Sega took a pretty big risk with Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation in 2014, choosing a developer that were previously known for strategy games and giving them one of the most mistreated property licenses of all time to resurrect. Luckily they did so with flying colours - and Isolation remains one of the finest first-person horrors in years - but sadly the public were less than receptive to the idea, despite solid critical praise. It seems the bad taste of Colonial Marines doesn't wash away so easily, and that's on top of the fact there's never been a downright fantastic Aliens game in the history of the medium - even the Aliens vs. Predator titles were shared affairs, where you only played as the acid-spitting Xenomorph as one of three characters. Now, in a recent interview with OnlySP, Lead Designer Gary Napper was asked to comment on the idea of furthering the team's awesome work on the Alien's A.I. from Isolation. Instead of denying anything was being done, he mentioned the following, which appears fairly ominous regardless of context:
"Thats something we cant talk about. I think the official line is: we cannot comment on stuff that may or may not be in our portfolio."
You have to assume considering the lukewarm sales and Sega's pithy PR push to promote the game, that guys like Napper would be more than happy to focus on other future endeavours (they're busy bringing Halo Wars 2 to life, after all), but whenever a developer comments on a potentially in-progress title in this manner (like say with Fallout 4), it's nearly always coming somewhere down the line. What did you make of Alien: Isolation, and would you be up for a sequel? Let us know in the comments!