[Alien] Isolation : Walk, but don't run.. never, ever run.. and buy this game now

John Zoidberg

DISCLAIMER : This thread is for the discussion of any Alien franchise related piece of video game software. Alien: Isolation is just the new hotness is all.



HOW WILL YOU SURVIVE?

Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger. Fifteen years after the events of Alien™, Ellen Ripley's daughter, Amanda enters a desperate battle for survival, on a mission to unravel the truth behind her mother's disappearance.

As Amanda, you will navigate through an increasingly volatile world as you find yourself confronted on all sides by a panicked, desperate population and an unpredictable, ruthless Alien.

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 in late 2014 for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4
and PC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meNE4CPtnCo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBTHss_1saI

Librarian's ghost

Oh man, so bought. Aliens was a great movie and I'm glad they never made any more movies after that.

I refuse to admit that any of those others exist. Ripley, Newt, and Hicks went off to live happily ever after.

Fawst

They're already doing it wrong. Hadley's Hope got nuked. I'm relatively sure it didn't pick and move to the minimum safe distance.

John Zoidberg

Fawst wrote: »

They're already doing it wrong. Hadley's Hope got nuked. I'm relatively sure it didn't pick and move to the minimum safe distance.

Yeah, I hope they haven't come up with a horribly convoluted reason to why they can go there.

Also, the Sulaco set off from LV-426 before the fire that caused the medical bay to be jettisoned. So unless the fire happened within 5 minutes of leaving then surely they would be nowhere the planet.

Fawst

John Zoidberg wrote: »

Fawst wrote: »

They're already doing it wrong. Hadley's Hope got nuked. I'm relatively sure it didn't pick and move to the minimum safe distance.

Yeah, I hope they haven't come up with a horribly convoluted reason to why they can go there.

Also, the Sulaco set off from LV-426 before the fire that caused the medical bay to be jettisoned. So unless the fire happened within 5 minutes of leaving then surely they would be nowhere the planet.

Well, I'll give them your second point. Simply because they are apparently ignoring Alien³. But yeah, unless that imagery was only being used because it's very blatantly "Aliens," I'll be kinda annoyed with this.

Preacher

Ship was in a different location on the planet, they could claim there was another colony and the video from hadleys hope is just previous verified data there are xenomorphs. Its just a teaser, I'll wait for more story before I decry them the worst ever.

Least I know gearbox can handle an fps.

John Zoidberg

Indeed. Hoping for some more concrete info from E3 and even then spring 2012 at the earliest. Plenty of time to be sold on it.

Dongs Galore

If they ignore everything that happened after Aliens I would be completely, utterly fine with that.

daveNYC

I keep having visions of an Aliens setting done with Borderlands style art. I need to stop sniffing glue.

Preacher

Also game could take place on a Weyland Yutani ship thats been overrun by aliens after a failed attempt to extract them from the original alien ship. Plenty of ways they can take this story.

John Zoidberg

All you need is one loose facehugger and you can have it set anywhere.

The beauty of the species as a story telling tool.

Preacher

daveNYC wrote: »

I keep having visions of an Aliens setting done with Borderlands style art. I need to stop sniffing glue.

The spiderants did have a similar head style...

I'd kill to have an aliens game that plays like a loot piniata game. But I'm sure thats just me.

Magic Pink

Dongs Galore wrote: »

If they ignore everything that happened after Aliens I would be completely, utterly fine with that.

I would riot. I loved 3 and.... parts of 4.

Nocren

Hmmm.... not to keen on the "self-contained missions within an over-arching narrative" bit.
Wasn't AvP09 set up that way?

Also, when did that take place? (I ask because of the weapon redesigns.)

John Zoidberg

To me the self-contained missions with drop in drop out co-op for up to 4 players screams Left 4 Dead.

Now, imagine Left 4 Dead.. but with Aliens.

Skull2185

Magic Pink wrote: »

I loved 3 and.... parts of 4.

You would...

I liked three as well... and I can find enjoyment in anything that has Ron Perlman in it, so I guess four was ok...

BloodySloth

I actually do enjoy 3, but it did a whole lot of things wrong. I understand and accept getting rid of Hicks and Newt, but there had to have been a better way than just killing them off in the opening credits.

Olivaw

YES

YESSSS

IT'S ALIIIIIIIIVE

Nocren

John Zoidberg wrote: »

To me the self-contained missions with drop in drop out co-op for up to 4 players screams Left 4 Dead.

Now, imagine Left 4 Dead.. but with Aliens.

Good point.

Now let me get my duct tape. Hand me that M-240 and 41a....

mosssnack

I'm so excited that this isn't dead. Just the sound of the motion tracker in that trailer gave me chills

Frozenzen

I didn't know about this.

I'm about to rewatch aliens right now because of it. It better not be bad.

Librarian's ghost

I don't understand why people keep mentioning a third and fourth movie. There were no movies after Aliens.

TOGSolid

All I need to hear is that glorious pulse rifle gunshot sound effect and I know everything will be alright.

Zenitram

Borderlands is one of my favorite games from this generation, if this game is half as good then I'll be satisfied.

