7 Video Games That Are BEST On The Hardest Difficulty

When it comes to Alien: Isolation, I can't tell what scared me more.

The ever-present threat of the Xenomorph tracking me down as I desperately weaved from cover to cover, or the fact that once I completed the game I saw that the devs were planning on releasing a newer and even more challenging difficulty mode as a free update.

Actually, the answer is obvious when I think about it, it was the new difficulty mode as OH BOY is this one an absolute stonker of a confidence stomper.

And yet while all of the new features such as an even more aggressive Xenomorph, even more, scarce resources and the "charming" addition of your bio scanner being "unreliable" and feeding you false information sometimes (cheers mate) should have seen me perform the hardest of passes on this mode, it's actually the best way to play this game for one simple reason.

It now finally feels like a horror film.

While the Xenomorph was truly terrifying the first few times you came toe to tail with it on the base experience, by the end you had enough flamethrowers and powerups to brush off at least a few of its attacks and waltz out the door. Here though it was a battle of wits that was as intense in the opening hour as it was in its closing one.

The rogue tech can be annoying but if anything it forces you to listen and react better and makes the most of the binaural audio the title touts as a key feature. My life has been shortened immensely by the panic attacks I've had while playing this mode, but I wouldn't trade a moment of that experience.