Set in the year 2137 (15 years after the events of Alien) the game follows Ellen Ripley’s daughter Amanda as she investigates her mother’s disappearance. Despite it being classed as a first-person shooter, this is no action shooter but is instead a survival horror game. Based more closely on Ridley Scott’s original Alien film it features only one Alien throughout that cannot be killed and requires stealth and skill to survive. To make this as scary as possible, the Alien has no predetermined path and is actually artificial intelligence programmed to actively seek out the player by smell, sound and sights. It has a challenging set of behaviours designed to unlock as it encounters the player creating the illusion that it is learning and adjusting. This includes being about to investigate other sources, like if a door has been left open that was previously closed… So there are no cheats as such with this game, as it will constantly adapt, if that’s not scary, we don’t know what is!
Alien: Isolation – the wait is over
