This was a really close call, I was sweating the entire time, I couldn't get up and run, because the Alien would have heard/seen me easier, so I had to try to keep ahead of it. Oh man, was it close though.
Well, i am not so sure. The alien in the movie wasn't around all the time. It was a more patient and much clever hunter. The fact that it repeatedly outsmarted the protagonists and thwarted their plans was perhaps the most frightening thing about it. Did the alien(s) in the game behave like this? I mean A.I. is the best homage to the movie ever made. But is it really that similar?
crayzmoe it's actually bad to stay in one area for to long if you stay in one area for to long the alien gets more aggressive even more so the longer you are in that area
Actually it gets more aggressive but if it stays in the same room you're on for too long the game forces it to go into the vents, specially if it's in your line of sight.
I left a locker-hidden save unplayed for about a week before I came back. Well, I think the phone save device was near a locker at least. Finally finished the game and while it was amazing, I don't have the nerves to come back to it for a while. One time the hubs came to bed late at night while the lights were off and in my half-awake state I thought he was the xenomorph.
How could anyone seriously get anywhere with that thing creeping in the corners? If it were for me in real life, I think I would have starved in one of those lockers rather than gone out.
In the movies, the queen can direct xenos to go after targets telepathically. Also, xenos can sense humans with an ability similar to ESP. So in the game you can hide in the locker. In reality, the xeno would sense you inside the locker. Facehuggers have their ESP x 10. The xeno's sense of smell and hearing are also superior to human norm. A deleted scene from Alien 3 had one inmate hiding, and the xeno heard the inmate's breathing. A proposed scene for Alien 4 that was never filmed was xenos tracking the crew by smell.
@@richardsmall2855 The ESP exists in the game in the form of a "director AI" that feeds the drone hints about where you are. That's why he keeps returning to the same room to try to find Amanda, even when she doesn't make any obvious noise or walks in his line of sight. According to this game, it's a vague sense and not omniscient cheater powers. Obviously I think a full squad of colonial marines will be easier to detect than a single human who is trying not to make any noise.
Me and my friends decided to play using the setting that allowed the game to pick up ambient noise in your real life environment via your microphone - biggest bloody mistake we ever made xD Every little thing kept drawing the Alien close to us, and we had a close call in a locker as it entered the room and began sniffing about. Thankfully it left without incident down the hallway, but then my friends bastard step-brother yelled loudly and that caused the alien to stop in its tracks and slowly turn around like it was a goddamn movie moment xD
Marius I can’t really remember, it was several years ago to be honest and I no longer own the game. All I really remember was the moment sorry - I think it had something to do with Noise Detection options or something, my friend was the one who fiddled with the settings.
Paid attention to that too. Was curious what would happen, on my playthrough I beat the crap out of a working joe in a doorway and I couldn't stop laughing when I witnessed him gradually glitch into nothingness as the door closed. I think the devs paid a lot more attention to detail with the alien, which is awesome.
It did get caught. When the alien tried to move and couldn't he flicked is tail aggressively, which triggered the door, and made his tail smack the locker. The detail is spot on. ( So... Does the alien's tail not have nerve endings?)
The most terrifying part about this game is the helplessness you’ll feel at points. For example; You’re just minding your business and walking down a hall and there just happens to be a vent ahead of you that the alien drops from. There are no side doors, no hiding spots. You’re literally filled with fear and you have to turn and run, praying to god you can make the end of the hall... But you know you won’t make it. It was times like this that made me pause the game and take a break. 😂😂
See here’s the great thing about that. What adds to the fear is that when you are in the hallways with the ceiling vents. You can see the drool dripping from the vent.
