Alien: Isolation

[Hama]

I started playing. And it was perfect. Everything looks amazing. The environment, the lighting, the sound, the atmosphere. Everything. And then, then I step in front of a light, and I FREAKING CAST NO SHADOW!

Way to break immersion AC. Good job. Seriously, if you could create something to see when you look down, would have it been so hard to have the character cast a shadow?

Anyway, my rant aside, the game is really good. Really. Get it. Play it. Get terrified.

[Cpt. Caboodle]

Perchance thou art a vampire... didst thou glytter?

[Hama]

No, I am Ripley's daughter. 15 years after the first movie.

[Hama]

I must add, I haven't been this terrified since I played Amnesia and Outlast.

And I'm more terrified playing this. It eats them gor breakfast fear-wise. It's so damn good.

[wicked cool]

what other game would you compare it to? hows movement and picking up objects. How is stealth? are there difficulty sliders? Thanks

[Hama]

Like I said, Amnesia, Outlast, Penumbra. It's first person. You can walk or you can run.

You can't pick up objects unless they are context sensitive, like resources or flares or stuff like that.
Stealth is good. The alien can hear, and see and will be hunting you by sight and sound. So you need to hide behind stuff, in darkness or in lockers. You can also toss flares to distract it.
There is easy, normal and hard. Dunno what the difference is. I play games on the hardest difficulty as default.

[Stereofm]

I love Alien Isolation, it renders so well the creepy atmosphere of the films

[Big Justin]

game owns

[Captain Sir Hexen Ineptus]

I agree with everything said thus far. I think it is an incredible game. My only complaint I had was the up close detail on the alien could have been better. From afar it looks great, but up close, when its about to take you out... it just looks a tad too cartoon-y. There is no we glimmer of slime, and with such detail to make it feel like the 1st alien movie, I would have hoped they put as much effort into the
alien's iconic killing appearance.

Perhaps my graphic settings are too low, or my video card has gotten old. Will mess with things later on.

[Hama]

What is your video card? What are your PC specs?

[MannyGoblin]

End stuff:

Very nice game, although I think it would have been better served with no sequel hook and just allow Amanda to go back to Earth. This, I believe, would fit into a theme of the Xenos,W-T and the setting being far too big to really be changed by one person. Amanda was able to listen to her mother's last words and hopefully find closure. So not having a last stinger at the end would be more appropriate, imo.

[Freehold DM]

I am not liking this game. This doesn't feel like survival horror so much as weird exploration. I am at the very beginning, though- does this change after a while?

[Threeshades]

When the alien makes its proper entrance is when it becomes more survival-horror.

[Freehold DM]

Threeshades wrote:

When the alien makes its proper entrance is when it becomes more survival-horror.

I'll give it one more evening. If the alien doesn't show up, I'm returning trapped-in-a-hazardous-mall to gamefly.

[Hama]

Trust me, tough it out till the Alien comes.

[Captain Sir Hexen Ineptus]

Freehold DM, this is a surprisingly long game. This is build-up.

[Kthulhu]

Yeah, but there's build-up, and then there's just tedium. I'm sorry to say that, for my money, Alien Isolation falls on the wrong side of that line.