In Defence of Alien: Isolation

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In Defence of Alien: Isolation

OtterX1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

The Alien Isolation review was the final review that made me stop visiting IGN regularly. My dislike of the site had already been growing, but this one was the last straw for me. An absolute joke of a review.

IGN holds a lot of power and influence (unfortunately) on the buying habits of gamers. I could understand a 7 maybe if it wasn’t his thing, but to give it a 5.9… not a 6, mind you, symbolically marking it as a poorly made game. This game probably could have sold a lot more if a competent reviewer at IGN had gotten their hands on it.

I’m not saying that all reviewers should be hiveminded. IGN is a monolith in the gaming community though, a collective voice. One of their editors should have caught this before release and investigated the validity.

I do think a positive review could have pushed even more sales and maybe we would have had a proper sequel to this by now. Ask most people, *****, just look at the poll on this article.. most people still today call the game brilliant for its time, or at the very least simply “good”. I heard most people praising it, even back then! My thoughts are that IGN wanted to push the review anyway without further input from the IGN team because it was edgy, and they were more interested in getting clicks for themselves.

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