This is the first entry in a new column called The Mechanic, where Alex Wiltshire invites a developer to help him put their game up on blocks and take a wrench to hack out its best feature, just to see how it works. It s about the sweat, grease and genius behind the little things that make games special.
Alien: Isolation is an AI-driven science-fiction horror game featuring, for the most part, a single, unstoppable opponent. It s pretty much a game version of the first Alien film: confined to a space, all you can do about the xenomorph that s hunting you down is to distract, avoid or briefly scare it. And all around you lies terrible temptation. They feel like they ll solve all your problems. They feel like safety. They feel like places you should stay inside. But they won t; they aren t; you shouldn t. They are:
THE MECHANIC: Lockers
