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GAMEPLAY

oh first person Survival horror games, how you know how to give many people crap in the trousers for your horrifying feats

as you can tell its a FPSH style gameplay, you walk around, gather stuff, hide, sneak, and try not getting murdered by anything hostile, but is it like any other Survival horror....no, in this game you will be getting weapons, tools and other gadgets to help aid you on your quest

the weapons will help you beat up most hostiles be it human or robotics, from melee....... to guns....what a treat...in all acuality this game atleast makes you feel safe for the most part unlike other survival horrors like slender, outlast, and so on

tools will help you get past certain doors that you cannot get past the 1st time you go past them

as for gadgets you can either pick them up or make 'em with an aid from blueprints scattered around the MAHOOSIVE space station that you will be traveling around in

and each item will mostly be a distraction mechanism for hostiles so you can escape harm unscathed like a noise device that can produce a noise or a flash bomb, but the devices you have to make requires both parts, and scraps.........and they can come out of boxes, drawres, and stuff to just lying around.....well aint that nice

you can also look up at what is happening in this place by going up to computers and looking at the email esque reports that'll explane whats happening....that could either be a wast of time or the thing that you NEED to do because they will be giving out codes or activate certain things that you need to do

speaking of doing stuff you can hack your way through doors with a hacking puzzle in which you get 3 chances at, you can change which power goes where, and you can save at save stations which is FAAAAAAAAR away at some points, but wile doing all of the following you can look around....which is the games way of saying, "ya better 'urry me lovely 'cause something is comin' fer ya and it wants ya dead"

heck even the save station will warn you that threats will be here, this will be the 1st time someone could be afraid of a save station, hacking a door to get into a room, or even trying to make your life easy by changing power points if something can come up to you and MURDER YOU

to make matters interesting if there is something you miss in a certain room, no sweat because you have to return to certain points to progress the game so if you miss a blueprint or missed info on the computer then no sweat

there is also a map in the game which will tell you where you are, where you need to go, what direction your looking at, objectives and so on and so on, and beleave me you'll be using that ALOT

along with that you can also go into vents that will be either the only way to travel or to sneak past someone, or something, but it will cause trouble for your motion track, which will be the most valuable be your savior for lots of stuff, but wait dose that sound cheap....actuly no, for the game developers knows that as well

so what do they do, when you look at the track, what is infront of you will be alittle more fuzzy meaning that you are focused at the tracker, you can also change the focus from the radar to the environment making it essential, also the radar can also direct you to where you need to go as well as showing what is coming for you, only when it moves though because it only tracks motion (and objectives)

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STORY

ok i dont know how to give a simple explanation of this story since I did not look much into this story so...all i can gather through the internet is that the main protagonist is Amanda Ripley (Ripley's daughter), it takes 15 years after the 1st alien movie, Amanda wants to find her mother, and she end up being stuck at a huge ship thing owned by Sevastopol to find the Nostromo or whatever, Im sorry i dint get much story intell but beleave me when i say the story is good

it actuly acts like what an Alien sequal Should be, a story that stays true to the 1st, and it shows in this game 10 fold

its a shame that it took till 2014 to make a decant alien sequal, even if it is a game, they did a good job at the story
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ART

it is actuly pretty good to be honest

although the humans look....not the best (seriously not that impressed with some of the humans in the game mostly in the cutscenes) the synthetics and the main threat actuly looks pretty awsome as well as terrifying to look at

the level designs look dark, baron, and alittle broken down and the tecs that will aid you look flipping cool
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MUSIC

they used music from the alien movie, nuff said
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SCARE TACTICS

NOW we are in the nitty gritty of this game

like i said there are hostiles in this game like humans....which is bland, the Synthetics...which is creepy in its own rights....and the main threat of the game

WHATS AN ALIEN GAME WITHOUT ITS MAIN STAR? 

in the majority of the game you have to survive wile doing your tasks because if you are not aware the Alien (or Xenomorph for some of you) is hunting you down, and boy dose he want you dead,

you see the game dose not scare you like BOO but more like a preditor is looking for its measly prey, and trust me this alien is one dedicated son of a son,

the AI on this thing is NOTHING to sneeze at, it will roan around the map trying to find and murder your face, it will roam around the area, most likely in the VERY PLACE YOU NEED TO GO, and its random where it goes every playthrough, either a new game file or if you died,

and remember when i said that you can look around wile saving, well if you are unlucky it'll find you saving and go "NOPE, CHUCK TESTA BEYATCH",

it will also use the vents to ambush you which will work if your not careful, also if your not looking at it (or runing away) prepare to see that sharp tip tail through your abdomen, also the humans and synthetics will do damge you, but if you get caught by this thing, ONE HIT, INSTA DEATH, GAME OVER MAN GAME OVER

this thing will be a thing you'll love to hate, it will be a Nuisance that will  actually be a major threat to your character's health, it will always be somewhere you need to go and it'll do that often, my adbvice, make distractions and hide at the right moments, oh and dont step on its tail, that will just piss it off
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FINAL THOUGHTS