It's funny you mention both Kojima by name and his work with cutscenes. Because reading your article smacked me with a realization straight out of MGS2. What if we started an aliens game as ANOTHER GAME? I don't know if you'd want to pull a fake out like MGS2 did, but you'd need time to know who you are and such before senior Xenomorph pops up, and you need to take a level in badass to survive.