So, it's not the game we wanted, but is that a such a bad thing? It is, in fact, a mobile-only stealth game in the same vein as Five Night's at Freddy's that sees you play the role of Ripley the Younger, orchestrating events aboard a space station where a xenomorph stalks the metallic corridors in search of prey. Alien: Blackout is not a direct successor, however. So when the hype started building around a game that was set to star the hero of Isolation, Amanda Ripley, it was only natural that fingers were crossed and wishes were made that we'd be about to get some sort of direct successor. In the case of Alien, we last got a taste of the good stuff when The Creative Assembly put together the slightly-too-long-but-otherwise-bloody-excellent Alien: Isolation, and ever since we escaped from Sevastopol we've wanted a direct sequel.

After the shambles that was the announcement of Diablo Immortal, people were pretty prickly when they first heard about Alien: Blackout, with yet another sacred series getting a mobile game when at the end of the day fans are waiting on the real deal.

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