Alien: Isolation - Crew Expendable
This additional content sees the original crew reunited aboard the Nostromo. Brett and Kane are dead; alongside Ash and Lambert, it is now down to you as Dallas, Parker or Ellen Ripley, to find a way to…
Alien: Isolation - Crew Expendable is an adventure developed by The Creative Assembly, released 6 October 2014 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
What Alien: Isolation - Crew Expendable is
Alien: Isolation - Crew Expendable is an adventure game developed by The Creative Assembly and released in 2014. It was published by Feral Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on CATHODE.
The premise, in the publisher's words
It begins with a shot of the hypersleep vault aboard the Nostromo, but it then cuts to a shot of Ripley, Lambert, Parker, Ash and Dallas discussing the Alien in the ship's mess hall following Brett's death. They figure that the Alien is using the ducts inside the ship to move around, and Dallas suggests leading the Alien to the main airlock. The player then gets to decide if Ripley, Parker or Dallas goes into the ducts. The player grabs a flamethrower, motion tracker, Maintenance Jack and possibly a flare and Medikit. They then meet with Ash, who tells them that the security systems has shut a number of doors, so they'll have to gather equipment en route. The player descends a ladder to B…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Alien series
Alien: Isolation - Crew Expendable is the 52nd of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. The next entry was Alien: Isolation - Nostromo Edition in 2014. Its critic score of 65 is 5 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Alien: Rogue Incursion at 90.
How it was received
Alien: Isolation - Crew Expendable holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 3.16Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo E8500, 4 GB RAM and 1GB (AMD Radeon HD 5550 or Nvidia GeForce GT 430). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 35GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Alien: Isolation - Crew Expendable launched on 6 October 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Bayonetta 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2.
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