Alien Isolation 2024 Review | 10 Years Later
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- Alien Isolation 2024 Review - reviewed on PC
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Its hard to believe that 1 year after the release of Aliens Colonial Marines - a game that didn’t overly release to positive reviews, feedback, or … well we already know my thoughts on that game - but 1 year after Colonial Marines, we got without a doubt the best Alien game to ever release, as well as one of the best survival horror games too in my opinion with in Alien Isolation.
with Alien Romulus coming out soon, a movie that like Alien isolation is set between 1979’s Alien and 1986’s Aliens - I thought why not go back and take a look at this masterfully made Alien game.
#alienisolation #alienromulus #memes - Hry
It's THE best movie>game adaptation ever made and feels like a true sequel to Alien.
no it itsn't you cheesey toenail
Still amazes me out of nowhere Creative Assembly were like "right guys hardcore first-person survival with immersive sim elements".
This. How a company that specializes in strategy war simulators out of blue decides to make the best alien game ever is such a cool feat. I would love to be at that salespitch for the alien game internally in CA.
I really hope Alien: Romulus follows the Isolation recipe: the teaser trailer shows a flare being thrown what really made me hopeful.
Also: ten years, this game still looks absolutely stunning.
Fingers crossed it's a good movie mate
I'll second that bud! @DudiReviews
Defo, for a 10 year old game the enviroments are still awesome, the lighting and atmosphere, still very playable in the dark for max effect, Romulas being set between Alien and Aliens, but so far no mention of Amanda, feel it would be a waste of an oppertunity not to have her in it at some capacity.
The Romulus director said Isolation inspired him so lets hope so
Man I'd kill for another isolation style game.
There's an upcoming jurassic park survival horror game that looks like it will be similar to Isolation in gameplay !
@@okarymDon’t get my hopes up.
Yeah, something similar to isolation/trespasser.
That moron at IGN giving the game a 5.9 out of 10 ruined any chances of that. crazy how one review can do that but it did
Terminator Survivors HOPEFULLY will be like this, fingers crossed!!
It still amazes me that it was Creative Assembly behind this, a dev that never created anything like it before. One could even argue it remains their best creation to date.
saw rumors that they're doing a total war Star Wars game the other week - that'd be kinda rad. The Total War Warhammer games were pretty fun too.
Another interesting aspect is that Creative Assembly Total War series is great in every aspect except the AI. Their AI has been downfall at times. It was most notorious in Empire: Total War where they made a game with a huge naval aspect in the 1700s but the AI was incapable of sending armies across the sea or doing Amphibious attacks. Heck, you can play England on it and take Paris in the first 3-4 turns and eliminate France.
This game puts you in that world, and everything in that world is trying to kill you. Truly a scary fun game.
This game is an absolute masterpiece!! It is one of my top 5 all time favorite games. Not to mention that I’ve been a huge fan of the Alien franchise since the 80’s. It is the perfect homage to the original!!!
hope i did one of your favorite games justice my dude
No, you are not going to load when the Alien is right behind you. After saving there are few seconds where Alien is locked to spawn
Yeah.
Same happens in *Syndrome* the videogame. But the enemies could be dodged.
Or, in other words, alien resets. It may appear after you load back into the game, or it may not. I've experienced both.
Not for me
Correct. If you save and reload the Alien resets.
Also he said the Alien can't get hurt by the revolver. This is also not true. The revolver can stun the Alien if you shoot it in the head. It's just that shooting it anywhere else will only do very little damage. You will see this though because the Alien will bleed acid and have gunshot wounds on its body.
The shotgun can also stun the alien but with the shotgun you're not limited to headshots only.
The alien would reset after saving. Never spawned with it in my face straight away.
Nice review, the only criticism I have is the claim that "if you save with the Alien right behind you, you're gonna load with the Alien right behind you" - loading the game resets the Alien's position. The trick is to not get killed before the question box appears.
