20 Most Underrated Video Games Of The Generation (So Far)

The Alien series has had a rather rocky relationship with video game fans over the years. With the only recent releases in the franchise being the middling Aliens vs. Predator and the disastrous Colonial Marines, the Sega-owned series had burned consumers one too many times.

Unfortunately, that meant most players outright ignored Alien: Isolation when it was announced.

Despite promising a return to the franchise's horror roots, nobody trusted Sega to deliver a good Alien game, which unfortunately meant that the developers behind Isolation were fighting an uphill battle from the get go.

As it turned out, their take on the long-running series was actually everything the franchise needed. A survival-horror inspired stealth game, Isolation was the type of faithful adaptation that Colonial Marines could only dream of being.

Capturing the retro-futuristic look of the original movie and sticking to that film's idea of having only one xenomorph terrorising a ship, Isolation was the game that fans had been craving for so long.

The title has managed to garner a rather strong following in the years since its release, but the game could have been so much bigger had Sega not messed the franchise up so thoroughly in the first place.