The first time I truly noticed enemy AI was during a firefight in F.E.A.R. back in 2005. I’d tossed a grenade into a room expecting easy kills, but instead watched soldiers dive through windows, flank my position, and coordinate a counterattack that left me genuinely panicked. These weren’t scripted sequences. The enemies had outthought me. […]

There’s nothing quite like the rush of being hunted by a genuinely intelligent enemy in a video game. I still remember the first time an Alien in Isolation stalked me through a ventilation shaft, somehow anticipating my hiding spot. That moment fundamentally changed how I thought about enemy AI it wasn’t just following a script […]