Alien: Isolation & Unpredictable Alien Mod Video Review 

For the record, I think Alien 3 and Resurrection are both awful films. Apparently, my comment about Alien 3 has caused an uproar. With the way Alien 3 left things, can you really expect Resurrection to be a good film? It's terrible. It probably should have never been made. And I don't take it as a serious Alien film. The first half is just silly sci-fi stuff and the second half is just bizarre. Furthermore, Alien 3 doesn't even come close to the first film in terms of horror, thrills, or excitement. Ultimately, to each their own. What my opinion on Alien 3 has to do with Alien: Isolation, the primary focus of this video, I don't know. You're welcome to disagree, debate, and share your arguments. But show respect for other people's opinions. Thank you.

I'd like to see a Jurassic Park game that plays like Alien Isolation

12:41 Talks about the Unpredictable Mod.

I actually want to say the flamethrower really doesn’t make it easier. The more you use it the more it gets used to it and the more fuel you end up having to use to scare it. I would say when I first played it I used it at the end of the game for the first time and literally with just little flame it ran away. But the second time I played the game the more I used it the more I had to use fuel to scare it. It’s daam hard

The length and quality you put for a small channel is breath taking

This game scared the living shit out of me. My heart was pounding in my chest in places.

The reason why the Alien always gravitates towards your general area is because there is a "Director" (like Left for Dead) telling it what area of the ship to search. This director also tells the alien where it is and isn't allowed to search. From what I understand, the alien is always active through most of the game (until it is killed). For cutscene or story areas, the director will tell it to search a different part of the ship. It's only inactive in the levels before it is introduced, and levels after it dies. It also never teleports during gameplay (though it will teleport when if its presence is required for an in game cutscene). If I had to guess, the "Leash" that the mod author it talking about is the range it is allowed to search away from the player before the Director will give the alien a 'hint'. The check out "The AI of Alien: Isolation" by AI and Games here on youtube if you want to know more about how the alien actually works. Its quite fascinating

Well, this is a coincidence. I just bought the game during the steam sale and got all the DLC for 10 euros. I played it before and I've gotta say it's my favorite horror game of all time

To make the working joes more threatening, it should be that some of them are normal and some are rogue. You wouldn’t be able to tell which are corrupted until you encounter them. Maybe some of them can even be helpful and give you some supplies, making them more risk and reward.

This is absolutely one of the most underrated horror / survival game of the decade. It deserves a sequel.

Easily one of the best games of 2014. It took me almost a year to work up the courage to finish it, the price of a huge imagination hahah! :p

Legit one of the most terrifying games I have ever played

only 4 thousand subs? you gained one more for sure. i'm gonna binge your videos now thank you for your effort and the work you put in.

I've watched about 10 of your videos today, and your reviews are so different from any others I've ever seen. It must take so much time, and research to write these reviews. Very good work sir.

Would like to see how Doom Slayer would handle aliens.

My thoughts on the game: 1. It's probably the best horror game I've ever played because it's actually scary and challenging too. Not to mention, gorgeous graphics and it runs nicely. 2. The alien is probably the best written AI I've encountered in a horror game. It's complicated enough to make it seem smart and at the same time, hard to work around. 3. I don't really know why people have such a problem with the length of the main story campaign. I prefer main storylines to be long so I get my money's worth out of the game. 4. The working Joe's are only really scary when you're in a confined room with no way to escape them. 5. The working Joe's are not the main threat, simply a supporting threat to make it even scarier. 6. The best way to use ammo and items is literally to save them until late in the game. 7. Reloading to escape working Joe's is cheating. Play with the hand you're dealt. 8. The "Unpredictable Alien Mod" seems counter productive. It just seems to make it easier to avoid the alien. Instead, the mod should have added new mechanics to the alien to make it be able to find you easier. Or perhaps make the alien want to sprint more or something. Something to make the alien scarier. The Alien's AI is actually really well written in the fact that there's two main components. One component is the director component. It's the part that you refer to as the AI rubberbanding. Basically, it's job is to judge how much the alien must stay close to you. It will give the alien hints as to where you are to draw it in to the area you, the player, are in. But, it won't let the alien stick around too long. The game developers knew they had to make the alien scary, but not impossible to get past. If the alien sticks around for more than a few moments, the director layer of its AI will lead it away from the player for an indeterminate amount of time. This layer is meant to keep the alien present and make the game scary and fun, but not impossible. It regulates the tension in the game. It creates moments of high tension broken up by short breaks to allow the player to move. It also sets up areas of interest for the alien to patrol to ensure the game is difficult. Naturally, no game can have a 100% random AI. So, the alien will have a tendency to patrol certain areas for the player. The second component or layer, is the alien's active AI. This layer has no idea where the player is, and can only guess based on what the director layer tells it. But, it also has a range of sensors that search for any sound the player makes, visual contact with the player, and other such things. It's basically the layer of the AI that makes the alien the alien. By removing the rubberbanding in the game, essentially what you're doing is removing the first layer of the alien's AI. Which makes the game less challenging because the alien isn't breathing down your neck as much. But, if the alien's presence bothers you because you don't like that it's following you, just imagine that it's not always the same alien coming after you. There are a bunch on the station.