@@sakazukiamiral290 Agreed. The problem with most horror games is they basically translate to seeing a spooky skeleton jump out of a closet and the music tells you to be scared with lots of random shrieking violins. This is a trope that exists in virtually every horror movie and horror video game. The movies and games that set themselves apart from the rest of them are the ones that utilize _terror._ Alien Isolation is not what I would classify as a "horror" game. It's a terror simulator. Dead Space is a "horror" game (and a damn good one at that), but the moments where Dead Space truly shines is when all of the pieces come together to create genuine terror. Shoving kinetic platforms to the side as you work your way through a maze while being chased by an unkillable monster. Dead Space 2, hacking a door panel in real time as yet another unkillable monster is just feet away from you, slowly but surely coming out of the stasis you put it in just seconds ago. Frantically trying to reload or grab for that item in the environment that will keep a bunch of raving lunatic necromorphs from swarming you and overpowering you. These moments are all periods of genuine terror. They rely on a sense of urgency, a TRUE sense of urgency, to create an overwhelming sense of dread. Alien Isolation takes "sense of urgency" to a whole new level. The _entire game_ is sense of urgency. It doesn't pause when you interact with computers, keypads, or even save. At any moment, the xenomorph could strut right down a corridor and walk right into you. When it slinks away into the vents, you have no idea when it will be back. When YOU hide in vents, you have no idea if it will get smart and crawl in to find you. Even when you believe you've learned its tricks, or believe you are safe, it can and will throw a curveball at you. Oh what's that? You got a flamethrower? Fuck you. The xenomorph will eventually get over it and decide to still swipe at you if it knows it can get away with it. A calculated risk that it takes, dependent entirely on where you are and where it is in the environment. All of this being purely unscripted and 100% emergent gameplay, outside of a few rare occasions where a particular event is scripted. The AI of the xenomorph is incredibly robust, it is quite possibly the most intelligent AI I've ever seen in a video game. This is the most terrifying part, and because of that, no other game comes even close to the overwhelming terror that Alien Isolation creates. Outlast is a game definitely worth playing if you enjoy horror games, but it is nowhere near as terrifying as Alien Isolation.
@@spartan456as a Dead Space 2 player a I agree with you. Nice analysis of this games. In this game when the explotion took place my phone felt down from my hands. It even scary me just the game play. What I love about Dead Space was the inmortal zombies and the first boss that you killed him you get close and scary you one more time, that was gold.
my biggest close call/ near death was when i got the key card for kuhlman and looked at my motion tracker ( it was impaired considering i was playing on nightmare mode) and there was nothing so i went down the hall and it dropped about a foot in front of me, and i stayed completely still, its tail slithered about an inch from my feet. it cocked its head ninety degrees to its left, i was right out of its peripharal vision, i was starting to except death, and do it all again, it then walked into the room opposite of me, i paused the game and took a twenty minute break xD
@Big Boss You can run through most of the medical facility. The nest is comprised mostly of scripted events. Mission 17, on Nightmare, where you have to keep going back and forth through the level is by far the most difficult part. The Alien is super agressive, stays close even in the vents and hardly stays in the vents at all during that mission. You scare it away with the flamethrower or molotov and 5 seconds later it's back already. Boy was I glad I saved most of my flamethrower fuel until after the nest. Made it out with just enough to kill the facehuggers in mission 18.
My closest call was in the computer area where you first try to trap the alien. I was backed into a dark corner and the alien came round another corner around four or five meters away. It looked straight at me for five seconds before turning around and walking away. There's also times where I'm playing the Crew Expendable DLC, when I exit that scary vent sequence, only for the fucker to run right up to me and go into the vent I just came through.
I had kind of the same thing 2 years ago in easy difficulty and that damn alien killed xD When you go back to Kulman with the card, you speak a bit with him then you go to another room where he says he's gonna get his stuff, just before he dies. When I got to that other room, the alien came in running to me just like an olymptic athlete would before killing me and I had literally 2 seconds to understand what was happening before dying xD
4:35 that couldn't have been any more perfect. After waiting and hiding out and finally getting the chance to leave, the pipe just blasts out of nowhere and the character shrieks alerting the alien. Made me jump.
You do know that the Alien can hear the Tracker right? As soon as you can hear it nearby you should put the tracker away and judge by sound/sight where it is and when you can make your move. Using the Tracker just draws it to you.
Actually, it does depend on the difficulty level. On lower diffuclties, you can keep running with the tracker on, ignoring the fact that alien is emerging close to you. On higher difficulties, the alien can be easily attracted if you use the tracker constantly (tracker is also working inproperly on higher difficulties). Also you have probably noticed all the staff around (boxes etc.) which are flying around once you/alien touches it. On higher diffifculties, things like plates will also create noise which will attract alien. And the last thing I remember is that alien is unable to chase you in vents on lower difficulties. I was standing in a vent close to him, already being noticed. Yet he couldn't go in and catch me.
