Showing posts with label First Person Horror Adventure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First Person Horror Adventure. Show all posts

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Fever Dreams in Deepest Space, a Review of Alien: Isolation

Hello again Dear Readers,

This time around I'm going to talk about a really great game that came out recently. That game is Alien: Isolation by The Creative Assembly. It's set up as a sequel of sorts to the first Alien movie that was directed by Ridley Scott back in 1979.

I just finished the main campaign the other day and I loved the game to pieces despite a few flaws. This is a game made by fans of the original movie for fans of the original movie. As fan service for Alien fans it succeeds with flying colors. As a horror game it is merely very good. And as a video game in general it has some nits to pick at.

It's kind of a cross between System Shock 2 and Amnesia: The Dark Descent, with a bit of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay sprinkled in for good measure.

Here's the skinny: