@andre-ivanovich Original version plays great on a BBC Micro with 16k RAM.

It's amazing how many fired employees worked for companies that treat their employees terribly. Most of them I expect. If you want a balanced picture it's best to talk to people that actually still work there.

@donjuancorleone @Mausolus This is one of those cases where I would look at the user reviews and ignore the 'professional' reviews. I was skeptical too, but I am so glad I bought it. I think the test is you have to like the Alien movie (the first one NOT the sequel which is excellent in its own right but a different vibe) then you will love this game. Just go watch that first if you haven't already.

Alien Isolation: haven't been that scared since System Shock 2 (which is still a bit scary due to its excellent sound design).

I still love Civ 5, so given that the biggest criticism of this game is that it doesn't deviate far enough from that winning formula I can live with that. I welcome the fresh makeover, although I hope they bring more cultural-type mechanics in with a later DLC and adjust the balance issues with free patches (I am pretty confident they will at least do the latter, so that's not affecting my 'buy' decision).

@Gamer3344 My 5 year old loves this game.

The problem is that real life hacking is actually mundane and boring compared to video game hacking. The more real you get the less it's going to fit in a video-game. I would vote for 'Uplink' as striking the best balance between both worlds.

I can EA bash with the best of them but I give this game a thumbs up. They took it back to the drawing board and apparently redid the whole engine which is a lot more than can be said for TS2 and TS3 which were really flawed iterations of a flawed base. It looks like they actually got some coders and UI designers on this rather than just dazzling us with content (oh don't worry that will come down the line). The main thing that is wrong with this franchise is it's just so darn expensive, because let's face it we're given it in installments and by the time we have them all and the game is complete we've had to pay a lot of money. So I think ultimately that's what you have to decide, not is this game fun, but am I willing to pay top dollar for a game I know -is- going to be fun. The outcome probably depends on the size of your paycheck and how vested in the previous iterations you were.

Isn't this still in 'Early Access'? I thought GS policy was not to review until it was actually released which I think is in a few weeks.

Glad it's shaping up to be a great game though. Scoring an 8 before it's even finished is impressive.

Since cooperative play seems like a fairly fundamental feature of this game I would have like to have read more about what it is like, there only seems a passing mention to it in this review. I assume the reviewer played this entirely solo.