I don't think enough people out there appreciate how much of a goddamned masterpiece this game is. From the sound design, to the aesthetics, to the level architecture, to the AI, to the tight script, to the near-flawless voice acting, especially from the player character. It's not only a love letter to Alien, it's a game that stands perfectly well on its own legs.
I agree. I'm playing "The Witcher 3" right now - on hardest difficulty. It's a brilliant game - one of the very best I have ever played. But it doesn't hold a candle to Alien Isolation. None of us realised what we were dealing with, The perfect game, It's extreme beauty is matched only by its central character's living and breathing desire to kill you. I can't lie to you about your chances. But you have my sympathies :)))
I feel that hiding in locker and such are useless. The aliens would find you whatever you do inside that locker. Hiding under desk etc has a much better success in my experience.
There's also a certain area in the hive that the Alien cannot reach. Facehuggers probably can. I haven't tested it. But you can shoot at the Alien and it won't charge at you.
The alien and droids will sniff you out in lockers, cabinets AND under tables. Droids will "kick you to death" under a table no matter there is no possible contact between their foot and you. That keeps you from just hiding there infinitely. There are no truely safe hiding places that cannot be searched or atttacked. Droids cannot get u inside vents though but the alien can. And if you have never experienced the alien traveling through butthole vents you are lucky; IT CAN travel inside them too.
I agree. Sadly it looks like we Will Never get a second alien game like this. They made everything right with it. And I belive they could have made predator come into the serie, so we would not only have alien but also the predator hunting us. But well..... One can dream.
You know you made a damn good game when people are still talking about this game to this day. Wish all game developers were as thorough as these guys were.
@@planexshifter that's quite understandable. A friend of mine suffers from frequent anxiety. She always talks about how she wishes she could play this game more often but can't T___T
It's because of this game that I finally stopped listening to IGN as a reviewer. It's because of their negative review, along with GameTrailers', that I didn't buy this till years later. I LOVE this game and it's one of my top ten of all time.
Gamespot and IGN were literally the only noteworthy sites to give the game bad reviews everyone else praised it. There is something fishy here. People should all ignore IGN and film reviewers for that matter and listen to gamer and audience scores much more.
Alien Isolation is my favorite horror game. It's the only game that actually made me feel scared. It has a constant feel of dread, almost as if the very air you breathe is heavy from the moment you board Sevastapol station right til' the end of the game. It's very underratted thanks to IGN's butchering review!
@@rahlap2449 Not true, the 2 Alien vs Predator shooters from the late 90's are pretty good, the Alien Ds game is great, Alien vs Predator comic is really good (The one with Dave Gibbons) and th og script for Alien 3 is interesting.
No question - and we had Evil Within, Resident Evil, Outlast 2 and PT coming out at roughly the same time. The unpredictable alien is such a menace - and it doesn't care if the lights are off or not - which makes it even scarier.
@@trevorstevens6962 I played Outlast after completing Alien ... and I chose maximum difficulty. I found that the enemies all had a set pattern - and it was just a case of memorising the level layout and running as fast as you could.(because I had run out of batteries long ago) For a low-budget game - absolutely brilliant. But it's nowhere near Alien Isolation, where memorising the levels and running just doesn't work.
Answer is easy. Sega failed with marketing around the game, so it was a fail even before release. Not many people were buying it for a full price so it was in huge sales few months after release. Even I got it for 15 euros a few months after release. Sad it's not even developer's fault.
The alien's AI brain is split into two, one constantly knows where you are and gives hints to the other half about where you might be but never exactly where you are, thats why it appears in areas you are roaming round.
Reminder: IGN got roasted by Ace Combat director for not using simulation control scheme during the game review, calling them noobies. Safe to say, their reviews shouldn't be followed blindly.
It deserved a lot better than 5.9. It's not a perfect game, it's got flaws, but it's still deserved a minimum of 7 or 8 out of 10. The AI of the alien is worth the price of admission, its unpredictability making you question your every move, absolutely brilliant design
AL140631 you actually hear her call out a few times in the game too. You definitely hear her scream when you are in the baggage handling area before you meet axel.
13:40 Fun fact: During the later stages of the game when you're trying to get to the core of the ship, you can actually hear the queen in the background.
Yes this is true. But there is actually another location you can hear the queen before then. When you first enter the Gemini facility, as you walk along the first long corridor, you will sometimes hear a scream from the queen. It doesn’t always happen but when it does it’s terrifying!
Fun fact, the scene where they are having lunch after the guy recovers from face hugger was improvised, apart from that guy noone knew something would burst out of his chest, rewatch it n youll see the real horror in their faces when blood splatters everywhere!
@@heartless604 They made *TWO* takes of the scene. The first take is the one where Veronica Cartwright gets the blood spray full in the face that enhances the horror. They all knew something was up b/c the cameras and crew were all covered in plastic.
That's player error in decision making, not the game being unfair. Not saying 'Yo bad, yo should feel bad for being bad!' either... believe me, I KNOW the frustration. Have been stuck on the level in which you first go through the medic area and check the white board for a room number since the game came out! Hahahahahahaha! But every time I die, it's straight up been me making bad decisions on when / where to move about.
What they mean is that the xenomorph doesn't have some magical radar allowing them to know where you are and then pretend to hunt for you. In all fairness, I think they are being sincere as there have been times where I've not seen the creature for ages and others where it's been lingering around an area I needed to get to but just wouldn't leave until I drew its attention elsewhere. This is a stark contrast to a similar indie game called Monstrum where the monsters always respawned in your general part of the ship so they were never far away.
It's not exactly an inverted knee. The part that you're referring to is actually its ankle. Just like a lot of animals, the Alien walks on its toes, with an extended ankle.
Yeah I looked up the bone structure of an ostrich because of this. They have small thigh bones in comparison and long af shin and foot bones. It's interesting.
And yet if you look at the anatomy of the alien you'll see that it appears to have two sets of ankle. I originally was going to say the same thing but it isn't that simple.
Alien isolation is one of the few games I’m proud of I’ve completed it on all difficulties including nightmare (which deserves its name) and got all trophies I love this game! ❤️❤️
My first time was on Hard - and NO MAP Most awesome gaming experience of my life, being lost and alone - while "HARD MODE" is looking for me ... It took me 100 deaths, but it was worth it.
actually going for the (One Shot?) trophy for not dying gave the game a much greater element of suspense. there was the fear of being stalked and dying and also the fear of missing the trophy. i was def sweating in the nest in the no death run
Dust nightmare mode deserves its name you need to keep hiding in different places otherwise the alien learns where you like to hide and he is much more through in searches he checks all areas and under all drakes so you need to manoeuvre around him. Good luck!
You got some things wrong actually. The random loot thing; there's set locations you'll find loot in every play through, but whether something will spawn there is the random element, that and it might not always be the same thing - You might get a sensor unit one time, then some glue the next. And the alien DOES have sense in it's tail, if you so much as walk into it, the alien will turn around and grab you. Everything else was bang on. I still actively play this game so sadly gotta complain about those factors, but I learnt a few things like the amount of data they got to work with, the fact the Hacker tool wasn't based on a game boy! Also thanks, now I wanna replay it again...
Yes, the tail does have sense, I was under a table once, the alien was right there in front of me and when it finally decided to go away the tail moved towards me and touched me. I died instantly haha it was scary as heck
Don't forget how they incorrectly stated the alien's knees were inverted, when it actually has digitigrade legs, where the heel is higher up the leg, resembling a secondary backwards knee.
This is by far one of the best games ever made, truly a masterpiece....the only game which had my blood pumping nonstop. Everything about it is just amazing
You'll be thankful for the quarantine after this! Just imagine that one of these creatures is on the loose, and you have to stay inside your house for the time being ...
Not gonna lie, the first time a Xeno climbed into a vent after me, I flew out of my seat and honestly had to put everything down for a good ten minutes so my heart rate could return to normal.
@@FranciumBoron It honestly was one of the most unsettling and terrifying moments of my life, like I thought that Xeno was gonna come out of the screen or something. 🤣
@@MelStaub i showed the hospital cutscenes to my mom’s friend and she freaked she didn’t know what I was showing her same thing with my dad lol they both jumped
I just finished my first playthrough (live-streamed it) and at one point, I was trying to escape the Xeno and get to an objective, so I crawled into a vent and as I did it ran up behind me, pulled me out of the vent and then killed me. I was still crawling into the vent and it was a little glitchy because of that timing, but that was one of the most terrifying jumpscares I had.
