10 Years Later, Alien: Isolation Is Getting a Surprise Sequel

Remember Alien: Isolation, that terrifying fearfulness video crippled that had with legions of gamers hiding successful retention lockers from xenomorphs adept astatine playing fell and question lone to rip them from their harmless abstraction and unalive them? Well, not lone is that hidden gem of a fearfulness crippled a decennary old, it’s successful the process of getting a sequel.

Earlier today, the authoritative Alien: Isolation X/Twitter account published a connection from originative manager Al Hope celebrating the game’s 10th anniversary. In tandem with Hope thanking fans for their “boundless enthusiasm, excitement, screams, and steely courageousness successful the look of cinema’s top killer,” Hope dropped the bombshell announcement that the squad is hard astatine enactment making a sequel.

“On the 10th anniversary, it seems lone fitting to fto you cognize that we person heard your distress calls large and clear. Today, I’m delighted to confirm, connected behalf of the team, that a sequel to Alien: Isolation is successful aboriginal development,” Hope wrote. “We look guardant to sharing much details with you erstwhile we’re ready.”

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Suffice it to say, it’s beauteous chaotic that Creative Assembly is getting backmost successful the saddle 10 years aboriginal and giving its often under-appreciated fearfulness crippled a sequel each these years later. However, if you were to inquire Alien: Romulus manager Fede Alvarez, this improvement would beryllium a no-brainer considering however emblematic the atmospheric fearfulness crippled was successful inspiring him to give his instrumentality connected the long-running sci-fi franchise.

“Alien: Isolation was benignant of what made maine spot that Alien could genuinely beryllium terrifying and done good [today],” Alvarez told GamesRadar+. “That’s why, astatine the time, I was like, ‘Fuck, if I could bash anything, I would emotion to bash Alien and scare the assemblage again with that carnal and those environments.’ I was playing, and realizing however terrifying Alien could beryllium if you instrumentality it backmost to that tone.”

More specifically, Alvarez was enamored with however the game’s monotonously agelong exigency telephone telephone mechanic successful its harmless rooms became communicative shorthand for players’ vulnerability to xenomorph attacks.

“The movie is acceptable up successful a mode [that] each clip thing atrocious is astir to happen, you volition spot a phone,” Alvarez continued. “In the game, each clip you knew there’s a telephone you’d go, ‘Fuck, I’m astir to spell into immoderate atrocious set-piece.’ It’s the aforesaid happening here. You’ll spot they’re planted strategically passim the film. When you spot the phone, it’s like: brace for impact.”

Hopefully immoderate Creative Assembly has cooking successful Alien: Isolation‘s sequel volition proceed successful its progenitor’s footsteps arsenic inspiration should we person a caller Alien vs Predator film from Alvarez and Prey manager Dan Trachtenberg. In the meantime, fans tin look guardant to the prequel TV amusement Alien: Earth erstwhile it arrives connected Hulu adjacent year.

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