Alien Isolation – now that’s what you call a pre-order bonus

Sega has announced that almost the entire cast of 1979 movie classic Alien will reunite for new game Alien Isolation, in two special bonus missions only available if you pre-order.

Sigourney Weaver (Ripley), Tom Skerritt (Dallas), Veronica Cartwright (Lambert), Harry Dean Stanton (Brett), and Yaphet Kotto (Parker) will all reprise their role, with only Ian Holm being replaced by a soundalike.

Technically John Hurt isn’t in it either but, well… he’s dead by the point in the movie when the missions are set (spoilers!).

As you can see the visual recreation of the actors, including Holm, is hugely impressive, and some of the best likenesses we’ve ever seen in a video game.


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The first mission is called Crew Expendable and is set just after the moment when Brett is first killed by the alien. You’ll be able to play as Ripley, Dallas, or Parker, as you coordinate with Lambert and Ash to try and coax the alien out of an airlock.



Although the main game is set on a spacestation with a new cast of characters, including Ripley’s daughter Amanda, the movie missions are a recreation of the actual sets from the film and allow you to explore the Nostromo spaceship from its habitation deck all the way down to engineering.

The alien itself will use the same dynamic artificial intelligence as the main game, so none of its appearances are pre-scripted and it will react to noise and try to search for you by sight.

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The second mission is called Last Survivor and set right at the end of the film, as you play as Ripley setting the destruct sequence for the ship and then trying to get to the escape craft. Which presumably means Jones the cat is in it too.

Anyone who pre-orders the game in the UK will get a free upgrade to the ‘Nostromo Edition’, which includes the Crew Expendable mission as standard. Last Survivor is only available if you pre-order at ‘select retailers’, which we’re sure will end up being GAME and/or Amazon.

Alien Isolation is out on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on October 7. We’ve played the game twice now and were impressed each time with the authentic atmosphere and genuinely scary survival horror gameplay.

You can read our first preview here, an interview with the developer here, a more detailed E3 preview here, and our experiences with the Oculus Rift demo here.

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