One of the reasons Ridley Scott’s Alien was so terrifying is the reluctance to, in Scott’s words, “show you too much of the monster”. That slow burn, the fear of the unknown, glimpses of something ...

In Alien Isolation, the first-person survival horror game from Creative Assembly, you end up carrying a revolver - at one point you can even pick up a flamethrower - and as you're exploring the giant, ...

Alien: Isolation has impressed every time we've seen it since its reveal, but this time it's different. This isn't some staged demo, or bustling press event. This is me, one my own, with a build of ...

The best graphics of the next gen and the most terrifying survival horror gameplay of recent years, but will you be loving the alien? A few months ago a reader asked whether we’d recommend ...

Editor’s Note: This article contains mild spoilers for Alien: Isolation. This year marks the 35th anniversary of Alien, the space horror movie that spawned a cross-media franchise and numerous lesser ...

However, this approach inadvertently led me into playing Alien: Isolation exactly the way it’s meant to be played. Playing as Amanda Ripley, you’re tasked with searching for a flight log of the ...

IN all honesty, horror games have never been my cup of tea; I get a sharp intake of breath when I miss a tackle playing FIFA. So as I waited for Sega’s Alien Isolation to download on my PlayStation 4, ...

Alien: Isolation ($49.99) is one of the best games of the year, and a far cry from 2013's disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines. Instead of using James Cameron's Aliens as its foundation, as so many ...

In space no-one can hear you scream. But your earthly neighbours certainly can - and you'll be screaming a lot when playing Alien: Isolation. Clawing back the sci-fi ...

The alien is not the only threat on board the station. That one sentence, flashing up as a loading screen hint, perfectly sums up the philosophy of Alien: Isolation. You might have one of sci-fi’s ...

Survival horror games, it seems, are back in fashion. Whether it’s poking around abandoned asylums in indie hit Outlast, treading carefully through the same stretch of corridor again and again only to ...