Me and my friend have agreed that they need to make a game on the same engine and system of Alien: Isolation but make it the first official Michael Myers game, with the hospital, myers house, haddonfield streets, and other places being playable levels
good idea. But part of the genius of Alien: Isolation, and the reason it ran brilliantly on EVERY system - PS3, Windows 7, PS4, X-Box 1 etc. etc, right out of the box.... ... was because they invented a brand new purpose-built graphics engine. That's what they should do for "HALLOWEEN: Michael (part 1)" [see - I've given it a title :)] My computer is now well over 10 years old, still running Windows 7 ... back in 2014, I had an ageing graphics card which I was prepared to upgrade if necessary ... I didn't have to .. the game ran brilliant on day 1 of release! (It's the only game I ever pre-ordered) Brand new graphics engines FTW!
Personally, I would love the idea of a Terminator: Isolation set in the '80s and you're a kid trying to escape a Terminator come back to kill you because you're important to the resistance.
@@sausagesausage ... another good idea. I think "Westworld" done as a computer game - hopefully voiced by Rachel Evan Wood, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson etc. It starts with you riding the transit train to DELOS - very similar to the opening of Half-Life (but much better). As you're sitting on the train, you are subjected to propaganda videos about the 'experience' to follow: "At DELOS we believe in ULTIMATE customer satisfaction. Boy! - have we got a vacation for YOU!" Then, during the opening tutorial level, you would get to choose your cowboy outfit, and the very same lady from series 1, who guides you through the tutorial, says "Welcome to Westworld" when you are done, as you board the train. [this tutorial section could also have a target range for practising shooting and combat skills] The first mission is pathetically easy - TOTAL FREEDOM ... you can do whatever you want. Rape other robots, shoot everybody - anything your heart desires ... But, the surprise is that your decisions in this first level affect how you'll be treated by the robots near the end of the game, once they've gone rogue and want to take their revenge on the customers. Essentially, the way you play level 1 determines the difficulty level near the end of the game. Misbehave in level 1 too much and you'll have to contend with Dolores and Maeve hunting you down relentlessly near the end of the game (Maeve's special skill is that she can command any other robot in the vicinity to attack you, just by rolling her eyes! That includes things like vultures and rattlesnakes) The "Westworld" main menu is basically two options, while the opening of the TV show (piano playing robot) is on a loop in the background. The options, in bold letters, are: PLAY OPTIONS There is no selectable skill level in the options - level 1 determines how hard the game is going to get for you. Thanks for firing up my imagination sausage! :)
A well deserved top 20 list for one of the finest video games ever made. Alien Isolation has cemented it’s place in gaming history as one of the best, and scariest, survival horror games of all time
Both Gamespot and IGN gave the game mediocre reviews. iirc Gamespot said that it was too scary or hard or something for them so they docked points for it. It makes me suspect that someone had an axe to grind or Sega didn't pay the reviewers enough money to get a decent score. Especially since both IGN and Gamespot have had multiple articles praising Alien Isolation since then
@@spatchmo6938 that whole bit about Gamespot is a goddamn made up lie. The reason why Isolation got stripped of score points is because for the reviewer it greatly overstayed its welcome/was too long, to the point where the game stopped being scary, instead repetitive, tedious and frustrating (due to challenging and punishing nature of Alien: Isolation too), not because it was "too scary" and definitely not because "they had personal gripes with Sega/they didn't paid them for the review" bullshit that is so popular. As much as I disagree with those reviews, and as much as I love Isolation myself, I also understand that it is a niche game with arguable imperfections, and that it is not going to be everyones cup of tea. While I still do think that Gamespot's and IGN's reviews of Isolation were tad unfair, mainly I believe that the reviewers approached the game and played through it with an incorrect mindset, where they might have wanted to beat it quickly, but Isolation just isn't about that, it strongly prohibits, discourages and punishes that, but in the end those are just speculations, and reviews still are opinions, and opinions differ, obviously, so do tastes. Also, when we say "Gamespot gave it *that* score", we have to remember, that actually it's "a *reviewer* from Gamespot gave it *that* score". Gaming outlets, especially huge ones, rarely consist of one stuff member, one reviewer it's usually a place of many people with their own opinions, some of which align with that of their co-workers, some don't, and we can see that with Isolation too, while in the actual IGN review it got ~6/10, there was posted an article shortly after, or at least in the same year, where it was praised, called as "the Bravest game of 2014".
@@ЯношБан seriously thanks for the well thought out response. But regardless of their motivation, gamespot showed their true colors with the Kane and Lynch debacle, so I will always take all of their reviews and news coverage with a grain of salt.
IGN have to be the worst game reviewers ever. I looked in the comments of some of their reviews and they were full of people agreeing with them but all of those people agreeing with them hadn’t even played the games they’re talking about and are just going off of what IGN said.
I still need to finish this game. It legit got too stressful for me about half way through lol. P.s. Imagine my horror when I realized I was not safe in the vents.
look for a UA-cam channel of one PsychoHypnotic. He is a speed runner. Look for his Kitty Mod speed run. THAT is stressful. THe mod makes the alien and game environ *pink*. The droids can run and the alien can go into one vent and immediately come from another one without delay; essentially it CAN teleport via the vents. PsychoHypnotic holds a world record speed run of this modded mode of only 2hr43 minutes.
I finished it but I cannot return to it. I give up way too quickly as everytime I see the alien, I remember all that I had been through and just end up quitting. I'll return for a sequel but I refuse to replay it.
@@Jacob-qd4pv DO NOT over use the flame thrower. It's a deterrant only. If you use it too much you not only use your fuel up but the alien AI gets less afraid of it and like a rabid animal will jump the fire and rush you through the flame.. You will notice it will back up a second when you hold the flamer up. If it does that only flame it while rushing forward toward it. Else u give it a sun burn but don't drive it off. Also use bursts one-two-three-four-five. By the fifth burst if should be running away. Rather than cranking down on the button.
Same! If I am not managing to make actual progress, I generally can't play this game for more than 15 mins! That intense feeling of being hunted down, danger right around the corner! Absolutely masterful! Not even Resident Evil 7 had me quiet so far over onto the edge of my seat! Although it comes very close.
Great to see Alien Isolation getting the appreciation it deserves, it remains my all time favourite game and I'm still appalled at *that* IGN review for all of the unjust negativity. A phenomenal game, with a beautifully realised world, incredible Xenomorph AI and gorgeous sound design, a worthy sequel to the 1979 movie in my humble opinion. Oh and it needs to be played on Nightmare, trust me!
OOHH the queen is still in the game. When you first enter hold up the motion sensor and you will see a large blep. Also you can her scream louder than the other xenos as you enter.
This game is a masterpiece in every sense of the word. I finished the game 8 times in all difficulties and I enjoyed the ride every single time! SEGA please, take my money and give us a sequel
Alien: Isolation was so well done, I never finished it. Still the best game I've ever played, though. It's as if you're actually on Sevastopol station. Too much for my tiny little weak heart.
You should have another go - right now, it's light relief from the world-ending virus. I'm actually playing the game again just to chillax! Two bottles of cool beer, a nice lazy chair, and a relaxing game of "Alien: Isolation" ... bliss!
@@reesetorwad8346 lol i think it gets better though, after a few playthroughs. Games like Outlast and stuff are pretty relaxing to me now, given that i've finished them so many times now
@Yousef Ghaneemah Hmmm ... I own Fallout 3, and New Vegas - both solid games from when Bethesda was actually a good company (they are the worst of the worst and lowest of the low right now)
I, too, had the game for a long time but just could never finish it because it was just so damn scary. My mistake was playing it first in VR; there every hiss you hear and bang of the locker as you close it is like magnified 10x. The atmosphere is so terrifying!! So i played on my tv, and finally managed to finish it after 4 years.😅
This game is just a masterpiece!!!! True love letter to the fans!!! Everything is perfect in it, the sound design, voice acting, AI, environment details, story, gameplay,etc., love this game so much man. I want sigourney weaver and ridley scott to do a playthrough commentary so bad.
I can't play this game. It isn't a game. It's an experience in dread, horror and life threatening stress levels. There isn't a movie or another game I can award these levels to, not even the original movie can capture all three.
Not even close my friend. I remember getting nightmares during my play-through of this game. Try playing it on Nightmare difficulty though.. it's an absolute nightmare lol. IMO, you should play and experience the game at least.
Yep, i haven't completed the game since i finished it first time round on Hard. When i think about playing it, i start to remember the feelings it invokes exactly as you described. This was more like a test of fucking mental fortitude and endurance than a game rofl. The Hive section was literally my childhood nightmare, that part nearly broke me. I can't say that about any other horror game, this was truely a unique experience like no other for a 90's kid.
I have installed this game multiple times on my console but never gathered enough courage to play it more than an hour. And I never even reached the alien part, but just thinking that sometime I'll get there makes me wanna stop playing.
@@scherdieny lol so you never saw the alien, I know what you mean though. When I played through it I was so tentative and filled with dread, one time early on I mistook the silent silhouette movement of the drinking rocking bird thing on a table in the distance for the alien and freaked out, I was like 'surely they'll introduce the alien in a friendly safe cutscene first!' .....and yeah they did.
