Alien Week Day 2: The Next Chapter of the Alien Franchise – Alien: Isolation
Steve Barton
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In honor of next week’s release of Alien: Isolation, we are running features and giveaways that take looks at the upcoming visceral experience from Sega as well as gaming itself. Read on for Alien Week Day 2: The Next Chapter of the Alien Franchise – Alien: Isolation.
The latest chapter in Ridley Scott’s iconic Alien story isn’t playing out in multiplexes this year. It’s playing out through a new way of storytelling – on the small screen with the release of the new Alien: Isolation video game. This next truest adaptation reunites the full cast – first time since 1979 – and utilizes the same lo-fi approach from the first film to create the most authentic Alien story since Ridley was at the helm, so much so that Sigourney Weaver finally reprised her role. It’s time to take a brief look at this latest iteration of the Alien franchise and how a video game may just be the best story told yet.
This game’s fidelity to the film can be seen in both its sound and look, which was painstakingly recreated. The soundtrack was composed by an orchestra featuring musicians who played in the original Alien recordings back in the 1970’s; and by accurately recreating the sounds of Alien and accessing original recordings from the first film, the developers were able to recreate the sound designs just as Scott would have done.
For the look of the game, the developers chose a lo-fi approach reminiscent of the technology available when the film was first created. This isn’t an HD 3D experience; it’s gritty, raw, and real. All the props in the game are also true to the original – there is nothing in view that wasn’t available in 1979.
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Most of all, though, it’s the reprisal of the original cast that best advances Scott’s vision and endorses this new story. Sigourney Weaver (Ellen Ripley), Tom Skerritt (Dallas), Veronica Cartwright (Lambert), Harry Dean Stanton (Brett), Yaphet Kotto (Parker), and Ian Holm (Ash, likeness and sound-alike) all offer their vocal talents in the game.
Like the original film, Alien: Isolation takes place in a credible world with believable characters, all of which authentically pay homage to Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece.
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