Just like this movie is so old in the movie world, today I want to introduce the game is also an old game, this "Alien: Isolation" was first released around 7 years ago, but the player response situation shows very poor, IGN just gave the game a super low score of 5.9, but then not much time out there and then appeared a lot of attacks on the IGN's comments that the IGN received money to score, so. Today I'm here to lead you to see how this once not-so-well-known game really looks like.
(Game poster)
About the movie and the game restoration
Before I talk about the game graphics, I want to talk about the game's restoration of the movie's worldview.
If I were to summarize it in one sentence, I could say this: if you are a fan of the Alien movie or know more about the Alien worldview, then you will definitely feel his extremely high degree of restoration.
(The character's detector is basically restored to the movie)
The smallest to the ship's internal computer, automatic door, OMG, etc., to the whole worldview setting, all are in tribute to the Alien movie, in all the movie adaptation of the game I played, this Alien: Isolation is almost the most restored to a high degree. The most important restoration is the Alien setting, in the movie setting, the Alien is far stronger than human beings, almost unkillable, and the game because there are guns but also in order to also achieve the movie setting, the producers cleverly use the Alien set up as an invincible npc approach, the thriller and action two elements in a way that other games rarely try to combine together. Again, the effect of restoring the movie was achieved.
The soundtrack is also a complete restoration of the movie, and those who like the movie can still find the tension in this game that they felt when watching the movie back in the day. The game's character voices are even found in the original cast of the year.
Different scenery settings from other thriller games
Thriller element of the game, most of the use of dark, depressing style, "Alien: Isolation" in the shape of the beautiful scenery of outer space really let the player for the breathtaking, when the player operates the role of the character standing in outer space to see the huge magnificent space station, feel the character's smallness and from the heart of the shock. I believe that most players will be attracted to the game in the first five minutes, if you look closely at the game screen, you will find that the helmet glass will also reflect a little halo, these details constitute a realistic picture of the outer space production is definitely a major plus point of the game.
About the game's plot and gameplay
In this regard, I think there are both praiseworthy points and points worth complaining about.
Let's start with the pros. The game is set in the year 2137, in which the player takes on the role of Amanda, Ripley's daughter from Alien 1, and travels to Sevastopol station to find her mother. The game is very immersive, although it is not a standard horror game, but I believe that there must be a lot of friends in the play to the appearance of the alien completely afraid to move forward, and even have the impulse to uninstall it, which is precisely the success of the game production.
The second success is the diversification of weapons and props in the game, players can collect resources to make noise grenades, flash bombs, incendiary bombs and so on, which fully enhance the fun of sneaking process.
(The game's item creation column)
Then again, the flaws, first of all, the repetitive tasks are too high, the player with the game will have a strong sense of "tool man", and many of the objectives are a route back and forth, inevitably reducing the motivation of the player to continue to play, and then there is the game is slightly more difficult, hardcore players may not feel, but for newcomers to the game, the player may not feel. Players may not feel, but the newbie and its unfriendly, the game has three kinds of hostile NPCs: human, bionic, alien, because the restoration of the movie, the alien is very strong, so set the invincibility can also be immediately, but even in the simplest mode, human and bionic is also easy to kill the player, and in many places, if you don't know the subsequent storyline will also be "storyline to kill! In many cases, if you don't know the plot, you'll be "plot-killed" if you don't know what's coming, so basically, you'll be "dying all the way through" the game, just like you did in Dark Souls.
Lastly, I'd like to add a neutral setting, which can't be evaluated, that is, it's not our common automatic archiving, but manual and fixed-point archiving, the game's archiving machine is a phone booth, this kind of setup will be liked by some players, but some players may feel tormented (for example, the author always forgets to archive, and at that time a return to the archive is a few hours of wasted gameplay), but all in all it's a special feature. setting.
There are some interesting but complicated decryption settings
The game will have a lot of decryption elements as the process proceeds, some may let the player go to a certain computer to open a certain function, which usually has no hints, it will be more boring, the most is to use the demodulator to unlock the locks, the demodulator will be randomly appeared in a not too difficult mini-game, the answer to correctly to open the door, however, in the later stages of the game , as the complexity of the decryption mini-games increases, coupled with the constant alien attacks from behind the player's butt, it makes the decryption process seem tedious and a minor gripe of the game, however, after getting used to the gameplay, these decryptions are still very entertaining.
Summary and Postscript
From this work, we can see that the game's production team on the player's full of sincerity and tribute to the original film, as a shooting, action, horror, survival of the combination of multiple elements of the game, the producers do not want to be like the traditional shooter game, brainless muttering, not to shoot the protagonist will be put away when the gun, which will be the whole perspective of the purity of the field of vision greatly improved! This will greatly enhance the purity of the perspective and field of view. The player will forget that this is a shooting action game and focus on the atmosphere of the game setting.
Overall, this game can be said to be the best Alien adaptation of the game, has been very good, the heart is not good friends do not take the risk to try, if the plot design of the less dragged, the mission more diverse, will be more excellent, the game's good and bad advantages and disadvantages of any evaluation agencies and media will not be completely objective, the ultimate player group to assess, if you want to know this game is not fun, the best way is to know this game! If you want to know whether the game is fun or not, the best way is to download it and play it yourself.
Thanks for reading!