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Feral's 'Alien: Isolation' for iPhone and iPad 'One of the Best iOS Conversions Ever'

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Feral Interactive has released its much-anticipated port of Alien: Isolation for iPhone and iPad, which MacRumors sister site TouchArcade is calling "one of the best iOS conversions ever."


Launched in 2014 on PS4, Xbox, PC, and more, the first-person action adventure game was lauded for its emphasis on stealth and survival horror in the player's confrontation with a single alien, as well as its atmospheric lo-fi, 1970s vision of the future inspired by the original "Alien" movie.

Players take on the role of Ellen Ripley's daughter, Amanda, as she strives to unravel the mystery behind her mother's disappearance. Aboard the desolate Sevastopol space station, her search for answers soon becomes a desperate fight for survival as she's relentlessly hunted by the deadly xenomorph.

Praising Feral's faithful port as a "phenomenal conversion," TouchArcade's Mikhail Madnani says the game has "aged brilliantly" and is made all the more enjoyable thanks to the high-quality visuals and graphical options, not to mention Feral's inclusion of full touchscreen support, controller support, and even keyboard and mouse support on iPad.
If you've not played Alien: Isolation before, the mobile version is phenomenal. It isn't just a good value proposition with all DLC included at the low asking price of $14.99 compared to other platforms, but it looks and runs brilliantly even compared to the Xbox and PS4 versions. I know Feral Interactive is capable of miracle mobile conversions, but this Alien: Isolation is on a whole other level.
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Priced at $14.99 and available now on the App Store, Alien: Isolation on iOS includes the base game, all seven DLC packs including "Crew Expendable," "Last Survivor," and the "Survivor Mode." The "Survivor Mode" is an additional download, making the game's total install size around 11GB. The game has also been released on the Google Play Store for Android.

The game supports iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X and later, and iPhone SE (2020). Supported iPads include the iPad mini 5 (2019) and later, iPad Air 3 (2019) and later, iPad 7 (2019) and later, iPad Pro 1st gen (2015), 12.9-inch model only, and iPad Pro 2nd gen (2017) and later.

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This game was phenomenal when it released. The respect for the source material, the mechanics, the sound design and sense of the overall universe. It truly feels like you’re in that world. Haven’t tried this version of it yet but will probably end up getting it for my iPad.
 
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Amazing. More stuff like this should be done for gaming on the Apple ecosystem and not the disappointing Apple Arcade.
Having Apple such big user base and powerful hardware I just don’t understand how it is not more appealing for developers.
 
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This game was and is a technical and artistic achievement that greatly respects the source material. Only problem for me was that in a home theatre environment late at night it was just persistent dread and chronic stress. Fine for many people but I can think of better ways to entertain myself than changing my underwear every twenty minutes.
 
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Jim Lahey said:
This game was and is a technical and artistic achievement that greatly respects the source material. Only problem for me was that in a home theatre environment late at night it was just persistent dread and chronic stress. Fine for many people but I can think of better ways to entertain myself than changing my underwear every twenty minutes.
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Maybe wear a diaper.
 
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How about Feral takes some of that work... and gives us a universal binary so the Mac version can run natively on Apple Silicon ?. Please Feral, my M1 Max is begging for an ARM64 native game with proper Metal support to stretch it's GPU's legs with!
 
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That's what you get when you put an old CPU on a set top box.

Apple should keep the latest chip on it to make it worth for gaming too.
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I mean it runs on an iPhone 7 which has slower hardware than both Apple TV 4Ks.
Malus120 said:
How about Feral takes some of that work... and gives us a universal binary so the Mac version can run natively on Apple Silicon ?. Please Feral, my M1 Max is begging for an ARM64 native game with proper Metal support to stretch it's GPU's legs with!
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YTer Mr MacRight asked Feral and they said no.
 
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diamond.g said:
I mean it runs on an iPhone 7 which has slower hardware than both Apple TV 4Ks.
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Yes the newest one..... and the 4k.

And the resolution on the iPhone 7 is not comparable to 4k.

On a smaller screen you can lower res and some details and it won't be as noticeable as on a 42 inches tv.

I am not saying we need an M1, but an A14 ... would have been better for gaming.

Oh and more ram as well...
 
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yabeweb said:
Yes the newest one..... and the 4k.

And the resolution on the iPhone 7 is not comparable to 4k.

On a smaller screen you can lower res and some details and it won't be as noticeable as on a 42 inches tv.

I am not saying we need an M1, but an A14 ... would have been better for gaming.

Oh and more ram as well...
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All iPhone and iPad versions run using dynamic resolution so you aren’t getting native rez on those devices either, unless I misunderstood Mr MacRight YT video.
 
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Why is the list for supported devices so wrong? iPhone 6s is also supported, as well as 9,7" iPad Pro, 5th generation iPad and later, 10,5" iPad Pro, ...
 
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Wow another great port of this game. I think the Switch port was stellar, glad to see the iOS port turned out good as well.
 
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Jim Lahey said:
This game was and is a technical and artistic achievement that greatly respects the source material. Only problem for me was that in a home theatre environment late at night it was just persistent dread and chronic stress. Fine for many people but I can think of better ways to entertain myself than changing my underwear every twenty minutes.
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Yeah, this game was too stressful for me too lol. Amazing game.
 
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