"Alien: Isolation" Looks Beautiful and Terrifying

"Alien: Isolation" looks beautiful and terrifying in this video of the opening scenes of the game.

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It has been 17 years since the last true film in the Alien franchise (not counting 2004's Alien vs. Predator), but a new game dropping Tuesday is offering a deeper dive into that universe than even the movies. 

The long-awaited Alien: Isolation is a horror survival game in which you play as Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Ellen Ripley, the character played by Sigourney Weaver in the classic horror/action films. In Isolation Amanda is an engineer who's determined to find the flight recorder from her mothers ship, 15 years after it disappeared. 

The massive game reportedly takes about 20 hours to play through, and gets some voiceover work from Weaver herself, whose likeness appears in some mini-game flashbacks within the game. 

Gaming site Dealspwn shared a video of about 10 minutes of footage from the game (above), and it looks as beautiful, cinematic and dread-inducing as any Alien film. 

The reviews seem to agree that this is a scary as game. For example: 


The Escapist: "Alien: Isolation can be frustrating, but it's mostly terrifying in a near-perfect way. The Alien is scarier than it's been since Ridley Scott first showed it to the world, and the atmosphere is thick enough to cut." 


IGN: "I can’t stress this enough. From the DOS-based “futuristic” computers and their scan-lined CRT monitors to the fear-enhancing, violin-screeched orchestral score, Isolation clearly did its homework in the A/V department."


Kotaku: "Regardless of how it happens, rest assured that the alien will kill you. Often. That is what the bulk of Alien: Isolation consists of: Being mercilessly murdered, over and over again, by a horrifying, eight-foot-tall monster from outer space."

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Of course, just about anything would be better than that last garbage Alien game, Colonial Marines.
 
 

 

 
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