Who’s afraid of the big bad Xenomorph? I am, holy double-mouth kiss of death, I am! As far as movie monsters go, the Xenomorph is best used when it follows the Stormtrooper rule. Namely, the fewer there are, the more exponentially dangerous they become. And when you’re facing just one of them in Alien: Isolation, you’re going to need to craft for your life.
Speaking to OPM, lead designer Gary Napper explained how players would need to constantly MacGyver new ways to stay alive. “We have a crafting system in the game. You find things in the environment and you can craft devices and things to use to defend yourself,” Napper said.
If you can imagine being stuck in this massive space station, what you would scavenge and find to defend yourself is our direction, and what we’ve tried to create with a lot of the abilities. Finding something you can use, it might work as a once off, and you’re like ‘yes’ and the next time it might not work as well.
Slowly you suddenly realise that this thing is learning from you and adapting to how you play.
Of course, video game logic dictates that even the burnt out husk of a circus clown when combined with used chewing gum and duct tape can result in a flamethrower, but Napper says that Isolation will take a far more grounded approach when crafting up weapons:
It’s about scavenging and finding things you can imagine to be in that environment, small fire arms and stuff like that you can craft basic rudimentary devices from. We’re not giving you plasma rifles, launchers and electric guns and stuff like that. It needs to stay within that chunky realm of believability.
Alien: Isolation is shaping up nicely so far as a proper space-terror game. And by the time it rolls around, I’ll hopefully have enough skill in constructing a spare pair of clean pants from toilet paper and community newspapers.
Last Updated: February 6, 2014
Unavengedavo
February 6, 2014 at 09:19
I want this game, but somehow I feel that it will be a disappointment and not last very long O_o
But I had another though the other day. Imagine a survival horror game set in the world of Half-Life. Where you are a normal everyday citizen and then shit just goes crazy and you need to survive with whatever you have at hand
ToshZA
February 6, 2014 at 09:32
So like Cloverfield, but in a game?
Admiral Chief in Vegas
February 6, 2014 at 09:41
Kinda like this?
http://www.screencuisine.net/hlcomic/
Unavengedavo
February 6, 2014 at 10:03
Nope, but thanks for providing me with a distraction from work… And here I was planning on being productive today
TiMsTeR1033
February 6, 2014 at 10:36
Imagine a survival game in a african game reserve, you have crash landed and plane is in wreckage, bodies scattered around you. What will you do to survive and get help.
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 6, 2014 at 11:02
You know what would be really cool? If you got malaria too. 😉
ToshZA
February 6, 2014 at 11:21
And at the end you’d have an American ask “Oh you’ve been to Africa? Have you ever had the AIDS?”
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 6, 2014 at 11:52
To which I’d reply, “Foreign or medical?”
ToshZA
February 6, 2014 at 12:22
I doubt they’d even know how to respond to that. They simply wouldn’t get it. So sad.
RinceThis2014
February 6, 2014 at 09:20
I am still very careful to get my hopes up with this. I worry about re-playability (yes, I do like to reply games).
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 6, 2014 at 09:26
Do your games often reply to you? O_o
ToshZA
February 6, 2014 at 09:31
He always gets replies. More often when he’s alone though.
That Tall Ork Norm
February 6, 2014 at 09:39
LOL!
Hammersteyn
February 6, 2014 at 10:34
Yeah but the optimism for me is still strong
Umar Hyakutaro [S]
February 6, 2014 at 09:25
Lol 5 slime oils and 2 orihalcums = Blood Blade of Flame….because Slimes have fire and HP stealing attributes….#logic
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 6, 2014 at 09:27
If it learns & adapts to me it’s going to be one stupid Alien.
ToshZA
February 6, 2014 at 09:30
Right click you to death?
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 6, 2014 at 09:40
Good point. I should play it on a Mac.
ToshZA
February 6, 2014 at 09:41
That’s one way to pwn the Alien. lol!!!
TiMsTeR1033
February 6, 2014 at 09:30
You said it not me!
Hammersteyn
February 6, 2014 at 10:34
What about hugs, Aliens likes to give hugs
Alien Emperor Trevor
February 6, 2014 at 11:03
It’s their kryptonite. Tell them there’s free hugs in the airlock.
Hammersteyn
February 6, 2014 at 11:05
As long as they don’t hug your face…
TiMsTeR1033
February 6, 2014 at 09:33
There should be fire extinguishers in spaceship so that could work to either A. Piss it off immensely of B. offer you a diversion to run and hide in the bathroom like little girl.
melodicmizery
February 6, 2014 at 10:44
bah they should just make a terminators verse aliens verse predators verse wendy williams all in one game
Hammersteyn
February 6, 2014 at 11:06
You remind me of Robocop Vs. Terminator. That was a awesome game.
General JJ the ashamed
February 6, 2014 at 10:48
Weapons getting weaker. Like Dead Island. Worked well enough.
Kromas
February 6, 2014 at 11:28
Best Xeno impression ever.