitely nails the atmosphere better than Fireteam Elite does. But I think that’s for gameplay because FE is a horde shooter, but still wish we got more claustrophobic scenes like Isolation.
@@RangerHouston yeah, i just feel that a shoot-em-up isn’t suitable for this franchise. the perfect organism wouldn’t be mowed down that easily. the stealth horror angle was really on-brand
Definitely looks great on the series X with the smooth 60fps boost on 👌
Normally I don't like heavy stealth games because usually bad AI goes beyond logic... But this game is the shit!
F*ck off this game is not shiit.
+Judge Dredd He said it is "the shit", that means it's great...
***** that means it's shiit. BTW first response by a troll.
+Judge Dredd dude.
"It is the shit." = Great
"It is shit." = Bad.
Get your shit right bud.
Judge Dredd Who? Me? 0_0
I honestly think this is one of the best horror games ever ... anyone else ?
I think the same.
JediJackalope Totally! I just finished the game last night...and holy crap! What an experience! Truly one of the best survivor horror I've ever played!
JediJackalope Yep. I think a lot of horror games can take something from this game. Unpredictability for example.
Leandro Leito cheating? How exactly?
Leandro Leito ohhh I see..no I didn't do that. Less resources to craft and less ammo, actually made the game more tense and scary.
It's a fucking disgrace that Aliens Colonial Marines is Fox-approved cannon, and this isn't.
Alien Isolation was mentioned in the Weyland Yutani Report encyclopedia and Aliens Colonial Marines wasn't anywhere to be seen.
The defiance comic and Out of the Shadows audiobook references Isolation multiple times too...Perhaps things have changed?
I've seen the Alien Wiki - and it appears that the REAL story, including Amanda is in there, but not Colonial Marines.
Fox gave their blessing to this game big time - they could see that the devs were taking the lore seriously, as did SIgourney Weaver who became involved in a video game for the first time.
sulijoo seriously?
i know
sulijoo The whole canon is being changed with Alien 5
I think my favorite thing about this game is Amanda Ripley's voice actress. Talk about a fucking phenomenal job voicing a video game character. She was perfect. She truly felt like a real person, it was believable and grounded in reality. Nothing I hate more than really stiff and bland voice acting in video games. I could understand it in the 90s, but not in this day and age. When Amanda was in a scary situation in the game, the voice actress sounded BELIEVABLY terrified. When Amanda was angry in the game, the voice actress sounded like she was fucking furious and it sounded totally authentic.
I was hooked right away with Amanda as the main character. Awesome character design, awesome voice acting, she's not a mary sue but she's not a damsel in distress either and I wish more games would do their female protagonists like Ripley Jr here. She's gonna go down as one of my favorite female video game characters ever, right up there with the likes of Jill Valentine, Claire Redfield, Female Commander Shepard, Ellie from TLOU, Lightning from FF13, Samus of course and so many others.
"I'm coming back to the Bureau ... we can discuss your 'methods' there ..."
I agree that she's not a Mary Sue - unless your brilliant gameplay makes her win!
I like how she's an engineer ... so she can believably craft stuff if she's seen a blueprint.
Andrea Deck's performance is superb ... she IS Amanda Ripley.
This game sucks
What a pus
@@impactrc6427 so does your comment
1702! OK! NOW LETS GET DOWN TO THE DISPENSARY!
This game is truly a rare gem, it goes against everything people want and expect from a game and it's unashamedly tough. That's why the true decent gamers love it and why IGN despises it.
Adolf Hitler A rare gem in this day and age is what I mean. It has old school difficulty with no autosaving or hand holding.
I've actually played a few horror games in the past and for pure dread and atmosphere, this game is up there.
karatos the god of war Lol Skyrim is actually the best rpg I've played.
I can't believe you think Skyrim is a good RPG. Try Mass Effect, its like a god amongst men. I'm still in counseling from the ending.
People still watch IGN reviews WTF
It's not that ppl still watch IGN reviews, it's that the IGN review continues to have a bad effect on this game. It's one of the reasons we probably wont get a sequel because of how the review would have affected sales....and ppl are still pissed off about it. They haven't even had the decency to scrap that review and cover up their mistake. The damage is done now. and thats why ppl are still pissed. We WANT a sequel.
"In the name of science Imma stick my face in it!"
And that pretty much sums up most of the Alien franchise.
MURPHYCHACHO yep
True
More like oh look a unknown pod let's get as close as possible ignoring the regulations of protecting your own self
OH THE PAIN
That sums up Prometheus, not as much the other movies.
To be fair, this game is based off of the original film, and in that one the alien wasn't really slithering or wall crawling, it was more like a man.
+Kevzete not true, in Aliens they were wall crawling with good stuntmen and clever camera work
yes - I was amazed to find that the facehugger that scuttles across the floor in Aliens was a practical puppet that could literally do that!
It looked absolutely brilliant - convincing real-life effects like that will ALWAYS beat CGI. But you need really clever people to pull that off.
(They basically made a mechanical spider - just wow!)
+Mai Nem I disagree, CGI has reached a point of realism where practical effects just can't mimic the real thing as well anymore, but a mix of both sometimes seems to be even better.
EdgeOI Alien Covenant's CGI of Aliens says hello
2014:
Meanwhile at IGN: I don't like it.
IGN are a bunch of Halo fanboys, they need their shields and over-shields and their pew-pews to be in every game. So do what I have done ever since they started, pay them no heed, you will not be disappointed.
J4CKR4881T But even that is a bit stretching it because they gave Doom 2016 a 7.5/10. Doom 2016, AKA one of the Best FPS Games Of The Last Decade!
Probably didnt get shill money.
@@NoahDaArk I'm a die hard fan of doom and ign is doing some shitty things
too scary 5.9/10
This is one of the best gaming experiences ever created. It's a shame that Creative Assembly and SEGA didn't get more recognition for this work. It's unbelievably true to the original film, even going as far as having the sounds from the film as well as the look. The VR experience of this game was second to none. There is no AAA VR experience that even remotely comes close to the roller coaster ride this game packs and Creative Assembly didn't even finish the VR support. In fact, it only works on the DK2 version of the Rift. We need to contact SEGA and plead that they get this game finished and playable on the consumer version of the Rift as well as the Vive. This game is THE killer VR app. Nothing else comes close.
They never did. Because of over complicated VR motion controls making every game have to be specially designed just for VR.. I wish they never created the motion controlers. It toally turned VR into a small niche genre. Better to make easy Direct VR integration with the 3D Head Tracking, into all the normal mass market games.
WMR too, but that's not hard to mod in support
One of the most Important rules of Alien: Isolation:
NEVER, in any way, shape or form, try to attack the Alien.
Well there was one time I had the thing cornered at dead end, so I flamethrowered it a whole bunch.
