Alien: Isolation PC Game Review 

Probably the most terrifying game I've ever played. It makes you feel so powerless, best Alien game ever in my opinion.

My first play through took me about 30 hours. 10 of those hours took place inside lockers. Still 2014 goty though.

Hands down, the best thing to come out of the Alien franchise since the second movie.

When I was hiding from a Working Joe in the shafts, he said "I can wait for you for a very long time." Sent chills down my spine.

I'm closing in on 400 hours played of this game (mostly clawing my way to the top ten of challenge modes) and I've mapped out most of the alien's responses. He has multiple 'states' of aggravation and suspicion, and these determine what he will do given the situation. Watch his tail, tells you a lot.

This game was fucking brilliant. By far one of the top game of the genre you could play. Everything was great, especially the long tension building intro before you see the alien. They nailed it.

Besides the few nuances you mentioned I have to say this game is one of the best titles i've played in the past few years. The pacing and delivery of the story is amazing. Captures the atmosphere of the first Alien film perfectly and beautifully. Shits all over Destiny and its 500 million dollar hype budget. I swear this looks like it cost 500 million to make.

I had a unique experience in Alien: Isolation A glitch during a chase/escape sequence. I pressed the button to climb out of the vent I was in, but a xeno was right above me, so as I press the button, a death animation started playing, but then the animation was interrupted by the animation of me climbing out of the vent, and the Xenomorph had gone poof and vanished. The tense music suddenly stopped, but the explosions all around kept going (though the shaking screen effect stopped), so I'm just standing there, looking around, completely confused, searching every corner of this area that you're not really supposed to get a chance to explore because it's a chase sequence, and only after spending a lot of time dicking around, did I go to the depressurization room thing where you were supposed to escape. And suddenly the xeno reappears for the cutscene. It was the ONLY major glitch I encountered during my playthrough, and I think it was because of a frame perfect button timing coincidence.

Didn't think Creative Assembly would pull it off, but they did! This is the best Alien game we've had since AVP 2! XD The reviews from IGN and Gamespot were crap, especially IGN's. The guy moaned about the game being too long and too hard... Go back to CoD. No joke there, the guy from IGN is a big time CoD fan boy. XD

This is one of the best games I've ever played.

I loved the fact it was quite lengthy, for a rare game like this thats so true to form and an alien game, I wouldve been happy if it was even longer since who knows when there will be another alien game like this.

There are only 3 sounds in life that inspires in me absolute dread: The sound of facehuggers running in AvP 1. The sound of the xeno tumbling out of a vent in this game. The clacking of a Slack notification.

You said how the alien sometimes "looks at you and doesn't see you". If you have a look into alien lore there is some belief that the alien can't see and works using smell and other senses.

I was expecting them to mess it up somehow, but this looks brilliant.

Hits all the marks for a game I'd like - fantastic review as per usual :)

Several stuff in this review are wrong: Coated Working Joes can be killed, and in fact, you don't need the EMP rifle, you can also hit their faces with the stunt baton (its hard to aim, but it does work) not to mention the shotgun and the pistol also hurt them. Also, the alien does not follow you if you didn't called his attention. The more noises you make, the more it will come back to the place you are. He is not stupid. Also, you mention the alien AI is weird, because it didn't spotted you under the table. Actually, you can see the video was taken from a "NORMAL" difficulty, and there the alien has reduced senses. In nightmare mode, the result of that video will be instant kill. Overall, this is the BEST alien ever made. And it has a lot of replayability. And the backtracking is not such as some complaint (guess they had to nitpick something, and that was the plain evident thing they noticed). When you come back to the same rooms, they are totally different. The hospital level, first has humans, later has droids, later is burning down.....the environment is totally different.

I played this the first time in summer of 2018 and it was the most frightening game experience I've ever had, I immediately fell in love!

Great review, as always. Keep it up

also, not cut scene heavy, if anything it lacks cut scenes but still has plenty of story.

Can't wait to pick this up! Awesome review as always.

This is the best game of 2014, I still play it, it’s just so atmospheric and extremely well done

Love your "down to earth" attitude with your reviews! Now I'm going to watch all the reviews you have of the games I like or interested in. Subbin'!

So much coming out at the moment. Nice review G-man.