The Alien can hear most sounds you make in the game. Weapon and walking or running noises obviously but also lockers and the motion tracker. The higher the difficulty, the better its senses become. It can't hear you use generators, gas torches, door levers or the maintenance jack on those door braces. All of which are very loud. Which is weird but, there you go. - Edit - The sound it makes at 7:49 signals it heard something of interest to it. Depending on the difficulty it will either search an area or, for instance on Nightmare, it will come straight for the locker you just hid in and try to sniff you out. It's the same sound it makes when dropping from a vent. Also, the hiss you hear after it walks into Dr. Lingard's office means it spotted Amanda. In this video, the player was lucky the Alien walked too far and broke line of sight. Again, depending on the difficulty there's a certain amount of time in which you can break line of sight and survive.
This section was where I died the most: I kept on being stuck in lockers and being forced to remain in certain spots for 10-20 minutes and dying several times when the AI caught on to where I was.
Unfortunately, even though they're an option... Lockers are the easiest way of getting killed frequently. The time it takes to get in/out is valueable and you don't have an option to 'keep moving'. My favourite hiding spot is the wall right next to a door, then backing out of it as soon as I know it hasn't spotted me. This requires to not be seen initially though. I've been in too many situations where I'm almost intimately close with the Xeno without dying and it doesn't get better XD (unless I'm messing around. someimes it's fun to attract it and make it blow itself up trying to get to you)
@IAN HEINE It DOES do this to a certain degree. You see it much more frequently on harder difficulties. This is typically when you're under beds/tables, or in lockers. Also vents on Nightmare. It loves chasing you into the vents that typically it doesn't use as often. The AI WILL start checking rooms more thoroughly as you go. The beauty of hiding in plain sight or in the open is that you have an option to keep moving; If you are not spotted, most of the time the AI will have to fully enter a room, and in the few seconds with it's back turned you sneak out and around a corner maintaining a wall or object between you and the AI. It's also a case of using doors and doorways to your advantage. The alien hates them and would prefer to ambush you from behind from a vent than waiting for it to open. This can be beneficial to an extent.... but pretty much all these strategies rely on knowing where you are going and what boundaries to push. I'm replaying the game on nightmare 'cause I wanted to use as few resources (it's hard AF.) and I've had my ass handed to me a few times. Mostly by Joes. XD
@@misschieflolz1301 the issue I found with this section was that the only places I could effectively hide in were lockers or cabinets because there were too many long open corridors with nowhere to hide. Once you get through the doors out of the small closed off square though it's much easier, especially in the surgery room where the Alien won't check behind the table with the corpse where you find the medical supplies. There are several other areas that I can't remember but they do exist so it works as a flawless strategy, if it is an option
@@tntguardian6455 Yeah this hexagonal part is one of the worst sections to deal with in terms on stealth especially on harder difficulties. I once dropped down into the first room only for the Xeno to drop out of the other vent in the room right next to me less than a second after I did. I've also had it literally camping in the room I need to drop into for minutes at a time. Usually my aim is to set the gas explosion off to give myself a bit of cover to circle back around the other way. I can get away with it some of the time, even once tailing it back to the save station. I use the room next to it as cover as I've noticed it rarely goes behind the desk to check under it. Once you get passed the keycard door it is MUCH easier. Except when the Xeno camps outside THAT door, or silly hoomans decide to immediately start blasting. XD
@King-Solstice You are correct, unless of course said human engages in one-on-one Kombat, which is also a death wish considering how ridiculously super-sized Predators are (ex. when Predator easily beat up Major Dutch, and when Predator 2 easily killed King Willie).
what the hell this game? Just watching the gameplay is already become the most stressful experience ever than any other horror game I can't imagine actually playing it
I was the same way, but after you play for awhile you'll start to understand how the Alien works, but so will it, you'll start to lose that fear later on in the game, or maybe that's me.
It’s called Alien Isolation. I think I got it for 15$ on amazon, probably the most underrated PS4 sci fi horror game. The Xenomorph is terrifying, the gameplay is intense, and the environment is absolutely terrifying and gorgeous. The Sevastopol has that retro like style that remarks to the original alien films. The design is just so detailed. I would give it a 9/10, only because some npc designs were not as detailed and it could’ve been just a tad bit longer.