It socked me in the jaw and ran off. It was a moment of levity, I actually laughed, and I've only done that in Resurrection and AvP2.
***** Yeah, but sadly it doesn't kill it :/
+SlangbreadKJ even then it will get tired of your shit evently and run thru the fire to get you
And then sock you in the jaw and run off. It's hilarious.
SlangbreadKJ I have not played it but I do imagine my self stupidly running after the alien with the flamethrower
There needs to be a game like this but with the Predator, I mean think about it, you and a squad of soldiers are put in a jungle and have to complete objectives then the Predator show up and starts picking your squad off. It would be like the first predator movie and if the Predator ai is done as good as the alien ai in this game, the experience would be amazing.
+JUMBO DEUCE make that the predators movie, sure the movie is less good, but it gives a lot more options as there are different predators with each different specialties, the map would be more interesting since it is on an alien world, and it would also allow the use of the pred hounds and the lesser insectoid aliens in the movie as well. you could also pick a character more fitting with your play style, changing the story depending on who survives.
+JUMBO DEUCE The only problem with that idea is the mechanics would have to change. Remember the Pred's various vision modes? Mud does not actually block thermal sensors well enough to hide you. That was a deus ex machina in the original Pred and proven not to work in Predators when Royce covered himself in mud but was still quite visible to the Berserker Predator. How will you hide from Pred? How will you be able to sneak by him? The sneaking mechanics will either have to be overhauled or done in a completely different way to accommodate the Predator's various abilities to defeat your efforts.
But don't get me wrong. If someone can make a game like this and make it work, I'd be stoked. I've been a Predator fan for over a decade and a half, so even though I'm skeptical that it will ever happen I'd be absolutely over the moon if it did.
Plot twist. Halfway through both sides have to team up to deal with a "bug" problem.
+JUMBO DEUCE "DILLON! You son of a bitch!" *~Steroid muscle explosion man-shake~*
In all seriousness though, that would be awesome. Predator is arguably Schwarzenegger's best movie. Man he was so 'roided up in that movie!
+JUMBO DEUCE that is the worst idea for a video game I've ever heard. So, let me get this straight; a Predator game where you can't fight the Predator, where the Predator will run awkwardly AROUND easily maneuverable debris to kill you, and where getting killed by the Predator yields the same obnoxious death animation over and over and over? No thank you.
this game is a master piece. you have to respect the amount of love and passion the developers put in it.
And that A.I. for the xenomorph is insane.
11:52 Those are not tricks. At 12:09 you were running for a short while, but Alien's AI noticed the noise and remembered it. That's why the Alien started to immediately run to your location after killing that NPC survivor.
That Xeno'sAI is impressive and terrifying, I'd love to see him used as the basis for AI in some more games, especially the 'learning your habits' and 'not ignoring obvious slip-ups'
@@UNSCPILOT it is used in a lot of games nowadays. Hello neighbor for one
@@trevor3013 :D
One of the best survival horror games I've ever experienced.
Sorry to hear that.
Any good survival horror games you recommend?
Crazykirby6131
If you don't mind delving into quite old games there are a few. Fatal Frame, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Dead Space 1 and 2, Silent Hill 1 to 4, Outlast, Eternal Darkness and System Shock 2 are ones that come to mind. Some of these are harder to find than others, though.
Crazykirby6131 right! i gave this game a chanfe at gamestoo it was for 20 and brand new so i got it because of the cover. then while installing it looked at reviewa and was convinced i landed a gen. mknth later i pass the game in hard and stopped 3/4 of the way in insanity or wate er the highest difficutly is called . this was last yeaf. but man as it sits in bedroom i always look at it and smile . such a great game.
Best survival horror game I have ever played was System Shock 2. Brilliant level design, great mechanics, awesome soundtrack and intense atmosphere. This game didn't have a single flaw, I swear to god (aside from final cutscene).
Stealth games aren’t my particular cup of tea but Alien: Isolation is one of the best survival horror games I’ve ever played.
It's great but I guess you never played 90's thief gold and metal age. Those are the best!
Watching this in 2019 and this game is still one of my all time favourites and still holds up as a top horror survival game.
10:00 "how did he find me?" You had the tracker up dude. It can hear it.
The ACTUAL reason is that they were dithering around, and the alien saw them through the window from miles away. (you can just about hear it squeal when it sees them)
***** that's got me killed plenty of times.
In my opinion one of the best games ever made and so underated the atmosphere alone !
Mr Smokey
Agreed. Its a 10/10 for me apart from the cut scene glitches. When you think the game is over.... your only halfway through.. soooo much content. Played it with headphones at night everytime. Pure balls to the wall tension 😂
Worst game I've played in years.
@@ubuyashi735 dead serious
@@ubuyashi735 no
Good alien game, maybe. I wouldnt know, havent played any other alien games. Good horror game? No. Not for me, i wasnt scared even ones becose the alien, working joes and humans were not scary in any way. Only time i got scared was when the god damn sudden explotion happened
I think the Reason you never see the Xenomorph on any walls or on all fours is because we never really saw that till Aliens. and the suit from Alien was way to stiff for that. and it is clear this is based off the first movie, a slow horror movie rather than a fast paced shooter like every other alien game, for some reason every game has tried to be Aliens and up and this looks like the first game that tried to be Alien.
Corn Bread
The Alien in this game stomps around like he owns the place.
And he does!
He doesn't need to crawl on the walls.
actually there are moments t
you see it on all four legs and they do scale walls. but not in gameplay.
The Lone Wanderer e.g. they crawl vertically through vents and crawl up the reactor window.
JustAnotherGaian
Yeah they do that, its just a mechanic in the game that the creature has to move around on the ground to find you. Crawling on seals and floors would be scary but to actually see it sprint is very terrifying and scary, which is why CA thought that was more important.
+Corn Bread By the looks of it, they tried to make it as Alien as they possibly could, perhaps they thought that, Aliens on the wall would make people complain about how they aren't seen when hiding under a bench or bed when the Alien clearly has the angle to spot them? Plus, have you noticed those walls? They have so many bumps and objects protruding from them, for the Alien to crawl along that, do you know how long it would have taken them to make a consisting, repetitive climb motion over the various obstacles? And make it flawless so it's not pointed out IMMEDIATELY? (I've seen so many games where things that can crawl on walls, just kinda, hover a little bit out from the wall) That's not including beta testing for the times it breaks the Alien from getting stuck on something (trust me, it happened in the AvP game back in 2010, on the mission where you're the Marine and you're entering the temple by crossing the big ass bridge hanging above lava, one of the Praetorians got STUCK trying to jump over a box and kept turning to face me while hovering in mid air). In the end, it might have just seemed easier to light the path/floor and tunnels with receptors that give the Alien a thumbs up for accessing.
