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** And, you know, she [[spoiler: dies 30 or so years later of natural causes, as stated in Aliens.]]
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** The fact that [[spoiler: Facehuggers are still hostile after this point and eggs will even hatch when you approach them seems to suggest she wasn't impregnated. Facehugers Facehuggers are stated to have the ability to sense when someone is infected and avoid them so as to not waste themselves trying to infect someone already infected.]]
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* YouLookFamiliar: Marshall Waits is [[InkSuitActor played by]] William Hope, who previously played Lieutenant Gorman in Film/{{Aliens}}. Guess he [[MeaningfulEcho always was an asshole]].
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* YouLookFamiliar: Marshall Waits is [[InkSuitActor played by]] William Hope, who previously played Lieutenant Gorman in Film/{{Aliens}}.''Film/{{Aliens}}''. Guess he [[MeaningfulEcho always was an asshole]].
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* YouLookFamiliar: Marshall Waits is [[InkSuitActor played by]] William Hope, who previously played Lieutenant Gorman in Film/{{Aliens}}. Guess he [[MeaningfulEcho always was an asshole]].
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** In early stages of the game, Ransome was going to play a more significant role, possibly even as a supporting character. His fate was also going to be more clear, namely dying while trying to escape on the ''Solace'' a ship which was also cut from the game.
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** There was apparently an entirely different intro planned, along with a comsiderable amount of cut dialogue, as seen [[https://www.pcgamer.com/alien-isolations-lost-intro-sequence/ here]].
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** There was apparently an entirely different intro planned, along with a comsiderable amount of cut dialogue, as seen [[https://www.pcgamer.com/alien-isolations-lost-intro-sequence/ here]].
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* RoleReprisal: Barring the aforementioned Ian Holm, all of cast members from the [[Film/{{Alien}} first]] ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' movie reprise their roles in DLC switch events started after Kane's death.
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* RoleReprisal: RoleReprise: Barring the aforementioned Ian Holm, all of cast members from the [[Film/{{Alien}} first]] ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' movie reprise their roles in DLC switch events started after Kane's death.
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*** And, you know, she [[spoiler: dies 30 or so years later of natural causes, as stated in Aliens.]]
*** The first film itself gives the answer that it's not possible for her to have been infected. The facehugger attached itself to Kane for hours before coming off, in which that time he was given the facehugger, and had been in a temporary coma a couple of more hours after that. If Amanda had been infected, she would have been dead and the Torrens would have been destroyed along with the station. If anything, it even backs up what was established in ''Aliens'', as the xenomorphs didn't kill Newt or any of the other colonists on LV-426, but took them back to the hive to be cocooned and waiting to be infected (in the case of the game, they took her to the newly constructed hive wall and had her ready to be infected. If you pay attention, when she wakes up, there's an unhatched egg next to her).
*** The fact that [[spoiler: Facehuggers are still hostile after this point and eggs will even hatch when you approach them seems to suggest she wasn't impregnated. Facehugers are stated to have the ability to sense when someone is infected and avoid them so as to not waste themselves trying to infect someone already infected.]]
*** The first film itself gives the answer that it's not possible for her to have been infected. The facehugger attached itself to Kane for hours before coming off, in which that time he was given the facehugger, and had been in a temporary coma a couple of more hours after that. If Amanda had been infected, she would have been dead and the Torrens would have been destroyed along with the station. If anything, it even backs up what was established in ''Aliens'', as the xenomorphs didn't kill Newt or any of the other colonists on LV-426, but took them back to the hive to be cocooned and waiting to be infected (in the case of the game, they took her to the newly constructed hive wall and had her ready to be infected. If you pay attention, when she wakes up, there's an unhatched egg next to her).
*** The fact that [[spoiler: Facehuggers are still hostile after this point and eggs will even hatch when you approach them seems to suggest she wasn't impregnated. Facehugers are stated to have the ability to sense when someone is infected and avoid them so as to not waste themselves trying to infect someone already infected.]]
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* InMemoriam: The game is dedicated to Simon Franco, who was a programmer for the game, who died during the development of the game.
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* RasterVision: In order to recreate the feel of the Nostromo from in Alien: Isolation, CRT screens were videotaped, with that footage then dropped into the game and displayed on in-game screens for the proper analog feel.