OMG, that crossed my mind many times in the past. What a great game it would be. I mean, how did she do it? No weapons, no training, just her resourcefulness and agility.
This game doesn’t get enough love. It still holds up as one of the best survival horror games ever IMO. Really wish we would have gotten a sequel. Still hoping we eventually will.
Looks like its gaining a cult following because people are actually starting to listen to gamers instead of review sites like IGN. Do games that become cult successes get sequels? No idea but I hope so.
I’m hoping they’ll make a game for “A Quiet Place” a title that has gained way more popularity and is more recent with the times. But will design the monsters using the AI from Alien Isolation.
@@Here-Is-My-Handle that would be cool, but I feel like it would have to be 100 times more difficult of a game because of how the monsters in that film work lol.
@@cowan1234 That’s true, since the monsters are different. But I feel like it would be able to provide a nice twist: AI takes place in an isolated space station with an ultimate predator, whereas AQP could be a massive open world since it takes place on Earth and the monsters are also deadly but can only hear. There could also be multiple monsters. Both games would be similar due to stealth. Also, having the game’s setting take place on Earth would make it easier and more familiar to navigate vs an unknown space station. Hehe just my dreaming and brainstorming.
@@nekomarinyan1398 yes, Aliens are suspension horror, Predators are gore horror. To categorize it, really. But they are are both horror monsters obviously, just two different types of horror monsters. The type of atmosphere of the movies related to either monster is very different, for example The Predators are fightable, presented as a more advanced but still very much killable enemy, if an extremely deadly one. The Alien, however, is presented as an unkillable, insurmountable threat that can only be escaped by blowing up the ship with a giant nuke while fleeing in an escape pod. Predayors can be fought, but if you see a xenomorph your only choice is to run, even forcing it out of an airlock isn't always enough, as proved in alien: isolation.
Did you know that the ''Air Lock'' sequence in the Game was originally written into the original A L I E N movie ??? It's still in the Book and the Game did it just as I imagined it. Just cleaner.
Yesssss! Rubbish. Just a couple more minutes of research, guys. Pandora also didn't open any box, she *brought* the box (even though that might just have been a clumsy sentence, jumping from Pandora to the ship, changing the subject sort of mid-sentence).
@@dinoschachten Well... Pandora DID open the box out of curiosity. That's the whole point of the myth. The box (which is actually a jar) was a gift from the gods to Epimetheus (Prometheus' brother) along with Pandora herself.
I totally agree with you. This game is a classic. I bought it in 2014 and still have it installed and still enjoy playing it, even after numerous play throughs at various difficulty levels. It is so beautifully done. I have the concept art and screen caps as part of my screen saver.
The correct term for the alien's stance is "digitigrade" (that means walking on the toes): it has the knees where they are supposed to be, and the so called "inverted knees" are in fact ankles/heels. Try walking on your toes, and look at your feet, you will see ;)
One of the 5 greatest games I have ever played. Unbelievable atmosphere. Turn off the lights, play alone with a good headset and you're in the movie. Unbelievably well done.
You can hear the queen in a few points in the game, people say its just a normal alien but in the games audio files some shrieks are referred to as Queen_BackstageAmbience_XYZ
A fun fact about the design change from the original Xenomorph, that’s not an inverted knee but an ankle. In this newer design the Xenomorph walks in a digitigrade manner basically just walking on its toes like a dog or cat rather than plantigrade, flat footed, like a human. Wonderful change as it just wouldn’t look as awesomely terrifying if they stuck with plantigrade.
Apart of me wants it to be where you're sent in as a search and rescue team ( again.) But in the role of a space marine. But I'm afraid if done wrong it end up being another mindless shooter.
@@anarchyinba I imagine them following Ellen Ripley's distress beacon to an alien planet. Otherwise thought to be uninhabitable. Of course you'll find out from your superior officer that not only is that the case, but there's an entire colony of scientist there who's sole purpose is to study the lost technology of the permetheons. They were the ones who found Ellen and sent the transmission. But suddenly went dark. Which is why the government even cares to send anyone in the first place...I imagine the gameplay to still be the same. Were running and hiding is still sometimes the best way to survive. But with the option of sometimes blasting aliens with big ass guns and frag grenades lol.
We have an ending, though....'Aliens'....she lives to be 60-something and dies of cancer in Wisconsin...so, we KNOW she lives on....not really a cliffhanger....
They did Ricardo dirty. They at least could've made his death heroic. Imagine: a cutscene where Amanda actually does meet up with him. They're discussing their next move, when they hear rustling nearby. A facehugger leaps at them, and Ricardo instinctively shoves Amanda out of the way -putting himself in the crosshairs and getting A Face full of Alien Wingwong. The outcome is the same, but it actually means something this way.
Medusa Stone i loved how cold it was to just past walking there and seeing him like that. I remember i stood there for a like a minute, shocked by that awful image. Your only ally was fucking gone. what a masterpiece this game is.
Damn, this makes me feel nostalgic. I found theRadBrad, yeeeeaaars ago, when he was uploading Dead Space 2. He was the first Let'sPlayer I subscribed to and he really got me into watching Let'sPlays. I lost interest into his channel, some time ago, when he really changed the style of his videos, though. Maybe I should check out what he's doing, nowadays.
@Bugsycat2004 Oh man...it's been a few years, like I said, so don't nail me down to this, but if I remember correctly he started to do this 'PewDiePie-thing' where he introduced a lot of cuts to his video and the overall style of it just didn't feel like it used to. In hipster terms he became mainstream. XD
I just started playing this game the last few days. Been obsessed. It's clearly made with love. It's a god damn masterpiece. Tense, engaging, beautiful, detailed, terrifying. You need to buy it.
It's amazing how they made like a whole new style, like some kind of alienpunk, with all those 70s tech in space. I would love if every alien film had it consistently
You know one of the crazy parts about this game for me was that I kept expecting it to end much sooner.. if that makes sense. The tension and stress were always so high, I couldn’t imagine what else they could do to make this worse. And yet somehow everything kept getting worse.. but masterfully so. Incredible game. Hope your experience of playing it was satisfying and that the stress was manageable!
When I first played this I spent the first half of the game in the vents and the second half too scared to go in the vents as the alien stared constantly being in them
I was constantly saying how surprised i was that the xenomorph didn't enter the player vents. I remember when i first entered the medical center and was crawling through them, i was super nervous about this, and i stuck my head around the exit of a vent to see him enter the vent door on the other side. I've never been more terrified than i was listening to him move full speed through the vent to kill me. Lesson learned.
Alexander Moss my worst one was one of the first times he got me in a vent, I was going through it could hear him stomping around somewhere, then he left, then I could hear him again, thought those sounds are different, turned around and got my flamethrower out and he was right in my face
Masterpiece game!! Very underrated, my favorite game of 2014, the atmosphere of the game was incredible, Sevastopol Station felt like a real lived in place,while the AI of the Xeno felt like an actual living thing.👏👏👏
I remember my son getting this game, and one day he's having fun playing when from downstairs I yelled up "Dinner is Ready"... Those of you that have played this know what happened next. Oops. I had no idea that the game let the Alien react to the Microphone... Neither did my son until that moment.
I love this game to pieces - finished it 5+ times and never stopped being terrified! The people creating this knew what they had in their hands and loved it, it just shows.
Loved this game - had the best Kinect integration of any game ever and actually made it a useful peripheral. The number of times I would swear when the Alien appeared only for the Kinect microphone to pick it up and I'd be a goner. Having to learn to suppress my terror was often more difficult than anything the game threw at me. The leaning thing was also cool, but didn't have quite the impact of the microphone. It just added an extra dimension that genuinely made a difference without being a gimmick.
I just got around to this title several years after, but from what I have seen so far of the character development and story this experience is up there with the quality of the original movies, Alien and Aliens. The Crew Expendable and Last Survivor DLCs are incredible snippets as well, played those first. Surviving through the shuttle escape scene in the original movie is authentic, adrenaline-pumping, and can play out differently each time. I recall my first run through it played out like a movie sequence, alarms blaring, sprinting down the last hall to the ladder with the xeno on my tail, turning around a couple times to keep it at bay with the flamethrower. Epic stuff, well done everyone at Creative Assembly.
I've been a fan of the franchise since i was 6, i loved the atmosphere of this game, it reminded me of how immersed i was as a kid, i found myself wishing there was a cheat code to remove the alien just so i could walk around freely and take in the atmosphere.
Developers: "The xenomorph doesn't 'cheat'." Same developers: "We programmed the xenomorph to have eyes in the back of its head." So...it does cheat, we're just not calling it that? Seems to me that sneaking behind something while its back is turned is a legitimate strategy that didn't need to be removed with some AI tweaks.
