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=== Survival-Horror Games ===
=== Survival-Horror Games ===
* You'd likely expect a xenomorph to cheat, but ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien: Isolation]]'' is a game with a clever and subtle way of doing it. Like most games of the genre, the heroine is subject to a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, where she's the mouse. Technically, however, there are two "cats", as the game gives the xeonomorph two completely separate AIs; the first knows ''exactly'' where Amanda is at all times, while the second, which controls the beast's body, does not. The first AI cannot blatantly tell the second where she is, but it gives hints to point the second in the right direction, stacking the deck squarely in its "partner's" favor.
* You'd likely expect a xenomorph to cheat, but ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien: Isolation]]'' is a game with a clever and subtle way of doing it. Like most games of the genre, the heroine is subject to a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, where she's the mouse. Technically, however, there are two "cats", as the game gives the xenomorph two completely separate AIs; the first knows ''exactly'' where Amanda is at all times, while the second, which controls the beast's body, does not. The first AI cannot blatantly tell the second where she is, but it gives hints to point the second in the right direction. (Kind of like a game of blind-man's bluff; when the xenomorph is moving towards Amanda, the first AI gives a "getting warmer" signal to the second, and if it's going the wrong way, it gives a "getting colder" signal".) This servees to stack the deck squarely in the monster's favor.


=== Miscellaneous ===
=== Miscellaneous ===