Cheers mate 🍻 - and fair point
For those who are not familiar with it, the AI on the alien basically has two brains. There is one AI that is the creature itself, which is actively hunting you down and is limited to only what the Alien can perceive, while the other is a larger scale one, which basically just keeps track of things like where you and the alien are both located, and basically gives the alien "hints" to try to find you if it starts to get too far away from you. The latter's purpose is basically to heighten tension while also keeping the game fair enough that it's still playable.
This game is one of my all-time favourites. Whenever I'm bored, I jump into it to play hide and seek with the alien. It's super fun, even on Nightmare.
Hope I did one of your favorite games justice my dude
If only we could get a 60fps update for PS5
I just started playing today for the first time, and adjusting to the 30fps was hard.
This game holds up even now, there’s nothing really like it. IGN were cracked for that review. I’ve heard people say they played a large role in the cancel of a sequel
Hope we get some kind of sequel someday
If Sega had paid them for an IGN first spot it would have got a 9
Fireteam Elite and Dark Descent were both great. Loved them both.
Yeah, just sad no one is playing fireteam anymore cause there are just a few maps and game has become repetitive af
couldn't overly get around Dark Descent - there is a fireteam elite video on the channel
Dark descent surprised me and I got hooked
Fireteam got samey and had meh AI but the art direction was strong and shooting was satisfying. So far I'm loving Dark Descent, its surprisingly hooking (if a little buggy).
@@Rain-me8fd Fireteam's art direction was rather generic but in terms of in-game models it was more advanced than previous Aliens games.
Hope Romulus has a scene where a character gets snuffed out by a xeno because the wife walks in and unknowingly loudly announces she's home.
ActuaLOL
Have you played it in VR yet with the MotherVR mod that was based on the actual VR code in the game (they wanted to add it but scrapped it during development)
Only thing you have to make sure of is that you turn off screenspace reflections as those don't work well in VR, but the entire game can be played in VR and it's one of the best but also most terrifying things I've ever experienced
i haven't checked that out but a few have suggested it in the comments - seems great, but pure nightmare fuel haha
I played this for the first 2 months of 2024 for my first time. Hell i had so much fun. I did not use the handheld thing in to see where the Alien or Anything else was. I justed listened to the music and noises around me and i beat the game without dying. Thisbhas become my nr 1 Horror game over Resident Evil 3 and 4 Remakes. Would have loved to have seen another One of the Alien games like this.
I replay this every 6 months or so. And using the MotherVR mod it’s just even more scary. And the unpredictable Alien mod just makes it even better.
I feel safer in the game than in Canberra haha 🤣
ActuaLOL about being safer in an alien VR modded game than Canberra haha
😂😂😂 the bbq Homer clip had me in tears 😭🤣🤣🤣
ah wicked! glad you got a laugh mate!
Same. I could not stop laughing
Similar to Ridley Scott disowning the Director's Cut of Alien, IGN really should disown their review. If anything, have someone else do another review of this. They're entitled to their opinion, but man oh man, they probably still regret their score.
The platinum for this game is crazy
Saw one of the achievements is finish the game without getting killed - damn
@@DudiReviews tbf - you can cheese it through save system, and it doesn't force you to play on the hardest difficulty
I done it. It's not too crazy compared to some other games.
@@TaxemicFanatic same. Did it on Normal with reloading the save exploit back in the day.
Now, doing it legit tho...that's a different story I imagine. Especially on smth like Nightmare. And that's smth I am eager to do heh.
@@user-kt3qs9ki8p I did it on nightmare. Alien is my favourite movie of all time and I'm actually watching it right now 😅 finding all logs was also a challenge.
Door opening simulator: the game. It was ok. Plus that Alien’s animation was hilarious😂
You always know, a working Joe.
Just found out about your channel. Awesome quality you deliver. Im shocked you have so few subs. Count me in
ah shucks cheers mate! appreciate the kind words and the sub
Two Alien games I recommend.