Some animals have close to 360 degrees field of view, so having eyes in the back isn't cheating by itself. Developers created your primary opponent in the game as quite dynamic and adaptive creature, don't take that from them. Of course it has its flaws, but people who create something new deserve praise for what they did right, not for what they failed to achieve.
I think I got through about 10% of this game before giving up for ever. Easiest difficulty and died about fifty times when I had to sneak past the alien in the med bay.
@@BearableWhale9 It's quarantine time .. have another go! The Alien follows flares like a dog to a bone - then spends an age examining them. So throw a flare anyware you don't want to go - wait for it to take an interest - then calmy walk in the opposite direction.
Mai Nem , I’ve actually been playing it all day lol. Definitely need to use the flares more cause I hate it when he seems to float around the area I need to go 😂
There is so much I loved about this game, and why I constantly hold it in my top games of all time, and my top three horror games with the likes of the first two headspace games, and eternal darkness. I loved how they recommend from the get go you play on hard, the constant music, and feel of pure dread. For bonus surprise fact, they originally were gonna make this a third person survival, but felt like the player wouldn't feel hunted, but more watching the character, so that's why they went first person, and if you wanted to look around the corner, it wasn't just move a camera angle, you literally had to move the character. This game took me legit six months to beat, cause I had to implement a 3 death limit, and I got to that limit really quick many times by the hands of the xenomorph. Calling this game a masterpiece is a massive understatement, and I hope that company felt really damnn proud of themselves and this awesome love letter they made to one of my favorite horror movies, and two of my favorite and inspirational artists, Giger and Mobieus.
Someone speculated that they do these mispronunciations on purpose to get more comments. It stands as a valid theory, given that it happens a LOT and sometimes in ways that don't make any sense, not even if you've only ever read the name. Obviously it's a researcher's duty to go that extra... inch to look up pronunciation on Wikipedia or watch the first few seconds of the first interview that comes up when you google.
Ok so... this videogame is 8 years old, it came out both for PS3 and PS4 at around the same time. Why is it becoming famous NOW? Since 2020 this game has faced a fresh wave of interest, by everyone. What happened? Videogamers are a strange breed. I loved this game BEFORE IT WAS COOL.
I don't think enough people out there appreciate how much of a goddamned masterpiece this game is. From the sound design, to the aesthetics, to the level architecture, to the AI, to the tight script, to the near-flawless voice acting, especially from the player character. It's not only a love letter to Alien, it's a game that stands perfectly well on its own legs.
I was surprised by some of the low scores it had when it was released.
I agree. I'm playing "The Witcher 3" right now - on hardest difficulty.
It's a brilliant game - one of the very best I have ever played.
But it doesn't hold a candle to Alien Isolation.
None of us realised what we were dealing with,
The perfect game,
It's extreme beauty is matched only by its central character's living and breathing desire to kill you.
I can't lie to you about your chances.
But you have my sympathies :)))
They used original production material to make a game. If that's not love idk what it is. And does better AI than this even exist in gaming?
I was utterly blown away by how much it looked and felt like the original movie. You can tell the makers were big fans. Underrated game for sure
@@aledg25 Yup, especially all the technology.
‘Hiding is only a temporary solution’
Like hell it is! This locker is my home now!
"Ooh look, postcards! " haha
I feel that hiding in locker and such are useless. The aliens would find you whatever you do inside that locker. Hiding under desk etc has a much better success in my experience.
There's also a certain area in the hive that the Alien cannot reach. Facehuggers probably can. I haven't tested it. But you can shoot at the Alien and it won't charge at you.
Alien - "So you have chosen death?" :D
The alien and droids will sniff you out in lockers, cabinets AND under tables. Droids will "kick you to death" under a table no matter there is no possible contact between their foot and you. That keeps you from just hiding there infinitely. There are no truely safe hiding places that cannot be searched or atttacked. Droids cannot get u inside vents though but the alien can. And if you have never experienced the alien traveling through butthole vents you are lucky; IT CAN travel inside them too.
Tragic there likely won’t be a sequel. Such an amazing game. Easily the best alien game out there.
Funny enough. The alien kind of reminds me of venom thanks to your profile pic.
Love this game,like you said it's a shame we missed out on a continuation of this story😞
There was a sequel, a fnaf rip off for mobile.
@@Evayasi Ah u mean blackout
There is a sequel but it isn't a video game, it's a comic.
#1 - It should have gotten a sequel, but sadly never will.
#2 - It's the only truly GREAT alien videogame.
#3 - That's all.
I agree.
Sadly it looks like we Will Never get a second alien game like this.
They made everything right with it.
And I belive they could have made predator come into the serie, so we would not only have alien but also the predator hunting us.
But well..... One can dream.
@@bastrixer
As much as I love predator... No. They don't need to shoehorn the predator into every Alien series.
Kind of got a canon sequel in Blackout (a mobile title)... it wasn't great: :(
Alien vs Predator 2 was awesome, and provided a good game to two franchises at once
Actually it has a sequel but it is really short and it’s on mobile
I love how this game is still being talked about 6 years later. Is an incredible game everyone should know about if not play.
It's just hard to play. I am already a tense person and this game is so stressful. I love it but can only play for short periods.
You know you made a damn good game when people are still talking about this game to this day. Wish all game developers were as thorough as these guys were.
@@planexshifter that's quite understandable. A friend of mine suffers from frequent anxiety. She always talks about how she wishes she could play this game more often but can't T___T
Lots of replayability! More so than can be said for Evolve.
Anyone can dislike it
It's because of this game that I finally stopped listening to IGN as a reviewer. It's because of their negative review, along with GameTrailers', that I didn't buy this till years later. I LOVE this game and it's one of my top ten of all time.
Gamespot and IGN were literally the only noteworthy sites to give the game bad reviews everyone else praised it. There is something fishy here. People should all ignore IGN and film reviewers for that matter and listen to gamer and audience scores much more.
Makes more sense to have a problem with the reviewer, not IGN, it's a company.... not a person.
@@chatteyj shut up moron anyone dislike it
@@polgamesvibetravis9003 ooh, edgy
Alien Isolation is my favorite horror game. It's the only game that actually made me feel scared. It has a constant feel of dread, almost as if the very air you breathe is heavy from the moment you board Sevastapol station right til' the end of the game. It's very underratted thanks to IGN's butchering review!
I agree. My favorite as well, horror games usually dont scare me. But alien isolation terrified me from start to finish.
Yep, IGN and GameSpot totally destroyed this game with their reviews
@@tgb2007 agreed IGN lost points with me after that review It almost seems to me that they didn't even play the game or finish it
@@schools6555 Pretty much every IGN review. Their reviews are memed by everyone
@Craig Adams GrAmMaR NaZi AlErT
The Perfect Trilogy:
Alien
Alien Isolation
Aliens
Totally agreed. Everything else Alien is bad. Sadly
@@rahlap2449 Not true, the 2 Alien vs Predator shooters from the late 90's are pretty good, the Alien Ds game is great, Alien vs Predator comic is really good (The one with Dave Gibbons) and th og script for Alien 3 is interesting.
@@fbritannia og script of Alien3 is Pitch Black with Riddick
@@fbritannia "Alien" and "Predator" should never be mentioned in the same sentence - it's worse than blasphemy!
The second best not the best that would be the lord of the ring
Still the single best horror game of the past decade. No small feat.
No question - and we had Evil Within, Resident Evil, Outlast 2 and PT coming out at roughly the same time.
The unpredictable alien is such a menace - and it doesn't care if the lights are off or not - which makes it even scarier.
@@jazzx251 outlast 2 and AI? naaa wouldnt say that
And of the current generation too.
outlast gives this a run for its money
@@trevorstevens6962 I played Outlast after completing Alien ... and I chose maximum difficulty.
I found that the enemies all had a set pattern - and it was just a case of memorising the level layout and running as fast as you could.(because I had run out of batteries long ago)
For a low-budget game - absolutely brilliant. But it's nowhere near Alien Isolation, where memorising the levels and running just doesn't work.
The most underrated game of the decade, for SURE. I can't believe how this undersold. Probably my second favorite game of all time, if not the first.
bought it on ps4, platinum, sold it after it came on ps+...bought again for pc.....it's best game.
Answer is easy. Sega failed with marketing around the game, so it was a fail even before release. Not many people were buying it for a full price so it was in huge sales few months after release. Even I got it for 15 euros a few months after release. Sad it's not even developer's fault.
@@kailee1937 Yeah, IGN didn't help either with the stupid 5.9/10 rating.
@@NotGatt IGN obviously don't do their job at all.
Out of curiosity: What would be your top favourite game if this one takes second place?
@@dinoschachten Probably Subnautica. Fell in love with that game too!
The alien's AI brain is split into two, one constantly knows where you are and gives hints to the other half about where you might be but never exactly where you are, thats why it appears in areas you are roaming round.
