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ALIEN: ISOLATION GOES GOLD, NEW TRAILER SERIES BEGINS

Creative Assembly is pleased to let us know today that Alien: Isolation™ has ‘gone gold’ and will be hitting shelves and digital storefronts worldwide from October 7, 2014. With the release just one month away, the team has put together a series of short trailers, the first out today.

’#HOWWILLYOUSURVIVE?’ is a series of short trailers running through to release, showcasing many of the unique ways that players will discover that surviving the creature, and the world of Sevastopol, means learning a whole new set of skills. In Alien: Isolation, the creature is hunting you. If it hears you, it will track down the source of the noise; if it sees you, it will pursue at speed; tackling it head-on is not for the faint-hearted. It’s ruthless, relentless and unstoppable. Which makes us ask, #howwillyousurvive?

Alien: Isolation is a first-person survival horror game capturing the fear and tension evoked by Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic film. Players find themselves in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger as an unpredictable, ruthless Xenomorph is stalking and killing deep in the shadows. Underpowered and underprepared, you must scavenge resources, improvise solutions and use your wits, not just to succeed in your mission, but to simply stay alive.

Alien: Isolation will be available from October 7, 2014, for Xbox One, PS4™, Windows PC, Xbox 360 and PS3™.
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I'm so glad to finally be getting a good Alien game again. I'm happy that we're finally moving away from Cameron's interpretation of Alien, and going back to the scares of the original. I played a good amount of it at the past conventions, and it's easily the best thing to happen to this series.

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PREVIEWS:
Alien: Isolation is haunting and uncompromisingly scary
I came in expecting a game that would be better than the previous titles by default, but I ended up playing a game that not only surprised me with its cleverness and complexity, it gave me a greater appreciation for the original film as well. Alien: Isolation knows exactly what it's doing, and its approach to offering an uncompromising and harsh experience that'll frighten and humble players should win over many who wrote off the series.

With its release on October 7, Isolation's return to classic horror will likely give gamers looking for a survivalist experience -- and those in need of a good scare -- something to look anticipate. And with the Alien lurking the halls of the space station, the odds will certainly be against you. But to quote the cunning android Ash from the original film, "I can't lie to you about your chances, but … you have my sympathies."
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Alien: Isolation hands-on
Weirdly, I think it’s actually a role-playing game. Not in terms of skill trees and stats, but insofar as the more you can suspend disbelief and allow yourself to feel like you actually are Amanda Ripley, trapped in a confined space with a creature built purely to murder you, the more impressive the experience is going to become. There are also some lovely set-piece scares, like a corridor suddenly erupting in flames or an NPC being yoinked into a darkened room by the alien’s spindly hands. This is going to be a game that absolutely begs to be played in the dark with a decent set of headphones. You’d just better hope that Amanda has strong knees, because she’s going to spend a lot of time crouching in the dark. In space, everyone can hear your joints pop.
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Living with the Alien: What it's like to spend a day with Alien: Isolation
And, as I've learned many times to my bloody cost, in Alien: Isolation things don't always go your way. In my hours with the game, on my own, at my desk, in the dark, it managed to delight me with its fan-pleasing fidelity, scare the bejesus out of me with its all-or-nothing stealth horror and, yes, drive me up the wall with its punishing brutality and sporadic save points. It is both exactly the game I was hoping for, and something else entirely. Am I heading back now for another encounter with the beast? Most definitely.
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I have it preordered. Hopefully it'll live up to expectations, not that it'd be too hard to best the LAST aliens game...
 
The deal is sealed.

They have either packed awesomeness, or the child of colonial marines, on that RC.

Now the wait begins.
 
No game series has had a pretty bad game twice in a row, usually the one after is improved and pretty decent at the least, whether or not it tries anything new or not.
 
Toemon said:
No game series has had a pretty bad game twice in a row, usually the one after is improved and pretty decent at the least, whether or not it tries anything new or not.
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A lot of people believe Aliens vs Predator (2010) was a bad game, but I actually rather enjoyed it. It was easily better than Colonial Marines. The last Alien game I enjoyed before this was Alien vs Predator ARCADE. Which in my opinion, is one of the greatest beat-em-ups ever.
 
Toemon said:
No game series has had a pretty bad game twice in a row, usually the one after is improved and pretty decent at the least, whether or not it tries anything new or not.
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It's not a game series. It's a film franchise that has licensed all sorts of merchandise and supporting media, games among them, across many different companies. These games have hardly come from the same developer (Rebellion I think has the lead with two games with AvP 1999 and AvP 2010), and even in this case Alien Isolation has no development relation to AvP2010 or Aliens Colonial Marines other than The Creative Assembly being tasked to develop an Alien/Aliens title from license holder SEGA; as Rebellion, Gearbox, and Obsidian Entertainment have before (or rathe in conjunction with) it.

There have been good games before, but it's hard to have improvements and consistencies when not only are you dealing with multiple developers and stylizations, but also keeping in mind that AvP2010, Aliens Colonial Marines, and Alien Isolation (as well as the defunct RPG from Obsidian Entertainment) were in development around the same time under Sega's licensing deal.
 
The game looks great and as a fan of the 1st Alien movie I couldn't be happier, this is the Alien game I always wanted.

I only have 1 concern. CA already said that there will be human and android enemies but spending the entire game running from one Alien could eventually become boring.
Hope they can balance the human/android sequences with the main gameplay with the Alien.
 
Occam said:
Do we kow if the Nostromo preorder bonus is on the disc? I've asked before but got no reply.
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I don't think anyone will know that until the game is in the wild, but signs point to no. It sounds like both Crew Expendable and Last Survivor DLC content will be offered at a price at a later date.

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