1) Alien Isolation
2) Alien Vs. Predator 2
The start of the alien campaign was always my favorite
AvP2 was so good.
1. AVP (NeoGeo)
2. Alien Isolation
3. AVP 2
@@Gravastar7 There is no AVP on NeoGeo. But there is one made by Capcom on CPS2 arcade system.
I had a copy waiting for me when it was released in October 2014 and I still play it to this day.
Right on my dude 🍻
Great vid so far! Please please please - can you please tell me what movie the clip from 7.09 is from? I know I've seen it before and it's killing me that I can't remember what it's from! 😂😭
Ace Ventura!!!!
@@poozwonger bingo! Haha
yup.... and they buried it. 'cause reasons.
8:25 well that's a lie or a very poor observation on your part. If you save and the Alien kills you while in the middle of the save, when you reload, the Alien will not respawn to instantly rekill you, it will be back in the ducts, somewhere. As for dying after the animation has finished... that's not a thing either. Game gives you time to alter the outcome. Also, the Alien AI doesn't repeat the same action when it loses line of sight. It's random. So, you can do the same exact thing, and the Alien's actions won't always be the same. Basically the game's save system is designed not to soft lock you. Now.. if ur playing the hardest difficulty... well that's on u. not the game.
Good to see that this game is getting more and more praise over time. I'm an Aliens fans myself so naturally I loved the game, but this game nails the alien look and feel of the fitsy movie and is mechanically put very well together.
I do hope we'll get a sequel down the road.
Immediately subscribed after that Bean Movie bit, lmao
Haha cheers dude glad you enjoyed it. I generally tend to put memes in all my reviews
Went back to AI recently to finish the platinum.
I bought this game on release day and it took me 10 years to go back to it 🤣
Great gameplay, great story, still holds up as a great game 10 years later and the platinum is still so rare... I think it's a 0.6% still.
The one shot trophy was hard without the no death glitch. Then it took me ages to be killed 100 times while playing through on Nightmare difficulty 🤣
the only big flaw of this game is the reuse of map design near the end of it, and the ton of backtracking you gotta do . The anesidora part of the game is also pretty dull for me, because the ship's interior design just looks like an extension of sevastopol, like you can tell the devs either didnt care or didnt have the time so they reused assets from sevastopol to make the anesidora
Very well made survival horror that makes you feel like you are inside the 1979 alien universe.
The attention to detail and the love put into this title is not something we see very often.
Gotta say we are kinda starved and need more titles like this one.
If you use the AA mod on pc to clean up the image this game looks so damn good even today.
How has it been 10 years already? I still remember playing it for the first time like it was a couple months ago :(
Insane right
You had me with the fart in the locker & the Mr.Bean intro = subscribe
Cheers my dude! I tend to put memes in all of my reviews hoping that of people don't like the game/review the memes at least get a laugh
One of my top 5 games of all time! Great review!
Cheers mate appreciate it
Just got done playing this after beating it years ago. Great game and was looking up videos seeing if any spots are missed when you upgrade hacking device or better touches.
It's fantastic, and offered up one of the most memorable (read: terrifying) moments in my gaming history [a 4-way junction in the vents, with just the one minute blast-worth of flame thrower fuel left]. It is, though, when you think about it a 3D Pac-Man with just one the one, albeit particularly spiteful, ghost. No Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde here, just a bastard Big Chap. There's a question for you - is Pac-Man the first ever survival horror game?
Right on dude. Love that everyone has a different experience or memory with this game
Ha ha never thought of it that way
Babe wake up, New dudi vid dropped
ActuaLOL - cheers mate 🍻
Hey dude, loved the video. Feels like watching gmanlives if he didn't just cover shooters! Love your editing and the points you made throughout the video 😊
Ah shucks cheers mate! If you want a couple of my other videos, you'll see gman pop up - likewise with me in some of his videos 🍻🍻
@@DudiReviews haha, no way! That's awesome man. I'll keep watching! You guys are great!
