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Isolation has some flaws, but it’s faithful to the film series, and I’d love to see a follow-up with a few extra alien evolutions.","2025-01-29T08:21:06.394616-05:00",{"id":413,"logo":570,"name":571,"slug":572,"tags":573,"bluesky":574,"twitter":572,"youtube":575,"facebook":571,"mastodon":26,"muckrack":26,"claimed_at":26,"description":576,"website_url":577,"score_format":50,"average_score":31,"default_timezone":52,"last_review_date":26,"stats_updated_at":53,"headquarters_city":26,"news_editor_email":26,"platforms_covered":26,"claimed_by_user_id":26,"reviews_this_month":17,"active_authors_count":17,"headquarters_country":26,"reviews_editor_email":578,"editor_in_chief_email":26,"published_authors_count":17,"published_reviews_count":17},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FDestructoid-Logo.png","Destructoid","destructoid","[  \n  'corporate_owned',\n  'inactive',\n  'online_media'\n  ]","destructoid.bsky.social","@DTOID","Destructoid is a Webby Award-winning video game-focused blog that was founded in March 2006 by Yanier Gonzales.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.destructoid.com","chriscarter@destructoid.com",{"id":580,"game_id":5,"outlet_id":581,"author":582,"original_score":589,"normalized_score":590,"review_url":591,"review_date":470,"summary":592,"created_at":593,"updated_at":593,"author_id":583,"last_edited_at":593,"outlet":594},73886,69,{"id":583,"bio":26,"name":584,"avg_score":585,"outlet_id":581,"created_at":586,"profile_id":26,"updated_at":587,"claim_token":26,"article_count":588,"claimed_by_user_id":26},5627,"Ryan McCaffrey",76.14583333333333,"2025-02-06T09:09:05.470207-05:00","2025-09-15T09:04:51.544266-04:00",48,"5.9",59,"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ign.com\u002Farticles\u002F2014\u002F10\u002F03\u002Falien-isolation-review","Alien: Isolation seemed like the perfect Alien game on paper, and for the first handful of hours it even seems to deliver on its promise on the strength of its outstanding art and sound that faithfully recreates the ambiance of the classic horror film. Instead, what was the Great Xenomorphic Hope ends in another disappointment for a license loaded with interactive-entertainment potential. It’s a shame that Isolation doesn’t track stats, because I’d be curious to know how many of its roughly 15-20 hours I spent hiding in lockers, staring at the motion tracker, and, most of all, how many hundreds (yes, hundreds) of times I died without a chance to save myself. \n\nIt may seem strange to complain that a game’s too long, but when the genuine scares of being hunted by an unstoppable predator are so diluted by repetition and padding, Isolation’s epic length really does work against it. Someday, someone is going to make an incredible Alien video game that checks every box. But, sadly, Isolation is not it.","2025-02-06T23:49:21.640539-05:00",{"id":581,"logo":595,"name":596,"slug":597,"tags":77,"bluesky":598,"twitter":596,"youtube":599,"facebook":596,"mastodon":26,"muckrack":26,"claimed_at":26,"description":600,"website_url":601,"score_format":50,"average_score":329,"default_timezone":52,"last_review_date":26,"stats_updated_at":53,"headquarters_city":602,"news_editor_email":26,"platforms_covered":26,"claimed_by_user_id":26,"reviews_this_month":17,"active_authors_count":17,"headquarters_country":88,"reviews_editor_email":26,"editor_in_chief_email":26,"published_authors_count":17,"published_reviews_count":17},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FIGN-logo.jpg","IGN","ign","ign.com","@IGN","We're all about video games, movies, TV, and comics!","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ign.com\u002F","Los Angeles",{"id":604,"game_id":5,"outlet_id":605,"author":606,"original_score":612,"normalized_score":26,"review_url":613,"review_date":470,"summary":614,"created_at":615,"updated_at":615,"author_id":607,"last_edited_at":615,"outlet":616},49428,64,{"id":607,"bio":26,"name":608,"avg_score":26,"outlet_id":26,"created_at":609,"profile_id":26,"updated_at":610,"claim_token":26,"article_count":611,"claimed_by_user_id":26},4177,"Adam Smith","2025-01-21T07:06:10.049837-05:00","2025-01-21T07:11:03.584088-05:00",43,"unscored","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.rockpapershotgun.com\u002Falien-isolation-review-pc","Isolation is the best Alien game I've ever played, I'm in no doubt about that. Even in its awkward moments it is doing something interesting with the license, exploring the edges of what is possible in its world, quietly and discreetly. I expect the debate about certain design choices to be loud and long. At the centre of the debate will be one of the finest entries in the Alien canon in any medium, and one of the finest horror experiences in