Now I'm a huge fan of the Alien series and when I saw this game I fell in love with it. Try playing this with the Alien Trilogy soundtrack, nostalgia hit me xD

can I just say, the shooting in this game is fucking amazing. the few times you use a shotgun or the revolver just feel so good. probably some of the best feeling guns I've played with

I love it too, pre-ordered it very early. An outstanding review my friend, my favorite profile of the game so far, great footage!

Hey Gggman, looking back at your older work, most of it focusing on retro reviews, I've wondered how you managed to reach out to so many people so quickly, if you had any advice on how to make successful content like yourself I would love to hear it! anyway, great review look forward to more!

Love the content brother, would love to see your view on Decent 1 and 2. Maybe you've done it already idk Keep em coming 👍👍

seems much more interesting than I thought before, nice review!

I still play this game just to explore the station. Four years on and I've memorized a lot of the station's layout because I purposefully stopped progressing right before you board the Anisadora. Also turning off the music and listening to the ambience of the station and the alien's footateps is incredibly immersive still.

The flamethrower effects are bananas! Looks amazing

I think this was a great game, and a really big surprise coming from a dev studio that normally specializes in strategy/conquest titles (see Total War). If this game is any indication of the level of quality CA can achieve in other genres, they definitely deserve to branch out more.

Also on a side note. I appreciate that you crammed a quote in from the films whenever you could.

Great review!

I'd just like to say that you're amazing, mate

Another smashing review dude, congrats. Are you going to review the ALIEN film DLC?

great review. I'm installing it right now, and i'll try it with the oculus to see how it works. I'll be back with a short feedback from the experience.

love this game! One of my favorite!

Your review is making me want to buy this game, it looks solid. Also its nice how you're starting to review some horror games too besides pure shooters.

absolutely brilliant title, ive never sat so frigging tense next to my ps4

Geier mandated that the creature have no eyes, because he felt that it made them much more frightening if you could not tell they were looking at you. So its blind it seems, thats why it wouldnt react to you when it looked straight at you.

Great review, I agree on all counts

thnx for the rview, will b gettin this

Wow gmans audio quality has sure as shit gotten better 😂

Loved the review, as usual. I do agree that the whole flipping switches and mix fix it all draged on a bit too long, you should have discused a far more serious flaw of this game, the fact that it has so many climactic moments that make you thinks it's going to end on a high note, when in reality, they stretched the game a bit more just so you could finish it by pressing 3 buttons.

gr8 review! :D

Hey, +Gggxmanlives, I'm just wondering about the music, atmosphere and build-up?

Even though I'm 2 years late, you didn't have to show the Engineer's ship...

Yeah,2014 is getting better n better !!! Btw, great review man !!!

I like how everyone in the game mispronounces Sevastopol, but I guess it fits the theme of 70-80s movies. As for the game itself, my biggest issue is human models and animations. Such things weren't acceptable 5 years ago, especially if you're making a game with rich atmosphere to immerse the player. Top grade work on environments, though.

Loved this game! Total throwback to late 90s - Mad resident evil 2 vibes

Gggman you are one of my favourite people on the RU-vid's. I'm thinking of reviewing some games myself but I don't have capture software. I must ask if you have any tips on how to become so successful and so as awsome as you sorry for any inconvenience this comment may cause you

Bought a new GPU and the game came with it looking forward to playing it and see this review after

Alien was a 1979 film

30 seconds in and this review is way better than IGNs. Also, im aware it has some emulation issues, but everyone should check out Alien Ressurection for the ps1. Its pretty dated and frustrating at times, but it was one of the few alien games to get the atmosphere correct, and its certainly better than the film lol

Remember to turn of your motion tracker when you hide. It can hear the noise the tracker makes.

some info for alien UI: he learning how u playing (you more using hide spots like lockers= he will check lockers more often) also alien have 2 "brains". 1st know where u are and 2nd control "body" and trying to find u. 1st brain giving hints to 2nd one so longer u stay in 1 place more likely he will find u

Such a good game and such love letter to every fan of the alien franchise, really the kind of passionate game we need more of on the Industry nowadays

Awesome review, man. Do you have any opinions on IGN or Gamespot's fairly critical reviews? Your review gives me new hope that it's actually a pretty rad game.

love this game, can't wait to try it in VR in a year or so

+gggmanlives do you take steam codes for games to review? like if i buy you a game would you consider reviewing it? love your work.

Great design and graphics, really want to play this it one day.