This game on the hardest difficulty is one of my favourite games of all time. Hyper realistic sound, lighting, graphics, and physics. Making it to the next checkpoint is as big of a deal as beating a full level on any other difficulty. Trial and error is almost always the case due to the intense realistic difficulty of hard mode. It’s immensely satisfying. Perfect 10/10. Needs a sequel.

A genuinely informative review; glad to come across this. You really constructed this skillfully.

played this thru with my brother cos the Working Joe's totally creeped me out. weirdly I wasn't bothered by the xenomorph. but seeing the glowing eyes of a Joe at the end of a dark corridor gave me chills. sometimes you think you are alone & suddenly a Joe you didn't notice starts talking & it really made me jump. worst bits for me were the Joe sales room because you just knew they were gonna move - the Joe's in the reactor core with the suits on. but the creepiest bit was when we were hidden in a vent & there was a grating looking into a room with a Joe. the xenomorph dropped down into the room & the Joe started talking to the alien. it shows how well made Alien Isolation is that it can literally paralyze you with fear. It helped playing the game with someone because I couldn't make any progress in areas with Joe's. I just kept going back to safe spots to avoid going near any Joes. been a gamer since the days of ZX Spectrum & even owned the Alien game & this is the first game to effect me like that. awesome game tho & hoping they do a sequel.

Huh, interesting - I would say the working joes are by far the easiest enemy to avoid; predictable patrol routes, limited senses (unless they’re the industrial ones), VERY slow movement speed. Just loop around a few rooms to get some distance and then hide

I am really liking your Reviews, as they are full of objective critiques which is sorely lacking in most other Reviews. Sure, there is some subjectivity as well, but it is very light and is dwarfed by your objectivity, which I find refreshing. Kudos.

Oh boy your comment about this game being so immersive, you really need to try it in VR it doubles the immersion and is scary as hell.

I believe the last part of the Crew Expendable DLC was based off a deleted scene in the original movie where the remaining Nostromo crew tries to trap the Xenomorph in the ship's airlock to shoot it out into space, but manages to escape the trap when Ash "accidentally" sets off the ship's alarm. I believe it might be the reason why Ripley has a bloody nose in one of the scenes of the film.

I just found my favourite game review channel

Pretty much my favorite horror game along with Outlast....this was the first horror game I ever owned OR played, and I absolutely love it! Super scary and it has a TON of replay value (at least for me), mainly because the Alien is essentially unpredictable on harder levels (especially Nightmare), and it makes each different playthrough slightly different. Thanks for the review, glad to hear you enjoyed it!

The fact that this games graphics still top nearly anything else on the market right now is astonishing, the games FOUR years old!!

Did any of you know that if the alien attacks a large group of people with guns any they all focus fire on it, the alien will retreat back into the vents? it's really rare for the ai to focus fire on it, but it can happen

Will the unpredictable Alien mod make it just a little esaier to get through "nightmare mode"? Currently I am limping my way through nightmare, but the Alien comes out way too much, even though i am not making any noise. Nightmare also ups the difficulty in the fact that there is pretty much no crafting material around, or ammo. The flamethrower isn't very useful at all because there is no fuel around, and when I do use it the Alien goes away, and then comes right back down. It breaks the immersion because the thing is always coming around the vents, and always attached to me.

where do you get other survival mode missions?

i stumbled upon your channel and really like how you do your review..keep it going. Isolation is one of my favorite games as well, being an alien enthusiast. There is one thing you forgot to mention if you do not mind, not sure if it exists on PC but the console versions has it. There is an option in setting where it turns your controller microphone on (if plugged in) and any noise you make via the mic can be heard by the alien. I know this for a fact as i started the game without knowing it was on and while the alien was passing near me and i was in a small locker i said something and it found me. Nevertheless an awesome game, 10/10 and still searching for the day a sequel would be released. Keep up the great work.

