11/12/2023 0 Comments Alien isolation ps3 reviews![]() ![]() Much of the game’s brilliance lies in how it treats the monster. Can you keep thinking when you’re scared and under pressure? Can you adapt and survive with death breathing down your neck? While Alien: Isolation is a test of reflexes, it’s also a test of nerve. It doesn’t help that the action is unpredictable, hitting you with shocks you won’t see coming, and an unstoppable nemesis whose behaviour can be hard to pin down. The result is a game where you spend an awful lot of time worrying about what might be about to happen, then moving frantically – often in a panic – when it does. It’s a slow-burning thriller, not a big action blockbuster, taking its time to build the tension before it even introduces the game’s monster star. More surprisingly, the team at The Creative Assembly has followed the pacing of the film. Even the sounds – the hissing machinery, the jets of steam, the creak of metal – could have come straight from the film. Playing Alien: Isolation is like walking onto a virtual set of Alien, the film. The lighting, the masterful use of light and shadow and even the slightly excessive use of vapour and dry ice all hold true to the Ridley Scott playbook, circa 1977 to 1985. There’s been no attempt to update those cheesy leather seats, clunky consoles or pixilated monochrome displays. ![]() The Sevastopol is what the future looked like in 1979 as envisaged by Ridley Scott and his crack team of artists, including H.R. You’ll find yourself playing Amanda, Ripley’s daughter, rather than her mum, and you’re on a half-abandoned space station, the Sevastopol, rather than an alien-infested towing vessel, but the events on the Nostromo will never be far from mind. See also: Alien Isolation tips and tricks – A survival guide We’ve seen tie-ins that try their best to replicate the characters or the scenery of the Alien films – not least last year’s execrable Aliens: Colonial Marines – but we’ve never seen another that works so hard to capture the essence, the visual style or the textures of the film, and not just of the films in general, but the 1979 original in particular. In fact, it’s one of the best movie tie-ins ever made. Of course, you should play this game otherwise, for the simple reason that it’s fantastic. ![]() Nervous? Easily scared? Prone to having a few too many double-espressos? Don’t play this game. I’ve had to stop playing it every half hour or so just to let my stress levels recede. There are points when playing the game where I’ve felt my heart beating so hard that I can believe it might – appropriately – burst right out of my chest. Maybe not one of those hardcore ‘this stuff will kill you’ warnings like you’ll find on a pack of cigarettes, but certainly one of those warnings that you’d find climbing onto a multi-looping rollercoaster at a major theme park. It’s a cliché to say that ‘this game should come with a health warning’, but with Alien: Isolation we really mean it. We’ll cover additional content in a future update. Note: This review only covers the main single-player campaign. Available on Xbox One (reviewed), PS4, Xbox 360, PS3, PC ![]()
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