IGN did a review an this
It has 4K likes
25k dislikes
They said game was bad
IGN IS WOKE AND GOING BROKE, FUCK EM
IGN is actually the Idiot's Gaming Network what do you expect? They rated goat simulator 9/10 though.
Yea, that's cos IGN is shit. They're full of corporate bias and their ratings are based entirely on what they're paid to say.
IGNorant asses =)
They do the same with days gone too...those fucking idiots.
I might sound dumb for this, but i honestly did not realize i was back tracking in the game, for one i was too immersed to care, and the station looks too similar across thr board to be super aware of it for me.
I'm the same. There were moments were I'd go somewhere and go "wait a minute" but for the most part, the backtracking was implemented well. You only really went through short sections to go unlock a new area in that old section with a new tool anyways. The backtracking definitely wasn't bad.
You’re not dumb for not noticing the backtracking.
I felt the station was a little disorientating at times. I concentrated more on where the alien was than on remembering where I was or where i'd just come from. So easy to lose track.
To be fair it's hard not to revisit areas when in a confined space. The back tracking in Dead space was more prominent and its not really backtracking since in Isolation you open new doors to shortcut old areas.
This "backtracking" as a negative in Isolation is laughable.
That's called immersion. A game that someone plays one way isn't necessarily how YOU would play it
11:37
and THAT'S why IGN hates it.
Lol so true.
Boom. Truth.
Who cares about IGN?
osskeet Too many people. Trust me, there's way too many angry 10 year olds out there looking for arbitrary scores to justify their taste in video games.
and you're one of those 10 year olds
You know, a survival horror game featuring the Predator would be pretty interesting too.
In my opinion, it would be even more intense since you know it could be watching you at all times, or you could end up walking into it's traps.
There could even be two ending:
One where you end up outsmarting it and killing it.
Another where you end up dead and flayed as a trophy.
***** Well, I was thinking near the end of the game, you start to retaliate in a sort of all or nothing scenario and if you lose, the Predator gives you a more respectful death since he considers you a worthy opponent. (Wearing your skull)
As opposed to just dying in the game, eh... I got nothing.
Well, in the comics, there are two factions of Predator.
The hunters, who are the ones from the films. They have honour and prefer worthy prey.
Then you have the Killers, who the hunters hate. They slaughter everyone they can. They also use Xenomorphs as hunting hounds.
Bet that got your attention.
RavenRyy
Using Xenomorphs as hunting hounds? Just when I thought the Predators couldn't get anymore badass...
crazytuner111
I kid ye not. Look up the comic AVP: Three World War for the story.
interesting concept. i bet the game would start with you fighting some local militia in the jungle and the pred is attracted to conflict. you're the only one left alive so the pred hunts you down. while the other faction of predators arrive and you have to survive those too
Isolation is that kind of game that it's qualities surpasses it's flaws. It's the best Alien spinn-off since 1979 movie.
This game is hard, even on the "easy" setting. This causes some hate, but don't let that dissuade you. This is possibly the best horror game ever made, and you should definitely play it if you haven't already.
EXACTLY 2 years ago this was made and today was the first time I played this game and I LOVE IT
Same here. I started this morning because it was on sale. I don't normally like these games because I hate having to quit them due to work/life etc. And when I boot it up again it takes over an hour for me to get immersed again.
yeah man I still need time to beat it
I beat it on Hard a few days ago. Don't expect a satisfying ending...
Torva Messorem ok thanks
for once i disagree with joe this game is trash bought cuz i love dead space 2 and had no where near as fun as that game in the beginning, and its the best parts of this game? 💩💩💩
WHY DOES THIS GAME NOT HAVE A SEQUEL? YOU GIVE OUTLAST A SEQUEL AND NOT THIS ? WTF?
1) Outlast and Alien Isolation have different publishers and game designers. So i don't know why you asked that second question.
2) Alien Isolation didn't sell very well and it barely broke even. Sega is still thinking about whether or making a sequel would be worth it
Darkest Knight damn thats too bad. Alien isolation is very worthy of a sequel. I guess ill have to buy it again on pc.
yeah it sucks. if they couldn't give us a sequel, they could at least turn this story into a spin off movie. It would be better than Alien prequels
So the shitty games sell well but not the good ones? Wow, it seems like people do really have a shitty taste
Dont u get that the shitty games get sequels and not the good games. U wanna kno y? Because fuck the fans.
Just finished it. It's a 'huge' game. logged 67 hours on steam. Probably would have been quicker if i had not have been looking around in awe admiring the map so much. Can recommend it more highly. Awesome.
I got killed a few times just trying to gaze out the window into space.😂
It's hard not to admire the map, the atmosphere and style matches the movie so well that it's obvious that the art design team spent most of the game's dev time just binging those first two movies to nail down everything, and I love them for it, really need more games that so carefully recreate the stuff their based on.
and yes I want a sequal to this, a right ptopper Alien:Isolation 2 or something that takes this up another notch and refines the original
"You were DISRESPECTING the Alien!"
I can't even...
That's wonderful.
That deleted cocoon scene from the original Alien always gives me the creeps.
me to
Mr. Guinea Pig I knew I wasn't the only one.
Then again it was a horror movie and that is what it's supposed to do.
Kalain Reinard It made me more upset than creeped. I heavily prefer Cameron's interpretation of the Aliens being more hive-minded. It also gave way to allow for multiple xenomorph classes such as drones, warriors, soldiers, and then the bigger ones like praetorians and what not. More variety, more interest :D
Christer Bleu
I would but I wouldn't be scared if I saw a Xeno.
nmheath03
It would also depend on if Christer was talking of the xenomorph drones or of the Newborn, because that would definitely be a haunter of mine. Seeing a xenomorph would be bad enough, but that Newborn,,, it's childish innocence made it so creepy in addition to it's horrifying appearance. Truly a monster I'll remember.
I wish a good alien game where you get to be a colonial marine would be made.
I hope so too - but the temptation to just descend into a normal FPS is far too great for any of today's AAA software houses.
What you're asking is actually way more difficult to do convincingly than an "unarmed victim takes on invincible alien" scenario like this one.
You want an FPS where there's real danger and aliens that cause suspense and terror in the soldier involved (and hence the player too).
If it's just another fast-paced shooting-practice kind of game - then, what's the point? That's been done countless times before.
But I agree with you that it might be possible for a very brave software house to attempt (and would take several years to perfect and release - this game took 4 years!).
Mai Nem so pretty much this same game except there's pretty much an entire hive, complete with a queen and plenty of aliens and face huggers. The hard part for the developers would be balancing the damage! If they could make it where it takes like half a clip to kill an alien but in turn that would bring more down on you that would be pretty cool!