Great review, have you tried Nibre's VR mod? Makes it twice as terrifying.

Gosh I loved this game. It's the most atmospheric game ever since I first played System Shock 2. This made me look so forward to the game Routine hoping it would be like Alien Isolation. I'm so sad that game never seems to have made progress, the trailers for it were so amazing.

Your very very very in depth, I’m definitely subscribing, nice content!

C'mon man, the game's already hard enough on ANY difficulty.

The Alien has two bots. One is clever and can hunt you down. The other always knows where you approximately are. When you haven't had a encounter for a while, the second bot will let the first one know where to look.

and wath about this other: Improved Alien mod (released 16 mar. 2021 on MODdb)?

I want to buy a horror game and i'm between alien isolation and dead space. I love the alien movies so I think I would enjoy the game but I've also briefly played dead space and it was pretty terrifying... which would you recommend?

I see you getting a lot of criticism for a few things you've said. But I've also seen you handle them maturely and with class. Good on you my man. Thank for you talking about this mod, as someone who invested nearly 100 hours into this game I had no idea it existed. I'm re-downloading the game to experience it all over again with that mod because of this video. You deserve my like and subscription.

Couldn't be happier you were in my recommened. Easily gained sub and I'm off to the Battlefront 2 video. Oh and I agree Resurrection is trash, but certainly not the producers cut of Alien 3. Perfect ending.

Is it better to play with the mod?

I thought it was already unpredictable :'D

Great review. This is a really fun game. Great video

Really nice review! It's really refreshing after the shit-storm that has been the series since Alien 3.

Alien: Covenant = Working Joe/David: Covenant If you watch or seen the film, you know what I mean.

My man take a breath after you finish a sentence.

where do you get the mod?

Would love to see a Review for Prey (2017) from you. It's similar to this game in many ways, and better in my own opinions. Great review!

The directors cut of alien 3 is miles better. I’d suggest giving it a watch

I like you because you also use popular mods, saving people time

When was the mod mentioned?

Great review!!..definitely my favorite horror game if not overall. I'm glad this came up I forgot about the DLC I'll need to check prices since I've played the game enough to call it "Hide and seek with Mr. Buttons." He grows on you after awhile and there are occasional moments in the game where you think "I know he saw me!...?" I just started playing another from '14, Far Cry 4. Great scenery! I don't really like paying $60 for new releases (FC 5) so I never get to join the hype of a great game along with everyone else, so I was happy to see you cover this. It really is a masterpiece. I didn't like any of the Alien movies after 2. Hollywood seems to have s penchant for f*cking up a good franchise.

I really like how the Alien adapts to your playing style. It makes it even more terrifying.

I didn't know there was an Unpredictable AI mod. Now you've perked my interest in this old game.

Alien: Isolation always reminded me of a more linear version of System Shock 2 (I never got into the first one because it feels like playing an operating system). Both games task you with going around various parts of this massive sci-fi setting and repairing various things/finding specific information/etc. Both games are also relatively similar in overall pacing. System Shock is a game best played slowly, and so is Alien: Isolation. Lots of work went into the worldbuilding for both games and the developers intended for the players to get immersed in that worldbuilding. While the individual characters may not be particularly interesting, there is still a lot to appreciate in the environment and atmosphere with both games. Much like the Von Braun in SS2, every place you visit in Sevastpol feels like it has a tangible reason to exist. You can see every area as it is now, and easily imagine what it might have looked like not too long ago. Also in both games, much of the story is told vicariously through audio and text logs. Also, interesting little nod to System Shock is in Alien: Isolation as well. When you hit an android with the stun baton for the first time, you get an achievement called "Shock the System". Cute little homage for sure. It may have taken me years to finally complete this game, but that's because it's so damn terrifying. This game amazed me in 2014 and it still amazes me even now. To this day it still manages to be among some of the best looking games I've ever played, and the behavior of the Alien AI also makes replaying the game absolutely worthwhile. I would love to see a sequel to this game, or at the very least, see what Creative Assembly can do with a more open-ended and original concept. Alien: Isolation is a lot of fully-realized potential, would be great to see what else they can do with that.

