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# Insider Scoop: Alien - Isolation

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## Video: Insider Scoop: Alien - Isolation

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_Published 2014-06-18. SEGA’s next release, Alien: Isolation, is of a different breed then its predecessors. Rather then relying on the worn genre of the first-person shooter, this Alien is pure survival-horror._


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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] Alien isolation is a game based on the original film, the 1979 film by Ridley scott. It means it's only a single alien, and just the fact that's one alien there, it's absolutely terrifying. You don't have any machine guns or any heavy weaponry to deal with it. You just have things you can find in the environment to try and survive and extend your chances. This should do it. When you look at some of the impressive new spaces we've made, it looks like it should have just been on the set in Alien. So that's really key to creating the original atmosphere of the haunted house in space. But we wanted that kind of cerebral terrifying tension, and that constant fear of dread that any shadow could be the alien.

And then, that's what we've always pushed to try and do. We've created an alien that is adaptive and smart, and it can change the way it moves and behaves according to what the player does. And it hunts you in a very intelligent way. If it sees you a couple of times, it might start to recognize you. The, the faster you are and the you're out in the open, the higher chance you have of being spotted. And later on we take that into a more advanced set of behaviors where it adapts and reacts to the things you're using. So you can craft the [ UNKNOWN ] in the world to use for distraction, or to cause loud noises.

Even for light, like using a flare, and the first few times you use. And the first time kind of get an idea of how the alien will react to it. The more you use it, the more you start to notice the alien is not reacting so well to it. And then all of a sudden, he has outsmarted you. [ INAUDIBLE ] [ NOISE ] Grr. Aw! Oh! [ NOISE ]. Sometimes a huge power of horror is that you're not being able to see the thing that's hunting you, just being aware that it's there, it could be around the next corner. Which provides a very very terrifying game experience.

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