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OK, Alien: Isolation Looks Terrifying

Please don't be terrible. Please don't be terrible. Please don't be terrible.

Jan. 7 2014

Posted by: Patrick

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Alien: Isolation

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This LOOKS good... let it be so this time.

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@robopengy: In a sense, yes. But then Prometheus just had a more modern version of the 'music' in the original 'Alien' trailer too. :)

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It's made by the Total War people so it will be terrible and broken.

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Please don't be terrible, please don't be terrible

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Somebody's finally got the right idea, it seems!

That's great!!

Although I fail to see how this can be any kind of co-op game.

...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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@johnbakosh said:

Ugh, another game forcing you to play as a woman!

How can they expect me to "relate" to the character, when I got man-parts and she got lady-parts?! Dang nabbit!

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It's being made by the Total War guys, very dramatic genre shift.

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It's gonna be awful

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Let's hope they at least release it in a more finished state than they did with Rome 2.

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Preeeeetty sure that was the Prometheus trailer music.

Pretty sure you're right, but said trailer music was actually a callback to the Alien trailer.

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Those aliens are oppressing her

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I'm weary. But this looks far closer to what I want out of an Alien game.

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@yeliwofthecorn:

http://www.giantbomb.com/spartan-total-warrior/3030-18951/

This game was pretty dope.

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Looks a lot like Routine. I'm fine with that. More first-person horror games set in space, please.

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@naru_joe93 said:
EDIT 2: Ign has a more indepth look at the game on their site. Anyone who is interested in this should check it out. It has a long gameplay demo with commentary and interviews with people working on the game (they are saying all of the right things... Damn I hope this is good)

Videogamer.com also have a write-up and a video with gameplay and commentary by their staff here. Scroll down to the bottom for the embedded Youtube video.

Edit: I've started watching the IGN video and it's pretty bad. Instead of just showing gameplay footage and talking over it. You watch them talk about it for a few minutes, then they show a few seconds of footage, then it cuts back to them talking again. Rinse, Repeat. The Videogamer.com video is much better and the commentary contains a more frank opinion about the game. It seems that IGN are milking a very small amount of footage across a 26 minute video. I don't know who those IGN guys are but they are coming across more like marketing people for the game instead of editorial staff.

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wow even watching the trailer made me really scared,then again i tend to avoid scary games as im a big pussycat :P

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Well, this has loads of potential.

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Creative Assembly is an interesting choice of developer on Sega's part. It's cool to see a developer stretching out into different genres other than their strong suit. There's a lot of potential for innovation when working from a fresh perspective like that.

Hopefully it works out better than when they tried their hand at an action game.

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@flaboere said:

Wait, this is Ripleys daughter. But we already know she died of old age, so she's gonna survive this game.

Its Cannon if your re-spawn.

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Crazy how many people don't know the crucial difference between Alien and Aliens. Alien is a awesome horror movie, Aliens is an awesome action movie.

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It isn't made by gearbox, so my hopes are a bit up.

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Trailer shows well, looks like the CA guys get it (1st person survival horror with one alien is the way it should be). Too bad the chances of it actually being any good are slim to none.

Then again... it could be some mind blowing surprise like Arkham Asylum.

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It NOT being Gearbox is already a step in the right direction.

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Nevermind.

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@crunksmcgee said:

@flaboere: Wasn't she told that by Weyland-Yutani Rep? They are not exactly the most trustworthy of fictional companies.

Except she was told that in ALIENS before Weyland-Yutani became a caricature of corporate eviiiil later on in the series. Burke was a bureaucrat but he had no reason to lie to Ripley.

Unless a Burke-like bureaucrat at Weyland-Yutani was the one that sent Amanda out to recover a new Xenomorph specimen. Burke may have lied to Ripley because he knew that if she knew the truth about his true intention for going back to LV-426, she would not have cooperated.

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This looks amazing. I have no problem getting my hopes up. I'd rather be optimistic and disappointed than jaded about everything all of the time.

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I have been burned so many times.......

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Okay it looks promising but....*looks at the description for the game* CO-OP!?!?!...... fuck.

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@flaboere said:

Wait, this is Ripleys daughter. But we already know she died of old age, so she's gonna survive this game.

That's just what Weyland-Yutani wanted her to believe, man!

it was all a cover up.

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Not a single gun. Awesome!

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Well, looks like it could be good, but after the mental scars I got from Colonial Marines, I remain skeptical.

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Sounds a lot like that Miasmata game with the monster that had AI that made it actively stalk you, except the monster won't turn out to be really silly looking. It was actually pretty effective until you saw the beast and chuckled as it took about 5 minutes to wear your health down.

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@flaboere said:

Wait, this is Ripleys daughter. But we already know she died of old age, so she's gonna survive this game.

Same problem with Black Flag but that game was fun.

Well, you know that every protagonist of every Creed game has to survive at least through the end of the story that the person in the Animus can experience, since their genetic memories end when they conceive the offspring that is next in line.

Anyway, as far as Ripley's daughter goes, it stands to reason that if the Company is responsible for her death by the end of this game's events, they'd have no problem covering it up later on.

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Great atmosphere already, all you need to do now is nail everything else. No pressure.

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@fapathy: Well there already was an RTS. http://www.giantbomb.com/aliens-versus-predator-extinction/3030-13125/

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creative assembly? Aren't they the dudes who make the total war games? Besides the fact that this is another alien game, the fact that they dont normally make first person survival horror games makes me more wary.

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Time to roll out one of my favourite gifs again then :)

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Oh my god.

We need this to be good.

I need this.

PLEASE BE GOOD.

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I would have loved to have seen the Obsidian RPG. That probably would have been a hot mess technically, but probably would have had the atmosphere. Plus being able to tank an Alien because I'm level 40 would have been fun.

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Non-combat horror seems like the perfect fit for this license.

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...a FPS horror survival game from the guys behind the Total War series? uh..think I'll wait to see the reviews first

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I wonder how they'll fuck it up.

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Edited By RonGalaxy

They've been working on it for over 3 years, but Creative Assembly is unproven in this genre (from what I'm aware of). Still, Im like 15 seconds into this trailer and already hyped. Please dont be lying shitsacks like gearbox CA, PLEASE

EDIT: watched the whole thing and now I am hyped to THE EXTREME. please dont be bad, please dont be bad, please dont be bad. Also, Now Im going to go watch my alien Blu ray and revel in its greatness.

EDIT 2: Ign has a more indepth look at the game on their site. Anyone who is interested in this should check it out. It has a long gameplay demo with commentary and interviews with people working on the game (they are saying all of the right things... Damn I hope this is good)

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More space horror, taken from the greatest space horror of all.. Sounds good to me.

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Atmospheric first person horror games are becoming an annoying cliche, but this... I want this to be good so, so bad. Please. It's rare if not non-existent in this day and age that a movie-licensed game is designed around a fitting concept to the source material, and this actually looks like one of them. The fact that it's titled 'Alien' not 'Aliens' rubs me the right way. Isolation is going to need a lot of good press to win back the hearts and minds of everyone who was crushed by Colonial Marines last year.

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Wait, are we SURE this is an Alien game? I mean this looks like a moody, tense, dark sci-fi tale preying on things like fear of the unknown and being alone. I mean alien games are all about yelling GET SOME! GEEEET SOOOOOOOOOME!!!!! whilst mowing down hordes of easily killed fodder, right?

Alien. You're thinking Aliens.

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I want to get excited but I will not "care" about this game until it is released and I have seen and read reviews.

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I have always wanted a horror game about being stranded alone (for real alone) in a space ship with a horrific monster you can't fight.