Alien: Isolation

[Jarmam]

The game is absolutely fantastic so far. Ab-solutely fantastic. It is the first thing to reach the atmospheric heights of Alien since Alien came out. It is slow, painful, exhausting and completely terrifying.

I realize that you have to take apologetic review-reviews from the Steam game page with a grain of salt, but A. The Steam pages also link to reviews that crush the game, and B. This article is really good so I recommend it:
http://www.pcgamer.com/addressing-cr...0&ns_fee=0

He mentions the major complaint points from other reviewers and I can agree with the logic behind why they might have been given. I just find them hopeless and flat out incorrect as well. Yes, the game has balls of steel, designwise, difficultywise and pacing-wise. That's amazing. It is so incredible to me that I refused to accept it as a possibility at all until I got my hands on the game. Heck, there are three difficulties; easy, normal, hard, and the game tells you that you are "supposed" to experience the game on hard. Respect.

This game is to me what Avengers was for superhero team movies: The bumblebee that couldn't possibly fly but did - against all expectation. Yes, the plot is probably going to be exactly what I think it is for now, but that's not the point. I know the guy who "needed less sleep than the rest" in the hypersleep scene is an android. I don't care. The game isn't about the story, because there is only 1 Alien-story. It's about recapturing the things that made it work in the first place.

Is it flawless? No. I've never experienced flawless in my life. But it's damn, damn, damn good. Damn good. And it has no right to be. I am hopelessly in love.