Gary Napper, lead designer: Ah yes, so we have several layers of behaviour we can add to the alien. Is that something the alien is capable of?
PCGamesN, Steve: During the studio tour you showed us a really interesting flow chart of the alien’s behaviour, which included some branches to do with ambushing and trapping. Come have a look at the words we said to one another. Gary Napper, lead designer at Creative Assembly, and Jude Bond, lead artist, spoke to me about how to create a truly terrifying artificial intelligence, what they thought of recent games in the franchise and how Alien: Isolation hopes to sustain a level of tension from start to finish that doesn’t result in heart-stopping fatalities. The game plays, in the parts we’ve been shown at least, like Amnesia in space, with only a solitary, highly intelligent and free-roaming xenomorph forming the game’s horror centrepiece. This article was originally published January 9, 2014.Īlien: Isolation burst out of Creative Assembly’s chest yesterday, splattering previews all over the internet and making us spill our collective cereal - here is my Alien: Isolation preview, in case you’re interested in finding out more. December 21, 2020 Alien: Isolation is free on the Epic Games Store today, so we’re digging into the archives to highlight our chats with the devs.
