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    ALIEN: ISOLATION

    May 14, 2020 3 minutes
    Words by Drew Sleep

    Info

    » System: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch

    » Year: 2014

    » Developer: Creative Assembly

    » Key People: Alistair Hope (director), Jonathan Court, Oli Smith (producers)

    Go Deeper

    » Actor Andrea Deck plays Amanda Ripley, after Isolation she went to work on popular TV series like The Crown and Homeland.

    » Creative Assembly’s Xenomorph is ever so slightly tweaked from the original HR Geiger design.

    THE BACKGROUND

    When Sega acquired the rights to develop games based on the Alien series in the mid-Noughties, UK developer Creative Assembly saw an opportunity. After

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