@@RSKT_art cheers my dude 🍻
Amazing game from top to bottom even graphics are still stunning
Great video ... Loved the game, but a couple of times i found myself having to do a long-winded sequence only to find the story made my efforts worthless. The one thing I wondered about was the flamethrower. Towards the end i found the Alien would hold out of range making me us more fuel to chase it off. The biggest downside of the whole game was the very last mission. Three controller movements and a key press.
5:13 Alien³ reference. 💚
I love this game as well. You should try Condemned: Criminal Origins. It is very good.
Without watching the video yes can say this is the best and still holds up so much on graphics and sound omg
Are you Gmans editor because i’ve noticed that your and his videos use a lot of simpson clips lmao
Nope just mates with him
It's a prerequisite to be his mate. Pass a Simpsons quiz
I replayed it this year, for the 5 time. Still pretty cool. I really like such a deep embient dive.
Dude chill with the edits
Didn't get a laugh mate?
So keen for Alien: Romulus, underrated channel my dude :)
Ah shucks cheers mate! Hope you enjoyed the video/memes
i started playing as soon as it was done downloading..it was late at night, so i put on the headset.
soon after i entered sebastopol i decided to only play in daylight, and with speakers on low volume.
Haha a headphone playthrough at night is something else
@@DudiReviews yea, i basically stopped that as soon as i hit the 1st save on the station.
mightyjingles couldnt take it either, he never finished the the game.
neither did i. i tried but i got stuck on a
code puzzle further in.
Alien Isolation is a game I will never get rid of
even the challenge modes are pretty fun for a quick game
Isolation was good.
Trilogy was better even though old now.
But Aliens Online bar none had the most replay value. Rest in peace aliens online 1998 - 2000 ☹️
~ Blade
I dont think ive ever been killed during a door opening animation during the game ...🤔I've never tried nightmare mode though
I just got through beating the game again. Great review of AI. It is in my top five best games I've ever played. I wanted an AI2 so bad. They did a phenomenal job with the Alien programming. I hoped future games feed off the gameplay of this. The first time I got to the Hive I turned the game off. I decided that I was gonna save that for another day.😅
Im an alien movie series fan and so quite naturally i love all the games as well 👍🎮
What? In normal. On ps3 the alien is not there is you save and load with the alien behind you. When you load the alien location is set to be random. At least on normal difficulty. Even if that the case you will not be in a soft lock because after dying you will respawn in the last save point and the alien is not waiting there to respawn.
I have this game, still new havnt played it. Will do so after watching the movie
Let me know how you find the game my dude
I finally gave this game another shot start to finish as I’d tried a few times before and didn’t get half way through. Having now finished it in two sitting and being a massive fan of the first 3 films, I think it is such a slog to get through. A lot of artificial padding, the game could be half as long as be just as if not more effective. Sound design and atmosphere are fantastic I must say
fair enough my dude
Re-playing it in VR, its even better.
i thought about that - but it'd be nightmare fuel haha
@@DudiReviews You should try it, honestly it's so good, ups the atmosphere 100%, scary as hell though and I have not even got to the alien bits yet. :)
Have you played Dark Descent? Would have been worthy competition. Complete different type of experience, more Aliens than Alien but, nearly as good if not just as good itself.
I gave it a crack and wasn't overly my jam - happy to give it a shot again during the quieter periods :)
Haven't even started the video yet. The answer is yes, it's still the best alien game! 😂
haha fair
Alien Isolation & Aliens: Fireteam Elite are the best 2 Alien games in my opinion you have the terror & intensity in Isolation & the action in Fireteam Elite
Fair points my dude
Have you tried Aliens dark descent? I know it's a completely different playstyle but i feel it's one of the better alien games overall.
Still mad the only real rts we ever got was avp extinction for console (ps2 and og xbox) and not pc which heavily limited gameplay with Aliens, predators and humans each with their own campaigns.