The thing about the point you made at 12:42 is that yeah, technically it gravitates around you, but the climax of the game makes it clear there were at least a few xeno's spread throughout the station, meaning that everytime you get to a new area, it is, lore-wise, a different individual Xeno and should retroactively add immersion to the experience. I mean, that's how it worked for me so I assume it's the intended experience.

i would just assume there was always more than one alien. given that they are such effective killers it would be more beneficial to spread out while hunting rather then work together. in short i think it kind of makes sense that there would almost always be on near by.

In regards to movement speed and keyboards, the reason you can't slowly creep in this game with a keyboard is not necessarily an oversight on the game developers, it's just a problem with keyboards in general. There's two types of inputs, digital and analogue. A digital input is either on or off. An analogue input on the other hand can have varying steps between on and off. Controllers utilize an anlogue input for movement. When the stick is centered the output is 0. When the stick is pushed all the way to the edge of the controller, the output is 1. So from center to the edge, the input the game sees is a decimal value that ranges between 0 and 1. This allows the game to make you move slower when the player holds the stick in specific regions. Keyboards do not work like this. With a keyboard, a key is either pressed, or it isn't. It's either a 1 or a 0. There is no in-between. Developers usually implement some kind of a walking toggle to alleviate this, but I think the reason it was left out of Alien Isolation is because the default walking speed is already fairly slow. There ARE analogue input keyboards you can buy, but trying to use them would be like learning how to ride a bike that is backwards. Imagine playing a game that requires you to walk, but you can't bottom out the W key otherwise you'll run full speed. Imagine using all of your keys in such a way that you have to keep specific amounts of pressure on every single one to perform the desired movement. That sounds like an awful lot of re-training of muscle memory that I am not willing to commit to. So I think I'll just continue to use a controller when these kinds of inputs are required.

Dude, the working joes scared the shit out of me!

Working Joe seeing a player: Time to die person who i have never seen before. Working Joe seeing the alien: Hello, how may I assist you?

Great vid you earned a liked and Sub

Im a massive Alien fan and Alien³ the special edition is my favorite in the series, it really is the holy trilogy of trilogies.

I agree with most of that - except that I think the Working Joes are a believable 1970s robot anyway ... some of their pronouncements are hilarious. Yes, they are predictable - because they are an El Cheapo version of the much better Weyland androids. They're a nuisance - but in a good way which is consistent with the piss poor cost-cutting of the Seegson company. They are a wink and a nod to WestWorld 1976 ... especially in the way they walk fast relentlessly as they chase you. And their lightning quick reflexes when they apply their hand-to-hand self-defence techniques. I found them very entertaining - my favourite ever "side-enemy" in fact.

They need to make a sequel based on Alien 3.

I don't care what anyone thinks, this game rocks! one of the scariest games I played. play this game when your high and you'll shit in your pants. the DLC made you feel like you were in the movie "Alien" of 1979. such a major accomplishment !

Soothing voice by the way 👍🏻 also enjoyed the game

Already played, watched this for the mod. If I may give some advice about review videos; I think your script was too heavy on the details and too light on your impressions and experience. You could slow down a bit too, but still well made and I'll keep my eye out for your reviews in the future.Nice to see this game getting some more attention, it really was an amazing game isn't it? :)

Does he actually talk about the mod in the video?

I liked the working joes, they aren't hard once you know how to counter them. Stun, then follow up with melee hammer combo

This game is on my top list along with the Outlast series.

The alien seems to have a heightened sense of smell as well. As you stay in a room longer your smell gets stronger, then he starts checking lockers. If you keep moving he can’t pinpoint you until the ai adapts and his search pattern changes. Then he moves rapidly through the vents and pops out in the next room.

I Don’t know why this was in my Recommendations but I’m glad this was there. Great Review/Video, I Too agree ALIEN: ISOLATION was one of my Favorite Horror/Immersive Experiences in the Medium. I Do Think This Game is Highly Underrated. And I Hope ALIEN Fans who don’t play Video Games should at some point (Especially for LOVERS of the 1979 Original) get to Experience this MUST for the “ALIEN” Love/Supplements. And I Hope for NINTENDO SWITCH Re-Release in the Future, (sigh) But sadly I think that’s a Pipe Dream. Once again, Awesome Video & Review! Glad This was in my Recommendations....-just don’t know how it got there.

I really hope for a new Alien: Isolation style game in the future. It would be cool to be the lone survivor of a marine squad, or something and have to try and survive until rescue arrives with limited weapons. That way you wouldn't be running and gunning all the time.

