Since just before the New Year, 20th Century Fox has been teasing their #ReadPlayWatch campaign that focuses on Alien: Isolation’s Amanda Ripley. Dark Horse Comics’ Aliens: Resistance kicked off the Read component – the second issue of which is out today! And last month saw the release of Alien: Blackout (Play).
We’ve since been waiting patiently for the campaign’s Watch component. That wait is about to end! IGN has just shared the trailer for the Alien: Isolation Digital Series!
It’s been fifteen years since Amanda Ripley’s mother disappeared aboard the deep space towing ship Nostromo. And for fifteen years, Amanda has suspected there was more to her mother’s story than meets the eye.
In this new digital series reimagining a familiar and fan-favorite story, 20th Century Fox has expanded on Alien: Isolation by taking the cut scenes from the 2014 game and adding in new story beats to bring the tale of Amanda Ripley to life in a whole new way.
The Alien: Isolation Digital Series consists of 7 episodes, and they’re all due for release via IGN (or their YouTube channel) tomorrow at 9 a.m. PT (5pm GMT).
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Somebody needs to get to work stitching this all together into 1 awesome movie!
Except this is nonsense, because I've just had a look at the first episode and a lot of the new stuff between the cutscene footage is basically a fully rendered and animated CGI movie, and not just something recorded out of the game.
Fox Exec: You're a genius man!
Thanks for that. Best laugh I've had in ages.
XP.
Just waiting for that sweet Mouse moolah to roll in.
Fair call.
Love that shot from the trailer of some guy getting all f*cked up by the Alien, with blood pouring everywhere.
I know I'm not SM but honestly I was surprised it took as long for people to complain as it did. The overall reaction seems to have been pleasantly positive though.
Exactly. It's free. It's the type of thing people do off their own back but now you get new footage to bridge it all together. It still needs to be well put together but if they do, that's win in my book.
It's a strange thing. They published a second review that was more positive. That reviewer was the one who did the hands-on with Blackout that some people complained about.
f**king Movie Maker. They're cheaper than I thought! They're still on Windows 7!
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This. People need to be considerate of that. We've got too many expectations running wild lately.
fap on itenjoy watching it all the day.https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vhCChdtMPhc/maxresdefault.jpg
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Plus some concept art:
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Man, that image looks gorgeous! Completely agreed.
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What should it be based on if not the game?
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Such magnificence cannot be contained to Alien-loving gamers and the rare people who will look for screencaps. It would just be too sad. I'm so happy that many more people will get the chance to discover the Sevastopol station. <3
I found it to be nearly perfect.
It surpassed my expectations and desires.
It is the definitive alien gaming experience.
Adding new story beats doesn't change the fact that this digital series look is based (literally) upon the game itself. It looks like the game itself! As I said before, it's just pure laziness. And IGN doing it? How can you give this game 5.9 out of 10?
IGN verdict: Mediocre
Not the great game?
And this ...
ROOM FOR EGGMORPHING IN THIS ONE
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I can get around this.
I wonder if it will incorporate additional elements from the novelization.
It's obvious it needs restructuration, but I'm scared at the idea it doesn't get enough of it.
And the story definitely needs some new strength, not only because the original structure wouldn't work, but also because the main quality of Alien Isolation was its violent, almost uncompromising gameplay. No one played it for the story; we played it to have the first real video game Alien experience. It would have been almost as good without cutscenes at all.
With this series, this crucial aspect is gone. Isolation will have to rely entirely on its art direction (which luckily is near perfect), framing/editing and story. That's quite the challenge.
As someone who has only played the game briefly but is a big admirer of it (I simply don't have the time or patience (balls) to play this long term) this looks quite cool.
I'm always up for anything new in the AEU.
This gives me cause for optimism.
7 x 10 min episodes = 70 min total
Once they've been edited together (and they will be by someone - you can count on it ) that's long enough duration to require a decent act structure. Fingers crossed those additional scenes do the trick.
TC
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Are people actually thinking this is literally just cut scenes and mocked up third person gameplay cut together or something? Are we really this stupid as a fan base?
Because really, I must insist, the plot of Alien Isolation is functional for a video game. If the structure stays the same, it will just be a CHORE to watch.
At the very least they have to remove 90% of the problem-solving, which means some entire arcs, and also they need one or two additional characters, or a vastly expanded role for the existing ones. The encounters with the extras amongst Sevastopol, either frightened or murderous ones, wouldn't do the trick.
This shit urgently needs pacing, bouncing, stronger characters and stronger thematics.
Unspeakably ancient. The ensuing debates will be cosmic.
Yes.
Ha! Yah.
I think that the whole angle in Covenant where David get's the author of the play wrong gives the notion that he is wrong about the origin of the Aliens as well. I hope that is the case. I'm fine with him adding some biomechanical elements to the Alien design, but I also really like the Ancient idea. That's been the way that I've seen the Alien for 30 years. There's something really otherworldly about discovering an ancient Alien ship full of eggs that are still alive after countless millennia. I do also like David's madness and hubris however. I'm a bit torn about how I feel about his creation.
He knows its the right thing to do.
There's no such thing as difficult. Just a failure to improvise.
Why I'm glad Australia Has Strict Gun Laws Reason #937
- When voicing the expression "Somebody shoot me" it is difficult to comply.
I was unaware of this.
Alien Mobile? Ask AP, loves the game.
Axis Animation.
Cheap.1/4 the comic's alright...
Disproportionate negatives, again.