Wednesday, February 5, 2014

News::Alien: Isolation Will Scare the Heck Out of You | Hardcore Gamer

Hardcore Gamer: After the absolute abomination that was Aliens: Colonial Marines, fans would be wise to be at least skeptical about another Alien game. Fortunately, this one seems to have a stronger foundation than the most recent effort, which fell far short of even the OUYA-released AvP: Evolution game. Like Marines, this has a first-person view, but differs in that it focuses on exploration that freaks you out. Everything is bathed in darkness beyond ambient lighting, which looks gorgeous. Youll see light beam into a room from the shutters, while cracks in them allow the world to feel lived in. Creative Assembly is out to suck you into the world, and whats been shown of the game so far makes it easy to do that. Everything is either just a bit destroyed, or mangled and its unnerving. You can see that the environments were just recently occupied, with things like desk ornaments and food left out and then the gravity of its immediate abandonment sinks in. They were people unt...



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