For the record, it may be worth your time to check out the Producer's Cut of Alien 3 on the Blu-Ray. It pushes the themes of the prisoners' religion a bit more and has more development for guys like Charles Dance's character. It's still vastly different from any of the other Alien movies tonally, and the special effects when the Alien isn't a man in a suit are still really bad, but it's definitely an improvement from the theatrical cut, which I assume is the version you saw.

they should re-release this game re- build from ground up for PSVR with DLC

I have tried to use the stun baton several times and it does absolutely nothing.

I’m interested to hear your thoughts on covenant.

Alien: Isolation has the most amazing 70s/80s sci-fi aesthetics in any game I have EVER seen and it just oozes (no pun intended) quality and polish. (I dearly hope that ROUTINE is not dead yet). Also the main reactor area has GOT to be one of the most atmospheric places I have visited in years. Gives me chills just thinking back about it. It 100% captures the feeling of James Cameron's Aliens.

8:27 Flames alien* Alien walks off casually

With the exception of the Xeno sometimes climbing into a vent to kill you, this game really isn't that scary. It's just stressful. The level of relentless tension when the Xeno is around is insane. He's fast, unpredictable, and incredibly aggressive. As for the people who claim that having the flamethrower has "made the game too easy" I have to say this. It is NOT foolproof. It doesn't always scare him away. There have been several times where I blasted him with flames and he still killed my ass.

I didn't went through all comments... just want to say this game with the VR mod is a real masterpiece!

Great video brother, God bless!

2018 and this game still needs a sequel.

I would love to play Alien Isolation 2, also wouldn't mind at all to play some alien colonial marines style game but with this kind of visuals. Graphics at that year for this game was so good, but it was optimized even better, it could run even with hd 4600 graphycs no problem. Also i wish we could kill alien in first isolation, there wasn't one alien anyway in area, it would make more sense, if you could kill atleast one per couple blocks of ship. Anyway great game

This game it's one of my favorites games. I love the Alien franchise. When I played this game I felt I was inside the game.

Thank You mehn

😨😨😱 F*** me the clips of the gameplay here had me on edge. Just instantly pitted myself into that immersive experience watching this & really got my heart racing. Loved Dead Space & this reminds me so much of the first one, which in turn took a lot of the horror atmosphere ideology from classics on screen like Alien & Aliens. An absolutely terrifying experience that had you planning 2 steps ahead & running for cover as much as possible when fighting was just too dangerous, love that style of play, real sense of fear. Recently got a high grade Windows 10 gaming PC & something like this & the Dead Space trilogy would be all the horror/shooters I'd need, unless by some miracle Doom 3 & Resurrection of Evil become available without the BFG edition BS which ruined an absolutely iconic game.

I really want to replay this game with this "leash" mod: on my first run I didn't enjoy it much, due precisely to how obvious it was that the alien knew where you were at all times and was just dum-dee-dum-ing around your position waiting for you to make a mistake. By the way, watch the Assembly Cut of Alien 3, it really does restore a movie ruined by studio interference into a pretty good movie.

Always wondered how you can hide from the alien since they see pheromones.

Heads up to anyone who doesn't know, this game has a FREE seated VR mod called MotherVR. Check it out; it's fucking terrifying. Me, personally, I was too much of a wimp to climb out of a locker so I sat there for about an hour watching the motion tracker and sweating because you feel like you're there.

I agree with u bout this game I still haven't finished it yet I've already put up 12 parts of my gameplay and its scary af especially when u wear headphones when u play the game..........

I really loved this game. They have so many cool things they could do If that made a sequel. Given that I played on nightmare mode it would have been nice for the alien to have more death animations given how often I died

I love the Alien Series and Alien Isolation!!

Finished this on Nightmare difficulty. Was dope

i like the part with the working joes cause it is the most relaxing at the game

I've scared myself silly. While going through air duct. I went to make myself a brew. I came back and moved around the corner. The alien was there and I ended chucking my brew over myself lol

This mod makes this game what it should be.

There is a reason why the alien is always nearby. The game is designed with “2 xenomorph AI’s” for lack of a better way of putting it. One that searches for you, and one that always knows where you are. The all seeing one basically tells the searching one where you are, but when it gets close, it’ll send it to some other area. That is why it is always nearby, but still roams around instead of coming straight for you every time.

Mod brought up at 13:00

when he said "...Keycard" i had PTSD to mission 5

Amanda is not a engineer on the Torrens she just travels on it to Sevastopol