But it uses ears to sense people.
Just take Womble's demon screech and the alien is dead.
thats not how programming works its one “ai” with multiple functions it calls on for the hints and location etc
And the “learning” AI might be based upon Hello Neighbour, because he places more traps where you are most likely to go.
Blah Blah II learning AI was there way before Hello Neighbour
@@blahblahii9390 hello neighbour came out 3 years after alien isolation
Just a reminder. IGN gave this game a 5.9, an "okay" rating.
That's just talk from idiots who can't play worth a damn.
Reminder: IGN got roasted by Ace Combat director for not using simulation control scheme during the game review, calling them noobies.
Safe to say, their reviews shouldn't be followed blindly.
@@OverseerMoti Screw them.
Here's an even worse reminder: They gave COD Ghosts a fucking 8/10. That was the day they lost all credibility in my eyes.
It deserved a lot better than 5.9. It's not a perfect game, it's got flaws, but it's still deserved a minimum of 7 or 8 out of 10. The AI of the alien is worth the price of admission, its unpredictability making you question your every move, absolutely brilliant design
I'm still holding my breath inside the locker.
You still in there?
@@stylesmilky1009 oh no
haha me too man
You hear the queen screaming when you destroy the nest. Listen next time you play.
AL140631 you actually hear her call out a few times in the game too. You definitely hear her scream when you are in the baggage handling area before you meet axel.
@@hoonaticbloggs5402 got a video link I removed the game from ps4 and don’t want redownload it
13:40 Fun fact: During the later stages of the game when you're trying to get to the core of the ship, you can actually hear the queen in the background.
Hol' up, foreal?
@@General_Eisenhower1945 If I remember correctly its when you destroy the nest. I've not played in forever so I could be wrong
Yes this is true. But there is actually another location you can hear the queen before then. When you first enter the Gemini facility, as you walk along the first long corridor, you will sometimes hear a scream from the queen. It doesn’t always happen but when it does it’s terrifying!
@@Marksey33 No kidding, This game still shits me up.
@@Marksey33 Is there any video of the Queen screams? I've never heard it and I can't find anything about it.
I still remember the first time the first alien movie who knew a 1979 scifi film would spawn one of the best lincensed games ever
Fun fact, the scene where they are having lunch after the guy recovers from face hugger was improvised, apart from that guy noone knew something would burst out of his chest, rewatch it n youll see the real horror in their faces when blood splatters everywhere!
The first Alien film certainly made a impression on our culture. I envy those who saw it back in 79.
@@heartless604 They made *TWO* takes of the scene. The first take is the one where Veronica Cartwright gets the blood spray full in the face that enhances the horror. They all knew something was up b/c the cameras and crew were all covered in plastic.
“Without the game ever reaching a point to being unfair to players”
*gets killed right in front of save station multiple times*
Tip: always check your surroundings and make sure that enemies are not nearby before commiting yourself to the saving procedure.
@@ЯношБан "saving procedure." 💀
That's player error in decision making, not the game being unfair.
Not saying 'Yo bad, yo should feel bad for being bad!' either... believe me, I KNOW the frustration. Have been stuck on the level in which you first go through the medic area and check the white board for a room number since the game came out! Hahahahahahaha! But every time I die, it's straight up been me making bad decisions on when / where to move about.
What they mean is that the xenomorph doesn't have some magical radar allowing them to know where you are and then pretend to hunt for you. In all fairness, I think they are being sincere as there have been times where I've not seen the creature for ages and others where it's been lingering around an area I needed to get to but just wouldn't leave until I drew its attention elsewhere. This is a stark contrast to a similar indie game called Monstrum where the monsters always respawned in your general part of the ship so they were never far away.
Running causes accidents
It's not exactly an inverted knee. The part that you're referring to is actually its ankle. Just like a lot of animals, the Alien walks on its toes, with an extended ankle.
Aye, it's called digitigrade locomotion. Humans, on the other hand (or foot) use plantigrade. The moar you know.
Yeah I looked up the bone structure of an ostrich because of this. They have small thigh bones in comparison and long af shin and foot bones. It's interesting.
@@dars5229 I only know these words because I'm a furry
And yet if you look at the anatomy of the alien you'll see that it appears to have two sets of ankle. I originally was going to say the same thing but it isn't that simple.
@@Unethical.FandubsGames That might be the toe joint you're looking at.
Alien isolation is one of the few games I’m proud of I’ve completed it on all difficulties including nightmare (which deserves its name) and got all trophies I love this game! ❤️❤️
You have no sense of fear do you
My first time was on Hard - and NO MAP
Most awesome gaming experience of my life, being lost and alone - while "HARD MODE" is looking for me ...
It took me 100 deaths, but it was worth it.
I beat it recently on hard, and i look forward to nightmare! hopefully not HAVING nightmares though.
actually going for the (One Shot?) trophy for not dying gave the game a much greater element of suspense. there was the fear of being stalked and dying and also the fear of missing the trophy. i was def sweating in the nest in the no death run
Dust nightmare mode deserves its name you need to keep hiding in different places otherwise the alien learns where you like to hide and he is much more through in searches he checks all areas and under all drakes so you need to manoeuvre around him. Good luck!
You got some things wrong actually.
The random loot thing; there's set locations you'll find loot in every play through, but whether something will spawn there is the random element, that and it might not always be the same thing - You might get a sensor unit one time, then some glue the next.
And the alien DOES have sense in it's tail, if you so much as walk into it, the alien will turn around and grab you.
Everything else was bang on.
I still actively play this game so sadly gotta complain about those factors, but I learnt a few things like the amount of data they got to work with, the fact the Hacker tool wasn't based on a game boy!
Also thanks, now I wanna replay it again...
Truth. Also, per several speed runners' notes saving *resets* the loot spawns upon dying and reloading.
Yes, the tail does have sense, I was under a table once, the alien was right there in front of me and when it finally decided to go away the tail moved towards me and touched me. I died instantly haha it was scary as heck
Lmao soooooooooooo then it’s random loot? What you described is literally randomized loot there brosef
Don't forget how they incorrectly stated the alien's knees were inverted, when it actually has digitigrade legs, where the heel is higher up the leg, resembling a secondary backwards knee.
@@mikofreeman1808
No they said the location was randomised.
Not the loot.
This is by far one of the best games ever made, truly a masterpiece....the only game which had my blood pumping nonstop. Everything about it is just amazing
Alien to me is the greatest film ever made, and it definitely got a game on par to that level of excellence.
Just started playing this game. It is genuinely terrifying.
my top 5 game of all time
You're in for a treat, friend!
Cool. Now remember, if the Alien sees you... kiss your ass goodbye. Kkkkkkk
You'll be thankful for the quarantine after this!
Just imagine that one of these creatures is on the loose, and you have to stay inside your house for the time being ...
Lucky guy! I wish I could reply that game without knowing everything. Its just so good
Not gonna lie, the first time a Xeno climbed into a vent after me, I flew out of my seat and honestly had to put everything down for a good ten minutes so my heart rate could return to normal.
... AND YOU WERE NEVER THE SAME AGAIN ... :P
@@FranciumBoron
It honestly was one of the most unsettling and terrifying moments of my life, like I thought that Xeno was gonna come out of the screen or something. 🤣
@@MelStaub Like Scary Movie. Samuels, this bitch is droolin' on mah floor!
@@MelStaub i showed the hospital cutscenes to my mom’s friend and she freaked she didn’t know what I was showing her same thing with my dad lol they both jumped
I just finished my first playthrough (live-streamed it) and at one point, I was trying to escape the Xeno and get to an objective, so I crawled into a vent and as I did it ran up behind me, pulled me out of the vent and then killed me. I was still crawling into the vent and it was a little glitchy because of that timing, but that was one of the most terrifying jumpscares I had.
Me and my friend have agreed that they need to make a game on the same engine and system of Alien: Isolation but make it the first official Michael Myers game, with the hospital, myers house, haddonfield streets, and other places being playable levels
I would love to see that.
cool idea, also Jurassic park survival game on site B
good idea.
But part of the genius of Alien: Isolation, and the reason it ran brilliantly on EVERY system - PS3, Windows 7, PS4, X-Box 1 etc. etc, right out of the box....
... was because they invented a brand new purpose-built graphics engine.
That's what they should do for "HALLOWEEN: Michael (part 1)" [see - I've given it a title :)]
My computer is now well over 10 years old, still running Windows 7 ... back in 2014, I had an ageing graphics card which I was prepared to upgrade if necessary ...
I didn't have to .. the game ran brilliant on day 1 of release! (It's the only game I ever pre-ordered)
Brand new graphics engines FTW!
Personally, I would love the idea of a Terminator: Isolation set in the '80s and you're a kid trying to escape a Terminator come back to kill you because you're important to the resistance.
