Alien: Isolation team wanted "strong female" lead character

Creative Assembly always wanted the main protagonist in Alien: Isolation to be a "strong female lead", according to senior designer Gary Napper.

Players will take control of Amanda Ripley in the upcoming survival horror title, which will feature a lot of hiding and tense moments.

Napper said having a female lead was always the plan, even before Amanda was chosen.

"We knew we wanted a strong female lead for the main character," he told ArabicGamers.

"When we first started making the game the character we put in was a female crash test dummy."

Napper claimed that after doing a bit of research, Amanda seemed like the perfect fit.

"When we looked at who the character could be, we found this character in the franchise called Amanda Ripley, and no one has actually followed her story.

"We kind of dug into it a bit and thought well, when the Nostromo went missing that must have been like the Titanic. This big thing goes missing and everyone must have been looking for it. Surely someone would be looking.

"And that was where Amanda Ripley was. She's in the Ripley family, she's constantly going to be searching, she's also grown up without a mother so she's going to be very self sufficient and driven."

Alien: Isolation launches 7 October. Look out for a preview soon.