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Alien: Isolation - Nostromo Edition

Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger. Fifteen years after the events of Alien, Ellen Ripley's daughter, Amanda…

7 October 2014

Alien: Isolation - Nostromo Edition is an adventure developed by The Creative Assembly, released 7 October 2014 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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What Alien: Isolation - Nostromo Edition is

Alien: Isolation - Nostromo Edition is an adventure game developed by The Creative Assembly and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on CATHODE.

The premise, in the publisher's words

15 years after the events of the original Alien film, Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley, learns from Christopher Samuels, an android working for the Weyland-Yutani corporation, that the flight recorder of her mother's ship, the Nostromo, was recently located by the crew of a salvage vessel, the Anesidora. The flight recorder is being held aboard Sevastopol, a remote space station owned by the Seegson corporation, in orbit around the KG-348 gas giant. Samuels offers Ripley a place on the Weyland-Yutani team being sent to retrieve it so that she can have closure regarding the fate of her missing mother. Ripley, Samuels, and Weyland-Yutani executive Nina Taylor travel to Sevastopol on…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Alien series

Alien: Isolation - Nostromo Edition is the 53rd of 76 entries we hold in the Alien series. The next entry was Alien: Isolation - Ripley Edition in 2014.

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What it launched against

Alien: Isolation - Nostromo Edition launched on 7 October 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Bayonetta 2. 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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When did Alien: Isolation - Nostromo Edition come out?
Alien: Isolation - Nostromo Edition was released on 7 October 2014 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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