Top 10 Things that LITERALLY Just Happened at E3

Written by: Adam "ManKorn" Korenman, CC2K Video Games Editor

Alien: Isolation

Alien may be the scariest movie I have ever seen. No joke, some 30 years later, that film still creeps me right the f*** out. 

Alien: Isolation may end up being not only one of the most terrifying titles on the next-generation of consoles, but one of the best Alien games ever made. 

Set as a First Person Survival game, Isolation eschews the normal tropes of scifi combat for a more realistic, and more visceral, round of hide and seek. You play the daughter of Ellen Ripley, the protagonist of the films, as she searches for the truth about her mother. Somehow, as tends to happen in these situations, an alien is let loose on her ship. What follows is a nail-biter of a hunt, with you as the prey. 

The design of the game immediately evokes memories of the epic movies, down to the CRT monitors and brick-sized tech. 

Even in just the short demo, you can practically taste the tension in the air. You’ll jump at every noise, recoil from every sparking console, and spend more time hiding in a locker than a high school math wizard. The AI for the alien is still in need of a few tweaks, but in this current build it functions fine. 

My one concern is that, like the original Dead Space, the tension may stay too high for too long and burn out players. Pacing in these types of games is critical, so only time will tell if the development team is up to the task.