Alien: Isolation is a stunningly realistic locker simulator

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Alien: Isolation is a stunningly realistic locker simulator

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AV Club: I like the way space looks in Alien: Isolationthe inky blackness of the void outside, the amber starlight spilling in through a window. Its resplendent. But you dont get to see much space in Alien: Isolation. Instead you get to see the monochromatic hallways of the Sevastopol space station, variously scorched and graffitied. You get to see a lot of dreary offices, abandoned and indistinguishable, as well as any number of sleek metal access tunnels, disused elevator shafts, and dimly lit vents. But what you get to see most of all in Alien: Isolation is lockers. The interiors of lockers, more specificallyperson-sized coffins of the same dull gray steel, each fitted with a narrow window of horizontal slats. Youre forced to spend many hours standing in these lockers, waiting, staring ahead at the same postcard tacked to the inside door, at the same Post-it note bearing the same messagePlease order more of abovestuck on every one of what must be many hundreds of lockers l...