No Killing Required to Complete Alien: Isolation

A stealth game fans hopes to never have to kill anything comes true in Alien: Isolation.

Lead designer Gary Napper confirmed the no-kill option. "You can get through the entire game without killing someone. It's something that was, not so much a challenge, but something I felt was what the character would do. We're talking about a member of the Ripley family--they're not like characters in games that gun down civilians because they're in the way to get to the switch."

The alien threat will not be the only one players will encounter. The other enemies are not known but Napper teased that developer The Creative Assembly has tricks up its sleeve we don't know about. "I think the thing we face mostly on this is when we explain the core idea of 'It's you versus the alien,' people go, 'That'll be amazing! But I'm going to be bored after three hours...'

"If you can extrapolate from at the beginning having nothing and it's just you hiding from the alien, to come up to what [we've shown so far]--and then extend that out for another while--there's actually a hell of a lot we do with the game that's really interesting. And obviously we like to mix it up a bit as well."

Previously Napper revealed that the game would take about 15 hours to finish, but with the freedom given to players, they can revisit locations they already been to.

Alien: Isolation is set to be released on October 7 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, with pre-ordering netting you bonus content.