Updated
Updated · Engadget · Jun 6
Alien Isolation 2 Debuts First Trailer at Summer Game Fest, Revealing Remote Colony-World Setting
Updated
Updated · Engadget · Jun 6

Alien Isolation 2 Debuts First Trailer at Summer Game Fest, Revealing Remote Colony-World Setting

3 articles · Updated · Engadget · Jun 6

Summary

  • Summer Game Fest delivered the first cinematic trailer for Alien Isolation 2, showing a station in disarray, a flamethrower, a scream and a Xenomorph after a 12-year wait for the sequel.
  • Creative Assembly said the survival-horror game shifts from a spaceship to a remote, storm-ravaged colony-world, where players traverse the planet's surface and the Weyland-Yutani outpost Kurosaki Station.
  • Pre-alpha footage in the trailer suggests development is still early, and no release window was announced.
  • The sequel is planned for Steam, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch 2, extending the newly announced follow-up to the 2014 original.

Insights

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Will adding outdoor environments dilute the claustrophobic horror that made the first Alien: Isolation a classic?