Even After Seven Years, ‘Alien: Isolation’ Is A Deeply Uncomfortable Game

Zane Hill

Zane Hill is a journalist in Southern California, where he is a staff reporter with the Los Angeles Business Journal and San Fernando Valley Business Journal. A Northeast Ohio native and University of Louisiana alumnus, he previously worked for a number of regional dailies in Louisiana. He lives in South Los Angeles.

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  1. Jaybird says:

    Awesome review. I picked this game up when the Epic Game store gave it away earlier this year… haven’t tinkered with it since, really.

    I will try to go back to it.

    The Alien game that last blew me out of the water was 1999’s Aliens vs. Predator. You had 3 different campaigns: Human, Xenomorph, and Predator.

    The Human had about 15 different kinds of machine guns and they were all loud as hell, inaccurate as hell, and felt useless as hell. But if you were familiar with the gameplay of Doom, you knew exactly how to use them and felt yourself yelling “THESE GUNS AREN’T DOING ANYTHING!” as the xenos were bearing down on you. This game was a horror game.

    The Alien was able to climb (and stick to) any surface and was nigh-invisible when not moving. You had a jaw attack and a tail attack. And that was it. This game was a sneaker/strategy game.

    The Predator played perfectly like a predator. Switch between vision modes, snipe people from great distances, throw wrist blades, snarl. This game was a FPS where you were playing on something close to god mode.

    Awesome game.Report