Well,
I just completed Alien: Isolation, otherwise known as the Alien game the
franchise has always deserved. This is,
unsurprisingly, the first time any developer has tried to capture the more
tense and claustrophobic nature of the original film. Instead of being a Colonial Marine mowing
down countless Xenos with your Pulse Rifle, you have nearly zero defenses. Sure Amanda’s got a revolver
and a shotgun with which to defend herself, but, for once, the Alien is the
nigh indestructible threat it was in the first and third films. Your only line of defense against the
creature is a flamethrower, which only scares it off for a few minutes. If you don’t happen to have that handy, you
better know how to sneak like a champion and in the chance that there’s not a lot to hide behind, you can hide in lockers, crates, under beds or
tables. If you think you’ve got bigger
balls than the Alien you can try to take it on with your conventional weapons,
but you’ll quick learn, this does nothing but piss it off.