I tried covering it/playing it which made me pick up aliens colonial Marines - but a load of people have suggested giving it another try so I've got it downloaded ready to go
@DudiReviews cool. In fairness it did have quite a few bugs and issues for the first part after release which alot of has been fixed from what i believe. So probably better off now its had time.
Let me be honest here because im a casual gamer and i will firstly admit that im not hardcore nor skilled. And we average gamers are MANY in population. This game sold poorly, and its not because of competition at the time
Me and million other gamers had avoided this game because of its difficulty and slow gameplay. If the game had more difficulty variety to allow players to indulge in the story and atmosphere without being killed immediately, it wouldve sold better.
And im not even asking for cod like alien game, but horror games like Silent hill were very accessible, it even let you tinker with the difficulty and ai settings and even for less cryptic puzzle solving. Far cry had sneak indicator mechanics, which in Alien Isolation you dont, like why not at least include a mechanic for an easy difficulty and just remove it for the higher difficulty.
And most importantly, trial and error games are the worst type of difficulty, which is what this game also has even if the fans dont want to admit it. You definitely know that the game spawned that alien into the area when you were about to complete a task.
Game developers have yet to understand that average gamers are not masochistic gamers which is why this Alien game is only kept alive by only the alien fanbase and streamers. And that people would rather watch a streamer play the Alien game(or hide n seek only game) than to actually own the game and play it. But hopefully, they’ll understand for a next Alien game.
Same here, finished it once but never again, just to difficult for me. But i revisit it a few times and play it till i get stucked because of that damn robots. Super scary horror game, that's why i always come back....
@@robertb.3651 thats the parts i always get stuck on, the robots. Same thing, very annoying. I could not finish it
Loved the game but really felt it should have ended sooner. The final chapters of the game dragged a bit for me personally. Also, excellent work on the Simpsons memes
Thank you for the feedback my dude. Glad the Simpson memes worked for you mate 🍻
Comfortably.
On a smaller budget, Dark Descent did the panic and crisis management running all throughout Aliens some justice as well.
Fireteam Elite is just a zombie horde shooter reskin tho. Making Aliens appear like a shooting gallery written and directed by Michael Bay.
In my colonial marine video I mentioned I tried dark descent but a load of people have suggested to give it another crack - will try after the few videos in currently working on
Absolutely stunning game!, Would have been a excellent sequel to ALIEN if it were a movie,
Dude!!! I love your channel, videos and reviews, I've played this 3 times also (including beating ultra) however I have a petty pet peeve and other people have said it wrong to here goes....They are called Working Joes, not Average Joes!!! 😂😂😂 lol, keep up the good work bud, shout out from Edinburgh, Scotland 🖖👍🙌
Cheers mate, really appreciate the kind words! Might've had 'Dodgeball' on my mind! And Love Edinburgh mate was just there in Nov!
@@DudiReviews Awesomness, I'm gonna buy Dark Descent tomorrow I think, looks good and different
@@koldfyre4505 I've got that installed ready to go, but got some others videos to put up first
@@DudiReviews Nice one :)
The first Aliens game I ever played was Aliens on the Spectrum, the one that the disk drive, fond memories of my dad completing it, then we would watch the movies n he made shandys for me and my bro lol, later on was alien ttilogy on ps1 etc :)
hey man, great video, absolutely love this game, i 100%'d it on ps4 and got all the DLCs on pc it is a masterpiece. You seem comfortable talking and your mic is good and your video feels pretty pro but i gotta say maybe the edits you make for comedy purposes ( when you cut to a clip of a show or whatever) are kinda too much and take me away from what you're saying , especially when they go on for several seconds and happen very frequently. They're funny but i think you kinda put too many of these, just what i think. Great stuff though
Cheers for the feedback my dude! Appreciate it
Dark Descent and AvP2 were cool.
Loved AVP 2's alien campaign - and have redownloaded Dark Descent to look into that after my next/current video
Still the #1 Alien based game as well as the #1 purely Survival/Horror game in my book.