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** [[http://www.avpgalaxy.net/website/interviews/interview-alien-isolation-writers-will-porter-dion-lay/?page2 According to]] WordOfGod, Ricardo was oringally going get a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong while Amanda was in the RadioSilence of the signal-shielded APOLLO Core. Ricardo would only dimly recall what happened, and try to hide it from Amanda out of both self-denial and a desire not to worry her, only to die by ChestBurster at a critical moment late in the story. This was written out due to the writers realizing this would be a bit too brief a gestation cycle compared to what had been established in the films. [[spoiler: They did keep the part where Ricardo gets the FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, but moved it to the story beat where he would have originally had the ChestBurster emerge, keeping his CharacterDeath effectively dramatic even if he [[ZombieInfectee did not technically "die"]] at that point.]]
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** [[http://www.avpgalaxy.net/website/interviews/interview-alien-isolation-writers-will-porter-dion-lay/?page2 According to]] WordOfGod, Ricardo was oringally originally going get a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong while Amanda was in the RadioSilence of the signal-shielded APOLLO Core. Ricardo would only dimly recall what happened, and try to hide it from Amanda out of both self-denial and a desire not to worry her, only to die by ChestBurster at a critical moment late in the story. This was written out due to the writers realizing this would be a bit too brief a gestation cycle compared to what had been established in the films. [[spoiler: They did keep the part where Ricardo gets the FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, but moved it to the story beat where he would have originally had the ChestBurster emerge, keeping his CharacterDeath effectively dramatic even if he [[ZombieInfectee did not technically "die"]] at that point.]]
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* The game being like a {{Metroidvania}} is notable as ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' took heavy inspiration from ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' long before this.
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* InkSuitActor: Most of the major characters including Samuels, Taylor, Waits and Marlow resemble their respective voice actors. Ironically, this is averted with Amanda, who is physically modeled after actress Kezia Burrows and Creator/SigourneyWeaver's own mother but voiced by Andrea Deck.
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*** The first film itself gives the answer that it's not possible for her to have been infected. The facehugger attached itself to Caine for hours before coming off, in which that time he was given the facehugger, and had been in a temporary coma a couple of more hours after that. If Amanda had been infected, she would have been dead and the Torrens would have been destroyed along with the station. If anything, it even backs up what was established in ''Aliens'', as the xenomorphs didn't kill Newt or any of the other colonists on LV-426, but took them back to the hive to be cocooned and waiting to be infected (in the case of the game, they took her to the newly constructed hive wall and had her ready to be infected. If you pay attention, when she wakes up, there's an unhatched egg next to her).
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*** The first film itself gives the answer that it's not possible for her to have been infected. The facehugger attached itself to Caine Kane for hours before coming off, in which that time he was given the facehugger, and had been in a temporary coma a couple of more hours after that. If Amanda had been infected, she would have been dead and the Torrens would have been destroyed along with the station. If anything, it even backs up what was established in ''Aliens'', as the xenomorphs didn't kill Newt or any of the other colonists on LV-426, but took them back to the hive to be cocooned and waiting to be infected (in the case of the game, they took her to the newly constructed hive wall and had her ready to be infected. If you pay attention, when she wakes up, there's an unhatched egg next to her).
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* ActorAllusion: William Hope is fighting one of ''the'' Film/{{Aliens}} [[VideoGame/AliensVsPredator again]]...as the highest ranking authority figure of dubious competence. His presence is one of the few elements of ''Aliens'' to show up in a game otherwise based exclusively on the first movie.
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* The game being like a {{Metroidvania}} is notable as ''Franchise/Metroid'' took heavy inspiration from ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' long before this.
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* The game being like a {{Metroidvania}} is notable as ''Franchise/Metroid'' ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' took heavy inspiration from ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' long before this.
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Xenopedia]] has information on ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'', and ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator''.
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Xenopedia]] has information on ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'', and ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator''.''Franchise/AlienVsPredator''.
* The game being like a {{Metroidvania}} is notable as ''Franchise/Metroid'' took heavy inspiration from ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' long before this.
* The game being like a {{Metroidvania}} is notable as ''Franchise/Metroid'' took heavy inspiration from ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' long before this.
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** There were a lot of cut or expanded levels in early drafts. Notably including a garbage room, a ship with a broken warp drive and [[CryonicsFailure broken cryo tubes]], and a spaceship docking port.
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*** Also, there's the possibility that the company lied to her mother, Ellen, about how she died as a means of keeping her from waging a full-on war against the company.
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** Samuels and Taylor were originally going to be typical W-Y bad guys, in the style of Ash and Burke.