Although I won't play this game yet for some time, due to the lack of time, I just had to watch your review. Sure, I got some spoilers, but I enjoyed it and looking forward to try it myself.

Played this game on my Xbox 360 for nearly 3years.enjoyed each and every moment of it.despite its very simple gameplay,it works well with its atmosphere.highly recommend this game on either platform.

I learned to like this game so much!

Smoke-bomb and flash-bang mines come in real handy for when you want to gain the 'Mercy Achievement'.

Apparently the Alien DOES have health, if you look into the AI code for the Alien it has a set health amount. And the NPC version from Gmod can be killed as it has a death animation which makes me believe that the Xeno could be killed in earlier versions of the game before it was scrapped at some point during development.

this game is already 9 years old... dam

Do the original operation flashpoint or some ARMA reviews!

About the scene you were showing where "the alien was looking directly at you", it was not as the head was not directly tilted towards you. The field of view the alien AI reacts to is based on the difficulty setting you are playing on so if you crank up the difficulty those problems should not occur. Also the behaviour of the alien is not randomized but follows certain patterns. For example if you hid under tables or in closets too often it will preferably start to look for you on those places. Also if you use your flamethrower for example the alien will become more aggressive.

Imagine a predator game exactly like alien isolation

You just had to jumpscare me at the end didn't you mate...

I love stealth games, the Thief trilogy is my favorite...but I’m far too terrified to play this 😂

this game is a masterpiece!

Absolutely criminal that this game didn't get a sequel.

"stay out of the ladies restroom, that kind of activity embarrasses the agency more than it does you"

I wish they made an awesome predator game like this where you are in the jungle and are being constantly hunted

Hands down one of my favorite video games.

Truely an amazing game, that treats its subject material with a reverence that is rarely seen these days

finally finished the game yesterday, enjoyed it a lot but some parts were really, really, really tedious.

Those industrial synthetics pissed me off, I was full up on EMP bombs that were suddenly useless. At least pipe bombs still worked. Finally beat it on survivor the other day and I'd love to see a sequel on the 9th generation announced soon. Hopefully the switch port makes it financially viable.

an extremely crappy map system that works like a real world map. you don't get little icons pointing you to your destination in real life. I wish more games would have a map system like isolation. this game refuses to hold your hand at any point. we need a LOT more games like this

I see people mentioning Alien came out in 1979 and it did. However, Alien wasn’t released in Australia until December 6, 1979, so I can see the confusion for him saying it being released in 1980.

What game is that in the first few frames in the video? Can someone tell me?

I never found the blueprints for the pipe bombs in this game. Does anybody know where to find them?

Are we really gonna ignore that fact that there is NO AUTO SAVE option??. You can sometimes go through parts spending 10-15 minutes only to have the alien glitch out and pull you out of a locker. And then you have to do the entire section over again.

Doesn't the Alien A.I learn as you go along? I mean if you do one thing to many times it just stops working. I am pretty sure that was how the Alien evolved in the game.

Alien came out in 1979, close enough though. dig your channel

Hard to believe this game came out six years ago and I still haven't finished it.

I wasn't expecting a review of this so soon. The game seems like it could have definitely done by having its run time shortened. I'm just after starting some of it anyway. Nothing much happened so far. I hope I'll still like it in spite of its flaws. I am fan of the Alien film series but I still think a game should stand on its own merits to be good.

One of THE best horror/survival games I played in a long time.

I absolutely love this game. I didn't really think it was very scary, though. At least, not until I replayed it in VR. I was too afraid to finish it in VR....

Finished it two days after its release and already a review ? Wow, that sure was fast. XD

Actually not all the the lights cast dynamic shadows.

Fun fact there are two AI’s that control that damm thing. One is its own AI that learns over time a bit of your habbits and there is „director AI” which keeps the creature where it should be for the best scare factor :D

*weld through doors no, cut. welding is what the poor bastard who has to do maintenance will do to fix it. good video though, love the channel and content!

This and AvP (the original) are the 2 best ALIEN franchise games ever made - a strange accolade seeing as these 2 games are absolutely BRILLIANT and all the others are basically trash... Great vid, boomer

Waiting the next adventure...

Frankly graphics settings in vanilla game lacked pretty badly and jagged edges and blurry graphics overall disturbed me. Only after installing gfx mod introducing proper AA and sharper graphics game looked truely amazing.

One question, does the Alien Insta Kill you every time or do you survive 1 hit