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Alien: Isolation's Xenomorph doesn’t need to resort to try-hard jumpscares

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...
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Alien: Isolation’s Xenomorph Is the Scariest Video Game Monster of All Time (And It’s Not Even Close)

Few monsters manage to terrify me. Demons and ghosts do absolutely nothing for me, and while home invasion and crazed serial killers get a reaction out of me, it never lasts. Sure, there are instances ...
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Alien: Isolation writer admits its Xenomorph got too smart for the devs, which is why the horror game runs longer than most

Alien: Isolation's 20-hour runtime grew that long by accident, according to a dev who says that the Xenomorph's increasing intelligence drove the horror game's playtime up. In an interview on the FRVR ...
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Alien: Isolation writer originally thought Ellen Ripley's daughter as protagonist was too "Son of Frankenstein" and "convenient," but was sold after realizing "everything had ...

One thing that makes Alien: Isolation such a uniquely tense experience is that it feels so personal thanks to its protagonist, Amanda Ripley, being the daughter of Ellen Ripley, the beloved hero of ...
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Alien: Isolation writer admits its Xenomorph got too smart for the devs, which is why the horror game runs longer than most

Horror Games Grab a pal and play REANIMAL in co-op because it's so much scarier when there are two of you Horror Games Reanimal review: "A feast of twisted weirdness; conjuring up unpleasant imagery ...