Universally agreed to be one of the best Survival Horror games of the last decade, but no sequel? Let’s have a look at the so-called Alien Isolation continuations and discuss why we’ve yet to have a AAA true sequel.
Games based on Film and TV franchises are often considered the ugly duckling of the gaming world. Where this stigma was completely turned on its head, however, was with Creative Assembly’s 2014 game, Alien Isolation.
Isolation sold over two million copies by May 2015 but received… mixed reviews. Its art direction, sound design, and AI were praised, while its characters and length received criticism.
But that was ten years ago. The year is 2024. And we are still waiting on our sequel to Alien Isolation…. Technically. See, there have been continuations of Isolations plot, just… not the ones that we wanted. We’ve got a few of these and I’m going to run through each of them with you. These will be in review format, I’m not just going to be reading out the wikipedia articles of these so, beware, this video contains opinions.
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It's never "too late", but Isolation was lightning in a bottle. It would be very hard to create a worthy sequel that was also distinct enough to stand on it's own.
I love the game why do people get being mean to the people who created the game?💢💢💢
Myself IF a Sequel Was EVER DONE ,it should be based on One of the books,out of the shadows ,river of pain(events before Marines turned up) With Newt set during both before and during the 6months she was alone,OR EVEN!! going Far into the future with ,Sea Of Sorrows with the Main Character being Alan Decker ,IE Ripleys Great ,Great Grandson,,yes i know Ellen was meant to have not had any children,but IS it possible at certain point she wanted to live off Weyland's Radar,kept fact she had children secret.
Alien isolation is a masterpiece, as I huge fan of all thing Alien I’m still living in hope that developers do the right thing and get a sequel made ….
I've been making videos off this game as of late to celebrate the upcoming Alien: Romulus! This game, having played it a bunch of times, still gets me on the edge of my seat.
No. Never too late.
I've been waiting for a sequel for 10 years now. The good news is that Jurassic Park: Survival seems like it will be Isolation-like. Not Aliens but still very promising!
It’s never too late. As a PlayStation game, I really wish they would patch the game to run at 60 FPS on the PS5.
Well world war is about to begin and every country will be involved so I think we'll all be too busy killing each other to worry about future games.
In the Aliens Special Edition movie, when Burke shows Ripley picture of her daughter, he names her Amanda Ripley McClaren (after her husband). So, I think in the Alien Isolation 2, Amanda should meet some guy of name McClaren, I would like him to be a Hicks-type marine.
A sequel of the exact same sort of premise would be more of the same.
How about this – make the game similar to Aliens in that time of the universe. Set it on a ship. Have a small number of Aliens. Make it so that any of the weapons that could kill the Aliens would puncture the hull and/or the acid would melt through the hull. There might be bits of the game where you have to take one out with heavy weapons ti survive.
It would need to be really carefully thought through but I think it could work as a concept and would give the game a feel for Aliens and with it a fresh take on the game.
Why the fuck have we not gotten another alien vs predator game yo!?!?
I have always believed that Alien Blackout would be much better as a VR game.
I think the novel alien prototype is a sequel to alien isolation and takes place before aliens resistance
I need a second game 🙁
Alien isolation was and is LIT af. I've only recently discovered this beauty and WOW. I love this game it's crazy good and the best alien game I've ever experienced.
Alien Isolation is like a gift of many new Alien movies, and it's certainly the most perfect followup to the original.
I think Alien Isolation is my favourite game of all time, no game has ever got under my skin the way this did. Sadly i think a sequel could only disappoint. However, I would actually pay good money for a mod where you can just explore Sevastopol before it went to shit. It's such an incredible, rich environment, I was genuinely heartbroken seeing it destroyed (even though that explosion was ridiculously out of scale – assuming the gas giant is comparable to Jupiter in size, the explosion was about the size of Earth!)
if Alien:Romulus does well (considering economic conditions – cross fingers) then the bean counters may loosen their tight-assed pockets.
Hardware technology has improved significantly particularly graphics so a new story line and perhaps an upgrade to the graphics engine in the origitnal for a remaster of the original game – maybe? Some of the mods integrated officially into the original game for new difficulty levels would also be a seller, especially multiple concurrent aliens.
The new story could be related to romulus, perhaps what happens before.
