Alien Isolation is the sequel to Alien that I always wanted. Good story, Good Characters, great atmosphere, great tension, the Aliens are finally portrayed as they always should have been: as large, powerful, elegant beasts.Let's see Wolf try to grab one of these Aliens by the throat.
It's the best solo Alien game ever made, that's for sure. With that said, I have A LOT of complaints.
This game was one of the most frustrating games I've ever played in my life.
-The crafting system was beyond tedious. Why do I have to piece all this crap together, when there are other survivors on the station who, logically, should have put these things together themselves by now? The station is being run by Marshalls who have guns, surely they would have smoke bombs and flash bang grenades as well. I spent the whole game collecting crap to the point where every time I search a closet, it tells me the items are maxed and I STILL couldn't craft a smoke bomb by the end of the game. Also, A NOISE MAKER!? Seriously? Why can't I just take all this useless scrap I've been collecting and just throw them across the room? There you go, Instant noise maker. Next you're going to tell me I need to construct my own map.
-I ACTUALLY DO HAVE TO CONSTRUCT MY OWN MAP!!! WTF!?!?! Is there ANYTHING on this ship that is ready to be used?
-Health packs should not be crafted. This is a giant space station, there should be a med kit around every corner. You spend half the game in the medical wing, and you never come across one of those syringes? get the f**k out of here. Stop over-complicating things!
-I can't tell you how many times I've died because of a stupid glitch, I shoot a droid point blank in the face with a shotgun and the bullets go right through him. I hide in a locker and for no reason it tells me to hold my breath, that's because the alien animation didn't appear in time for me to know he was right in front of me. The amount of times I randomly got stuck in the floor almost made me throw this thing out the window.
-LAGGING LAGGING LAGGING LAGGING!
- the droids are way to OP. Ash got taken out with a single strike to the back, so why are these inferior Seegson droids so goddamn hard to kill? I put like 4 bullets into his head and he just keeps coming. It also makes the game very boring when almost every enemy you come across is nearly indestructible.
- And worst of all it's WAY TOO LONG! And I mean HOLY SHIT! I was this close to just turning the damn thing off and saying "screw it, I'll check out the ending on Youtube." There's only so much slow tiptoeing I can take before I just get bored and turn it off. It just went on and on and on and on and ON and ON and ON! I lost count of how many times something in the station didn't work, and I had to spend ages looking for a generator or an alternate route to somewhere. By the end, it felt like the developers were trolling me. The very last mission when you get to the airlock, you are suddenly and pointlessly kidnapped by an alien and taken to the nest. For what reason? What did we learn on this little detour in the story? NOTHING! you kill a few facehuggers, you avoid a train and make it right back to the airlock, as if nothing happened. The game was already punishingly long, but this made me want to put my fist through the screen.
Overall it's a good game but for the sequel make it shorter, A LOT shorter and don't make every little mundane detail a goddamn minigame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlsW2hd06R06/10.