Mai Nem: I read some of your posts and you seem to be very knowledgeable about this game. I am getting Alien Isolation next week and want to play it on hard, or nightmare, to experience the full potential of the game. What strategic advice can you give me so that I don't have to reduce the difficulty setting? I am a huge fan of the Alien movie series and feel that playing on a reduced difficulty setting will lessen the overall experience.
Firstly - play on Hard. Nightmare means not having a map, no health and ammo counter onscreen and VERY few pickups - certainly worth doing on a second playthrough though.
Tactics - that depends on your playing style. I've identified four main types of player (but these strategies often get mixed up a bit):
1. Lockerhoppers - these players hide in lockers as much as possible, only coming out when they're absolutely sure that the alien's gone away. It's a very time consuming strategy - as the alien very rarely leaves for a long enough time on Hard difficulty. I've seen one Lets Play where the victim spent a whole 20 minute episode debating when to come out of the locker!
2. Flamelooters - these players loot as much as possible so that they can gather enough flamer fuel to take on the Alien. The danger with this strategy is that the alien takes more fuel to push away every time - and it's highly likely that they will run out with some of the hardest levels yet to play. Typically, these players find the other strategies very difficult
3. Dancers - these brave players sneak past the alien by ducking around tables, boxes and furniture at close range - avoiding lockers like the plague. It's not a good strategy for beginners, because it requires a good knowledge of just how much you can get away with at close quarters. This strategy is learned after many many alien deaths - trial and error - very useful if you've run out of fuel and distractions though
4. Distractors - this type of player crafts noisemakers and flashbangs, and also uses flares to send the alien away from their location and into the opposite direction of where they want to go. This strategy requires clear thinking and cleverness under pressure. This kind of player will also plant bombs under the ceiling vents - so that the alien is given a nasty surprise if it comes down.
The strategy I use is mainly between 3 & 4, with 2 in dire emergencies and 1 as a very last resort.
General tips: pay attention to the environment and computer terminals - or you can miss a useful or even mission-critical object quite easily
Don't run - unless you are just a few paces away from safety
Stay calm - decide on an action and don't change your mind unless you can hear the alien hissing
Be prepared for the worst - "what could I do if the alien drops from that vent in front of me?"
Always save!
Good luck!
Mai Nem: Wow! Thanks for taking the time to answer my question so thoroughly. You went above and beyond what I was expecting. I will try playing on hard and use a combination of strategies 3&4 as you have suggested. I hope this game lives up to the high expectation that I have. I am a personal fitness trainer, so if you ever have any questions about working out, dieting or weight lifting feel free to ask and I will return the favor. Thanks again :-)
I got 41/51 trophies for this game. Saw one of the achievements I needed say "Complete the game without dying" , I just turned off the system. Like, who can play this game and not die?
Keith Daniel Chuck Norris
That's the beauty of what a true challenge is. Play E.T. Atari without falling in a hole. Actually that one might be truly impossible, but still lol
The Completionist
Keith Daniel Jesus.
Keith Daniel Play on easy and MAYBE you can do it.
"in the name of science, I will put my face in it" - Prometheus in a nutshell
"I Hate Working With Joes"I'm sure that's what activision says after one of your reviews. (Destiny)
Maxime Deslauriers good one!
No Auto-Save!? Awesome! I just might get this game then! I frickin' HATE auto-save in horror games!
Also, finally a horror game with some backtracking! I hate roller-coaster-type play-&-forget level design in horror games! Backtracking gives a personality and immersion to the environments. The only problem would be if the backtracking is overdone but... is it? Anyone can answer that question?
***** Excellent! That's the point of backtracking in horror games. Stuff will happen. ^_^
*****
Exactly! The backtracking is what makes you remember your environment. You'll make the effort to think about how to get somewhere without taking too much risk of encountering enemies. You'll notice every detail. You'll learn about your environment and how it is laid out. A great example is the mansion in the Resident Evil 1 Remake. You remember the mansion, almost as if it's a character in itself.
Also, a great scare tactic is to have you run through the same corridor multiple times, only to have monsters coming out when you least expect it. Now you'll be scared wherever you go even if you remain inside the same mansion.
When you just go through multiple areas without coming back, you only go through some locations that you completely forget after you've gone through them. Doesn't leave room for you to sink in and get comfortable only to surprise you later with a scare.
agree 100% with you and how can you NOT have back tracking on a SPACE SHIP. Sounds great, I will buy come xmas time.
The save points feels soooo good when you have sneaked part a big part or made progress. Makes the game feel extremly intense.
The flamethrower is only a temporary asset. Since the Alien adapts to the player's strategies and movements, he'll eventually just ignore the fire and kill you anyway.
It's stuff like that which makes the Alien such a great opponent.
I understand the Alien having a certain level of resistance, but the Xenomorph was never fireproof or bulletproof for that matter. Just seems a bit silly to me for it to take a shotgun blast and still stand.
Yeah, its AI is a bit too smart at times, because the alien is processing the info, but still very fun.
He doesn't learn that much. He's always afraid of fire. He may charge you, but as long as you are firing at him, he'll just strike you and run away unless you are low on health.
Alexae B
It's just add tension. Making him unkillable adds a lot of tension.
***** There are times when he will either rush through the fire or step back and pause for a moment, raising his stature as if to challenge you, then lunge. But he won't outright ignore the fire.
Imo Alien: Isolation is just the perfect game. The atmosphere and graphics are just top notch and they stayed so true to the original series. They also made the xenomorph perfectly. It's just so stressful whenever it's close by since it's really unpredictable while actively searching for you. I get very anxious playing it and that's also the problem. It's too scary. They perfected the monster so well that it's just incredibly hard to play through the game even on easier difficulties. I think that's why the game didn't sell that well and it's sad. Cuz what these developers did is just god damn amazing and I doubt we will see a game as polished as this one in a long time.
I can relate to that lmaooo
Yeah, it's bullshit when a great game doesn't succeed. While they sell the same type of shooters and all kind of crap in large amount, with less effort.
Kinda like games like Eternal Darkness for GameCube.
The game is fantastic, the sales were really poor.
I am a HUGE Alien fan. I own every movie (even the not so good ones) and I just now started playing this game last night. I literally had to stop playing for ten minutes to let my heart rate go down after the first jump scare 🤣
Its a shame they're not going to do a second one.
It's the only enjoyable game I didn't enjoy playing! LOL! Its a stressful, anxiety-filled experience. It's brilliant and absolutely terrifying!
What is so brilliant about this game is how much attention was given to the alien. In most games everything is static. The Alien however is ever changing, always moving around like a real creature, able to hear even the smallest sounds including realistic things like a closing of a locker, the beeper from the tracking radar, etc. It will run away and trick you only to come back and kill you like a real predator. It's amazing to me. Never to my knowledge has their been a game that has accomplished this much in A.I. and immersion to such a famous and fantastic fictional creature (and universe as well). Ladies and gentlemen you will almost literally face against the perfect organism itself in this game and it lives up to its name.
