– which stands for Systems Administration and Maintenance. But there’s a twist: Fisher isn’t who you play as. Not only that, but she’s played by Kezia Burrows, who provided motion capture for Alien: Isolation’s Amanda Ripley, and what more do you need, when things start to go wrong in space, than a Ripley? In short, she’s made of the right stuff. She’s the hard-wearing type, with the determined air of the unflappable. Drifting through its cramped halls was a crew of six, of which there seems to remain only one: Emma Fisher. The game is set on board the Observation, a space station, hexagonal in design, that looks as though the Big Shell, from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, had boldly blasted into orbit.
It’s a slow, confident opening that establishes a style of stillness, with details gradually gravitating toward us. The first thing we see is a dark cabin, illuminated by flashes, clutter floating through the air like flotsam. And, after rewatching Alien recently, I realised it wasn’t the glistening of teeth and tail that transfixed me most it was the sight of a frustrated Sigourney Weaver, slumped amidst the screens of the ship, mired in their ghostly glow.Ĭlearly, it’s an image that haunts Jon McKellan, who wrote and directed Observation, but it isn’t the only one. It was there in 2001: A Space Odyssey, when hero David Bowman grappled with his on-board computer, Hal 9000, in a battle of wills. It’s the prevailing image in Observation, the new game from developer No Code, and it’s one that’s lingered in the minds of moviegoers for decades. An astronaut, features furrowed, caged by monitors and splashed with light.
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