There’s a lot riding on Amanda’s shoulders. After a few seconds, the door re-opens, and Amanda is allowed back into the security system.Īmanda’s micro-management of the crew and its security systems is the heart of Alien: Blackout’s play premise. Amanda can hear the monster approaching her location, quickly swap out of the monitor view, and kick the door closed before she’s turned into red paste. If Amanda yaps too much with the humans down below, the xenomorph will track her down in the air ducts. The other portion of Alien: Blackout takes place in Amanda’s hiding spot itself. She can also draw out routes for the humans to follow. Amanda can also select individual crew members and tell them what to do, such as hurry-the-hell-up or hide. Most of the game takes place on a monitor with a 2D map that tracks the crew member’s movement, allows access to camera feeds, controls doors, and activates motion sensors. To do just that, Amanda will need to manipulate the station’s security system and bark orders over radio communications. In exchange for spending a few years in a sleep pod heading home, she agrees to help the crew navigate the station for the supplies they need while avoiding the black, penis-shaped murder machine lurking its corridors. Either some larger plan by the Weyland Yutani corporation is afoot, or Amanda has some of the dumbest luck in human history.Īmanda needs off the ship, badly. Specifically, a high ranking member of the Yutani family and one of Weyland Yutani’s most brilliant scientists. The ship’s crew list, however, contains some peculiar characters. I’m starting to think Amanda’s very existence is more curse than blessing for any human that crosses her path.Īs good … or possibly bad … luck would have it, a ship docks with the station and requires supplies to complete its journey.
What’s also unknown is how the hell yet another xenomorph somehow tagged along with her, or how it has slaughtered the entire station. It’s unknown how Amanda survived the ending of Alien: Isolation and wound up here. Image Credit: FoxNext/D3 Go! What you’ll likeĪlien: Blackout takes place immediately after the events of Alien: Isolation, where we find Amanda Ripley alive but not well, cramped in a make-shift living quarters inside the air ducts of the Mendel space station.