I typically don't care to review games, so I am not going to. Instead, here's what I have to say about Alien Isolation as I play it and have yet to finish it. Crouching. I am tired of crouching. The main threat throughout most of the game is the Alien. In order to avoid this creature whose only form of attack is an inescapable grab that leads to a one-hit-kill is to crouch walk. In short, this lowers the amount of noise you make and also makes you move at about half speed.

I wish there was more emphasis on some other aspect of the game. I would suggest combat, but I don't see how this would work without reworking more enemies into the game, and Aliens Colonial Marines was not received well. Possibly making the game shorter and revolving more around spectacle would have worked, but I digress. All I can say is that I am tired of crouch walking. It makes me slow, bored, and bored. Yeah, twice.

I actually enjoy playing the game at times, but I feel that this games greatest strength is in proving that modern game design cannot replicate the same feelings that movies do. Well, at least this is true in how this game was made. You see, Alien (the movie) was very similar to this game except that it revolved around a crew. You grew attached to the characters, watched them encounter a mysterious threat, then watched them slowly move around their ship in order to survive. In this game, I definitely move around slowly and try to survive against a threat, but it is not very mysterious and I am not attached to any characters. With that said, this game does atmosphere very well and has some decent scares but, again, it does not hit the same notes that the movie did because both had a lot of similar-looking corridors, but only one had the emphasis on characters as well.

Alien Isolation is a good game so far, and I hope it quickly takes some turns I am not expecting. Otherwise, it has the potential to become bogged down in what it tries to do well - atmosphere and supposed tense moments. (I have yet to want to put the game back in my console over all of the other games that are out at the end of 2014.)