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Originally Posted by Jester

there's a fairly aggressive subset of the Aliens fandom that get their noses severely out of joint when their slobbery darlings are portrayed as anything less than nigh-on-unstoppable

I never got where those people came from. In the first film they make a clear point that the crew are basically just space truckers and that they have no weapons or experience to combat such a creature. They have to scrounge up what they can to make a flamethrower and the other things are just cattle-prods. Of course the alien kills all but one of them. Had the crew been all ex-marines who were armed with guns the only person Big Chap would've killed for sure would have been Kain. The threat of the alien in the first film was that it was alone and could hide to pick off the crew one by one with little opposition. In Aliens the threat wasn't that each alien was capable of killing five guys on its own the threat was that there were a ton of them fighting a single unit of soldiers in confined spaces. The alien is supposed to be the perfect biological killer but that doesn't mean it's ultimate above technology, this is why Predators use advanced weaponry to hunt aliens.

Re: games; I never played Isolation but I watched a playthrough online and I will say that it didn't look like a game for me. I'm not huge into games where I'm gonna be hiding in a locker for minutes waiting for the AI enemy to leave the room. I also thought the ending was poo since it just sorta ends. Isolation did look great though but then most current gen games look good thanks to video-tech advances. I did play CM because a friend of mine got it and it was just so mediocre. I was clipping through everything (that was actually funny when I wound up inside the other marines so I could see through their teeth but it's still bad) and then multiple times I would run face-first into an alien only for them to just stare at me and do nothing. It didn't feel like I was playing in the world of Aliens when the aliens weren't threatening to attack me at all. It sucked the most because I remember thinking that the first trailer was pretty damn cool, the one that they ended up getting sued over for claiming it was "actual gameplay" even though the final product didn't look half as good. Hey on the bright side it's still not the worst video game about aliens, that title goes to the champ of bad: ET.

I'm sure we'll learn more about this sculpt withing following weeks or by Toy Fair for sure (I don't know of any other conventions/showings in between now and then where they could show more). I feel like some Kenner homage is the more likely guess but I suppose we'll just have to see.