While waiting in line to play Alien: Isolation, I heard screams from inside the demo room. The latest game to tackle the Alien universe is perhaps the scariest thing on display at this year’s E3, a first person survival experience unlike just about any big-name video game before it. Whereas the series, both in film and game form, has shifted towards action, Isolation takes its inspiration from the original Ridley Scott horror masterpiece. Avoiding the alien is the core of the experience — the demo I played tasked me with exiting an area of the station alive, while the patrolling alien listened for me, searched for my scent, and impatiently waited for me to make a move.
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