ALIEN: ROGUE INCURSION
IMMERSIVE INFESTATION
NEW VR GAME ALIEN: ROGUE INCURSION PLACES YOU INSIDE THE ALIEN UNIVERSE
WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL
FROM 1982’S PAC-MAN style Atari 2600 title Alien to last year’s Aliens: Dark Descent, the xenomorphs have been the focus of many computer games over the years. But none have taken you so deep into the deadly space predators’ fetid environment as Survios’s Alien: Rogue Incursion, which uses virtual reality to plunge the player into the horrifying, claustrophobic world of the movies.
“One of the reasons we found Alien so appealing is that the atmosphere, environment and gameplay all align perfectly with VR,” says Survios’s Chief Product Officer TQ Jefferson. “Everything is intensified, and nowhere else will you be as immersed as in VR.
“You are literally face-to-face with the xenomorphs as the world feels alive and the atmosphere is palpable. The ability to reach out and interact with the world around you isn’t new to VR, but we’ve tied interactivity to explorations and combat in ways that make you proceed with caution everywhere.”