Alien Isolation (PS4, XBO, PC, Rift) - Original cast is back

Little bit of a summary.

- Alien: Isolation by The Creative Assembly.
- Q4 2014.
- Play as Amanda Ripley, Ellen's daughter.
- Set 15 years after the first film. Amanda, a Weyland-Yutani employee, learns that the USCSS Nostromo flight recorder has been recovered on a tradition station, and so seeks it out to learn of her mother's fate.
- Only one Xenomorph in the entire game. Focus on making the aliens scary again.
- Hunts you throughout the game. AI programmed to learn your movement and avoidance patterns to adapt and ambush. Want to make the xeno a "living entity".
- Encounters with xeno deliberately kept scarce to keep them scary.
- During a play test one tester stood by a desk for around seven minutes, and the dev team were worried it was due him having trouble working out where to go, or fumbling with a mechanic. They asked him what was wrong, and he said that he knew the xeno was in the area and was watching its patrol routes trying to work out a pattern, realised there wasn't one, and thus was trying to decide what to do.
- "What you do is different every time, so what it does is different every time".
- Xeno's learning rate is organic, not fixed. May find he learns one thing quickly on one playthrough, but slower on another.
- Other NPC occupants on the station. Both them, and the environment, will prove to be threats of their own.
- "Alien" game, not an "Aliens" game.
- "Haunted house in space".
- "When you come across the alien in our game it's about survival, avoidance, and hiding".
- First person. "Lean" function.
- Equipment: Flashlight, motion tracker, welding tool.
- The Creative Assembly have drawn from around 3 terabytes of unreleased material used for the films, including concept art and music.
- Will not contain any tech not seen in the film, described as "Low-fi sci-fi".
- Next-gen controllers used for gameplay feedback, eg: PS4 light bar flashes in time with the motion tracker.
- "No-one had made the game we wanted to play".

DaddyBrown wrote:Looks good, however so did Aliens CM in the trailers and demos...

Just saying.

Mafro wrote:

DaddyBrown wrote:Looks good, however so did Aliens CM in the trailers and demos...

Just saying.

Colonial Marines went through development hell and wasn't even demoed to the press until two months before launch, whereas this has.

DaddyBrown wrote:

Mafro wrote:

DaddyBrown wrote:Looks good, however so did Aliens CM in the trailers and demos...

Just saying.

Colonial Marines went through development hell and wasn't even demoed to the press until two months before launch, whereas this has.

Can't say I share your faith.

Skippy wrote:

DaddyBrown wrote:

Mafro wrote:

DaddyBrown wrote:Looks good, however so did Aliens CM in the trailers and demos...

Just saying.

Colonial Marines went through development hell and wasn't even demoed to the press until two months before launch, whereas this has.

Can't say I share your faith.

Where's the faith in what Maf said? He's stating fact

DaddyBrown wrote:

Skippy wrote:

DaddyBrown wrote:

Mafro wrote:

DaddyBrown wrote:Looks good, however so did Aliens CM in the trailers and demos...

Just saying.

Colonial Marines went through development hell and wasn't even demoed to the press until two months before launch, whereas this has.

Can't say I share your faith.

Where's the faith in what Maf said? He's stating fact

Faith in that it will be any good, is what I meant.

Mafro wrote:"That wasn't a statement of opinion, it's just plain fact" - HSH28

Hands on – Alien: Isolation

We have all been burned by past Alien games and I would like us to maintain a healthy scepticism about Creative Assembly’s recently unveiled Alien: Isolation, which I went to see and play just before the turn of the year. With this in mind, I believe it an obligation, before we begin discussing this new threat, to observe a moment of silence in which we can all remember the brave souls we lost to the Colonial Marines disaster...The good news is that, despite keeping that scepticism intact, my recent hands-on with Isolation has given me cause for hope. With luck (and no small amount of effort from the development team) we are a little closer to having an Alien game that actually captures the feel of the original movie.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Cal wrote: I love the design (beautiful corridors!)