As aforementioned in order to dispatch the Xenomorphs and Facehuggers you are provided with three weapons, these are a revolver, a pulse rifle and a shotgun. Personally when I had all three weapons I found my self sticking to the pulse rifle, and the others coming out when I ran out of ammo for the pulse rifle – which is not too often. They also give you some proximity grenades that come in useful for set points of the game but, I didn’t find myself needing to use them that often. When it comes to health you can carry a set number of medical syringes on you for when you take damage. These are never to hard to locate in the lockers, cupboards or cases strewn throughout the Gemini Exoplanet Solutions research facility, and you will never really find a point where you don’t have more than one in your inventory.

Outside of the shooting you will also have Insulated Clamp which is used to re-route circuit boards to sometimes open doors, turn on terminals you might need or remove power from something. Your Datapad which will show all your objectives, the map of the research facility, to play audio logs you find or connect to terminals to read messages or carry out actions required for your objective like unlocking doors or cycling power. Finally you have your PDT card which will require new level access profiles added to it as you go around the facility to make sure you can get everywhere you need to go.

With this in mind, it means you end up doing a lot of back tracking around the facility, as you look to collect items you might need from another part of the station, get extra access levels or need to use set terminals. I found in the closing parts of the game they relied on the back tracking a bit too much – which seemed like it was put in just to extend the games length and became a slight frustration. This was not helped by an issue I was facing with the objective points on the map failing to update at times, which I found was fixed by closing out the game and reloading it. This meant getting to the closest Safe Room to save my game first, luckily there are quite a lot of these in the facility. I am glad they have put these around the facility so much, because there is no auto save function in the game and, I would recommend if you pass one save just in case. I died once after not saving for a while, and was a bit frustrated at myself with how much I had to do again. I am hoping they fix the objectives not updating with a patch post-launch as it did happen three or four times to me, and it was annoying having to quit out.