Just another question about this, as I'm no expert on the original: what was to stop the player tooling up and wandering around the ship in a crowd, hunting the alien?
well in the movie they keep splitting up and dying, so uh, dunno?, maybe if they are in a room with the alien with more than 4 people then the alien charges into them and kills 2-3 of them very quickly, so the player is forced to split up and avoid direct confrontation with the alien..
