Alien Isolation Reviews Reflection

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/10/03/alien-isolation-review

After reading this review, I strongly felt like the reviewer was being biased towards the video game. Alien Isolation is a survival horror game meant to invoke a sense of fear and helplessness in the player. It's not a game to be rushed and Ryan McCaffrey, the IGN employee who reviewed Alien Isolation, comes out as not being a regular player of such types of video games. He complains about the video game being difficult when he chose to play in the hardest difficulty and chose to "marathon" it, meaning he rushed throughout the entire game and didn't experience it how it was meant to. All in all, I feel like McCaffrey's rating of 5.9/10 is simply annoyance at his lack of competency in playing this genre of video games.

http://www.gamesradar.com/alien-isolation-review/

David Houghton of Gamesradar's review of Alien Isolation does the video game justice as he gives an unbiased review of the video game that summarizes the game's entertaining qualities that deems it worthy of a 4.5/5 rating.  He clearly has experience with the survival horror genre and instead of rushing through his time limit to finish the game, he took his sweet time to enjoy the experience Alien Isolation can give players.

http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/alien-isolation-review/1900-6415897/

Kevin van Ord from Gamespot's review is not as praiseful as David Houghton's but cites his reason for his 6/10 rating of Alien Isolation solely to gameplay factors and not his own errors and difficulty playing the game.  I may not agree with his rating but his judgement is sound and is his opinion which I respect.