Author: Gary Behan

Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. A longing for the days gone by, allowing us to revisit things we’ve seen a hundred times before. To this day, I can watch Batman: The Animated Series and still enjoy it. It’s timeless. Similarly, the new Alien game, Alien: Isolation, manages to tap into the tense, gritty atmosphere that places the movie series it’s based on in the  top 3 horror movies ever on IMDB. The game stars Amanda Ripley, an engineer and daughter of the heroine of the Alien movies, Ellen Ripley. She boards a space station called the Sevastopol in order to retrieve…

I leapt from an invisible tower and immediately observed a group of Uruks slave driving some people on top of a cliff. This followed an extremely well done tutorial sequence that had enough emotional weight behind to make me invested in the characters early on and said emotional weight meant I was in no mood to be trifled with. I dispatched of the Uruks with relative ease and within 5 minutes I was in the middle of a camp engaging 4 captains (the “mini-bosses” of the game) who had come together to talk about the weather, complain about their respective bosses, trade human slaves…