The game does NOT save the position of the Alien as you are saving. It's randomized every time you load that save.
So if you're almost saved and hear the alien drop near you, let the save finish. You might get killed once, but then can continue from your new position without a problem.
my mistake - cheers mate
10 years..THE FUCK
Right?
Very good. Top Gear in deed. Two side notes: First, the DLC for Colonial Marines was pretty good. The opening chapters to the core game are very bad. Almost unplayable. But the story was good, and the DLC showed you what it could have been. Its dated now, but an avid fan, might still think it a good deal at today's prices, or in a sale. Also, if you love Alien. be aware its part of the options to play as in the one line game Dead By Daylight.
Yeah I talk briefly about the Colonial Marines DLC in my video on that :)
Been meaning to check out dead by daylight alien dlc. Haven't covered it since I first started the channel
@@DudiReviews Probably irrelevant to you now, but Alien fans might be interested to see these old 1980's games:
This one in particular shares much with Alien Isolation's premise: czcams.com/video/A6NVttxy_nI/video.html
Aliens,, also got a game: czcams.com/video/H_2E2BQiwHI/video.html
@@DudiReviews I coincidently have a friend plays DbD too much. This is link to a game with the Alien in:
czcams.com/video/at1uT-2bFYE/video.html (Not commercial, etc.) Again, may be of interest to passing Alien fans who don't know of it .
This didn’t come out ten years ago, stop messing with me.
It was like…..four????
Haha sadly it was 10 years ago my dude
you absoultely need to play SS13 colonial marines.
genuinely the second best aliens game.
Graphics : 2/10
Combat : 3/10
First time experience: 1/10
my review: 10/10
The cult classic to end all cult classics and the game that introduced me to the alien franchise
Yes. Yes it is.
I played on the hardest first time, best horror game ever
Versing the new versus the old a nutshell😅 2:53
Didn't like it personally but I like being able to fight back
Fair enough mate
I'm still hoping for a release on psvr2
fingers crossed my dude - heard the VR mod for PC is great
I can smell you, was that voice sample taken from Morgan Freeman plays dayZ?
still a masterpiece
Fabulous game. In fact the game that got me into retro gaming again because the nostalgia of playing something that got the juices going again, gave me a love of gaming once more. Still the best. And of course f**k IGN 😂 wonderful 🤙
The reason Aliens colonial marines was not very good was because of one line of code was messed up causing the ai to be terrible
Yeah got a separate video on colonial Marines my dude
The fix still did not make it good or very good.
best avp2 2001 pc exlusive game. that game bascily aliens movie game. isolation first movie game.
Meh. The best Aliens movie games are Jag's AvP, Alien Trilogy, Capcom's AvP, Dark Descent and Aliens 1986 (fan game).
No the alien don’t always re spawn behind you
I got *Syndrome* due to my liking of *Alien Isolation* .
Well, it turned out to be a *light version* of the later. 😅
I only wished the alien was scarier. It wasn't scary at all.
No fukin way this game came out 10 yrs ago. Time ain't flying that fast.
yup totally did dude haha
The developers make RTS games. Imagine that.
there is Dark Descent, so kinda close enough
It is the best Alien game _ever_ made.
Dude, that intro...
Did it get a laugh?
@@DudiReviews Absolutely :D
@@TheTeodorsoldierabvb mission accomplished - cheers mate 🍻
You think its scary with lights turned off and a headset? Well, if you got a VR headset, there is a mod for this game.
Oh God no haha
I in fact did not finish this game 😂
good thing i didn't spoil the ending haha
I have a soft spot for colonial marines it's like watching a film so bad it's good.
Fair enough. I know exactly what you mean
I mean.. I feel like Amanda is just as annoyed about the curve balls as the player is x)
Could never get on with this game, it's just the world's longest and most painful game of hide and seek.
Least you gave it a shot mate
But IGN said the game was crap 🤪
🤣