PCGamer: Alien: Isolation preview

Source: http://www.pcgamer.com/uk/previews/alien-isolation-preview-hands-on-with-creative-assemblys-ambitious-sci-fi-horror/

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The trouble comes when the escalation doesn't stop. Almost thirty years after Aliens, Giger's monster isn't scary any more. It's cannon fodder, a fast zombie, a banana-headed moron. Games have finished off what the movies started, completing the xenomorph's transition from unknowable terror to lunchbox mascot. Lunchbox mascots, in the main, are not a credible threat.

I played Alien: Isolation for forty-five minutes, and in that time it did more to rehabilitate the alien in the part of my brain reserved for things that scare the shit out of me than any game since the original Aliens versus Predator. That's the highest praise I have to offer, and more than I'd thought to hope to get out of the reveal of a new Alien game, particularly one from a developer known for grand strategy games and the odd wonky fantasy action title.

But here we are. Creative Assembly have gone and made an Alien game that is actually scary, the game that you have probably been asking for in comments threads since Colonial Marines disintegrated on launch like a crap rocket made of blank cheques and publisher's tears.

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It's an Alien game, not an Aliens game

The key's in the name. Creative Assembly claim to have ignored every development in the franchise that followed Ridley Scott's movie. That means no pulse rifles, no jarheads, no queens, Praetorians, predaliens, and so on. It's an Alien game, and as such it's in competition pretty much exclusively with the (surprisingly excellent) Spectrum RPG from 1984.

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There's also a video on the second page that is worth a look.

This sounds like it could be pretty great. After the disaster that was "Aliens: Colonial Marines" I'm happy that somebody is trying for a less action-shooty Aliens game and more horror-creepy Alien one (Even though I liked Monolith's "Aliens vs. Predator 2" from 2001. Well, except for the Predator part, which I had no interest in).

Anyway, I hope they manage to pull this off... And now I'm curious about that Spectrum game...