![]() Within the Sevastopol station, Ripley must not only evade an Alien whose singular goal is to hunt down and kill any living thing on the station, but also malfunctioning androids who seem to have forgotten Asimov’s first rule of robotics, and other humans who are so fear stricken that they’ll kill anyone on sight. Her situation is a bit worse than her mother’s considering that the space station she’s in is considerably larger than the Nostromo. She isn’t innately a violent person but she is a survivor and does what she needs to stay alive. This is the Alien game we’ve deserved and for the most part it delivers on every level as both a video game and a true sequel to Ridley Scott’s classic.Īmanda Ripley is not unlike her mother, Ellen. Cunning and stealth are what this game emphasizes and I find it refreshing for this franchise. You’re a regular human being who must put aside her fear and try to outwit a cunning foe who is all but invincible. You aren’t some bad-ass space marine who can kill dozens of Aliens after breakfast. Unlike most games in this franchise which take their cues from the action packed Aliens, this title does something different by getting its inspiration from the original Alien movie. What I wrote above is the basic experience of Alien: Isolation. After a while, I leave the locker and continue… hoping that I won’t see this monster again but knowing that I inevitably will. I let out a breath of air in relief and stay in my not-so-safe sanctuary until the creature jumps back into the air vent to continue its hunt elsewhere. Just as I’m about to lose consciousness from air deprivation, it turns around and begins to walk away. I hold my breath while it sniffs the air for any signs of life. It stops by the locker, as if it knows something is inside. A black, menacing figure, whose features invoke my nightmares. ![]() No sooner do I do this than I hear the sounds of what I can only describe as “death.” As I press my back to the locker and try not to breathe too hard, I see a glimpse of the terror that hunts me. I see a locker nearby and get inside it as quickly as I can. I stop for a second out of sheer terror but know that idleness will no doubt leave me in the same state as the body I passed. Sidestepping the corpse of a once living person who had been savagely killed, I could hear something moving in the vents above me. My heart raced and sweat trickled down my face as I slowly made my way through the darkened corridors of a once bustling space station.
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