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[Timberwolf25]

Maybe I should finally play the first game.

I've been watching some of the vids posted earlier and I have a better understanding of how to play now.
Going to restart from the beginning because it's been so long since I played it last. I don't think I made it even quarter of the way through on my last attempt.

 

[Skitso]

I wonder why CA hasn't released a remaster of this for consoles. 4k/60fps with some slight visual face lift should be a quick and easy to do.

Remastering the original would also be a nice marketing tool for a franchise that has more than decade since it's last game...

 

[Fat Frog]

Alien: Isolation 2’s Director ‘Wanted To Match the Original and Go Beyond’, So the Sequel Is Still All About That Terrifying Game of Cat and Mouse

Alien: Isolation 2's director discusses the long wait for the sequel, and how the new game needs to "match the original and go beyond".

www.ign.com

 

[Arachnid]

The more I think about it, this may actually be my most hyped game. Even over the SH1 and Code Veronica remakes. Good god, the first was a god tier survival horror game. I still cant believe a movie game was so god tier.

 

[Alex11]

The more I think about it, this may actually be my most hyped game. Even over the SH1 and Code Veronica remakes. Good god, the first was a god tier survival horror game. I still cant believe a movie game was so god tier.

Yeah, I was skeptical when I first played Isolation, because there were mostly disappointing games and movies, but was proven wrong. Not so much in gameplay, which is fine, but more so in atmosphere, it was finally someone that understands the Xeno and the Alien universe.

 

[RAIDEN1]

Yeah, I was skeptical when I first played Isolation, because there were mostly disappointing games and movies, but was proven wrong. Not so much in gameplay, which is fine, but more so in atmosphere, it was finally someone that understands the Xeno and the Alien universe.

The game was better than the movie that followed it (not in terms of story..) but Alien Covenant wasn't all that great....it took the latest movie released 2 years back to set things straight

 

[Chuck Berry]

Wouldn't be surprised if the first game gets an upgrade a few months before release

 

[RCX]

The game was better than the movie that followed it (not in terms of story..) but Alien Covenant wasn't all that great....it took the latest movie released 2 years back to set things straight

 

[rsouzadk]

 

[EverydayBeast]

Loved Sevastopol, the "working joes", 80s aesthetics, the tight spaces against the Alien and using barebones weapons, I project a nice looking sequel.

 

[Alex11]

The game was better than the movie that followed it (not in terms of story..) but Alien Covenant wasn't all that great....it took the latest movie released 2 years back to set things straight

Well, for me everything from Aliens onward is either mediocre, somewhat decent/enjoyable or a big pile of shit. So this game was in a way the 1st good sequel to Alien/s and I'm looking forward to what they'll do with 2.

 

[MrCunningham]

Yeah, I was skeptical when I first played Isolation, because there were mostly disappointing games and movies, but was proven wrong. Not so much in gameplay, which is fine, but more so in atmosphere, it was finally someone that understands the Xeno and the Alien universe.

The thing with Alien licensed games in general are that they tend to fall under two sub licenses almost exclusively. James Cameron's Aliens, which is the easiest of the Alien licenses to turn into a game, as it involves space marines horror and hordes of Xenomorphs. The second sub license is Alien vs Predator. AvP gives developers quite a bit more creative freedom as it revolves around the Xenomorphs, Colonial Space Marines and Predator franchise pretty liberally.

Alien Isolation was a real attempt to make an alien game around the first movie's concept and ascetic design choices and move away from the James Cameron Aliens cliches. The gameplay goes more stealth survival, with primarily one Xenomorph (OK, more get added in the end), and the lower tier Working Joe robots.

I give Alien Isolation credit for going in a different direction from the Colonial Marines. It tries to play out as a more direct sequel to Alien (1979) movie. Ripley was revealed to have a daughter. The game coincidentally runs with that concept.

 

[Alex11]

The thing with Alien licensed games in general are that they tend to fall under two sub licenses almost exclusively. James Cameron's Aliens, which is the easiest of the Alien licenses to turn into a game, as it involves space marines horror and hordes of Xenomorphs. The second sub license is Alien vs Predator. AvP gives developers quite a bit more creative freedom as it revolves around the Xenomorphs, Colonial Space Marines and Predator franchise pretty liberally.

Yeah, totally agree it's easier to make an Alien game based on Aliens or AVP and more fun? for the general audience.

And I'm sure that a 3rd person shooter in the spirit of Aliens with tons of set pieces and mayhem and also heavy on the story will sell the most. I mean like a very high-quality game made by a big top studio.

Alien Isolation was a real attempt to make an alien game around the first movie's concept and ascetic design choices and move away from the James Cameron Aliens cliches. The gameplay goes more stealth survival, with primarily one Xenomorph (OK, more get added in the end), and the lower tier Working Joe robots.

I give Alien Isolation credit for going in a different direction from the Colonial Marines. It tries to play out as a more direct sequel to Alien (1979) movie. Ripley was revealed to have a daughter. The game coincidentally runs with that concept.

I think the game leans a bit towards Aliens there at the end with a more bombastic actiony sequence, but yeah, it's based on the 1st movie, it's the most sequel out of all sequels.

 

[forsakkenSoul]

Helmed by the same director and many developers of the original

'Convinced me that it's in the right hands'

Press demo takes place in on colony planet LV-921 in a remote Weyland-Yutani outpost surrounded by the woods

The level is in the middle of a storm, lots of rain, 'soupy mist', angry winds that set the mood

You play as Blake, a manager working for Weyland-Yutani searching for the lab

You regularly move between interior sections on Kurosaki Station and the "distressed, eerie" outdoors

There will be an 'interesting dynamic' between interior and exterior spaces

Like the first game, Xenomorph can't be killed

Taken aback by how good everything looks, very detailed, xenomorph 'exceptionally' well rendered

Retains the creepy cat-and-mouse pillar of the IP

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[ValiantInstance]

I wonder if they'll utilise an AI agent this time to react to the player instead of having pre-coded checks that respond to certain actions in the first game like hiding in lockers too often.