I heard the AI is amazing in this game. I just bought the game.
William Gregg Play it dude! DO IT!
+William Gregg Game Is superb
+William Gregg according to the level difficulty you picked the xenomorph can instantly gets you from your hiding place if you used the same trick too often
+William Gregg according to the level difficulty you picked the xenomorph can instantly gets you from your hiding place if you used the same trick too often
Auto saves ruin the experience, specially for a game like this.
Oh dear I died never mind I will just load up the auto save.
Not the best punishment if you ask me if you die.
This game has the best saving dynamic I have ever seen if you want to save then you have to take the risk of being caught.
I do agree with some that we all don't have the time to play none stop and were all very busy these days and saving allows us to stop when we have to and continue when we have more time, but it really dose ruin the game the way a lot of people abuse the save system to get that perfect score or whatever.
If you treat the game like real life you only have one life and for some games I feel when you die you have to start again from scratch.
For games like Skyrim for example or Minecraft Hardcore mode, I like to play using the one life rule, when I die, I die.
I have to restart from scratch and I find sometimes it can be much more rewarding.
But that's just my opinion.
Well saying "You die when you die" and you go back way before you were,that can get annoying. There is a perfect balance in between making save points too far away and too close to points where you might die,and not a lot of games will ever get this right,so I find it best just to not complain about it as I don't think it's one of the things that very seriously effects gameplay
I agree, I was just saying that's how I prefer to play some games for the extra challenge.
(Edit:) I remember back when games saved your progress by giving you a code at the end of a level.
I think it was a much better system in some ways, while having to type in a code each time you play can get annoying.
People these days don't get a sense of reward or accomplishment like they used to cause they die and just load a saved state.
Example:
You'r character is standing in-front of a window a door to your left to enter the room, you see 6 guards patrolling the area looking in the window.
(instead of thinking up a strategy and deciding on the best course of action to get to your goal without getting killed.) People will literally Save there game, run in guns blazing and repeat over and over till they succeed.
Its a mindless strategy, so why bother playing when you can just save every time there's a risk of death. Auto saves and save states can ruin a gaming experience, among other things like acting and bad design, blah blah.
but as I said this is just how I feel about some games and Alien Isolation, at least to me seems to have got it right from what I have seen.
Azreal Dragoon
Yeah I can see where you're coming from
,I like an extra challenge too sometimes,I just never seek it in the form of "You died so fuck you,play that hour of gameplay over again" XD
CreeperTaskForce =)
Sorry about my long rant there.
Azreal Dragoon
Nah man it's fine everyone rants about something :3
This game looks like it could be very good. Why did IGN give 5.9\10?
+Qasim Yusuf Because they're suck at it, so it sucks for them
+Qasim Yusuf everybody knows that if you want a high score on IGN you need to pay. Seriously, I can't understand why people keep watch/reading IGN
Because they didn't get a paycheck
That guy gave this game a 5.9 because THE AI WAS TOO HARD AND INTELLIGENT AND BECAUSE THE GAME WAS TOO LONG! No real gamer sees those things as flaws. Don't believe any Ryan McCaffrey review, this game is one of the best horror games ever made.
+Qasim Yusuf
The reviewer was a Seegson synthetic - a malfunctioning one at that.
I haven't had a game that scared my so much like alien isolation! The last game i can remember doing this was dead space!
True
this game is awesome, now i want another one in jurassic park with raptors in it.
+The Ruwy would be cool to see
there could be a level that is identical to the raptor kitchen scene: the objective to either confuse the raptor so you can escape, distract it so you can run, or trap it so you can be safe. three different rooms are linked and the last room has a door with a lock. you have the keys so you need to get to that door which leads to the outside the building. you cant be safe in the two other rooms because the raptors apparently can open doors. a stealthy section that would be the most intense level in the game.
Jurassic park: Isolation
Idk why but dinosaurs aren't as scary as aliens. Probably because you are in a claustrophobic ship with no outside escape.
The Ruwy I want a new Dino crisis
Alien: Isolation is the BEST videogame for fans.
I think what I like about Joe is that he comes at games as a gamer FIRST, and a then a reviewer second. The turds in the punch bowl over at IGN and Gamespot play the game as a REVIEWER, seeing the game through a different, more sterile lens than the normal gamer would.
I'm sorry that is there job as a reviewer. Reviewers are as different as night and day when it comes to any media. Its not Joe reviewing games as a gamer but rather Joe reviewing games from a different POV. It is simple a game people will love or dislike
Nah the people at IGN and Gamespot aren't reviewers. They are advertisers, getting paid to advertise certain games.
Joe is a reviewer. Like many other reviewers her reviews games based on his experience. Sometimes we agree sometimes we don't. If we don't agree it doesn't mean they aren't real reviewers....but IGN, Gamespot and like minded sites aren't reviewers as they don't really base their scores on their experience. Go read their reviews, often the reviews don't explain at all why it scores high or low...you get to read a very negative review and still see a 8 and it makes you wonder how the hell it got a 8 if he didn't like the game...and sometimes you see a rather positive review and it scores a 5...no indication what so ever why it was only a 5.
And that is what i like about Joe....he explains things. You know why the game is the score that it gets and with him a game can get a 6 and still get his approval but just knows that there are things wrong with it that will stop it from being great for the bigger audience.
Jorendo Also I'm almost certain that their 'experience' score is also based on bribery
Devan Hunt
Yeah thats why i said they aren't reviewers but advertisers ;)
Jorendo I guess you could say that if they weren't criticising the game when they were doing it with those scoring systems. Never the less I don't like them at all because of this dishonesty
I know this is an old video but I truly do love it when angry joe finds a game he actually enjoys. I see a lot of videos where he is disappointed and I'm sure that's the whole point of his channel I mean due to the name and all, but finding these videos where he is impressed makes me happy. To have such a good critic like a game really helps with my choice of purchase. And the reason I'm on this old video is because I've just been marathoning your videos you are a great critic sir!
I keep playing this game just cuz of the Amazing Graphics/Environment, the Scary alien chasing u, and the amazing kills he can do with you. This game is so Good 10/10 in my opinion
I agree with you Ductus Examplo. I do get a lot of enjoyment out of watching Angry Joe tear apart a bad game that deserves it. But watching him praise a game just makes me really happy just because there are few games that gets his praise. These reviews also do really have an effect on my purchase. Like his Blair Witch Review gave it a 4/10 and I was on the fence before the review, but now I’m definitely not getting it.
OH GOD I PAUSED AT 2:30! WHY???
lol
What does it say? I can't pause fast enough.
I thought you meant the frame after that where a picture was clipped.
