Alien: Isolation

PogoP

Hey guys!

Happy to finally be able to show the game I've been working on at Creative Assembly! It's a survival horror game based on the original Alien film. It has just been announced.

Here's the trailer:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjnwahMIufE"]Alien: Isolation - Announcement Trailer - Eurogamer - YouTube[/ame]

And a post about the game that just went live, on Eurogamer:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-07-how-alien-isolation-restores-the-horror-of-the-1979-original

Enjoy!

marks

Typing up a post including screenshots, PogoP leans over my shoulder ... "I've already posted it mate". This is what I've been working on for the last 3 years - so happy to finally see it out in the wild!

HitmonInfinity

Love me some retro scifi! This looks great... but I'm wondering if I'll have the courage to play it lol.

PogoP

Here's a gameplay preview as well, from Gamespot!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iulSTAQHST4"]Alien Isolation - Gameplay Preview - YouTube[/ame]

Lazerus Reborn

YES OH GOD YES>

-A wild new post appeared above me!

As gents to gents, will this be anything like the last alien fiasco?

It has to be asked. Please say it won't cause this game. THIS game. could make my year.

JasonLavoie

This looks great guys and gals! Love the lighting / atmosphere!

glottis8

i am excited here!

Clark Coots

this game looks beautiful and amazingly terrifying. pumped!

Gmanx

California split-level bridge - YES! Right out of the Book of Alien.

Fabulous atmosphere - kinda like Condemned meets Amnesia (and similar to the upcoming Routine?)

I'm super excited for this. Great job so far!

Can I wish for a home-made cattle-prod?

Found another vid - interview with CA:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I7OGlL6gU8"]Alien Isolation Revealed on PS4! Brand New PlayStation 4 Gameplay - YouTube[/ame]

acitone

Wow it looks amazing. Are ya'll using an in-house engine?

PixelMasher

this looks great! only thing I dont get in the kotaku interview vid is they bring up no one went looking for the nostromo and you are searching for the flight recorder they are like "no one ever asked what happened to the nostromo, it just dissapeared".ummmmmm didn't ripley self destruct the nostromo in alien and escape in an escape module?

anyways looks fantastic and I cant wait to play it in tiny sections, if its that scary I should only be able to handle 30 mins to an hour play sessions ahaha.

marks

acitone wrote: »

Wow it looks amazing. Are ya'll using an in-house engine?

Yes we're using our own engine, written specifically for this game.

GarageBay9

You guys seriously made Amanda Ripley-McClaren the main character?

Massive geek cred right there.

(I always figured the McClaren surname was from adoptive parents, and she ended up as a bitter, jaded USMC Marine somewhere after her mom disappeared.

"My mother always told me there were no monsters... no real ones.

Lying bitch.")

meshiah

this looks really killer!, im sold!, can't wait to see more

slipsius

This looks damn good. That gameplay review from gamespot is awesome. But I honestly can't help shake the feeling of "Fool me once....". I know its a different studio. And Im sure coming after an IP let down like CM, it's something you guys are going to have to deal with and work past. Prove everyone wrong, kinda thing. But ya.

But yes... from those vids, it does look fantastic. It really does. But so did CM... lol.... But I like the direction you guys took. One alien, hunting you. No HUD. and dat lighting! daaayum.

I`ll definitely give it an unbiased shot when it comes out.

mikeParker

Looks great guys congrats, definitely feels like you captured the essence of the original film.

Mr Smo

Brilliant stuff, love the lense flares in the screen shots of the space suit

ErichWK

Creative Assembly is one of my favorite studios, super excited to see what you guys do!(don't fuck it up, you jerks or you're dead to me)

SsSandu_C

nice atmosphere, intense, scary... The only thing I don't like at least from the demo is the way the alien moves. I think it is way "frankensteinien". I mean why isn't he crawling, moving on the ceiling. Imagine seeing that motion sensor point on top of you...

Octo

This would be a great oculus rift game..slow paced, no real interface, very atmospheric etc...will a PC version come out?

Bruno Afonseca

The gameplay preview made me tense already... This is the kind of game I want to play! When does it come out? are we there yet? what about now?

Jacky

Finally a proper Alien game. Congrats!

Cheez

Looks great !

Baj Singh

Well done guys, almost at the finish line .

Bacn

I hope this game does insanely well. Between this and Amnesia, maybe more developers will have a much easier time getting a larger budget for more, true horror games.

Also, 'dat environment is amazing!

PogoP

Glad you guys are liking it so far!

Here are a few screenshots, all in-game.

marks

edit: god damn it liam

HitmonInfinity

Wow. This is the fidelity I want to see more of for next-gen. Looks like no corners where cut on texture density or triangle counts.

xvampire

I wanna kneel , and worship you guys ...

