However, this approach inadvertently led me into playing Alien: Isolation exactly the way it’s meant to be played. Playing as Amanda Ripley, you’re tasked with searching for a flight log of the ...

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The best graphics of the next gen and the most terrifying survival horror gameplay of recent years, but will you be loving the alien? A few months ago a reader asked whether we’d recommend ...

There's something lurking in the corner of the room; something big, ugly and grotesque. It's stalking the shadows, sizing up its prey, and everybody's in fear of the havoc it's wreaked - yet no-one's ...

Fear and tension are difficult reactions to provoke in fiction. In real life, sure, you just need a sharp thing to point at someone, but in entertainment creating sustained fear requires those making ...

Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger. Fifteen years after the events of Alien™, Ellen Ripley's daughter, ...

Alien: Romulus will be a little less scary, but only if you know what to look out for (Nintendo) The director of the upcoming Alien: Romulus film has taken some inspiration from 2014’s Alien Isolation ...

Alien: Isolation ($49.99) is one of the best games of the year, and a far cry from 2013's disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines. Instead of using James Cameron's Aliens as its foundation, as so many ...

A bold approach to the licensed game pays off in this inventive slice of deep space terror. I was nine years old when I first saw Ridley Scott's Alien. A schoolfriend ...

One of the reasons Ridley Scott’s Alien was so terrifying is the reluctance to, in Scott’s words, “show you too much of the monster”. That slow burn, the fear of the unknown, glimpses of something ...