Alien: Isolation was almost ruined by a third-person perspective

After the disastrous failure that was Aliens: Colonial Marines, last year’s Alien: Isolation was a successful return to form for the Alien franchise in video games. Its first-person perspective put players right in the middle of sci-fi horror ripped straight out of the original film as they hid from the deadly Xenomorph.

But would the game have worked as well if it had opted for a third-person view instead? That was actually one of the possible directions the game was going in according to The Creative Assembly’s pitch video. Watch this development footage of Alien: Isolation in third-person to see for yourself