Alien Isolation is good game?

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Poll Alien Isolation is good game? (15 votes)

Alien Isolation is the Alien Game We've Been Waiting For 53%
Alien Isolation is good game(not best Alien game) 20%
Disappointing 27%

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#1 Mr_Huggles_dog
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I actually would like to see what ppl think of this game. I've heard that the down time between alien encounters is kinda long and once you encounter them...it's instant kill if you mess up just once since theres no way of defending yourself.....something along those lines.

But that said...I hear the down time with the atmosphere is really good at building up tension...which is exactly a good thing.

So, I've been torn on whether or not to buy this game.

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The game is absolutely brilliant, however not without some minor flaws but they never bring the game down. The game is rather hard and very scary and requires you to overcome your very own fear in order to step it up. Its difficulty or deaths are never cheap, though. As for screw ups, there are several shades to them, depending how badly you screwed up, but for every situation there are several ways to get away but they will require a clever use of gadgetry and EXCELLENT SPACIAL AWARENESS because you'll have to think on the fly which escape route will be the best. No two encounters are ever the same. The pacing is great, even in the segments when you don't have to deal with Alien the entire time. There aren't cheap plot twists, no melodramatic reveals within the plot either. It's a nightmare that will haunt you for long hours after you finish the game. It's a great value for the money too especially if you got the game with all the DLCs at launch, there will be 5 more DLC packs too. The campaign itself takes 15-20 hours at the very least and is never uninvolving or boring.

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#4  Edited By -SNIPclon--
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@sts106mat said:

The game is superb, it really is THE definitive alien game.

sound like someone didnot payed AVP 1999. that was amazing game

original AVP rest suck and isolation is worst. even more so that colonial marines. starting female protagonist. lol

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#5 Mr_Huggles_dog
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@Salt_The_Fries: What system did you get it for?

Reading what you said....I'm probably going to get it, but not sure if I can get the nice looking graphics on my rig. --> i5 760/GTX 680/ 12GB RAM

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#6  Edited By blangenakker
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Expect Outlast but bigger budget and much longer and also weapons.

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#7  Edited By Micropixel
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Despite some of the mixed reviews, I had some high hopes for this one. ZombiU had mixed reviews too, but I took a chance on it and loved it to pieces. I expected the same for Alien Isolation. But so far, I'm kinda regretting it.

Mind you, I'm not terribly far in the game, but so far it's been pretty dull. You spend most of the beginning feeling lost and stuck and not knowing where to go or what to do. I find myself swapping back and forth between the ship's map entirely too much trying to sort out where I'm going. It's frustrating. There's a huge lack of any real action so far, but there's plenty of button-pushing and lever-pulling if you're into that. But one thing the game does very well is build tension. Like ZombiU, every step you take, every flicker of light you see and every little noise you hear makes you worried about what could be lurking up ahead (which is usually nothing). The Graphics are also gorgeous! But unlike ZombiU, Alien Isolation really sort of drags. It takes a good while before you start to see any real action.

My opinion of the game could change as I get deeper into it, but so far, it's kinda eh.

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@Salt_The_Fries said:

The game is absolutely brilliant, however not without some minor flaws but they never bring the game down. The game is rather hard and very scary and requires you to overcome your very own fear in order to step it up. Its difficulty or deaths are never cheap, though. As for screw ups, there are several shades to them, depending how badly you screwed up, but for every situation there are several ways to get away but they will require a clever use of gadgetry and EXCELLENT SPACIAL AWARENESS because you'll have to think on the fly which escape route will be the best. No two encounters are ever the same. The pacing is great, even in the segments when you don't have to deal with Alien the entire time. There aren't cheap plot twists, no melodramatic reveals within the plot either. It's a nightmare that will haunt you for long hours after you finish the game. It's a great value for the money too especially if you got the game with all the DLCs at launch, there will be 5 more DLC packs too. The campaign itself takes 15-20 hours at the very least and is never uninvolving or boring.

this pretty much says it all, Game is awesome.

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The best Alien game is Infestation for the DS.

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#11  Edited By Salt_The_Fries
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@mr_huggles_dog said:

@Salt_The_Fries: What system did you get it for?

Reading what you said....I'm probably going to get it, but not sure if I can get the nice looking graphics on my rig. --> i5 760/GTX 680/ 12GB RAM

The game's requirements are really low, with i5 processor, 12 gigs of ram and your GPU you should be able to max it out at 1080p, ultra settings and at least 60fps!

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#12  Edited By FreedomFreeLife
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@Micropixel said:

Despite some of the mixed reviews, I had some high hopes for this one. ZombiU had mixed reviews too, but I took a chance on it and loved it to pieces. I expected the same for Alien Isolation. But so far, I'm kinda regretting it.