One time, I saw an item on a table nearby, and I wanted to get it, but my tracker told me the Alien was above me until he vent, so I waited a couple minutes. Nothing happened, so I went to get the item really slowly, and what do ya know? It dropped down right infront of me, but extremely luckily, it was facing the other way, so I darted under a behind a cabinet. The alien walked past the cabinet into a room with a dead end; I new it was coming back out the same way, and it would obviously see me. Again, by pure luck, it jumps up into the one vent inside that room, missing me completely. This was in hard difficultly...
03:10 XenoGamer121 : Hissssssssssssssss !! 03:15 Cerebophage : PLEASE I HAVEN'T SAVED IN A WHILE NO PLEASE DON'T KILL ME PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE !!!!!!!!!!.... 03:25 XenoGamer121 : fine. But next time : you're history. *leaves room*
Glad you like it, thanks. :) I still have those awesome moments. Every new playthrough differs a lot. The game's that good. I got spotted by the xenomorph on the main hall (where you pick up the Tuner) on the upstairs deck, and one guy shot him at the very same moment, and caught its attention. I went straight in the vent and made myself scarce, until the fight was over, and resumed my game. Talk about *luck* $$
Sometimes the Alien will sense you under the desk and get you, sometimes it won’t! That why I love this game so much how unpredictable the Alien is! Alien Isolation is a Gorgeous Masterpiece and Badass Game! I have never been scared of playing a video game in my life until I played this💯💯🔥🔥🖤💚
What's most terrifying is when you realize you never face the same alien. The hive scene later in the game reveals to you that each level that you travel to and from has its own xeno. This is why it can follow you no matter where you go. That means even if you could kill or disable one, when you go to the next level, you meet its angry brother.
This isn't really accurate. The truth is we don't really know how many Xenos come after you (at least until the end of the game) and whether it's the same one or not. I think the one from the hospital level is the same one that you encounter in the server hub, which is confirmed by Waits ("is it still after you?") to be the same one that you face in Gemini Exoplanet Solutions and jettison into the gas giant. Where you're probably right is that each level has a different Xeno in the third act of the game, after the reactor level. I read somewhere that there's one alien on the hunt and the rest are just chilling in the hive until you go and destroy said hive
This definitely isn’t true, up until you go to the hive there’s only one xenomorph moving around the station. After you eject that first xenomorph from Sevastopol, you can backtrack and go anywhere around the station as much as you want, but no matter how much noise you make you’ll never attract an alien because they’re all still chilling in the nest until you disturb it.
I was thinking about that recently. If they ever decide to make a sequel, maybe they can allow another player to be the Xenomorph. Like a spooky game of hide and seek! 😂
Im sure youll probally never read this but i was so damb suprised they didnt sprint back if you can sprint in game i wouldve however i also wouldve paused to changed me pants😂
This part of the game is so hard even on normal difficulty, like, damn, every single time I replay this to remember how good it was I have so many close calls, it's insane. I'm not... really sure I want to try the hardest difficulty, but hey, maybe the trophy is worth it. Or not. I don't know. It's a great game, and it's a fucking shame we won't be seeing any sequel soon (aparently, I hope this changes).
Kevin Mora a predator one would could be based in the jungle like in the film. It’s more aggressive gameplay but you still can’t just go running around. You need to use mud and anything to hide your heat and all, but there will be moments you get to blast em. It could be that you have to defeat it in a certain amount of encounters to finally kill it, as each time you make it really hurt, it uses up his health or whatever. And singed of being scared o the confined space, you’re scared of the open space.
7:14 I have post-traumatic stress from hearing this sound now. After playing this on hard difficulty I didn't even look at airvents in real life the same way
This room was a nightmare for me too. Really was too stressful this section. I remember eventually getting out of it by running and hoping to get lucky. Any time I replay this game I load up the sections where you can use the flamethrower! Classic game.
