ALIEN: Isolation

[Alex Ros]

I have finished main campaign just yesterday. And I must confess I did not like the game. It is not bad surely, environments and lighting are stunning in fact. But this is not a suspense slow patient ALIEN at all. Sometimes it is, but most of times it's nearly a shooter with all those people with guns and androids. The final part of the game is really just a big budget blockbuster, when everything is getting ruined and blown in front of your eyes. Emotionally this is similar to action-oriented ALIENS by James Cameron. In fact there were no real need to inject people and androids into the game. Isolation, one on one with alien could be more then enough. I say that because I have finished the game and I just see that additional NPS's were not necessary. More of that "Last Survivor" DLC is in fact one on one chapter and do works effectively. Oh and I just nearly forgot about those fucking 3rd person view cut-scenes. Are you joking?!? How could they, developers, consciously ruin immersion with all those cut-scenes? Especially by knowing that all of those sit-and-watch cut-scenes could work extremely nice without breaking the game going on.

So what might be 10/10, now it's maximally 7/10 and worst of all I would never replay it.

Anyway, I do understand that mass audience could not be satisfied with no action, fighting, SFX, animations, cut-scenes and other AAA shit. Sadly.