Hyenas, like Alien Isolation before it, is very much its own thing.

Put all this together and it starts to ring a few bells.

It’s just achieving the same ends via completely different means.

A character falling through a window-like shaft after another character, holding in a gun in one hand while the other is splayed as if bracing for impact.

Hyenas looks like it has a bit of that.

Creative Assembly has been “mindful” about getting its representation correct, Hunnisett told me.

As jabs go, it’s an unsubtle one, which Creative Assembly would likely say is intentional.

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The recognisability of the objects is more of a fun nostalgia play than anything else.

But the thing that really resonates is ‘that’s an Etch-a-Sketch!

Right now, we’re focusing on that mode."

A purple-hued shot of a character holding a gun facing what look like glass sliding doors with huge “exclusive merchandise” labels above them. It’s a shot that exudes garish capitalism.

And I maintain: it looks like it could play pretty well.

What looks like the atrium of a futuristic mall, only there are characters floating in the distance here, firing rockets at each other. There’s planet visible outside the huge window, and there’s a giant Rubik’s cube in the foreground of the picture.