A lot of the dev work and artwork in the original game can be reused so the dev costs should be much less than alien isolation.
The gamer in me wants a sequel. The Alien fan in me doesn't want to continue Amanda's story. She battled the Xenos, she found out what happened to her mother, she got her closure, she was rescued while adrift in space and lived out the rest of her life. I'm satisfied with that ending.
I've always said I'd like a movie or anime of Hadley's Hope, and it picks up just before the outbreak and ends just as Ripley and them arrive. But a game of that would be awesome too. me, I'd love to get a Isolation 2 and have it pick up either where it end, with Amanda floating in space and a ships light spots her. It could either pick up right from there or skip a few months ahead, and they could figure out how the Alien made its away there. Given that when she blow up the ship, some Aliens were seen being thrown into space and one got on board The Torrens. They could use that or the one that got on The Torrens could be the one brought to the new location. Like they towed The Torrens to the new location, unaware the Alien was inside. Either way, I really want them to continue Amanda's story from Isolation.
5:50 “Feminimity” 😂
I'm afraid there's no Hope, Dr.Hadley.
currently replaying this on @randomtoilettubes if anyone fancies showing support 😊
The ONLY thing scary about Isolation was how many doors you had to unlock
I give it 5.9
out of 6
The IGN review of Alien Isolation hasn't aged very well… 5.9, are you f*cking kidding me?!
However, it's not uncommon for them(IGN) to underestimate games like that. For example, they gave Days Gone only a 6.5… Come on!
I mean I never asked for it, but one could say that Ridley Scott sort of predated the FNAF thing with Dallas’ final scene in the first Alien movie.
This is still the best Alien sequel. Great video.
alien isolation is waaaaay too long and if you look back on everything you do, all the plans and missions you embark on, you fail constantly right up to the end, where you fail also and still somehow you are the only survivor on a space station with hundreds or thousands of people and at least 2 other spaceships in the vicinity of the station. i can swallow a few lucky fails where you somehow survive against a creature that deadly, but a game that goes that damn long, and with that many fails, it really dilutes the threat the alien is supposed to impose
The original game is still hotly discussed 10 years later….they just can't take a hint.
Alien Isolation: IGN – 5.9, "Not enough water."
The whole "bioweapon" angle is unfortunately the worst thing to happen to Alien lore, even after Ridley Scott thought he should make some more movies in the series. In the first film, there's a throwaway line about bioweapons. And then that's all. It makes sense and we moved on.
But then the comics, books and games ran with it, and unfortunately they ran with it in the most obvious and schlocky ways. Tonally, it works in a comic or a video game, but in a movie, it's just awful, especially considering the grounded reality of the films, at least the first three.
But looking at it now from a 21st century mindset, the bioweapons division was probably interested in things that you would never assume came from researching the alien. Like, it's made of a molecular acid resistant material. That could be used to develop materials for armour. And there's the incredibly high cellular growth rate. Could that be used for medical purposes? It's so much better than alien human hybrids.
We need a 2nd game. Just to clarify, I have never played the first game. Far too fucking scary. Did I watch 10000 playthroughs and nearly piss myself? Yes. Yes I did.
This game is just as good as the films..WOW!! hold your breath to long u ☠️ make to much noise u ☠️ it’s BRILLIANT!! & a sequel is exactly what we ALIEN fans deserve..thx for making this video sooo happy..Stay Frosty
I suspect Womulus is going to flop badly. Shame, because a successful movie might be enough to get developers interested in a new alien game.
I think the film Alien: Romulus will be the real sequel to Alien: Isolation as the Director Fede Alvarez seems to be inspired by that game and his film is set 20 years after the first film and 5 years after the game. It also looks like he incorporated the same emergency phones that are used as save points in the game into Romulus, so looking forward to see the story continuity from Isolation to Romulus.
I'm glad people are still talking about this game ten years on. It really is one of the best survival horror games out there and holds up as if it were made last year. I'll never stop giving up hope for a sequel 😌
They should of made alien isolation 2 a long time ago have it be a mixture of aliens and alien isolation amanda Ripley meet up with her mother on a city planet like dead space 2 have multiple aliens some you can kill with the machine gun others who spit acid and you have to hide from.
I own the game, but i only played it a few minutes until i have shit in my pants and had almost a heartattack. Never touched it again. 😖