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New Alien: Isolation screenshots
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Miles Quaritch
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As a fellow hardcore Alien fan, I highly recommend avoiding Colonial Marines like the plague. Play Alien Trilogy or Resurrection again...
They still hold up even today in terms of gameplay, if you can look past the now dated visuals.
Anything for the chestburster twist ending!
Anton Sugar
Member
Obviously those aren't his, but Ridley Scott typically does some amazing storyboarding/"Ridleygrams" for his movies. His own style is Moebius-ish, and I thought I read somewhere that Moebius helped out with SOME of the designs for Alien...
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
I haven't read through the previous Isolation threads (only skimmed them for the pics), so I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but does this new Xeno not come from a human host?
It has digitigrade limbs, or cat/dog/bird like legs in contrast to the human-like legs of the original Xeno.
even if there was no reason for it, I'm glad they took some liberty in the design of the xenomorph. why limit yourself to what was possible on a low budget in the 70s? the movie hid the fact that it was a tall man in a suit well, but there's no point in replicating it exactly.
A kind of retro look in space makes sense though even in a non-Alien universe.
The deep space radiation would fry any modern CPU quite quickly. NASA is still using Intel 386DX CPUs in some probes. Modern nanometer scale die fabrication processes are no good in space.
Also, space ship travel takes a long time due to the immense vastness of space. There is an ESA comet probe just now waking up from a deep sleep mode that was launched in 2004, 10 years ago. Just to reach a comet that is deep within our own solar system.
And third: investments in technology and safety standards also demand long term thinking and technology deployment. Space shuttles had computer systems from the early 80s til the end pretty much.
Tarin02543
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Looks fantastic. My 760gtx and future Gsync panel can't wait to play this.
SPACECADET
Member
im buying this. you can't stop me.
Q
Queen of Hunting
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that film grain is absurd or whatever the fuck it is
I haven't read through the previous Isolation threads (only skimmed them for the pics), so I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but does this new Xeno not come from a human host?
It has digitigrade limbs, or cat/dog/bird like legs in contrast to the human-like legs of the original Xeno.
They can gladly retcon that to me, there's a reason we never saw the film Alien lit like that with human-like legs, it'd look absolutely ridiculous.
Yea, I'm sure the digit-grade limbs were to further enhance the original design. Something alot of people blow a gasket at in the Alien fandom, but something I welcome. Other than that, it's an almost spitting image of the original Xeno. Nothing else was borrowed from the Resurrection or other, Xeno.
The Cowboy
Member
This looks GLORIOUS! (sorry, watching a Klingon story ark Star Trek 
), I love how they seem to have gotten the original movie look.
I can't wait!!! (dam my Alien hype, I really shouldn't keep having it).
), I love how they seem to have gotten the original movie look.I can't wait!!! (dam my Alien hype, I really shouldn't keep having it).
I never saw it as a limitation of budget or technology, but an intrinsic part of the alien physiology. The xenos take the general shape of their host, so it'd make sense that the original xeno, and most other human-host xenos in later movies, would have human-like appendages, whereas the xeno from Alien 3 had more quadruped features.
I do hope there's a reason for why this new Xeno has those features. Devils in the details (and they've put so much apparent effort into other details).
Oh and in regards to the alien suit not being scary when shown in full or lit well, it all comes down to how it's presented. Just watch this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpKi41a1rJI#t=56
Even without the suit, the general humanoid form of the alien can still be terrifying.
Face it Tiger..
Banned
Looks like a Riddick game.
TetraGenesis
Member
You're reaching.
GillianSeed79
Member
Right down to the woman in the calendar wearing the same panties as Ripley did in Alien. I can't be the only one who noticed that right? <_< >_> <_<
Game looks amazing.
Well, another reason for me to dislike Alien Resurrection.
Dictator93
Member
You mean it has a great sense of environement, first person presence, and immmaculate attention to detail like Butcher Bay?
Then sign me up
Fixed.
TheChewyWaffles
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Bullshots
Is it just me or does this calendar bear an uncanny resemblance to Ripley from Aliens? I seem to vaguely recall her being dressed/wake up in a similar dressed fashion in Aliens in her appartment (somewhere near the beginning of the movie).
Also, the screenshots look so much ahead of anything out now, that I simply can't believe them being real. Besides, how often have we been shown awesome looking graphics, only to be presented with a horrible looking product (relatively speaking)?
Also, the screenshots look so much ahead of anything out now, that I simply can't believe them being real. Besides, how often have we been shown awesome looking graphics, only to be presented with a horrible looking product (relatively speaking)?
Having said, I want, nay, NEED to believe...
I should of double checked, got it from a google "alien 1979" image search. my bad.
More comparisons.. Apart from the longer legs, looks pretty accurate imo.
