Alien: Isolation

Stealhead · 01-12-14, 04:16 PM

It would have been nice to have had a little bit more of the game play footage without the over analyzing. I disagree with what they said about length expecting a movie and a game to have a comparable length is kind of silly.In Alien I estimate that you only actually see the xenmorph for around 7 or 8 minutes that is it screen time.

Think about it if you where on a huge space station or ship it would take you a few days or several hours at least for things to come to fruition.A movie has to tell a story in roughly 2 hours and must also use different cues to keep a person interested.Alien (the film) must maintain suspense so everything happens quickly after Kane dies minor details like showing Ash build a motion sensor or Parker build the flame throwers and for the xenomorph to grow to full size all that would really take several hours but such details are not needed in a film.Or when they walk to the derelict ship in the beginning(Ash says that the source was 2000m away) in that environment such a walk would take at least an hour one way and then to explore the ship and carry Kane back that would take at least 3 or 4 hours.

01-12-14, 04:16 PM	#11
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	It would have been nice to have had a little bit more of the game play footage without the over analyzing. I disagree with what they said about length expecting a movie and a game to have a comparable length is kind of silly.In Alien I estimate that you only actually see the xenmorph for around 7 or 8 minutes that is it screen time. Think about it if you where on a huge space station or ship it would take you a few days or several hours at least for things to come to fruition.A movie has to tell a story in roughly 2 hours and must also use different cues to keep a person interested.Alien (the film) must maintain suspense so everything happens quickly after Kane dies minor details like showing Ash build a motion sensor or Parker build the flame throwers and for the xenomorph to grow to full size all that would really take several hours but such details are not needed in a film.Or when they walk to the derelict ship in the beginning(Ash says that the source was 2000m away) in that environment such a walk would take at least an hour one way and then to explore the ship and carry Kane back that would take at least 3 or 4 hours.