ours.","2025-01-21T07:10:45.696597-05:00",{"id":605,"logo":617,"name":618,"slug":619,"tags":77,"bluesky":620,"twitter":621,"youtube":622,"facebook":621,"mastodon":26,"muckrack":26,"claimed_at":26,"description":623,"website_url":624,"score_format":612,"average_score":26,"default_timezone":52,"last_review_date":26,"stats_updated_at":53,"headquarters_city":625,"news_editor_email":626,"platforms_covered":26,"claimed_by_user_id":26,"reviews_this_month":17,"active_authors_count":17,"headquarters_country":115,"reviews_editor_email":627,"editor_in_chief_email":628,"published_authors_count":17,"published_reviews_count":17},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FRock-Paper-Shotgun-Logo.jpg","Rock Paper Shotgun","rock-paper-shotgun","rockpapershotgun.bsky.social","rockpapershot","@rockpapershot","We write about PC games, and things to do with PC games.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.rockpapershotgun.com\u002F","London","edwin.evansthirlwell@rockpapershotgun.com","ed.thorn@rockpapershotgun.com","graham@rockpapershotgun.com",{"id":630,"game_id":5,"outlet_id":33,"author":631,"original_score":637,"normalized_score":51,"review_url":638,"review_date":470,"summary":639,"created_at":640,"updated_at":640,"author_id":632,"last_edited_at":640,"outlet":641},75430,{"id":632,"bio":26,"name":633,"avg_score":634,"outlet_id":26,"created_at":635,"profile_id":26,"updated_at":636,"claim_token":26,"article_count":588,"claimed_by_user_id":26},5794,"Steven Wong",71.82926829268293,"2025-02-08T08:45:40.817212-05:00","2025-03-25T07:48:00.308875-04:00","8\u002F10","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.shacknews.com\u002Farticle\u002F86549\u002Falien-isolation-review-live-die-repeat","Alien Isolation is for people who can withstand a heightened emotional state for a prolonged period of time. Patience, observation, and fast action are paramount. There were numerous occasions, after being brutally killed again and again, that I had to step away and say, \"Ok, that's enough.\" But the thing is, it wasn't. I kept going back to see if I could be a survivor, out maneuver the perfect organism, and get through the level alive.","2025-02-08T08:59:43.375933-05:00",{"id":33,"logo":642,"name":643,"slug":644,"tags":323,"bluesky":26,"twitter":644,"youtube":645,"facebook":644,"mastodon":26,"muckrack":26,"claimed_at":26,"description":646,"website_url":647,"score_format":50,"average_score":329,"default_timezone":52,"last_review_date":26,"stats_updated_at":53,"headquarters_city":648,"news_editor_email":649,"platforms_covered":26,"claimed_by_user_id":26,"reviews_this_month":17,"active_authors_count":17,"headquarters_country":88,"reviews_editor_email":650,"editor_in_chief_email":651,"published_authors_count":17,"published_reviews_count":17},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FShackNews-Logo.jpg","ShackNews","shacknews","Shacknewsgames","Gaming News on the Cutting Edge of Technology.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.shacknews.com\u002F","Canton, OH","tj.denzer@shacknews.com","bill.lavoy@shacknews.com","asif.khan@shacknews.com",{"id":653,"game_id":5,"outlet_id":275,"author":654,"original_score":186,"normalized_score":17,"review_url":660,"review_date":470,"summary":661,"created_at":662,"updated_at":662,"author_id":655,"last_edited_at":662,"outlet":663},77281,{"id":655,"bio":26,"name":656,"avg_score":100,"outlet_id":26,"created_at":657,"profile_id":26,"updated_at":658,"claim_token":26,"article_count":659,"claimed_by_user_id":26},5852,"Peter Chapman","2025-02-10T12:31:19.739375-05:00","2025-02-10T13:36:32.738636-05:00",20,"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.thesixthaxis.com\u002F2014\u002F10\u002F03\u002Falien-isolation-review\u002F","That idea of never being comfortable with how the game is unravelling is something that feels quite unique and it’s extremely well imagined here. Plenty of survival horror games have you feeling vulnerable as you essentially fulfil the role of a hero but things are different here. In Alien: Isolation you’re not the hero, you’re the prey.","2025-02-10T13:35:22.327319-05:00",{"id":275,"logo":664,"name":665,"slug":666,"tags":392,"bluesky":667,"twitter":665,"youtube":666,"facebook":665,"mastodon":26,"muckrack":26,"claimed_at":26,"description":668,"website_url":669,"score_format":50,"average_score":670,"default_timezone":52,"last_review_date":26,"stats_updated_at":53,"headquarters_city":26,"news_editor_email":671,"platforms_covered":26,"claimed_by_user_id":26,"reviews_this_month":17,"active_authors_count":17,"headquarters_country":26,"reviews_editor_email":672,"editor_in_chief_email":673,"published_authors_count":17,"published_reviews_count":17},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FTheSixthAxis-Logo.jpg","TheSixthAxis","thesixthaxis","thesixthaxis.bsky.social","All the latest videos gaming news, reviews, guides, and opinion.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.thesixthaxis.com\u002F",73,"aran@thesixthaxis.com","dom@thesixthaxis.com","teflon@thesixthaxis.com"]