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** Also, which ties to the Director's Cut of ''Aliens'', Amanda is modeled after actress Elizabeth Inglis, Sigourney Weaver's real life mother. Her picture was used as Amanda during the filming of the scene where Ripley finds out her daughter died (the first indication in any of the films that Ellen Ripley had a daughter).
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** Also, which ties to the Director's Cut of *Aliens*, Amanda is modeled after Elizabeth Inglis, Sigourney Weaver's real life mother. Her picture was used as Amanda during the filming of the scene where Ripley finds out her daughter died (the first indication in any of the films that Ellen Ripley had a daughter).
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** Also, which ties to the Director's Cut of *Aliens*, ''Aliens'', Amanda is modeled after actress Elizabeth Inglis, Sigourney Weaver's real life mother. Her picture was used as Amanda during the filming of the scene where Ripley finds out her daughter died (the first indication in any of the films that Ellen Ripley had a daughter).
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** Also, which ties to the Director's Cut of *Aliens*, Amanda is modeled after Elizabeth Inglis, Sigourney Weaver's real life mother. Her picture was used as Amanda during the filming of the scene where Ripley finds out her daughter died (the first indication in any of the films that Ellen Ripley had a daughter).
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*** The first film itself gives the answer that it's not possible for her to have been infected. The facehugger attached itself to Caine for hours before coming off, in which that time he was given the facehugger, and had been in a temporary coma a couple of more hours after that. If Amanda had been infected, she would have been dead and the Torrens would have been destroyed along with the station. If anything, it even backs up what was established in ''Aliens'', as the xenomorphs didn't kill Newt or any of the other colonists on LV-426, but took them back to the hive to be cocooned and waiting to be infected.
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*** The first film itself gives the answer that it's not possible for her to have been infected. The facehugger attached itself to Caine for hours before coming off, in which that time he was given the facehugger, and had been in a temporary coma a couple of more hours after that. If Amanda had been infected, she would have been dead and the Torrens would have been destroyed along with the station. If anything, it even backs up what was established in ''Aliens'', as the xenomorphs didn't kill Newt or any of the other colonists on LV-426, but took them back to the hive to be cocooned and waiting to be infected.infected (in the case of the game, they took her to the newly constructed hive wall and had her ready to be infected. If you pay attention, when she wakes up, there's an unhatched egg next to her).
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*** The first film itself gives the answer that it's not possible for her to have been infected. The facehugger attached itself to Caine for hours before coming off, in which that time he was given the facehugger, and had been in a temporary coma a couple of more hours after that. If Amanda had been infected, she would have been dead and the Torrens would have been destroyed along with the station. If anything, it even backs up what was established in *Aliens*, as the xenomorphs didn't kill Newt or any of the other colonists on LV-426, but took them back to the hive to be cocooned and waiting to be infected.
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*** The first film itself gives the answer that it's not possible for her to have been infected. The facehugger attached itself to Caine for hours before coming off, in which that time he was given the facehugger, and had been in a temporary coma a couple of more hours after that. If Amanda had been infected, she would have been dead and the Torrens would have been destroyed along with the station. If anything, it even backs up what was established in *Aliens*, ''Aliens'', as the xenomorphs didn't kill Newt or any of the other colonists on LV-426, but took them back to the hive to be cocooned and waiting to be infected.
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**** The first film itself gives the answer that it's not possible for her to have been infected. The facehugger attached itself to Caine for hours before coming off, in which that time he was given the facehugger, and had been in a temporary coma a couple of more hours after that. If Amanda had been infected, she would have been dead and the Torrens would have been destroyed along with the station. If anything, it even backs up what was established in *Aliens*, as the xenomorphs didn't kill Newt or any of the other colonists on LV-426, but took them back to the hive to be cocooned and waiting to be infected.
**** Also, there's the possibility that the company lied to her mother, Ellen, about how she died as a means of keeping her from waging a full-on war against the company.
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** In the initial draft, Amanda would have agreed [[spoiler: Marlow's plan with to blow up the station and would have only asked for more time to evacuate survivors.]]
** Amanda would have given an ending speech identical to her mother's in the first movie only with [[spoiler: Marlow, Waits, Ricardo, Samuels and Taylor replacing Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Dallas]].
