The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Difference between revisions

* 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 xeonomorphxenomorph 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, stackingthe 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 itsthe "partnermonster's" favor.