{"id":349477,"date":"2025-10-08T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=398124"},"modified":"2025-10-08T01:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:35:19","slug":"this-alien-game-was-too-long-not-because-it-was-designed-that-way-but-because-the-aliens-ai-was-too-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-alien-game-was-too-long-not-because-it-was-designed-that-way-but-because-the-aliens-ai-was-too-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"This Alien game was too long not because it was designed that way, but because the Alien&#039;s AI was too smart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since its release in 2014, Alien Isolation has generated polarized opinions among the gaming community. <strong>Despite this, the game has gained the status of a modern classic, being especially praised for its tense atmosphere and innovative artificial intelligence<\/strong>, which has set a milestone in the horror genre. However, many players agree that its length is excessive, which can alter the gaming experience.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Alien Too Clever for This World<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dion Lay, the game&#8217;s writer, confirmed that the length of the game was not a deliberate decision, but rather a consequence of the evolution of the Xenomorph&#8217;s AI, which became more sophisticated as the game developed. <strong>Unlike other indestructible characters in horror games, the Xenomorph in Alien Isolation adapts to the player&#8217;s behavior<\/strong>, which prolongs encounters and creates a more engaging gameplay experience, but also a slower one.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alien: Isolation - Launch Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7h0cgmvIrZw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lay has expressed that, in a \u201cperfect world,\u201d he would have preferred to shorten parts of the story to make it more concise. However, by that time it was already too late to modify the script without significantly altering the narrative.<strong> \u201cThe Alien really evolved while we were doing it,\u201d Lay noted. \u201cBy the time it was perfect, everything took much longer\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite initial criticism for its length, Alien Isolation has become a benchmark in the design of horror experiences. <strong>The developer Creative Assembly announced a sequel in 2024, although there have been no significant updates on the development of the project since then<\/strong>. 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Despite this, the game has gained the status of a modern classic, being especially praised for its tense atmosphere and innovative artificial intelligence, which has set a milestone in the horror genre. However, many players agree that its length is excessive, which can alter the gaming experience. An Alien too clever for this world Dion Lay, the game&#8217;s writer, confirmed that the length of the game was not a deliberate decision, but a consequence of the evolution [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9318,"featured_media":349503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[4963,11299,16922,8802,3854,16923,16924,5394],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-349477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-alien","tag-alien-isolation","tag-clasico-moderno","tag-creative-assembly","tag-ia","tag-longo","tag-personaje-indestructible","tag-secuela","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349505,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349477\/revisions\/349505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349477"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=349477"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=349477"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=349477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}