Ged

awesome environment! love the atmosphere and lighting! amazing work

CordellC

Gettin dat tasty Routine art direction. Looks like it might be cool.

Rayph

You guys have absolutely nailed the right atmosphere, wonderful to see a creative team appreciate the original film and not give us another aliens cannon fodder fest.

Super

Oh man. I'd kill to work on that franchise. Looks absolutely terrifying.. I'd pre-order if I weren't such a coward.

Godling

Love the idea behind dealing with one alien and having the focus on hiding and survival.

Gotta say though, that the environment looks like it uses no textures at all. Looks likes it's all just colored materials. It all looks like reaaaally clean plastic. Hardly suitable for setting the mood, given the location and subject matter.

MartinH

this is looking freaking awesome. Time to hook up the occulus rift and get traumatized

Kitty|Owl

Godling wrote: »

It all looks like reaaaally clean plastic. Hardly suitable for setting the mood, given the location and subject matter.

+1

every material looks very... grey/flat. it looks promising (the radiosity tech looks pretty cool)! however it could also do with some decent AA and less DoF.

but yes... looks nice but... grey... very grey.

gsokol

Godling wrote: »

Love the idea behind dealing with one alien and having the focus on hiding and survival.

Gotta say though, that the environment looks like it uses no textures at all. Looks likes it's all just colored materials. It all looks like reaaaally clean plastic. Hardly suitable for setting the mood, given the location and subject matter.

Have you ever seen Alien?



Great atmosphere. This game looks terrifying. Looks awesome!

Bacn

Godling wrote: »

Gotta say though, that the environment looks like it uses no textures at all. Looks likes it's all just colored materials. It all looks like reaaaally clean plastic. Hardly suitable for setting the mood, given the location and subject matter.

We all need some retro sci-fi in our lives and 1970s future is one of the best!

Blaizer

This looks like an amnesia game but with an alien . The last game of this kind i bought was outlast, but it was very short.

What i hate of these games is the replayability, is equal to zero.

Something i dislike a lot, watching the videos, is how retarded and slow is the alien. In the gamespot gameplay, the player almost touch the walking alien...

An alien must be fast as hell, with mega jumps, and it should be able to run on walls or ceilings. The running mode for the player is also slow. If the whole game is located in a ship with the same old look of the film, that will make it pretty boring for me. Dead space 3 for example has different locations/environments and the co-op mode gives more fun (a co-op game CAN be good with the terror genre).

As a fan of alien and predators i'm not quite convinced with the gameplay. however, i love the graphics work .

Let's hope to see the quality of those screens in the final game. Aliens colonial marines was a total disaster.

ZacD

Yeah if the "monster" in Alien is like the ones in Amnesia, I'll be disappointed. The great thing about Alien is it could be above you, below you, or stalking you from the vent system.

crazyfool

characters look cool too, great job guys games probably too scary for me haha, but looks AMAZING!!!!!

ambershee

GarageBay9 wrote: »

(I always figured the McClaren surname was from adoptive parents, and she ended up as a bitter, jaded USMC Marine somewhere after her mom disappeared.

She was Amanda Ripley, and became Amanda McClaren when she got married. She didn't become a marine, but she likely worked for Weyland-Yutani.

weee

really dig the graphics, looks epic, hope the gameplay is as awesome

WarrenM

Have you ever seen Alien?

Seriously. LOVE the way this looks. The Aliens retro, low-fi, chunky tech gives me such a raging boner ... and this captures it perfectly.

I'm sure I'll be too much of a pussy to actually play this but maybe if there's an easy mode or something...

ScoobyDoofus

I'm really liking what I'm seeing here! The original Alien is easily in my top 5 favorite films, and the team has done an amazing job at capturing the look & vibe of that film here. Those environments are so detailed! I'll be keeping an eye on this one and its a likely day 1 purchase for me.

mats effect

Awesome! Loving the art I feel like the 70s/80s Sci-Fi art style is making a come back. This is really sounding like how an alien game should be done.

NegevPro

The detail is absolutely incredible, you can tell by looking even at the tiny props that this game will certainly be one of the best looking horror games released up until now.

I'll buy it on day one for sure since horror is one of my favorite genres but I get scared easily so it'll probably take me 4-5 months to beat lol.

Chriz

Perfect Game for an Oculus Rift :-)

eld

Wow, very accurate to Giegers xenomorph!

Even has the translucent head-dome with the humanoid skull underneath!

Gmanx

As for the alien not moving fast enough (as has been mentioned) the alien in 'Alien' never ran, and was apparently 'at the end of its cycle' by the time Ripley runs into it - preparing to nest or hibernate. It was no less dangerous though. I think that's the feel their going for - which is spot on for the first movie. Forget Aliens, and especially the AVPs.

low odor

looks awesome,,,glad someone finally had the balls to take this where it needed to go..hope it lives up to it...great work