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  • See The Trailer For Alien: Isolation DLC “Crew Expendable”, Featuring The Voices Of Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt & Yaphet Kotto

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    Alien: Isolation was already near the top of my list for new games this year. Everything I have seen from the new game by The Creative Assembly made me believe that they knew just what Alien fans were expecting, especially after being violated by Gearbox with Aliens: Colonial Marines.

    Now with the DLC titled Crew Expendable, they have taken another step towards owning this Alien lovers heart.

    The cast of the 1979 original (Sigourney Weaver, Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Skerritt, Yaphet Kotto and Veronica Cartwright) will voice their game counterparts as you try to find and flush the alien from the Nostromo. Ash will be in the DLC also, but Ian Holm will not be voicing him.

    I wish I could convey the amount of feels hearing Weaver, Skerrit and Kotto in the new trailer for the DLC. Alien is my favorite film franchise, making this something special.

    Alien: Isolation releases on October 7th.

  • Alien: Isolation Wants To Make You Think, Not Learn Patterns

    Alien: Isolation is very high up on my list of games to play in 2014 and for good reason. It sets you in a giant space station with little to no weapons and one smart xenomorph, then tells you to survive.

    The Creative Assembly is developing Alien: Isolation as a survival game set firmly in the world of Ridley Scott’s Alien film. You play as Amanda Ripley, daughter of Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen, as she tries to find out what happens to her mother.

    The video shows how the makers are wanting the game to be about the terror. The alien is not on a set course of searching for you, but rather an A.I. that will do its own thing. This means no two playthroughs will be alike. Hiding in the same spot won’t always work because the alien will always be taking new paths and adapting to the sights and sounds you leave behind.

    After the disaster that was Aliens: Colonial Marines (which we gave a 4.5 in our review), Alien: Isolation is shaping up to be the balm for that burn left by Gearbox.

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  • New Alien Game Info Released On Xbox Live (First Gameplay Shown)

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    A listing went up on the Xbox Games Store detailing a new Alien game by Sega and developer The Creative Assembly called Alien: Isolation which would see Ripley’s daughter, Amanda, go investigating her mother’s disappearance fifteen years ago only to become trapped with a xenomorph on a space station.

    Check out the official listing:

    “”Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and immortal danger. Players will take on the role of Amanda, the daughter of Ellen Ripley, as she goes on a mission to find out the truth behind her mother’s disappearance. The listing states that players will navigate through “an increasingly volatile world as you find yourself confronted on all sides by a panicked, desperate population and and unpredictable, ruthless Alien.”

    OK Sega, I was burned by Gearbox on Alien: Colonial Marines (read the review here to see how much it hurt) but since I am a card carrying member in the Alien fanboy club I will see what you have in store for this game.

    UPDATE:

    As I was about to hit publish on this article I found that GameTrailers has just posted a video with the first gameplay from Alien: Isolation. Check it out here.

    First thought on the video: Damn, that is more like it.