Alien: Isolation. ULTIMATE HYPE THREAD. Out this Tuesday!

looks like the recent aliens game is destined to flop...
game still looks great though

@Flubbbs

I do !..... If theres Co-Op !

Actually I don't mind being hunted.... I might actually like it theres clever ways to do it...... Which The Last of Us completely sucked at....

In Space.... No one can hear you SCREAM !

The bar has been set Silent Hills.... will only take a small hop.

Still looks good... a new skinned Outlast will be a fun romp.

Reviews seem really mixed here. I'm getting a Zombi U vibe, where the reviewers who like their survival horror games to be slow paced and tension-building give the game a good score and those who just don't like the genre give it bad to mediocre scores.

Reminds of ZombiU's polarizing reception and that was a great horror game, hopefully this is the same.

I'm disappointed that the game is padded though, why the **** do developers not just say, "You know what, you might want a 20 hour game, but trust us, this shouldn't be that long" and make a complete experience that takes as long as it needs to. If you were making a film you wouldn't say "Oh, well this is a drama and most of them are 2 hours+ so let's pad it out with half an hour of shit to make up that time" so why do they do it in games?

This, Drive Club PS+ and Spelunky next week.

Reviewers can go suck a fat one.

The game is obviously way too long with too much filler. Nothing to do with liking the genre or not.

Can't believe it flopped. This whole fucking gen can't catch a break.

Metacritic is ranging from 76-82 right now. Obviously some critics did not view the "filler" the same as others.

Man, a 6 from Gamespot.

Sounds a lot like the ZombiU issues I had.

Disappointing score :( and this review before FH2? GS sucks

AVP 2000 still the best use of then license then? Yes.

Never heard had high hopes for this. I feel sorry for the silly console gamers that dropped £50. Could have picked up AVP 2000 for about 1/5 of that and played a much superior game.

tut tut.

Got that 5.9 from IGN

Well.... At least its better than Colonial Marines....

Wow, reviews are all over the place. It's ZombiU all over again...

15 to 20 hours long with 1 single alien stalking your ass, probably ending up killing you 10+ times, which will probably end up making the Xeno more annoying than scary half way, plus alot of "puzzles", backtracking and walking?

I'm shocked. But then, when you rely on Androids as filler in an Alien game, something isn't 100% right

Androids have been pretty big parts of the Alien films. It would be disappointing to not have one in the game. It does sound like they used too many for my liking, though. Probably should have just put one android on the station and made him the villain.

True, but Xenos literally swarm and create hives to breed. Having multiple aliens and 1 or 2 androids going nuts would be fine.

Having it teh other way arond is just a weird design decision.

Honestly, i just seems they tried to make Isolation so much like the original movie in so many ways, that the disconnect and gap in game/movie format, combined with the huge difference is exposition lenght, made it for the worse.

I really just want my damm Predator game. I'm cranky

Exactly, games aren't fucking movies.

Be nice if Publishers and developers learned this at some point.

Epic flop.

Holy shit really?

Wait........there's only one Alien? And you're fighting milk filled androids the rest of the time?

Yeah it seems the scores are indicative of the experience people are having which is leading to these wild review scores.

This this to be one of those very rare times IMO where the game is absolutely dependent on how the player experiences it.

I don't know. With sunset over drive coming very soon and evil within, i'm probably going to pass for now. But the reviews are telling a a tale of a decent game at worst.

Seems like alot of mixed reactions.

I don't care about the low score/repetitive game play

A good atmosphere in a game is something I can really appreciate. And this game looks to have one.

Same with Ryse, may have repetitive gameplay, but I still want to check it out for its setting.

93 from PC Gamer.

Quite the spread of scores

I'm really torn whether to get this or not, I don't want to regret it

Holy crap it got a 6. That's some flop.

@Boddicker said:

@deadline-zero0 said:

15 to 20 hours long with 1 single alien stalking your ass, probably ending up killing you 10+ times, which will probably end up making the Xeno more annoying than scary half way, plus alot of "puzzles", backtracking and walking?

I'm shocked. But then, when you rely on Androids as filler in an Alien game, something isn't 100% right

Wait........there's only one Alien? And you're fighting milk filled androids the rest of the time?

From reviews, it seems you have 1 alien after you in the first part.

Then 1/3, or 1/4 in the middle mark is more of an Android part.

Then back to the xeno. Well, not cut and dry, obviously androids do show up with the alien, but something like this.

Still, they're obssesion with the movie was stupid. Should have added more aliens, plain and simple.

The movie wasn't 15 hours long after all

AvP2 the last time an Alien game was worth a damn.

*goes to the neogaf buy/sell/trade thread to get a cheap deal on Alien Isolation*

Still getting this day 1, the game may not be perfect but my gut tells me I will like this, based on everything I've seen it looks like fan service, and the reviews are all over the place I could care less what other people think about it.

IGN is the lowest score lol, that's something you don't see every day.

Not surprising though, it's from the same moron that gave Titanfall a 9 (McCaffrey), guy looks like a complete idiot.

I was really hoping this would be good... A 6, well its still something I want to try. Ill pick it up on a steam sale.

Seems like Farcry 4 and Borderlands Pre-Sequel being the only games I actually wanted is sadly paying off for me.

I'm trading a copy alongside with Star Citizen modules and CoH2, if you (or anyone else) are (is) interested.

I'll offer a good deal.

GameTrailers review was fantastic, I feel they did a better job than Kevin. The main issue with the game seems to be that there isn't enough alien and that he's much too easy to dispatch of later on with an overpowered flamethrower. The androids just aren't as interesting an enemy.

It'll be a toss up between this and the retail version of Drive Club.

Actually reading destructoid review i'm convinced to buy the game. It seems the Alien A.I is great and it also while there are jump scares here and there the game seems to be building tension as you go through . It seems a good game with some noticable problems keeping it from been great . Hopefully it will be a 20-25euros discount on either Steam or another DD service by Christmas

Ok so I just watched the GT review and unlike many other reviewers they said that the game gets too easy(they said they played it on hard mode) later on and that the Alien can be frightened with the flame thrower, while other reviews have said that the game is hard as balls and that the flamethrower is useless. Man reviews are all over the place the one only consistency I can see is that the is a little too long and the parts only with the androids are weak. It seems like this game should have just been 7 to 8 hours and it would have been amazing. Regardless Im still going to say **** and get this game this its the Alien game I have always wanted and I am a massive fan on the original film even if the game is not great I still think that I will get some worthwhile enjoyment out of it.

@Boddicker said:

@deadline-zero0 said:

15 to 20 hours long with 1 single alien stalking your ass, probably ending up killing you 10+ times, which will probably end up making the Xeno more annoying than scary half way, plus alot of "puzzles", backtracking and walking?

I'm shocked. But then, when you rely on Androids as filler in an Alien game, something isn't 100% right

Wait........there's only one Alien? And you're fighting milk filled androids the rest of the time?

You really didn't know? The first movie was one Alien, that's what they were going for with this. I'll save my money for Sunset Overdrive at the end of the month.

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