Alien: Isolation is a single-player action-adventure game with emphasis on stealth and survival horror features. The player controls Amanda Ripley from a first-person perspective, and must explore a space station while avoiding, outsmarting and defeating enemies. The main antagonist, an Alien creature, cannot be defeated, requiring the player to use stealth tactics in order to survive. The game received generally positive reviews and had sold over two million copies by May 2015.
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Alien: Isolation is a single-player action-adventure game with emphasis on stealth and survival horror features. The player controls Amanda Ripley from a first-person perspective, and must explore a space station and complete objectives while avoiding, outsmarting and defeating enemies. The main antagonist, an Alien creature, cannot be defeated, requiring the player to use stealth tactics in order to survive. The game received generally positive reviews and had sold over two million copies by May 2015. Critics praised the game’s retro-futuristic art direction, sound design, and the Alien’s artificial intelligence, but criticised its characters and length. It won several year-end awards, including Best Audio at the 2015 Game Developers Choice Awards and Audio Achievement at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. It was ported by Feral Interactive to Linux and OS X in 2015, and to Nintendo Switch in 2019. It is set 15 years after the events of the original 1979 film Alien, and follows Ripley as she investigates the disappearance of her mother. The Alien is afraid of fire, so using flame weapons forces it to retreat into the station’s ventilation system. In addition to the campaign mode, Alien: Isolation features a special Survivor Mode, in which the player must complete objectives in the game to save the last point of the game. To save the game, the player needs to locate a terminal in Amanda’s inventory and insert it into the game and access the air-purification mechanism in the space station.
If the player dies, Amanda will have to restart the game from last point in the campaign, which must be saved from Amanda’s last point in order for Amanda to complete objectives. In this mode, Amanda can only access certain areas of the station, such as the air purification mechanism, or access information such as security cameras or trigger actions such as disabling security cameras. She can also craft items by collecting schematics and different materials. Items include EMP, noisemakers, molotov cocktails, and pipe bombs; these can help the player deal with enemies. For example, the noisemaker can be used to attract enemies in a particular direction. Some doors require certain actions before entry is allowed, for example, entry codes or entry codes can be hacked, while others need to be hacked with welding torches, or to be rewiring stations. The player has a limited amount of health which decreases when attacked by enemies; health is restored with medkits, which can be crafted with materials in Amanda’s inventory. Amanda gains access to a revolver, a shotgun, a bolt gun, a flamethrower, and a stun baton over the course of thegame, but these can be defeated with gunplay or other offensive means. Amanda encounters several antagonists, including hostile humans and androids, and these can also be defeated by gunplay. Along the way the player can use both a flashlight and a motion tracker to detect theAlien’s movements. Using any of these increases the chance of the Alien finding the player.
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