Alien: Isolation Reveal Preview

[Fdzzaigl]

Now this here ladies and gentlemen, is an interesting concept and true to the franchise. Where I could smell the shit from Colonial Marines from a hundred miles away I think this can truly do very well.

You know game devs, if I wanted to play amnesia twenty times I could just do that, you don't need to all jump up and make the exact same game.

Amnesia doesn't have just one creature. Nor does it pay as much attention to the actual creatures in the narrative.

It's the Alien franchise, if anything has the right to a game that puts that creature in a special role it's that one.
Something that has been totally ignored by most of the previous games, as you slaughtered the things by the millions.

 

[Not Lord Atkin]

So there's a competent studio working on this one, even if they have previously focused on strategy games so this will be kind of new for them.

What really caught me off guard was the fact that this is a AAA release... and it's a survival horror title. As in a proper survival horror, not a shooter with monsters jumping out of closets. That to me is pretty amazing. It's a tremendous oportunity for this industry to get something right. To release a niche title, fairly unique in what it is, in a genre that was thought to be dead (at least when AAA was concerned). If they get this right, it's going to mean much more than just a good game. It's going to be a good aliens game. It's going to be the first proper AAA survival horror in years. It's going to become an example for a lot of other developers, a new direction in which the industry might start heading.

just... please don't suck...

 

[Barbas]

The article is entertaining and the game looks interesting, but we shall see...we shall see.....

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

She flushed herself out of an airlock, without a suit.

Well she got off the station at least.

 

[Darkbladex96]

Why can't we hit the sweet spot like Dead Space 2, but a little less action? God. I'm tired of all these intriguing games that go the hide, run, run, run more gameplay route. I love the aliens franchise, but I love all of it. Parts of the game being super survival mode and helpless would be awesome, but you also need your pulse rifles, and smart guns.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Oh man, that looks so cool, but I'm going to go with the cautious crowd on this one (which looks like most of us) and wait for some reviews.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

Wow another alien game yay...

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

I'm trying to be cautiously optimistic, but I'm extremely excited in spite of myself.

That the first look that any journos seem to have gotten (OK, so I've only read this and PC Gamer's coverage) is actually playing the game (as in, they weren't shown it, but actually played it) makes me believe that SEGA has learned from what Gearbox did with CM...

 

[white_wolf]

They removed the clone soldiers! Or atleast I hope they did I don't want to have to be fighting an army of clone soilders that was a very dumb thing. If it remains a survival horror then that would be great looking at the footage it reminds me when I played the alien trilogy on the genesis now it'll be seen if she's too much of a crying wuss or a unfeeling brick for main lead personas I'm hoping that she'll react to things when they're appropriate like falling from really high places you'd imagine she'd scream some or if she sees the alien she might gasp I just get really annoyed that my FPleads are either super silent bricks or way to over emotional for what is happening on screen.

 

[Jingle Fett]

Two words...

Oculus Rift.

Oh man, that could be terrifying...

 

[VoidWanderer]

Well I think I speak for a good number of us who would just like to say SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

I thought it was 'Shut up and leave my franchise alone!'

But, then again, play a single character going up against a naturally stealthy enemy with little to no way to defend yourself.

"Keep talking and maybe we will buy it."

 

[Revolutionary]

Please don't be another colonial marines style bait-and-switch.
Please don't be another colonial marines style bait-and-switch.
Man I want this to be good.

 

[ckam]

I think that Marines has taught all of us to never trust a trailer, especially Alien-related trailers.

 

[Olas]

Why does there always have to be either an army of aliens or one alien? Can't there be a middleground? How about, I don't know, a few aliens? It's almost like the Alien series is actually 2 series, one where xenomorphs are cannon fodder that can be killed with a few bullets and one where they're unstoppable death machines. It just feels inconsistent.

Whatever, these guys seem to know what they're doing, however I'm a bit worried about how much this game seems to be trying to hump the original movie's leg. Isn't it enough that we're following the original thematically? Do we really have to fill the game with constant direct references to the original all the way down to the knick-knacks on tables? It just kinda feels like they're trying to play it safe and familiar rather than be creative.

 

[DocZombie]

> snip <

Probably because it might not be, unlike Colonial Marines, which IS.

Yeah, I get that - but since retcon-ing the canon with A:CM worked out SO well, I'm glad they're not (yet) trying to with Isolation...

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Yes, but then the preview of Aliens Colonial Marines looked awesome, and remember what happened with that? Cant get excited until a proper review, hell even a review with Angry Joe being positive about it would be a good starting point.

 

[Metalrocks]

CM was anyway touched by gearbox. i lost all respect for these guys long time ago. i wasnt really fond of opposing force, dint like borderlands and with duke nukem....well, we know how that turned out.
but i dont see randy in it so this is a plus for me. but yes, i also wait for a review or more infos as well before i put my money on it. but so far this really sounds promising.

 

[RJ 17]

I'll join the ranks of those saying this looks/sounds like another Amnesia/Outlast clone. Not that that's entirely a bad thing, however. With regards to the Alien franchise, it's something that's never been done before: render you completely helpless before a single alien stalking you throughout the entire game. This could indeed be just the kind of faithful adaptation of elements from the first movie to give this franchise a shot in the arm and say "See? If you do things right, you can make a good Alien game."

 

[Saxnot]

People, curb your enthousiasm. This is the Creative Assembly we're talking about. they're good at making total war games, but they haven't made a good non - TW game in the last 10 years:
Spartan: total warrior (bad hack n'slash), Viking: battle for Asgard (mediocre hack n'slash) and Stormrise (failed experimental rts)

Based on their track record, i wouldn't get my hopes up

 

[Nevrim]

Well at least an alien game that is (or at least has the potential) to be scary.
A pity that we already know how the alien looks though.