I had to do this room so many times on hard. The problem is that you have to walk around the whole hallway, which is shaped like a circle, but you can't walk past the broken flaming vent when it breaks. Then the alien spends 90% of its time walking around the hallway blocking your path. Running was never an option to me at any point, on Hard mode the alien instantly hears you when you sprint so it's basically an "I lose" button. And it doesn't waste any time checking the sound out, it's like "Oh someone's sprinting? Well I can sprint WAY FASTER than they can!"
not that bad. I've rounded the corner and ended up face to face with it and the only reason I survived was because it was in the process of entering a vent.
I remember on my first play through the part at 4:37 when the pipe blows up it scared the living shit outta me. Lol when she yells "fuck" I jumped and also yelled "fuck" like almost at the same point when she said it. 🤣 I'm not really a horror game fan so many horror games are generic. I'm only a scifi horror fan and there arent many scifi horror games out there. Most of the horror games are like outlast, resident evil, zombie games, or dead by day light not really any scifi horror unfortunately. Even though I'm not really a fan of horror games/ movies in general I absolutely love Alien isolation but it traumatizes the shit outta me every time I play it so I dont play it offen lol.
Jacob Lyalls everything in the games are explained through in world science. I understand that sometimes it can seem really stupid, like a god lady that can shoot trails of flame at people, and wesker having super speed, but they always at least try to explain it with science. The same can be said about the bakers.
Jacob Lyalls if the type of zombie is created through a virus or a disease, than that counts as science fiction. They are not supernatural in the resident evil games.
@@gub4941 the Resident Evil games are science fiction with a feel of supernatural. Yeah the zombies from a infection makes it scifi but the feel of some of the games makes it like supernatural. When I mean I'm more into scifi horror I mean something like Alien isolation or Soma involving space. Now Dead space I couldnt get into it dont know why just couldn't.
I opened a door and the xeno was right on the other side of the door. I had just barely enough time to crouch in a corner next to a pallet jack and it walked right past me. I thought it would see me for sure.
I am so proud to say that this is the only horror game I ever actually finished! At least they give you weapons and ample hiding spots! Pro tip: Stay far away from lockers, they are a death trap...the alien will find you in there eventually. 😂😭
not to be a bragging right bitch,but I somehow finished the game within two days and I tell ya this ,(for me) I memorize the vent locations and use the tracker (when the alien is not there) to play with the ai using noisemakers or I would usually just do the hiding for my life tactic but the most reliable strat is to watch the ceilings they fuck you real hard when you don’t notice thats why they have sounds (playing this again without sounds is real scary) but yeah pretty relatable I hid in a locker for about 2-5 mins before I leave sometimes I pause the game just to eat and take a break lol
Sometimes it can get exhausting. Gotta say. Assuredly, I read every single one. Sometimes even, I don't have anything to say about it. It helps when people ask open ended questions.
There was one time I was playing and one of the scavenger people started shooting at me. Suddenly the Xenomorph dropped out of the vent and instead of killing me, it went after the scavenger and gave me time to get away alive
God I remember this level all too vividly. It was a circle so you thought you could kite the alien, but then BOOM! There's fire blocking the circle and now you have to sneak past it somehow. Excellent level design. This game is a masterpiece, I really ought to replay it
What's more nightmare inducing- being trapped inside a a starbase with: A) A Xenomorph B) The Tyrant from Resident Evil 2 C) Nemesis from RE3 D) Michael Myers
@@cerebrophage7709 nemesis has a rocket launcher lmao I see you don't play RE games he even stalks u 24/7 in the rpd and streets but the alien just chases u if he sees you, pretty much nemesis wins
@@nihii9961 don't be walking up in here all condescending like that, you're in my domain now lol. Allen is flexible, able to crawl on walls, ceilings, and prefers not to make noise when stalking their prey. They have two objectives. 1) capture hosts for the Queens eggs, 2) in absence of the Queen, feed until they can perform metamorphosis. The xenomorph is a cunning predator who adapts to the strategies of their prey and will avoid toying with their prey unless they are sure of the kill. In summary: 1) The xenomorph has a predator mindset as opposed to the Nemesis which has a relentless killer mindset. The former denotes intelligence and a sense of self preservation. 2) as a non-hero character, engagements with the xenomorph are quick and usually done when the circumstance is in favour of the Xenomorph. Again, circling back to cunning and self preservation 3) the xenomorph prefers covert engagements, staking their prey quietly and keeping to ventilation ducts where the Nemesis could hardly fit through a bulkhead. Given the choices, I would prefer to fight the nemesis and pull a Thermopylae maneuver on it. The question was, which would terrify me the most to be left in a station with. Xeno, hands down. Don't presume to know my gaming/nerd background menu. I will pwn you.