Forar

Aliens is the only movie I've ever bought 3 times (VHS, DVD, iTunes for iPhone awesomeness).

To call this a potential day 1 purchase is an understatement.

Emphasis on Potential though, no blind buying for me. I reserve that for Valve, Bioware and Blizzard.

Dunxco

timspork's ghost wrote: »

I don't understand why people keep mentioning a third and fourth movie. There were no movies after Aliens.

I remember some film with an extra-terrestrial that featured that bitch-arse-amazing actor, Pete Postlethwaite.

Jesus guys how many times are they going to make us shit our underwear over facehugger attacks in FPS games?

The_Spaniard

I posted my reaction in another thread.

Hmm retcon? I mean this game takes place after or during the time period of the third movie, yet it is set in Hadley's Hope on LV-426 which was the location of the second movie. I think we all know why this isn't cannonically possible. Something to do with a white hot flash...

Mr.Sunshine

I guess when Bishop said "...mushroom cloud the size of Nebraska." He forgot to add "But the blast radius will only be a few feet. Leaving the colony pretty much intact."

Zenitram

Mr.Sunshine wrote: »

I guess when Bishop said "...mushroom cloud the size of Nebraska." He forgot to add "But the blast radius will only be a few feet. Leaving the colony pretty much intact."

It was hyperbole, okay?

HappylilElf

timspork's ghost wrote: »

I don't understand why people keep mentioning a third and fourth movie. There were no movies after Aliens.

Aliens 3 is actually pretty decent if you watch the directors cut. As far as resurrection goes while it isn't unwatchably bad it probably says something that the behind the scenes stuff in the Quadrilogy for it was more entertaining then the movie itself to me :P

Librarian's ghost

There could easily be more than one of those atmosphere processors located at different points across the planet. It would be really in efficient to have a terraforming project working from a single plant instead of multiple plants spread around.

Olivaw

Alien 3 has a lot of problems behind the scenes that you can use to excuse it's badness, but in the end, that's all you're doing is making excuses

Alien 3 is still bad

If there was anyone left alive who could actually make a good alien film again, it's Ridley Scott, but who even knows what movie he's making anymore

Mr Bubbles

Olivaw wrote: »

Alien 3 has a lot of problems behind the scenes that you can use to excuse it's badness, but in the end, that's all you're doing is making excuses

Alien 3 is still bad

If there was anyone left alive who could actually make a good alien film again, it's Ridley Scott, but who even knows what movie he's making anymore

Ridley Scott is making a movie called Prometheus, which was shooting when I was in Pinewood Studios a few months ago

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=73281

Librarian's ghost

HappylilElf wrote: »

timspork's ghost wrote: »

I don't understand why people keep mentioning a third and fourth movie. There were no movies after Aliens.

Aliens 3 is actually pretty decent if you watch the directors cut. As far as resurrection goes while it isn't unwatchably bad it probably says something that the behind the scenes stuff in the Quadrilogy for it was more entertaining then the movie itself to me :P

I just hate what they did to Newt and Hicks

Olivaw

Mr Bubbles wrote: »

Olivaw wrote: »

Alien 3 has a lot of problems behind the scenes that you can use to excuse it's badness, but in the end, that's all you're doing is making excuses

Alien 3 is still bad

If there was anyone left alive who could actually make a good alien film again, it's Ridley Scott, but who even knows what movie he's making anymore

Ridley Scott is making a movie called Prometheus, which was shooting when I was in Pinewood Studios a few months ago

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=73281

I know that

What I don't know is whether or not it's actually an Alien movie, because he's been on-again-off-again saying it is

Mr Bubbles

Olivaw wrote: »

Mr Bubbles wrote: »

Olivaw wrote: »

Alien 3 has a lot of problems behind the scenes that you can use to excuse it's badness, but in the end, that's all you're doing is making excuses

Alien 3 is still bad

If there was anyone left alive who could actually make a good alien film again, it's Ridley Scott, but who even knows what movie he's making anymore

Ridley Scott is making a movie called Prometheus, which was shooting when I was in Pinewood Studios a few months ago

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=73281

I know that

What I don't know is whether or not it's actually an Alien movie, because he's been on-again-off-again saying it is

Having actually seen some of the props etc. I'm going with 'no'

Dunxco

You know I've never seen Alien3.

I watched Alien. I watched Aliens. And then said "Yup, that's a fitting enough conclusion for the entire thing." And never bothered with any other Alien film after that.

Same with T2: Judgement Day.

Zenitram

Dunxco wrote: »

You know I've never seen Alien3.

I watched Alien. I watched Aliens. And then said "Yup, that's a fitting enough conclusion for the entire thing." And never bothered with any other Alien film after that.

Same with T2: Judgement Day.

I didn't see T3 for the longest time, but when I did I actually really like it.

Salvation, on the other hand....

mosssnack

Well the trailer for salvation was badass. Any trailer with NiN playing is badass though. Sopranos, 300, and Salvation!

Delta Assault

Oh hey... this game actually exists.

We're on an express elevator to hell, goin down!

mosssnack

Delta Assault wrote: »

Oh hey... this game actually exists.

We're on an express elevator to hell, goin down!

Someone wake up Hicks