It wasn’t for alien invaders. Soviet cosmonauts carried shotguns in case they landed in Siberia—where bears, wolves, and isolation were the real threats.

When Alien: Isolation arrived in 2014 ... while the incredibly powerful bolt gun must go through a lengthy charge-up process before releasing the trigger, adding tension to every headshot.

Try crawling through the Sevastopol Space Station with only a nail gun! That was the experience gamers endured for large stretches of Alien: Isolation, a video game whose lone, false sense of ...