@@sausagesausage ... another good idea.
I think "Westworld" done as a computer game - hopefully voiced by Rachel Evan Wood, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Tessa Thompson etc.
It starts with you riding the transit train to DELOS - very similar to the opening of Half-Life (but much better). As you're sitting on the train, you are subjected to propaganda videos about the 'experience' to follow:
"At DELOS we believe in ULTIMATE customer satisfaction. Boy! - have we got a vacation for YOU!"
Then, during the opening tutorial level, you would get to choose your cowboy outfit, and the very same lady from series 1, who guides you through the tutorial, says "Welcome to Westworld" when you are done, as you board the train. [this tutorial section could also have a target range for practising shooting and combat skills]
The first mission is pathetically easy - TOTAL FREEDOM ... you can do whatever you want. Rape other robots, shoot everybody - anything your heart desires ...
But, the surprise is that your decisions in this first level affect how you'll be treated by the robots near the end of the game, once they've gone rogue and want to take their revenge on the customers. Essentially, the way you play level 1 determines the difficulty level near the end of the game.
Misbehave in level 1 too much and you'll have to contend with Dolores and Maeve hunting you down relentlessly near the end of the game (Maeve's special skill is that she can command any other robot in the vicinity to attack you, just by rolling her eyes! That includes things like vultures and rattlesnakes)
The "Westworld" main menu is basically two options, while the opening of the TV show (piano playing robot) is on a loop in the background.
The options, in bold letters, are:
PLAY
OPTIONS
There is no selectable skill level in the options - level 1 determines how hard the game is going to get for you.
Thanks for firing up my imagination sausage! :)
A well deserved top 20 list for one of the finest video games ever made. Alien Isolation has cemented it’s place in gaming history as one of the best, and scariest, survival horror games of all time
I will always remember Ryan McCaffreys ‘Mediocre’ review of this - I don’t think he actually played it...
Both Gamespot and IGN gave the game mediocre reviews. iirc Gamespot said that it was too scary or hard or something for them so they docked points for it. It makes me suspect that someone had an axe to grind or Sega didn't pay the reviewers enough money to get a decent score. Especially since both IGN and Gamespot have had multiple articles praising Alien Isolation since then
Nate Alexander All very suspicious indeed...!
@@spatchmo6938 that whole bit about Gamespot is a goddamn made up lie. The reason why Isolation got stripped of score points is because for the reviewer it greatly overstayed its welcome/was too long, to the point where the game stopped being scary, instead repetitive, tedious and frustrating (due to challenging and punishing nature of Alien: Isolation too), not because it was "too scary" and definitely not because "they had personal gripes with Sega/they didn't paid them for the review" bullshit that is so popular. As much as I disagree with those reviews, and as much as I love Isolation myself, I also understand that it is a niche game with arguable imperfections, and that it is not going to be everyones cup of tea. While I still do think that Gamespot's and IGN's reviews of Isolation were tad unfair, mainly I believe that the reviewers approached the game and played through it with an incorrect mindset, where they might have wanted to beat it quickly, but Isolation just isn't about that, it strongly prohibits, discourages and punishes that, but in the end those are just speculations, and reviews still are opinions, and opinions differ, obviously, so do tastes.
Also, when we say "Gamespot gave it *that* score", we have to remember, that actually it's "a *reviewer* from Gamespot gave it *that* score". Gaming outlets, especially huge ones, rarely consist of one stuff member, one reviewer it's usually a place of many people with their own opinions, some of which align with that of their co-workers, some don't, and we can see that with Isolation too, while in the actual IGN review it got ~6/10, there was posted an article shortly after, or at least in the same year, where it was praised, called as "the Bravest game of 2014".
@@ЯношБан seriously thanks for the well thought out response. But regardless of their motivation, gamespot showed their true colors with the Kane and Lynch debacle, so I will always take all of their reviews and news coverage with a grain of salt.
IGN have to be the worst game reviewers ever. I looked in the comments of some of their reviews and they were full of people agreeing with them but all of those people agreeing with them hadn’t even played the games they’re talking about and are just going off of what IGN said.
I still need to finish this game.
It legit got too stressful for me about half way through lol.
P.s. Imagine my horror when I realized I was not safe in the vents.
look for a UA-cam channel of one PsychoHypnotic. He is a speed runner. Look for his Kitty Mod speed run. THAT is stressful. THe mod makes the alien and game environ *pink*. The droids can run and the alien can go into one vent and immediately come from another one without delay; essentially it CAN teleport via the vents. PsychoHypnotic holds a world record speed run of this modded mode of only 2hr43 minutes.
Once you get the flame thrower stress drastically fade
I finished it but I cannot return to it. I give up way too quickly as everytime I see the alien, I remember all that I had been through and just end up quitting. I'll return for a sequel but I refuse to replay it.
I LOVE a good horror movie, but I just can't take the stress of a good horror game.
@@Jacob-qd4pv DO NOT over use the flame thrower. It's a deterrant only. If you use it too much you not only use your fuel up but the alien AI gets less afraid of it and like a rabid animal will jump the fire and rush you through the flame.. You will notice it will back up a second when you hold the flamer up. If it does that only flame it while rushing forward toward it. Else u give it a sun burn but don't drive it off. Also use bursts one-two-three-four-five. By the fifth burst if should be running away. Rather than cranking down on the button.
Hands down the only game I’ve had to pause, put down and have a cup of tea and a break from! Truly terrifying!
A game called Visage will probably have the same effect when it's released!
(It's a full PT type game)
Same! If I am not managing to make actual progress, I generally can't play this game for more than 15 mins! That intense feeling of being hunted down, danger right around the corner! Absolutely masterful! Not even Resident Evil 7 had me quiet so far over onto the edge of my seat!
Although it comes very close.
@@makrostheblack4791 In fairness, RE 7 allows you to kill the things, the Alien just gets scared off for a while. Both amazing games, no doubt.
Great to see Alien Isolation getting the appreciation it deserves, it remains my all time favourite game and I'm still appalled at *that* IGN review for all of the unjust negativity. A phenomenal game, with a beautifully realised world, incredible Xenomorph AI and gorgeous sound design, a worthy sequel to the 1979 movie in my humble opinion. Oh and it needs to be played on Nightmare, trust me!
OOHH the queen is still in the game. When you first enter hold up the motion sensor and you will see a large blep. Also you can her scream louder than the other xenos as you enter.
Hehehe blep. My new fav word.
Edit : Wait, “the other xenos”? There’s more than one??
@@Here-Is-My-Handle You only see one. But you can hear the others as you enter. The other aliens come out as you discharged the energy into the hive.
Hah, I was just thinking of finally playing this, in isolation...
Bäääääd idea.
Alien: Isolation: Isolation Edition. XD Don't forget to turn off the lights for added heart attacks!
This game is a masterpiece in every sense of the word. I finished the game 8 times in all difficulties and I enjoyed the ride every single time! SEGA please, take my money and give us a sequel
Alien: Isolation was so well done, I never finished it. Still the best game I've ever played, though. It's as if you're actually on Sevastopol station. Too much for my tiny little weak heart.
You should have another go - right now, it's light relief from the world-ending virus.
I'm actually playing the game again just to chillax!
Two bottles of cool beer, a nice lazy chair, and a relaxing game of "Alien: Isolation" ... bliss!
@Mai
"...relaxing..." With respect, sir...not sure that word means what you think it means. lol
@@reesetorwad8346 lol i think it gets better though, after a few playthroughs. Games like Outlast and stuff are pretty relaxing to me now, given that i've finished them so many times now
@Yousef Ghaneemah Hmmm ... I own Fallout 3, and New Vegas - both solid games from when Bethesda was actually a good company (they are the worst of the worst and lowest of the low right now)
I, too, had the game for a long time but just could never finish it because it was just so damn scary. My mistake was playing it first in VR; there every hiss you hear and bang of the locker as you close it is like magnified 10x. The atmosphere is so terrifying!! So i played on my tv, and finally managed to finish it after 4 years.😅
One of the best license games out there. If we talk about the atmosphere of the film its #1
This game is just a masterpiece!!!! True love letter to the fans!!! Everything is perfect in it, the sound design, voice acting, AI, environment details, story, gameplay,etc., love this game so much man. I want sigourney weaver and ridley scott to do a playthrough commentary so bad.
I can't play this game. It isn't a game. It's an experience in dread, horror and life threatening stress levels. There isn't a movie or another game I can award these levels to, not even the original movie can capture all three.
Not even close my friend. I remember getting nightmares during my play-through of this game. Try playing it on Nightmare difficulty though.. it's an absolute nightmare lol. IMO, you should play and experience the game at least.
Yep, i haven't completed the game since i finished it first time round on Hard. When i think about playing it, i start to remember the feelings it invokes exactly as you described. This was more like a test of fucking mental fortitude and endurance than a game rofl. The Hive section was literally my childhood nightmare, that part nearly broke me. I can't say that about any other horror game, this was truely a unique experience like no other for a 90's kid.