At least he wasn't wearing panties...
now THAT is a bulge HAHAHAHA
Here's an idea for a sequel . . . "Alien vs. Predator: Isolation!" Similar to "Alien: Isolation," you have to avoid getting killed by both xenomorphs AND predators, both of which have intelligent A.I. and have different methods of hunting, so you have to develop new strategies to avoid them or fight them off. Occasionally, a xenomorph and a predator will cross paths with one another and fight each other to the death, forcing the player to make a hasty decision to either make a quick escape or end up getting killed by either foe.
nice
***** Thank you! :)
***** Thank you! ^^
I wish that people would keep the Alien and the Predator universes seperate. It hasn't worked at all. Only the novelisations managed to pull it off, and even the majority of those were a bit hokey!
That's exactly what i want, it's not part of the actual story it doesn't have anything to do with the "Nostromo" or any thing in the 4 Alien movies. When i saw the first avp movie was like," Wow Fox, wow." With sarcastic clapping.
I just played this game for the first time, oh my god is it scary. I think this is the best horror anything I have experienced simply because the atmosphere is perfect, I've watched so many scary movies, played so many scary games, but this has already topped it all in my very short experience with the game right now. I just came here because my heart was racing so fast and my hands were shaking so hard I had to force myself to take a break.
It's pretty impressive when you consider that this game made a better Alien universe than Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection.
brazwen So true.
Too true - I consider it a part of a trilogy
Alien - Alien Isolation - Aliens
And Amanda is now part of the series for me
After playing the game and I had nightmares about Xenos I legit was just like Ripley from the begining of aliens
@@jazzx251 Agreed 100%, I'd love to see them pull off a sequel of similar quality, just to enjoy the atmosphere, and scream like a girl when the Alien finds me in a locker
This was 6 years ago and I still do a playthrough of this gem every now and then.
9 years ago, same
Those Aliens where the kind of human xenomorph, thats why they can't walk on walls. The alien from Alien 3 was born from an animal
Francisco Parente Alien 3 was a dog. Dogs can't walk on walls.
The xenomorphs in Aliens were born from human hosts and they could walk on walls.
Didn't they change it to a cow for the dvd and blue ray edition because people complained about the dog?
Francisco Parente by that logic, all the xenomorphs in Aliens and other games shouldn't be able to crawl on walls since they all came from humans.
This game follows the first Xenomorph model "Big Chap" based after its designer, H. R. Giger. Its the one from the first Alien movie. And he didnt walk on the walls. That was itroduced first in Aliens and the overall design was changed for budged reasons (they need confortable and durable suits for the actors that play Xenomorphs). Later it was established that those Xenos in Aliens were warriors while the one in Alien was a drone.
Francisco Parente We know that warriors from humans can climb walls but we haven't seen a drone wall climb yet.
Joe...about this particular Xenomorph "not crawling the walls and ceiling".
Dude...seriously? Come on. It's the classic Drone type. Like in the first movie. If you watch the movie closely, you will see that Drone never ever climbed any walls or ceilings. Drones are too big and undeveloped for that. They're walker-type of Xenomorphs that mainly walk on their two legs in corridors and move through the vent shafts. They never use walls or ceilings to simply move about. The ones who climb walls and ceilings are Warriors, Runners and Predaliens, not Drones and also not Praetorians (too heavy and too big). The Queen also cannot climb walls or ceilings, by pretty obvious reasons. Xenomorph in this game is a Drone.
You need more upvotes my friend!
Руз Болтон
I just know my shit. That's all.
Whoah, I need to find a wiki for the Alien franchise. These Xenomorph types sound so interesting!
MisterOmena
aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Drone_Xenomorph
or
avp.wikia.com/wiki/Drone
Another reason for the lack of wall an ceiling climbing was the original Alien was a man in a suit not cgi.
2:30 MY EYES!!! THEY BLEED!!!
the image is in one frame, but it's still scarring. ;~;
MasterJunior93 I blinked so I missed it until you pointed it out LMFAO that's definitely to small to be AJ. gotta be OJ.
I know how did nobody else notice this??? I looked all over the comments and you were the only one I found that says anything about it... AHHHHH Help me!
MasterJunior93 MY EYES!!!! IT BUUUUUUURRRRRRNNNNN!!!!
It's actually two frames :) Hit SPACE to pause playback, then use < and > to step forward and backwards one frame at a time. Now I kind of wished I hadn't!
"It can take out the fun when you have to play a lengthy section multiple times."
Shit that was the norm for us old timers back in the 80's, son. No saves at all! It's what made FINALLY beating a game like Castlevania or Ninja Gaiden EXTREMELY satisfying!
We might not get a sequel because CA were disappointed with the 2.1 million sales.
+John Doe That's absurd. That is an insane amount of money. Maybe they're used to the Total War sales?
+John Doe I'm so sad to hear about this. I've recently played through Alien Isolation for its one year anniversary. It's still one of the best horror games out there. I really hope we get a sequel, and if they made a kickstarter I would throw money at them.
+John Doe
Well, it was the parent company Sega who took the decision. They apparently thought they would get "Sonic the Hedgehog" numbers (a horror game? they must be kidding), and they are also in trouble with their games division losing money.
Sega? More like Seegson ... their software division is being decomissioned faster than you can say "Sevastapol".
Why? I do not know.
Creative Assembly made a great game and are blameless.
+Shmandalf
Total War community is very pissed with CA these days. They have done too many beta releases and also DLC-whoring. Strategy gamesdoes not make millions in sales either.
- Played total war for over 10 years.
silphaatrata "As of 31 March 2014, the game has sold 1.13 million copies in Europe and North America"
That's just for total war Rome 2. So they totally make millions in sales from the Total War games lol. At $40-$60 a pop they made anywhere from 40-60 million dollars off of it. Also look at Starcraft 2, that game has sold 4.5 million units, with its expansion being the top selling game in the first quarter of 2013 (they sold 1.1 million copies on the very first day). Strategy games make tons of money man.
Everyone take a minute and think about how awesome it would be if a Jurassic Park game was made with this exact kind of attention to detail and gameplay. Universal needs to look into it.
holy crap, i keep wishing for something like that!. I think an open world would be freakin awesome too, like an entire island for us to walk around and explore with dynamic weather and with all of our favorite dinosaurs (mine is spinosaurus). And have encounters like in this game.
***** Too bad it was never finished
***** That was my first thought when playing Alien isolation. Something about the mechanics felt like Jurassic Park tresspasser back in the day, which might look crap now, but was incredibly ambitious for its time.
There weren't many other ambitious projects like that at the time, set in such vast locations.
Raptor086 It was finished. It was an awesome game.
