Alien: Isolation Review

By Blake Peterson

I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid.

In Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation you play as Amanda, the daughter of the series protagonist Ellen Ripley, who is unceremoniously shepherded to Sevastopol. She finds herself on this city-sized space-station after a group of salvagers find the flight recorder to her mother's ship, The Nostromo, 15 years after her disappearance at the end of the…

  • Actually quite scary
  • Amazing environments
  • Uninteresting, poorly written characters
  • Excellent background world-building
  • Amazingly immersive sound design
  • Tense survival horror gameplay
  • Solid action horror gameplay
  • Survival horror/action horror don't mix well
  • Slavish devotion to source material
  • Can feel like indulgent fan fiction

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