@@cerebrophage7709 nemesis literally can break through walls and can kill you pretty easily with hands,tentacle,rocket launcher and if it gets affected by explosions it mutates not like the xeno, turning nemesis into nightmare fuel
This is one true masterpiece, one of my personal favourite game ever, never get bored playing this game. I remember my first time at the nest, after activating the alpha core, when you start making noise and you hear the aliens waking up and screaming, I pulled out the tracker and when I saw literally many many movements in every direction, I was like I'm fucked😂. You should definitely play this game at least once on nightmare, the final part of mission 10 , the nest part and the biggest part of mission 17 when the alien just goes berserk are truly nightmare
The feeling u get when u turn your back from a monster to run away or in this case to hide in that trolley after that explosion happend is so terrifying
You should show this to your friends, have them watch the whole thing at maximum volume, memorize the scare time, then grab them right when it happens... ;)
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I’m in the process of replaying this game and I’ve had my fair share of close calls. I’ve also learned that you can get through this particular level without setting off the exploding gas if you already know it’s there to make noise which helped a lot on my second play through I think it was also in this level I played ring around the rosie with the alien three times in the same room and it never caught me
Yeah the ideal way is to go around the exploding gas vent from the other side, then set it off and the drone will run into it which scares him and makes him leave. Still really tough part because you have to go the long way around the circular corridor one way and the drone spends most of his time in between you and the destination.
This game is surprisingly fun, and scary, and all the above. I felt like it was a hidden gem as I don’t know a lot of people that have played this. I played this in fall around Halloween time and it was epic! Great game!
This game captured the atmosphere of the movie so fucking well, one of the greatest video games based off of a movie, right behind Ghostbusters the Videogame for me.
Some was close, but I see close calls more being like when I was going down the hallway to go back to Khulman and I was at the door to the room with the schedule of all the rounds/patients to find where Morley is and the Alien dropped out of the vent about 3 feet in front of me. Was lucky that 1) the alien didn't turn around, and 2) that I didn't have a heart attack, it scared the shit outta me.
same here, i got the key card and looked at my motion tracker ( it was impaired considering i was playing on nightmare mode) and there was nothing so i went down the hall and it dropped about a foot in front of me, and i stayed completely still, its tail slithered about an inch from my feet. it cocked its head ninety degrees to its left, i was right out of its peripharal vision, i was starting to except death, and do it all again, it then walked into the room opposite of me, i paused the game and took a twenty minute break xD
i legit stayed under that bed for 1h without taking a break to then just die from it in 2 min i was in shook and uninstalled the game i then downloaded it again and had to do everything from the start legit wrst day of my life i started crying lol anyways good vid bud you will get there one day
@@gamefreak974 It's not that bad. You just have to be patient, but keep moving. There are times when the alien will not let up, so you have to just go for it when you get the chance.
shalomamigos, so it has puzzle game vibes. That makes it a little more understandable but for me, I would still like more freedom and action as a player.
@@gamefreak974 Yeah, stealth is one of my favorite genres, but it is nice to be able to explore freely without constantly having to be alert. I definitely prefer stealth over combat though. Guns are kinda boring for me.
I love how this game can literally make you stay in one spot for ages. The value they get out of the game must be mad as even a tiny section can make you take ages to get through it
I died the most in this damn room. I hate so much San Cristobal, specially this part of the map. Probably most of my deaths come from trying to find my way around. The alin only appears in fron of the door and keeps going left, the only way you can also go. If I don't die at the door trying to flee, I bump at him coming from the other way in the corridor or entering a room
Once after I got the keycard in medical I opened a door and it was face to face with me. The only reason I survived was because I backed away and threw a noise maker down the hall. But it didn’t go for the noise maker for a soiled minute instead it just stood there motionless.
from 7:00 till the end it's like an actual Alien movie, you slowly try to move back, the alien keeps showing its face from doors, the lighting is gorgeous
