Hope to god it isn't some fucking raytracing, UE5 slop. The lighting in the original was so effective and ran beautifully.
It is tragically Unreal Engine 5. Don't know what the fuck it is with companies who have great in house engine giving up to use complete garbage.
Cheaper to hire contract workers instead of salaried or full-time because standardization means that the skills and training are largely transferable between projects. Besides that, many of these companies have an incentive to promote gaming projects that are financially exclusionary as they seek to further restrict access to computing as a service.
Alien Isolation is one of the few games that gave me legitimate anxiety to play. I wouldn't say I was scared necessarily like the feeling you might get playing some other horror games in the dark, but like a genuinely stressful experience. They nailed the inevitability of conflict with the alien.
Looking forward to seeing how they've done with an open area version of this experience given how the tight spaces in the space station contributed so much to the experience of the first game.
I tried to do a play through in VR. Nope. Absolutely not. Got to med bay and just no. Never finished it. Still dealing with the trauma.
I'm not even joking when I said my ex boyfriend and I would sit around mentally preparing to play this game in the hotseat. Like, the feeling of having to force yourself to move from one area to another without knowing where the Xenomorph would be or worse, knowing that they're between you and the exit was awful.
The first game was incredible, I hope they can capture the same atmosphere while delivering a new experience and its not a just a pointless sequel.
I wish they hadn't put a close-up shot of the antagonist on the store page. It kind of undermines the suspense.
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