Alien: Isolation

A truly fun survival horror game based on Alien!

FANTASTIC GAME!! Highly recommend it.

You probably know it will start with a simple mission but things go wrong and move to fubar. You will be in first person, figuring out what happened, surviving and trying to escape. The good: can get very intense, some beautiful graphics/lighting/effects/set pieces, atmosphere is pretty good (sound is excellent), decent storytelling and high production values. Has its issues though. Immersion: -minor bugs; items floating in the air, npc's getting stuck etc. -very restricted in what you can do, where you can go, what you can interact with. -character control; you can't jump, climb, open/close a door, etc. You just do what the game wants you to do all the time. ..and it was not always clear what the game wanted me to do. -it tells you to sneak but will just as easily alert enemies with scripted events or at random. -it gives you tools that don't work. examples: It is rarely a good idea to use most of the weapons, it gives you a hacking tool that will not open those locked doors you passed. same for the blow torch, they need upgrades, some of the items you can craft can be left uncrafted. It made parts of the game annoying. Also annoying is that enemies will know where you are. they will be patrolling your area all the time. sometimes very close and sometimes a bit more far, presenting your window to get on with the game. progression is built around things not working so you are always going back and forth to fix/get something, but you will constantly be interrupted to hide and wait. At first this can be intense but it becomes a routine. It would have been nice if you had opportunities to trick the enemy, put it on the wrong track, slow it down, etc. all you can do is distract it but that only lasts as long as the actual distraction. Last issue for me is that the alien was a bit underwhelming. It was fast and instant death but it mostly moves like a human in an alien suit and you will not catch it doing anything interesting. suggest: soma, deadspace

Great game, very scary and entertaining. Only complains are all the flashing lights there's no way to skip or turn off, and the DLCs are absolute crap.

Although I dislike games in which you have to escape from an undestructible threat I like this game cery much.