Imagine if there was a Spider-Man game like this. You know, where it actually feels like real, genuine effort was put into it......
manual saves are a win for me, doesn't mean I hate auto tho
This game is STILL good to play right now! And its cheap!
@Miriam Svenson Ooooooh yeah!
Just done with it . 6 year old game that can kick other games' asses 👌this game aged well = extremely optimized stays 60 fps on my pc with all ultra settings + incomparable A.I. mechanics 💯
@@kdv9711 The game is STILL b-e-a-utiful to look at!
@@Bobman-ml5qf thats fr man . I'm mad how this game is criminally underrated man - it's so optimized even lower end pc can run this game at 60 fps and stays beautiful + how systematic the A.I + well-written story this has 🙁
im sad that they wouldnt consider giving this a sequel - i would fvcking buy that sequel even they could just recycle the engine they used for this and just change the storyline / characters. Thats how its graphics can still compete to newer gen games we have today.
@@kdv9711 man cant describe how good this game is.....its so sad that theres no sequel.....this is the best alien game that we could have
How can IGN give this 5/10??!!
because sega did not pay them
Daniel_Meicker I is for Idiot's G is for Gaming N is for News.
You can't spell ignorant without ign
Daniel_Meicker Nice one ;)
The guy also bitches because the hardest difficult is too hard. Honestly, it sounds like he got 10 minutes in, gave up, watched other people play it, and then wrote the review.
One thing I hope they implement in a sequel is the Alien's curiosity. Like how it would play with and even molest its victims in the first movie. What if instead of straight out killing you each time, it slashes at your legs, forcing you to crawl away from it. All the while, it's slowly approaching you, walking as loudly as it can, intimidating, and toying with you. Or at other times, after it has killed someone else, it doesn't feel like killing you, instead knocking you out, and taking you with it somewhere deep within the ship, like with Dallas. That, I think, would make the Alien even more unpredictable and frightening.
you should make an alien game. id play the fuck out of it if it was like that.
Controllable Helplessness hammering home that you shouldn't fuck with the Alien? Absolutely!
Get hired. Quick.
I think they should make a movie of Alien Isolation, so that it can rightfully cement its place in the cannon of Alien films.
My dream cast would be:
Amanda - Jennifer Lawrence
Samuels - Benedict Cumberbatch
Verlaine - Juliane Moore
Ricardo - John Boyega
Waits - William Hope (he was Gorman in Aliens - and does a great job in the game, so why not?)
Taylor - Carey Mulligan
Murphy - Harry Dean Stanton
Ransome - Lance Henriksen
Axel - Robert Carlyle
Julia Jones - Courtney Cox
Hughes - Bradley Cooper
Dr Lingard - Halle Berry
Dr Kuhlmann - John Hurt
Foster - Reese Witherspoon
Marlowe - J.K. Simmons
Heist - Bruce Willis
"The Message" & "Opening Credits" (voice) - Sigourney Weaver
Android voices - Ian Holm
Alien - Simon Cowell
Director: either Sam Mendes or Alfonso Cuaron
I've chosen Jennifer as the lead because she made me shit my pants when she was about to go into the arena in the first Hunger Games. The fear on her face - wow, she would make the film extremely scary - brilliant actress who can do action as well as all of the emotional stuff.
Plus - she's gold dust at the moment - all of my expensive acting choices would be bought and paid for if she was the star of the film. It would easily be the most successful horror film of all time.
What does anyone else think?
Why not just get the cast who did the voice acting instead of people who are well known and already had their big break
Frankie Theoret
Because physical acting and voice acting are different skills.
Both Amanda and Ricardo were physically modelled on different people to those that played their voices. You'll see two names in the credits for each character.
In other video games, you get a very convincing 30 year-old playing a teenager. But onscreen, that obviously just wouldn't work.
I agree that Alien was a great success because it used a few relative unknowns in amongst the British thespians (Hurt & Holm) - all very skilled theatrical actors slightly under the radar.
But that wouldn't make a good debate here on TH-cam - because any unknown actors I came up with would just make people go "???" - so I veered wildly, and expensively, to - mainly - the current Oscar contenders.
***** that's where directing comes in. And also coaching.
I think this is the Alien-game, I've always wanted to play ever since whenever. I think it is almost obvious that there'll be a sequel, this time where you'll get to shoot at the bugs. Root 'em out of their nest, marine-style. Actually, I think this game is canon.
I don't know about making it into a film. I think that the industry should focus on remaking "resurrection" from scrap. Plenty of great storylines out there, in books and comix's, that has the same implications on the universe of Alien as "Ressurection" do. Don't know why Hollywood didn't team up with some of those guys, instead of keep on belching out even worse crap. Twice, they did allready!
So, no, I don't think they should make 'Isolation' into a movie, ontop what's already out there, movie-wise. Guess I should have stayed with that.-)
Edit: clarifications and stuff.
No
The other reason for the lack of auto-saves and the save points is how the Alien gets redeployed every time you load. It's pretty clever stuff, since it gets around you being stuck behind the Alien in an unfortunate area.
Also, look into how the Alien AI works. For when the game came out, it's very clever stuff.
There is a trophy where you have to play on hard and not die to the Alien once in the game which is near impossible.
I heard when your playing on hard and once the alien grabs you just restart the last section u were on and it wont count as a death.
I completed it first time on hard. That was enough for me!
Ryan Roach I can kind of confirm, at least I got the “don’t die by the alien in the fifth mission” one by doing this trick. Makes me wish I hadn’t tho the trophy wasn’t satisfying to pop like this
I would really like to see a multiplayer mode where people can play as the alien, be kinda like hide and seek :)
Nooooooooooo!
The alien is an - well "alien" - extremely fast and deadly.
If a human controls it, then it's just a rubbish human controlling it and not catching people. Like a man in a rubber suit chasing people around a table, it would be pathetic!
Multiplayer is fine - you can be a human or an android, but not the Alien. That's off limits. It is much superior to us humans and should never be played by one because it is lightning fast (we aren't) and has heightened senses (we don't).
***** But as with Alien vs predator from years ago, if a person playing the alien is forced into the right alien mindset, then the experience can be extremely rewarding for both players. A lot of the time with the old game people playing the alien would play a running and charging style. A few players however realised that horror was a part of the experience. Lurking in the shadows motionless to avoid the motion trackers etc.
Al Paca
Mindset doesn't come into it.
In my own mind, I'm the fastest computer gamer that ever lived! (so says me!) .. but if I was to control the alien in multiplayer, I wouldn't represent this terrifying character at all accurately. "fast human" is not the same as "alien".
The Alien is a terrifying threat to all humanity; not your best friend chasing you around some boxes and failing to catch you! (while "Yakety Sax" plays in the background)
This thing kills you the moment it sees you, it can't be reasoned with - it is far quicker than any human. A human playing the alien makes it - well, not alien anymore. Just a human in a rubber suit who may or may not win when he sees his opponent.