I have installed this game multiple times on my console but never gathered enough courage to play it more than an hour. And I never even reached the alien part, but just thinking that sometime I'll get there makes me wanna stop playing.
lmao so true. i was so scared shitless in the nest that i think i waited a half hour behind cover to pull theeee lever which was only 5 feet away
@@scherdieny lol so you never saw the alien, I know what you mean though. When I played through it I was so tentative and filled with dread, one time early on I mistook the silent silhouette movement of the drinking rocking bird thing on a table in the distance for the alien and freaked out, I was like 'surely they'll introduce the alien in a friendly safe cutscene first!' .....and yeah they did.
My brother made me play a little bit of this game and it was so tense. But I absolutely love this game. I can watch playthroughs of it anytime.
aliens: isolation... you play as young Newt, trying to survive during the xeno infestation of LV426
OMG, that crossed my mind many times in the past. What a great game it would be. I mean, how did she do it? No weapons, no training, just her resourcefulness and agility.
@@VBSuper Maybe you should put her in charge.
@@projectmayhem6898 Affirmative
There an audiobook about that time period for at least how the infestation starts. River of Pain I believe?
nice idea - I would play it
Still one of the best looking games of this generation and I would pay all the money for a PS5 sequel, all the money!!
It was even released on last gen consoles.
All the money? You mean all of the 3 dollars and 92 cents you own?
I would buy a PS5 if there was a isolation 2.
This game doesn’t get enough love. It still holds up as one of the best survival horror games ever IMO. Really wish we would have gotten a sequel. Still hoping we eventually will.
Looks like its gaining a cult following because people are actually starting to listen to gamers instead of review sites like IGN. Do games that become cult successes get sequels? No idea but I hope so.
I’m hoping they’ll make a game for “A Quiet Place” a title that has gained way more popularity and is more recent with the times. But will design the monsters using the AI from Alien Isolation.
@@Here-Is-My-Handle that would be cool, but I feel like it would have to be 100 times more difficult of a game because of how the monsters in that film work lol.
@@cowan1234 That’s true, since the monsters are different. But I feel like it would be able to provide a nice twist: AI takes place in an isolated space station with an ultimate predator, whereas AQP could be a massive open world since it takes place on Earth and the monsters are also deadly but can only hear. There could also be multiple monsters. Both games would be similar due to stealth. Also, having the game’s setting take place on Earth would make it easier and more familiar to navigate vs an unknown space station. Hehe just my dreaming and brainstorming.
Love that everyone is reviewing the new predator game and what culture is like hmm yup alien isolation
Tbh, the aliens are much more scarier than predators. Which is precisely why they went for Alien Isolation. A masterpiece of its time.
@@nekomarinyan1398 yes, Aliens are suspension horror, Predators are gore horror. To categorize it, really. But they are are both horror monsters obviously, just two different types of horror monsters. The type of atmosphere of the movies related to either monster is very different, for example The Predators are fightable, presented as a more advanced but still very much killable enemy, if an extremely deadly one. The Alien, however, is presented as an unkillable, insurmountable threat that can only be escaped by blowing up the ship with a giant nuke while fleeing in an escape pod. Predayors can be fought, but if you see a xenomorph your only choice is to run, even forcing it out of an airlock isn't always enough, as proved in alien: isolation.
@@tychogoedhart286 What's more, you can't kill it with everything. Melee the xenomorph and it's basically a double edged sword.
@@tychogoedhart286 I've also always thought of predator as more of an action-thriller, but alien has always been terrifying
A lot of games come and go around my way. Alien Isolation stays.
*"Android Ash" hehe nice ... just try to keep your head 👽*
It's so cool WhatCulture uses footage from my favorite UA-camr,TheRadBrad.
6 years and I'm still playing this. Thanks for the video, WhatCulture! Though I did know all of this, so nothing new.
My favourite game. Hands down. It’s unreal. Gripped from start to finish and the difficulty modes add to the amazingness of replaying it. 11/10
I was just playing Alien and rage quit because of the last jump scare. Thanks Ash hole!
Did you know that the ''Air Lock'' sequence in the Game was originally written into the original A L I E N movie ??? It's still in the Book and the Game did it just as I imagined it. Just cleaner.
There is no way I can ever finish this game, and it’s my favorite game. Scarier than even Silent Hill 2.
"clunky analog technology"
-shows binary on a screen.
Yesssss! Rubbish. Just a couple more minutes of research, guys. Pandora also didn't open any box, she *brought* the box (even though that might just have been a clumsy sentence, jumping from Pandora to the ship, changing the subject sort of mid-sentence).
@@dinoschachten Well... Pandora DID open the box out of curiosity. That's the whole point of the myth. The box (which is actually a jar) was a gift from the gods to Epimetheus (Prometheus' brother) along with Pandora herself.
I totally agree with you. This game is a classic. I bought it in 2014 and still have it installed and still enjoy playing it, even after numerous play throughs at various difficulty levels. It is so beautifully done. I have the concept art and screen caps as part of my screen saver.
This game was amazing and brings fear to a new level for me.Would of loved a sequel.
The correct term for the alien's stance is "digitigrade" (that means walking on the toes): it has the knees where they are supposed to be, and the so called "inverted knees" are in fact ankles/heels. Try walking on your toes, and look at your feet, you will see ;)
it's H.R. Giger , NOT H.R. Geiger
They nuked the otherwise good explanation...
@@OverseerMoti ha
First horror game ive ever played and my introduction to the alien universe. One of the best experiences ive had with a first person survival game
Best game ever so far. I want a sequel to this. More!!!!
One of the 5 greatest games I have ever played. Unbelievable atmosphere. Turn off the lights, play alone with a good headset and you're in the movie. Unbelievably well done.
Y'know a game is super tense when you feel your heartbeat in your eardrums, pounding away. Vision narrowing.
You can hear the queen in a few points in the game, people say its just a normal alien but in the games audio files some shrieks are referred to as Queen_BackstageAmbience_XYZ
Wow, I did not expect to still see content on Alien: Isolation
My favorite game of the generation. Absolute masterpiece.
One of my all-time favorite games, and I recommend it to all of my friends. Wish we could get a sequel.
A fun fact about the design change from the original Xenomorph, that’s not an inverted knee but an ankle. In this newer design the Xenomorph walks in a digitigrade manner basically just walking on its toes like a dog or cat rather than plantigrade, flat footed, like a human. Wonderful change as it just wouldn’t look as awesomely terrifying if they stuck with plantigrade.
I know that we need an other game because if l remember correctly Isolation ending was an cliffhanger
Apart of me wants it to be where you're sent in as a search and rescue team ( again.) But in the role of a space marine. But I'm afraid if done wrong it end up being another mindless shooter.
@@SchizmKing I mean, if they could pull an "Aliens" off of that idea of yours it might be great.
@@anarchyinba I imagine them following Ellen Ripley's distress beacon to an alien planet. Otherwise thought to be uninhabitable. Of course you'll find out from your superior officer that not only is that the case, but there's an entire colony of scientist there who's sole purpose is to study the lost technology of the permetheons. They were the ones who found Ellen and sent the transmission. But suddenly went dark. Which is why the government even cares to send anyone in the first place...I imagine the gameplay to still be the same. Were running and hiding is still sometimes the best way to survive. But with the option of sometimes blasting aliens with big ass guns and frag grenades lol.
@@SchizmKing I'm totally diggin' that!
We have an ending, though....'Aliens'....she lives to be 60-something and dies of cancer in Wisconsin...so, we KNOW she lives on....not really a cliffhanger....
They did Ricardo dirty. They at least could've made his death heroic. Imagine: a cutscene where Amanda actually does meet up with him. They're discussing their next move, when they hear rustling nearby. A facehugger leaps at them, and Ricardo instinctively shoves Amanda out of the way -putting himself in the crosshairs and getting A Face full of Alien Wingwong. The outcome is the same, but it actually means something this way.
Medusa Stone i loved how cold it was to just past walking there and seeing him like that. I remember i stood there for a like a minute, shocked by that awful image. Your only ally was fucking gone. what a masterpiece this game is.
Wow, It would be cool
This game is so scary! I just finished my first play through recently. I loved it but could only play in small doses.
Good to see people are still buying this game, looks like it might become a cult hit yet.
@@chatteyj it was on sale for the switch!
Damn, this makes me feel nostalgic. I found theRadBrad, yeeeeaaars ago, when he was uploading Dead Space 2. He was the first Let'sPlayer I subscribed to and he really got me into watching Let'sPlays.
I lost interest into his channel, some time ago, when he really changed the style of his videos, though. Maybe I should check out what he's doing, nowadays.
