Unlike most games based on the Aliens movie franchise, Creative Assembly keeps reminding us that the forthcoming Alien: Isolation draws its inspiration from the horror themes of the original 1979 Ridley Scott film, rather than its more action-oriented contemporaries.

The developer is also aiming to capture the look of the first film too, and this latest developer diary style video explains how the studio has approached what they refer to as "low-fi sci-fi" with things like spaceship instrument panels and displays as they were imagined in the 1970s with lots of buttons, dials and CRT screens. Watch it below.

Alien: Isolation is due on October 7 2014 for PC, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.