{"id":88495,"date":"2026-08-28T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88495"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:37:41","slug":"its-time-i-let-go-of-my-favorite-alien-isolation-2-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88495","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time I Let Go Of My Favorite Alien Isolation 2 Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alien Isolation 2<\/a> stars a new protagonist named Blake. Creative Assembly has been clear about this all summer, but it’s only now that I’m letting it sink in. Since I first played a demo of the survival-horror game at Summer Game Fest’s Play Days this past June, I’ve been holding onto a theory that Blake’s role in the story is a bait-and-switch–that in short order Blake would be impaled by the Xenomorph and Amanda Ripley, star of the first game, would show up as the real<\/em> playable character.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it’s time I let go of that pet theory of mine.<\/p>\n

Every time Creative Assembly talks about this game, the team highlights Blake’s story. There’s too much investment on the team’s end for me to keep believing they have a trick up their sleeve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“What I can say is the story focuses on Blake,” principal environment artist Archie Whitehead told GameSpot’s Miri Teixeira on the Gamescom showfloor following a hands-on demo. “She’s been sent to the colony. If you watch the trailer<\/a>, you see this, like she’s been sent there kind of as penance, like she’s made a mistake.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s just the latest in a series of confirmations that my theory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alien Isolation 2 stars a new protagonist named Blake. Creative Assembly has been clear about this all summer, but it’s only now that I’m letting it sink in. Since I first played a demo of the survival-horror game at Summer Game Fest’s Play Days this past June, I’ve been holding onto a theory that Blake’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":88497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88498,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88495\/revisions\/88498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}