Good lord, talk about overstaying your welcome. Revisiting the sights and sounds of Alien in a modern video game is neat, but unfortunately it's all in service of mediocre gameplay and a completely pointless and overwrought rehash of the movie's plot.

It's clear that the developers had a lot of love for the source material, and what's there is extremely faithful, but they just don't bring anything new to the table. Early on I enjoyed exploring the accurate recreations of the Alien sets, but by the end I was rolling my eyes as the game repeatedly recycled visuals and plot beats from the movie in their original order. What isn't pulled from the movie is a mishmash of objectives like "turn on the generator", "find a way to open the door", "fix this broken thing", and lots of backtracking.

Combine that with painfully tedious and dated hide-and-seek stealth gameplay, boilerplate immersive sim elements (lots of audio logs, and you punch 0451 into a keypad!), and you've got one of the more disappointing licensed games in a long time. If this had been a focused experience delivering an original story vignette over a few hours, it could've been something much better.

Até o momento é o melhor jogo de terror que já joguei e um dos melhores jogos da minha vida está no meu top 5.

Ok vamos lá é obvio que estou exagerando o jogo não é perfeito tem varios bugs e tals mas pra mim foi tão imersivo e satisfatório jogar esse jogo que acabo me empolgando. Os graficos são impressionante até hoje pra um jogo de 2014 (quase 10 anos) tem um Level design lindíssimo o jogo passa uma solidão no espaço que é imersivo pra caralho, o audio é bom a gameplay é mais andar e se esconder, o mapa é grande e da muito medo explorar por que o Alien tem uma IA tão perfeita que até hoje é elogiada.

Esse jogo é uma experiência incrível que me agradou demais que a muito tempo eu sonhava em jogar, e quando joguei não me decepcionei e fiquei triste que acabou e não tem nenhuma sequencia anunciada ainda, pq merece demais.
(10/10)

It took me so long to play this because I was too scared. I started the game on hard, then left it for ages, came back and couldn't understand why the game was so evil.

Then realised I'd set the game to hard. Obviously I didn't change it to any other difficulty. I was going to beat this game damn it! So yeah, beat the game on hard first time-round. Awesome.

I love Alien. It's probably one of the coolest movies ever, so naturally I was going to be all about a game that takes the original Alien as an influence, right down to the detail that it appears to metamorphose its victims rather than use a queen.

It's surprising with games like this how you get the hang of it more and more. I started the game out terrified of the alien but as the game goes on you begin to figure out how it works and actually take chances you never would have taken by the end.

The final bit was evil because I'd almost completely run out of flamethrower fuel. The alien was becoming more and tolerant to the flames and the final part throws facehuggers at you. Got through it in the end because I luckily hadn't hidden in containers too much so I was able to use them, but yeah, wow, what a game.

I will probably attempt the DLC but goddamn it's not a game you can just mess around with.

As a fan of the first two Alien movies I really liked this game, although I think it's held back by some generic writing, some very of its era looking human models and a handful of glitches that really stood out at times. I'd say that those problems are mostly made up for with the atmosphere, the gorgeous environment design and the titular alien though. If you're a fan of the franchise you'll definitely get something out of it, even if it is just fanboying at being able to play around in a very faithful recreation of this universe.