The Alien should ALWAYS win - it shouldn't be a fair game!
You should always be terrified of the alien seeing you - but if it's your best friend controlling the alien, the horror is completely gone - you're up against your best friend, and not the alien.
No-one should ever get to play the Alien. Full stop.
***** By this logic, no serial killers in horror movies should ever be "human" since this apparently isn't very scary. Sneaking around and "killing" your friends can be very fun, it's the same play style used by stealth games for the last 15 years only you're hiding from (and killing) a human instead of an AI all they have to do is make the playing field level, "Infestation" game mode in AVP does this amazingly well.
Al Paca
That's NOT my logic at all.
I'm even allowing you to be an android; slow and creepy, extremely tough to kill and, to all intents and purposes, this game's genuine version of remorseless (but beatable) serial killer.
We both know what would happen.
You would play as a human, your friend would play as the alien.
Rather than a tense game of hide and seek (as in the actual game) - it would be the pair of you running around some boxes aimlessly.
Hilariously, one look at the flamethrower would have your "alien" friend running into the nearest vent! It would be so shite :)
Ok.
Let's say Creative Assembly's next videogame was a "tense, horror experience" based on the original "Halloween" movie. In which you must avoid the terrifying Michael Myers at all costs.
The rules are the same - nobody should get to play Michael Myers in multiplayer. Because he then loses all scariness.
One of THE best Alien games I've played. It was pretty much everything I expected, and for a die hard fan like myself, it was not a let down one bit. Not boring at all if you went in for what you expected. Hide.
Love to have this game on my PS3 library :)
PC master race!
PTEpye where did that come from? was it just because he said ps3?
Lucas Oliveira I don't even have a PC.I just like saying it.
***** Kneel before the Gameboy color race, Wiiuterian.
you guys tripping. N64 was the shit.
the crazy thing is it took a strategy game developer to make a horror game, let that sink in!
Makes a lot of sense actually.
I mean its a single player horror game its not that impressive 😂 make the game coop online where me and a friend can play together and survive together and then I'd def play it.
@@subzero308 You still should play it, it was seriously so good
@@subzero308 there’s other games out there where you can survive with friends. Saying this game isn’t impressive is disingenuous and you’re just trying to be argumentative
That's why I love Angry Joe's reviews. IGN only whined "Too long! Too frustrating!" Joe gave us the good, the bad and the honest, rating the game after he thoroughly played entirety.
My favourite thing to do in this game: Go up to a wall/solid surface and absolutely batter it with a wrench. And then run like crazy to a hiding place. The most euphoric/terrifying sensation ever haha!
I bet its even more fun to do that wrench banging near some defenseless sap and watch the alien eat them, right? Or am I the only one that's an ass to random video game characters?
Or throwing a noise maker into a group of human enemies LOL
I've seen a few people do that in playthroughs. The most amazing thing happened once: The humans managed to force the alien off with overwhelming firepower! It ran off, then crawled outta the vents and snatched one of them. At which point the remainder couldn't get enough bullets into the critter before it up and ate each of them too. It was really cool knowing you're not the only one able to fight of the alien (although it DID highlight why a single person (i.e. the Player) should never never use a pistol on an alien).
Kelkuza that's really interesting lol i actually in a desperate oh fuck it moment shot the alien with my shot gun in its face and it stammered! I of course died but I was like yeah fuck you lol
Stopped the video for a moment to check a message, I come back, and ended up in a frame of Joe's crotch.... Joe, wtf...
Mijail Jones sure. I got a kooler story; I played Alien fuckingfuntasticrefreshingoasisofgoodnessinCorpriddledb$landoffuckingDLCb$grindfestdayn'age Isolation.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
just pause on any part of any angry joe review
and you see the face of joe's orgasm
+Mijail Jones But you said you paused the video. That means you paused it in the frame of Joe's crotch, so why are you surprised that the same frame is still there when you come back?
walkin in our panties, leg clip and then, NO!!
*Rapidly presses Pause/Play button to figure out what that split second image was at **02:30**.*
Aaahhh!! Damn you Joe for making me curious enough to find that image! Damn it!
It looks like a penis
Dam YOU For Pointing It Out... I Didn’t Know... MY EYEEEEESSSS!
use < and > to advance or backtrack one frame at a time.
That was gross
(Screaming) MY EYES! IT BURN!
Now all Creative assembly need to do is make a version into a tactical shooter where you have a squad of marines trapped on some colony and you have to make it to a extraction point, however your will need to creep about seal doors place drone guns seal air vents but oh no you missed a vent, and then its fight the wave of intelligent aliens or alien and fall back to a more secure location. Have say 10 guys under your control and you can jump from marine to marine but that's all you have 10 guys when there dead they are done and gone ,so it makes the game less gun hoe requires sneaking and tactics now that would be a game worthy to the aliens film.
Now lets hope somebody listens on the inside of CA lol
I think it's too late to do that. Gearbox fucked up Aliens, so people would be very skeptical if they did that.
Nah never too late people love a good game that's what sells,although some company's CA for one with Rome 2 used a solid franchise to off load that shit that was Rome 2 tut tut
2 weeks ago, before I got the game, I would have laughed at you.
But towards the end of this game, they showed it's more than possible to have more than one intelligent alien.
They would need at least another 3 years of development time, but it could well be worth it.
Good idea but i think its gonna go balls up because todays fps devolpers seem to suck but yeah if well made that would be a good idea it could even have an day night system like the little girl in Aliens said "Its gonna be dark and then they come to prey" (or something like that) hope that in the Crew expendable DLC (wich is broken sadly because of the characters) when you die it would say something like "I can't lie about your odds"
Just thought it should be known that the IGN reviewer for this game said that you should instead play Slender: The Arrival. If that doesn't represent the simplicity of IGN reviews then the complaint about "too much walking" is sure too.
IGN is a hit and miss review. alot dumb games get high ratings, and alot good games get bad. its really a bad place to get reviews. Thats why I subbed to Joe, his reviews are more accurate.
They said u should play slender the arrival, yet they gave that game a 6/10. Just goes to show what retards they r
The reviews on IGN or only based upon if the company has payed for a good review or not. Most games they give a high rating don't deserve it at all, and the games they give a shit rating don't deserve it. For a game they'll give 10 strong positives and 1 minor negative and it will get a 7/10 some how. IGN is a waste of time if you want an honest review.
"Grrr you have a gun in Alien Isolation, It's a cod clone 1/10"...how gaming media reviews games #gamergate
IGN cons: frustrating Alien AI. They think the Alien is too unpredictable.
I think that backtracking is one of the best things about the game. It makes it feel real. I just love it.
Still can't believe this game is nearly six years old and still, the best Alien game ever made!