Alien: Romulus suggests that director Fede Alvarez is a big Alien: Isolation fan…
This article contains spoilers for bothAlien: Romulus and Alien: Isolation.
Its a green, blinking box.
Thats right, even mid-save, you could lose your progress and life to the perfect organism.
Ad content continues below
So its a devilish easter egg (one of many to the whole series).
But its inclusion inRomulusalso marks the first time an Alien movie has acknowledged the events ofAlien: Isolationare canonical.
Like theRomulus Renaissance, the Sevastopol is a space station, albeit much bigger.
Run by one of Weylands cheap competitors, Seegson, the Sevastopol is essentially a deep space airport.
Little could even the Weyland staffers anticipate that the scavenger ship also picked up… a parasite.
By the time the gamer gets to the Sevastopol, all hells broken loose.
At that moment, mysterious lights from an unseen vessel illuminate her face andnothing.
Obviously,Isolationset up a sequel that was never made.
However, the mystery of Amandas fate already paints Weyland-Yutani andAliensin an even more insidious light.
When you connect the dots painted by Rook, a dire picture of the timeline comes into focus.
After receiving reports (interstellar transmissions?)
Or that any systematized transmission indicating a possible intelligent origin must be investigated, as Ash threatens inAlien.
This is whereAlien: Isolationcomes in.
warning to stay away.