@Bugsycat2004 Oh man...it's been a few years, like I said, so don't nail me down to this, but if I remember correctly he started to do this 'PewDiePie-thing' where he introduced a lot of cuts to his video and the overall style of it just didn't feel like it used to. In hipster terms he became mainstream. XD
Imo he goes through games far too quickly following a waypoint
This game is one of the best on its genre. An example of a damn good interactive experience
I just started playing this game the last few days. Been obsessed. It's clearly made with love. It's a god damn masterpiece. Tense, engaging, beautiful, detailed, terrifying. You need to buy it.
The Xenomorphs go as follows:
Alien: Drone
Alien Isolation: Scout
Aliens: Soldiers
I was thinking the Alien in game was a drone, bringing back hosts.
@@xenonlord101 seems more like a scout given how far away from the nest it was
Alien: drone
Alien isolation: drone
Aliens: warriours
Alien 3:dog alien/scout
Alien ressurection:drones, warriors and aqua aliens
Alien covenant: neomporph and a drone
@@theoldbarny4195 in Covenant the second ones was a protonorphs, no? They a little bit different than a drone.
@@november_7th yea i didn't remember the name
It's amazing how they made like a whole new style, like some kind of alienpunk, with all those 70s tech in space. I would love if every alien film had it consistently
The eyes in the back of its head instead of a hitbox for the tail was an interesting idea - many players thought they'd stepped on its tail anyway!
"Retro futuristic"
It sounds really really good for me.
I played this game a few years ago on hard and had a great time. Always been too scared to give it a re try though
I started this game last week. Haven't beaten it yet but i'm loving it.
You know one of the crazy parts about this game for me was that I kept expecting it to end much sooner.. if that makes sense. The tension and stress were always so high, I couldn’t imagine what else they could do to make this worse. And yet somehow everything kept getting worse.. but masterfully so. Incredible game. Hope your experience of playing it was satisfying and that the stress was manageable!
17:02 Ya..I learned that the hard way, When the scary damn Xeno did a 180 quick scope grab on me, Makin me pause the game cuz of a scare attack..
I played this game multiple times on different difficulties. it is just that great. I hope there will be a sequel.
When I first played this I spent the first half of the game in the vents and the second half too scared to go in the vents as the alien stared constantly being in them
I was constantly saying how surprised i was that the xenomorph didn't enter the player vents.
I remember when i first entered the medical center and was crawling through them, i was super nervous about this, and i stuck my head around the exit of a vent to see him enter the vent door on the other side. I've never been more terrified than i was listening to him move full speed through the vent to kill me.
Lesson learned.
Alexander Moss my worst one was one of the first times he got me in a vent, I was going through it could hear him stomping around somewhere, then he left, then I could hear him again, thought those sounds are different, turned around and got my flamethrower out and he was right in my face
@@MrGidds91 yeah if you use the vent to much or the locker it will Check those areas out more often
Masterpiece game!! Very underrated, my favorite game of 2014, the atmosphere of the game was incredible, Sevastopol Station felt like a real lived in place,while the AI of the Xeno felt like an actual living thing.👏👏👏
i hope they make another one i love this game, really underated game
It was super intense, really made you feel anxious and the Alien was a real threat. Wish there was another campaign
I remember my son getting this game, and one day he's having fun playing when from downstairs I yelled up "Dinner is Ready"... Those of you that have played this know what happened next. Oops.
I had no idea that the game let the Alien react to the Microphone... Neither did my son until that moment.
You did what?You recklessly got your son killed in game?
@@spartanvidargaming7002 Nope, I served him up for dinner, lol
@@nevermindmyname9153 You told the Alien dinner was ready 😂😂
@@LizHellsing This was the first time I had ever heard of a Microphone affecting a Single Player game 😝
@@nevermindmyname9153You basically served your son to Alien...how could you do that?
I love this game to pieces - finished it 5+ times and never stopped being terrified!
The people creating this knew what they had in their hands and loved it, it just shows.
I literally just started replaying this game a few days ago wtf
Loved this game - had the best Kinect integration of any game ever and actually made it a useful peripheral. The number of times I would swear when the Alien appeared only for the Kinect microphone to pick it up and I'd be a goner. Having to learn to suppress my terror was often more difficult than anything the game threw at me. The leaning thing was also cool, but didn't have quite the impact of the microphone. It just added an extra dimension that genuinely made a difference without being a gimmick.
"With Seegson, there's someone behind you..."
I just got around to this title several years after, but from what I have seen so far of the character development and story this experience is up there with the quality of the original movies, Alien and Aliens. The Crew Expendable and Last Survivor DLCs are incredible snippets as well, played those first. Surviving through the shuttle escape scene in the original movie is authentic, adrenaline-pumping, and can play out differently each time. I recall my first run through it played out like a movie sequence, alarms blaring, sprinting down the last hall to the ladder with the xeno on my tail, turning around a couple times to keep it at bay with the flamethrower. Epic stuff, well done everyone at Creative Assembly.
The only thing scarier than this game is Wynona Ryder's performance in Alien: Resurrection.
I see your Ryder in Resurrection and raise you a Keanu in Dracula, makes Ryder seem like Dame Judy Dench.
You guys both take that back!!!!!!! Clearly you guys have never watched a Uwe Boll film!!!!!!!!
@@makrostheblack4791 How can you watch it pasted the first 5 minutes? Postal was a trainwreck
Is it so good that its scary???
I've been a fan of the franchise since i was 6, i loved the atmosphere of this game, it reminded me of how immersed i was as a kid, i found myself wishing there was a cheat code to remove the alien just so i could walk around freely and take in the atmosphere.
just play on Novice - lol
I only saw the alien twice (but it killed me both times because I wasn't ready)
Developers: "The xenomorph doesn't 'cheat'."
Same developers: "We programmed the xenomorph to have eyes in the back of its head."
So...it does cheat, we're just not calling it that? Seems to me that sneaking behind something while its back is turned is a legitimate strategy that didn't need to be removed with some AI tweaks.
Some animals have close to 360 degrees field of view, so having eyes in the back isn't cheating by itself. Developers created your primary opponent in the game as quite dynamic and adaptive creature, don't take that from them. Of course it has its flaws, but people who create something new deserve praise for what they did right, not for what they failed to achieve.
I just started this game about a week ago. It's scary as hell with the headset on and the lights out.
I think I got through about 10% of this game before giving up for ever. Easiest difficulty and died about fifty times when I had to sneak past the alien in the med bay.
joe lincoln , yeah thats when I stopped 😂. He’s just too smart but I’ll probably pick it up one day since I have it on switch.
That’s a shame man, it’s fantastic all the way to the end!
@@danhodson7187 SPOILER ALERT
Yeah when theres more than one alien 😂 awesome game
@@BearableWhale9
It's quarantine time .. have another go!
The Alien follows flares like a dog to a bone - then spends an age examining them.
So throw a flare anyware you don't want to go - wait for it to take an interest - then calmy walk in the opposite direction.
Mai Nem , I’ve actually been playing it all day lol. Definitely need to use the flares more cause I hate it when he seems to float around the area I need to go 😂
There is so much I loved about this game, and why I constantly hold it in my top games of all time, and my top three horror games with the likes of the first two headspace games, and eternal darkness. I loved how they recommend from the get go you play on hard, the constant music, and feel of pure dread. For bonus surprise fact, they originally were gonna make this a third person survival, but felt like the player wouldn't feel hunted, but more watching the character, so that's why they went first person, and if you wanted to look around the corner, it wasn't just move a camera angle, you literally had to move the character. This game took me legit six months to beat, cause I had to implement a 3 death limit, and I got to that limit really quick many times by the hands of the xenomorph. Calling this game a masterpiece is a massive understatement, and I hope that company felt really damnn proud of themselves and this awesome love letter they made to one of my favorite horror movies, and two of my favorite and inspirational artists, Giger and Mobieus.
Me on Nightmare mode: “you guys are getting crafting components?”
Just recently started up this game again and yep, it deserves all the praise!
Oh sweet jebus Ashe I love you but
*Geeger*
Ah when there's a typo in the script.
Someone speculated that they do these mispronunciations on purpose to get more comments. It stands as a valid theory, given that it happens a LOT and sometimes in ways that don't make any sense, not even if you've only ever read the name.
Obviously it's a researcher's duty to go that extra... inch to look up pronunciation on Wikipedia or watch the first few seconds of the first interview that comes up when you google.
Ok so... this videogame is 8 years old, it came out both for PS3 and PS4 at around the same time.
Why is it becoming famous NOW?
Since 2020 this game has faced a fresh wave of interest, by everyone.
What happened?
Videogamers are a strange breed.
I loved this game BEFORE IT WAS COOL.
Great game, I got the trophy for having died a hundred times! 😂
Gutted there wasn't a sequel to this, such an amazing, engrossing game