Mind you, I'm not terribly far in the game, but so far it's been pretty dull. You spend most of the beginning feeling lost and stuck and not knowing where to go or what to do. I find myself swapping back and forth between the ship's map entire too much trying to sort out where I'm going. It's frustrating. There's a huge lack of any real action so far, but there's plenty of button-pushing and lever-pulling if you're into that. But one thing the game does very well is build tension. Like ZombiU, every step you take, every flicker of light you see and every little noise you hear makes you worried about what could be lurking up ahead (which is usually nothing). The Graphics are also gorgeous! But unlike ZombiU, Alien Isolation really sort of drags. It takes a good while before you start to see any real action.

My opinion of the game could change as I get deeper into it, but so far, it's kinda eh.

Well, most people loved Alien more than Aliens.

99% games are based on Aliens movie. This is first game that is based on movie Alien.

They had choice. A)Have action game without horror. or B)Have horror game without action. Developers took horror choice. I love first movie. This is classic.

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@sts106mat said:

@delta3074 said:

@Salt_The_Fries said:

The game is absolutely brilliant, however not without some minor flaws but they never bring the game down. The game is rather hard and very scary and requires you to overcome your very own fear in order to step it up. Its difficulty or deaths are never cheap, though. As for screw ups, there are several shades to them, depending how badly you screwed up, but for every situation there are several ways to get away but they will require a clever use of gadgetry and EXCELLENT SPACIAL AWARENESS because you'll have to think on the fly which escape route will be the best. No two encounters are ever the same. The pacing is great, even in the segments when you don't have to deal with Alien the entire time. There aren't cheap plot twists, no melodramatic reveals within the plot either. It's a nightmare that will haunt you for long hours after you finish the game. It's a great value for the money too especially if you got the game with all the DLCs at launch, there will be 5 more DLC packs too. The campaign itself takes 15-20 hours at the very least and is never uninvolving or boring.

this pretty much says it all, Game is awesome.

I finished it last night, it was even better than i hoped. Easily the best alien game ever made IMO, the amount of atmosphere is off the charts. they really nailed it IMO.

Going to do crew expendable (didn't get last survivor with my copy). is crew expendable pretty long?

It can be as short or as long as you make it really, Crew expendable gives you a huge chunk of the Nostromo to explore , you can Get through it in under an hour if you just focus on getting the job done (and you re extremely lucky) but it's worth exploring the nostromo because everythings there from the Movie and then some, i thought the ALIEN was tougher in crew expendable as well.

Crew expendable does a better job than isolation of actually making you feel isolated and captures the atmosphere of the original movie perfectly imo

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#15  Edited By sukraj
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I don't like these sort of games I prefer games like dead space and the evil within.

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#16 Salt_The_Fries
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@sts106mat said:

@delta3074 said:

@Salt_The_Fries said:

The game is absolutely brilliant, however not without some minor flaws but they never bring the game down. The game is rather hard and very scary and requires you to overcome your very own fear in order to step it up. Its difficulty or deaths are never cheap, though. As for screw ups, there are several shades to them, depending how badly you screwed up, but for every situation there are several ways to get away but they will require a clever use of gadgetry and EXCELLENT SPACIAL AWARENESS because you'll have to think on the fly which escape route will be the best. No two encounters are ever the same. The pacing is great, even in the segments when you don't have to deal with Alien the entire time. There aren't cheap plot twists, no melodramatic reveals within the plot either. It's a nightmare that will haunt you for long hours after you finish the game. It's a great value for the money too especially if you got the game with all the DLCs at launch, there will be 5 more DLC packs too. The campaign itself takes 15-20 hours at the very least and is never uninvolving or boring.

this pretty much says it all, Game is awesome.

I finished it last night, it was even better than i hoped. Easily the best alien game ever made IMO, the amount of atmosphere is off the charts. they really nailed it IMO.

Going to do crew expendable (didn't get last survivor with my copy). is crew expendable pretty long?

I can sell you Last Survivor for precisely 2 quid if you're interested. That's 79 penny cheaper than from marketplace. Help a brother out coz I have nothing else to do with this code, as I got 2...

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@sukraj said:

I don't like these sort of games I prefer games like dead space and the evil within.

You mean you prefer action casual game than hardcore?

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@FreedomFreeLife said:

@sukraj said:

I don't like these sort of games I prefer games like dead space and the evil within.

You mean you prefer action casual game than hardcore?

yes that's right

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@sukraj said:

@FreedomFreeLife said:

@sukraj said:

I don't like these sort of games I prefer games like dead space and the evil within.

You mean you prefer action casual game than hardcore?

yes that's right

Alright. Whats your top 5 favorite games of all time? I just wondering. Everyone prefer something :)

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#21  Edited By silversix_
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Just look at angry joe's review, he's the only one who isn't giving the game a low score because its harder than your average Call of Duty

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@Salt_The_Fries: thats cool pal, is it a PS4 code or XB1?

I am playing AI on the PS4

It is a code that works across all the platforms. So if you want to finalize the "deal" - and you can check out the code first before you even PayPal me - hit me on PM here.