The Alien franchise has suffered from poor audience reactions since Alien 3. A return to horror from the sci-fi genre could attract viewers back.
The current news suggests a movie is on the back burner, with a TV show more likely to happen. This game is a direct sequel to the first Alien movie, and is a solid survival horror story. Aliens 5 could take a similar approach to Alien: Isolation by going back to the horror roots of the franchise. [Aliens](https://screenrant.com/tag/aliens/), the second installment in the Alien franchise, is a classic horror movie, and a possible [Aliens 5](https://screenrant.com/tag/alien-5/) could benefit from following in its genre footsteps. [origins and motivations of the alien Xenomorphs](https://screenrant.com/alien-covenant-xenomorph-origin-explained/), rather than the effects of their killing sprees on the humans. In [Alien](https://screenrant.com/tag/alien/), final girl Ellen Ripley, played to perfection by Sigourney Weaver, is the sole survivor of an alien attack on the crew of the Nostromo.