
Alien Isolation
Survived Alien Isolation
I've now finished Alien Isolation, an insanely scary game and not one for those who don't like horror. But it's really cool how well they've nailed the world. I'm not a huge fan of the Alien movies, but they've gotten most things really right. Unfortunately, though, I think the concept sounds much better than how the result turned out. There's way too much where you have to do everything right or else it's a one-hit kill. If it so much as touches you, you're stone dead and have to start over from the last save. So it becomes more that you're afraid of dying because you'll have to replay a chunk, rather than it being scary in itself. Ironically, I think the times I really jumped, it wasn't the alien that scared me; it was an android or a human that showed up very unexpectedly and really scared the crap out of me. It also had a crafting system that sucked. There was tons of material, but only for things I apparently missed and could never build, and pretty much none of what I actually needed. It must have been a really cool game when it came out 12 years ago, but a lot of it felt very clunky today. It'll be interesting to see if the sequel can feel more modern when it comes out. Now it's RE2OG instead, less scary.
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