The other day, I was on Wikipedia reading some details about Alien: Isolation, a survival horror game in development by Creative Assembly. This game comes after the colossal failure of Aliens: Colonial Marines, which will no doubt lower people’s expectations. However, as I was reading through the description, I noticed a line in the overview: “…an Alien has already infested the station.” Something about this line got me incredibly excited for the game, and I want to dig into why the possibility of a single enemy is so interesting for me.
In most games, the player kill hundreds, even thousands of people. I have sunk an embarrassing 53 hours into Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall in the month since its launch, and in that time I have killed no less than 930 players. Think about that. How many people in human history have personally killed over 930 people? How many…