Fear and tension are difficult reactions to provoke in fiction. In real life, sure, you just need a sharp thing to point at someone, but in entertainment creating sustained fear requires those making it to be at the very top of their game.
Sitting down to play a small slice of Alien: Isolation, the tension built instantly. Developers Creative Assembly may have sci-fi cinema's greatest horror series to work from, but successfully recreating the atmosphere and tone of Ridley Scott's original film and not just cheaply imitating it takes a real skill that was apparent in spades.
Dropping down from a ceiling vent, the player – as Ellen Ripley's daughter Amanda, on the hunt for her mother (Sigourney Weaver in the films) – immediately finds themselves in a room doused in darkness. There are unknowns from the off, and as you bring up the game's handheld motion tracker, and the game world beyond you falls out of focus, the tension is sustained by the first terrifying blip.
If you've got an Alien itch you can't quite scratch until Alien: Rolumus releases, GameSpew has rounded up the best Alien games to tide you over.
Sega has said Creative Assembly will go back to working on the genres it knows best, following the decision to cancel Hyenas.
It’s implied the studio’s focus will return to offline RTS.
Alien VR… you’re sitting on a safe investment opportunity. VR owners are always hungry for new games.
Heck, explore RTS feasibility in VR, too. One hand washes the other…
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Alien Isolation 2... That's all we need. That's all we've ever needed... The first game was a horror masterpiece!
Fans (myself included) are clamouring for a direct sequel to this fantastic game and hope for an Alien: Isolation 2. But will this great game ever get another instalment?
tbh it doesn’t need a sequel. Fantastic game but not something to make into a long running series.
