Alien: Isolation Review: Authentic, Terrifying and a Little Too Tedious

The first time I saw Dead Space I was fascinated by two things: the absence of a HUD and how much the art direction owed to Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi film, Alien. The mood of EA Redwood Shores’ third-person survival horror was a mash-up of dank metal coldness among trash-littered decay. Plus, player-controlled Isaac Clarke was not your typical overpowered solider—at first, anyway. Instead, he used…