** Amanda would have given an ending speech identical to her mother's in the first movie only with [[spoiler: Marlow, Waits, Ricardo, Samuels and Taylor replacing Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Dallas]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[http://www.avpgalaxy.net/website/interviews/interview-alien-isolation-writers-will-porter-dion-lay/?page2 According to]] WordOfGod, Ricardo was oringally going get a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong while Amanda was in the RadioSilence of the signal-shielded APOLLO Core. Ricardo would only dimly recall what happened, and try to hide it from Amanda out of both self-denial and a desire not to worry her, only to die by ChestBurster at a critical moment late in the story. This was written out due to the writers realizing this would be a bit too brief a gestation cycle compared to what had been established in the films. [[spoiler: They did keep the part where Ricardo gets the FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, but moved it to the story beat where he would have originally had the ChestBurster emerge, keeping his CharacterDeath effectively dramatic even if he [[ZombieInfectee did not technically "die"]] at that point.]]
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** [[spoiler: The fact that there are multiple Xenomorphs originally was not going to be a surprise. Ripley would've spotted one during the cut prologue on the ''Solace'', and Kuhlman's unspecified "illness" was going to be a chestburster.]]
** [[http://www.avpgalaxy.net/website/interviews/interview-alien-isolation-writers-will-porter-dion-lay/?page2 According to]] WordOfGod, Ricardo was oringally going get a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong while Amanda was in the RadioSilence of the signal-shielded APOLLO Core. Ricardo would only dimly recall what happened, and try to hide it from Amanda out of both self-denial and a desire not to worry her, only to die by ChestBurster at a critical moment late in the story. This was written out due to the writers realizing this would be a bit too brief a gestation cycle compared to what had been established in the films. [[spoiler: They did keep the part where Ricardo gets the FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, but moved it to the story beat where he would have originally had the ChestBurster emerge, keeping his CharacterDeath effectively dramatic even if he [[ZombieInfectee did not technically "die"]] at that point.]]
** [[spoiler: The fact that there are multiple Xenomorphs originally was not going to be a surprise. Ripley would've spotted one during the cut prologue on the ''Solace'', and Kuhlman's unspecified "illness" was going to be a chestburster.]]
** [[http://www.avpgalaxy.net/website/interviews/interview-alien-isolation-writers-will-porter-dion-lay/?page2 According to]] WordOfGod, Ricardo was oringally going get a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong while Amanda was in the RadioSilence of the signal-shielded APOLLO Core. Ricardo would only dimly recall what happened, and try to hide it from Amanda out of both self-denial and a desire not to worry her, only to die by ChestBurster at a critical moment late in the story. This was written out due to the writers realizing this would be a bit too brief a gestation cycle compared to what had been established in the films. [[spoiler: They did keep the part where Ricardo gets the FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, but moved it to the story beat where he would have originally had the ChestBurster emerge, keeping his CharacterDeath effectively dramatic even if he [[ZombieInfectee did not technically "die"]] at that point.]]
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[http://www.avpgalaxy.net/website/interviews/interview-alien-isolation-writers-will-porter-dion-lay/?page2 According to]] WordOfGod, Ricardo was oringally going get a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong while Amanda was in the RadioSilence of the signal-shielded APOLLO Core. Ricardo would only dimly recall what happened, and try to hide it from Amanda out of both self-denial and a desire not to worry her, only to die by ChestBurster at a critical moment late in the story. This was written out due to the writers realizing this would be a bit too brief a gestation cycle compared to what had been established in the films. [[spoiler: They did keep the part where Ricardo gets the FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, but moved it to the story beat where he would have originally had the ChestBurster emerge, keeping his CharacterDeath effectively dramatic even if he [[ZombieInfectee did not technically "die"]] at that point.]]
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[http://www.avpgalaxy.net/website/interviews/interview-alien-isolation-writers-will-porter-dion-lay/?page2 According to]] WordOfGod, Ricardo was oringally going get a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong while Amanda was in the RadioSilence of the signal-shielded APOLLO Core. Ricardo would only dimly recall what happened, and try to hide it from Amanda out of both self-denial and a desire not to worry her, only to die by ChestBurster at a critical moment late in the story. This was written out due to the writers realizing this would be a bit too brief a gestation cycle compared to what had been established in the films. [[spoiler: They did keep the part where Ricardo gets the FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, but moved it to the story beat where he would have originally had the ChestBurster emerge, keeping his CharacterDeath effectively dramatic even if he [[ZombieInfectee did not technically "die"]] at that point.]]]]
* TheWikiRule: [[http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Xenopedia]] has information on ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'', and ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator''.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Xenopedia]] has information on ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'', and ''Franchise/AlienVsPredator''.