Watching now videos and footages about the game for the last 50min, it seems to be quite interesting, not so much about jump-scares, and a very fresh view on the whole Xenomorphs-in-Games. I think after all those fails and mediocre attempts at the Alien (And Predator ...) franchise, it was about time to get some fresh Air into it. Could it be possible that there is a good, well even REALY good Alien game finally? I dont know it! But, I can say that it looks exciting, at least from the lets-play videos. I will not comment much about the story - since I simply dont know much about it! But from what I can get, it is convincing enough, Amanda Ripley, is looking for clues about her mother, why she dissapeared and what really happend, so she is going on a mission to get the flight recorder of the Nostromo, which was the Ship of her Mother and the Crew which dissapeared. Naturaly, you do not just explore a typical social drama, I mean you do, but there is also somewhere a Xenomorph thrown in, not just any kind of Xeno, and not one of those that you can kill easily because there are like thousands of other little Xenos behind it, no its the exact Xenomorph as in Alien and your target as player is to survive it, not to really fight it. The game does give you a variety of weapons and tools to help you here, even a hand gun, but it is rather ineffective against it, only staggering it, and yeah a good thing to piss it off. Now you are not only dealing with the Xenomorph but also with sometimes hostile Androids and Humans that will attack you, and here the hand gun is effective. You can scare the Xenomorph away with fire, but only to find your self eventually in a position where it penetrates you from behind with its tail. That is how Xenomorphs say helo. A human problem if they can't appreciate it I guess.
Now I can not say what ever if the quality of the game is good or bad or what ever, but it seems that the developers are doing a MUCH better job then the team behind Aliens Colonial Marines which also promised a 110% movie experience (as game ...), but pretty much delivered nothing but empty promises, hell I would even say that they simply lied to the gamers as the finished game looked nothing like the trailers, yeah, developers do this very often, they release super high quality screenshots, eventually tweaked in photoshop, with 2k Textures that never make it like that in the game. But "most" of the time they are accurate enough with the trailers and the quality. Colonial Marines was a clear rip-off though. There is no arguing about it. No matter how positive you are about the game. The game was never even close to the trailers. We know it. And they know it. But Aliens Isolation is eventually really true with most of the promises. I mean after all this hype around the previous games, AvP3, Aliens Colonial Marines etc. you would have to be I think a bit stupid to deliver the SAME thing again. Simply a mediocre experience. Or even a bad game.
I am actually thinking to buy the game, but I am not sure yet, as usuall, I am thight on money, so naturally you dont want to waste money on something that is just mediocre, despite my deep, deeeeeeeeeeep love for those little drooling critters - yeah, I know, they will never really return it, but hey! Thats simply love how love works, you have to take a person as what it is, right? With all its chest-bursting impregneting quirks. It just means that you have to extra carefull on who you chose for your parties and such. As said, no matter how much I love the franchise, but I dont support crap. So what do you people think? Is the game worth its money? Or again, to much hype for nothing. One of the things that I really liked is that the Xenomorph seems not to be some "scripted" entity. It is wandering around the station, it is curious about its world, and it can follow you everywhere, really, there is no save place, outside of a few lockers. In one video you see the player hiding in some ventilation shaft under the floor, but since it is a grid you can clearly see trough it, the next thing you experience is the xenomorph suddenly looking at the floor and runing out ouf the room and a few moments later, while the player is making his way trough the shaft, you can see the creature crawling trough the steam and ducts grabing the player. Just watching that on the Youtube was already pretty fun.
Now all they have to do, for the next game maybe, is making 100 of those Xenos, beeing capable of working together, maybe a Queen somewhere (with a bit more sophisticated AI even), and giving us a Marine Squad to work with. This would definitely be an interesting experience.
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