Cosmic Schwung
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In the Edge article they have another shot of it and the skull is really clear. Doubt we'll get many opportunities to see it in-game though.
Anton Sugar
Member
Yeah, I'll get over it, considering the rest of the design is spot on.
I wonder if they will give it some of the awkward/weird movements like the xeno in Alien, though. They became these super-nimble monsters in the sequels, but in Alien, some of its actions made it seem almost curious of its surroundings and the humans.
Either way, yeah, Day 1. I'm glad the success of Amnesia (and maybe more recently, Outlast?) have inspired devs to go back to "helpless" survival horror.
Yea I think when looking at the movies not too many were paying attention to the legs... I know I wasnt...lol. I was looking at the huge ass head.
There was a scene in one of the first 3 movies where you might can see legs when it was in the ventilation ducts. Sounds like 2 or 3.
Or even in 1 when it was laying on its back, side.
But yea....I want this.
OT....but the legs....it kinda explains that in some of the movies. Especially Prometheus. I think the xenos take on most of the form of the host. Or evolved to that over the years. That thing at the end of Promteheus was nothing like the Alien movies and that was supposed to be before Alien.
There was a scene in one of the first 3 movies where you might can see legs when it was in the ventilation ducts. Sounds like 2 or 3.
Or even in 1 when it was laying on its back, side.
But yea....I want this.
OT....but the legs....it kinda explains that in some of the movies. Especially Prometheus. I think the xenos take on most of the form of the host. Or evolved to that over the years. That thing at the end of Promteheus was nothing like the Alien movies and that was supposed to be before Alien.
grosvenor_92
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Those screens look pretty damn nice.
Zombie James
Banned
Looks damn good. Really damn good.
StoppedInTracks
Member
gackdamn
Looks like 100% offline render. Very impressive.
Anton Sugar
Member
Yeah, the nerd in me really wants to know.
PERFECT!
Pyramid head
Banned
I've always preferred the original '79 Alien design. The more humanoid physiology combined with the clear dome and skull just gave it a creepiness which was lost as the design evolved into more of an animalistic creature.
Nitpicking aside though, the game looks prettay, prettay, prettay good in these shots.
shinobi602
Member
Seriously? Come on...
Miles Quaritch
Member
I feel bad for laughing considering what happens next, but its movements looks so damn hilarious, especially the 'come to me' thing with its hands.
woo and indeed hoo
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He did; he was one of the team of artists in pre-production. It included Ron Cobb, Chris Foss too off the top of my head. Of course Giger gets almost all the pub because of his deliciously creepy design work but they all played their part. I've seen design sketches from Moebius for the space suit and uniforms the crew wear that were pretty closely followed in the actual designs used in the film.
They lend some features, but not everything - given that the Xeno's a nasty predator, a "fixed" pre-programmed leg that does not depend on the host makes more sense than lending the legs of a victim. Imagine a Xeno born from an elephant - if it would take over the functional anatomy of those legs it would have a hard time climbing or jumping...
Miles Quaritch
Member
There's gameplay footage, actually played by journalists. It's not going to be a repeat of the Colonial Marines saga with Sega/Gearbox showing the same pre-rendered demo at all events/previews until a month or two before release.
bloodforge
Member
Looks great so far.
I think the altered legs make it look more menacing. Always thought it looked kinda goofy with the human-like feet.
I think the altered legs make it look more menacing. Always thought it looked kinda goofy with the human-like feet.
Xeno is looking hot here.
Yeah, it's insane how well they've adapted the look and feel of the original movie. I can't think of any other licensed game that captured the cinematic techniques and recreated the art so well.
Yeah, it's insane how well they've adapted the look and feel of the original movie. I can't think of any other licensed game that captured the cinematic techniques and recreated the art so well.
I was being serious, yeah. It's especially because of the screenshot with the calendar. That just looks to damn pretty to be real. In my experience you can only trust pre-release screenshots to be heavily edited to make them look super pretty.
Don't get me wrong: if the actual game looks like this in realtime with a good framerate, I'll be happily surprised and eat the crow
Besides, I don't even mind it if it would look like current gen. I'm more worried about the actual game being real fun. I definitely want it to succeed, but a good Alien game is like the perfect girlfriend...
From the Official Playstation Magazine UK:
Either way, I still like what they did with the legs, reminds me alot of the redesign by Tom Woodruff, Jr. and Alec Gillis. The human shaped legs where always that one thing which bothered me in the original Xeno design. It was a very believable and scarry creature up until the final moments of the movie where you could see the Alien body in full, once you got a glimpse of the whole creature it became obvious that you were looking at a guy in a rubber suit and gone was the illusion. Jean-Pierre Jeunet got atleast this one thing right. He felt that a man in a suit is easy to distinguish when the full body is seen so he decided to use CGI Aliens rather than puppets or suited actors whenever the creatures' legs were in frame.