Alex Chalmers at GameCloud writes: "Prey is a game of unexpectedly stark contrasts. The scope of its design is hampered by the use of unambitious narrative tools and a plot that only becomes interesting at the last minute. Its atmosphere and sense of place are stifled by the fact that it’s not scary and you’ll become tired of its various locales due to genre-typical kleptomania and hoarding. And while its platforming and exploration are inspired elements of masterful design, its combat is frequently as fun as snorting powdered glass. At the end of the day, Prey is a game that I can say will be worth your time, but only if you are understanding of its flaws and are extremely patient. From the likes of Arkane Studios, whose efforts have come to be regarded as some of the best games available to modern audiences, it’s a mild disappointment to find the game suffers from the issues it does. Play it, but know it will make you groan as much as it makes you cheer."
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Arkane's six-year-old immersive sim has never looked better.
that's what happens when developing for two xbox consoles, one doesn't align with the other. :D
She's got one eye on the fire place, the other on the chimney pot. Maybe it's her unlockable 'special skill'.
Prey was a decent game. Not as good as Dishonored imo. They usually make 7-8 type of games depending on your taste so Redfall is a huge disappointment.
Dishonored was incredible. World, action, puzzle and approach based gameplay. Prey was pretty good but started lacking in enemy variety. Those mimics are by far my favourite enemy type of any game.
Death loop was a massive let down for me.
Agree, I liked the mimics and some parts of the story/characters in Prey (was unfortunately spoiled of the early twist and the ending, so that was a let-down to begin with) but didn't captured me like Dishonoured did. Thus I'm surprised they mentioned how good Prey looked. To me it was easily the worst part of the game, extremely sterile, bland looking objects, areas and enemies. The art design, especially of the vampires, were one of the things which turned me off instantly when I saw the preview trailers of Redfall.
I enjoyed all the Dishonored games as well. I tried Prey & I just couldn't get into it.
I really enjoyed prey over dishonered. Probably cause I love scinfi. To be honest though I've never giving dishonored it's fair shot. I dabbled in it a little. I'd like to. Think they had some sort of remaster on ps4 I'll have to check amazon
Arkane lost a few key people over the years. I don't know if that has anything to do with Redfall
I didn’t mind it but I would have enjoyed it more if it wasn’t called Prey
Seeing a game you loved get rebooted into something that isn’t anything like what it actually is was super sad. I liked Tommy, I wanted to see his story continue and we got a complete reset.
If they changed the name it probably would have helped them.
Anyone remember that incredibly amazing Prey 2 cinematic trailer? Why they would ever cancel that game is still dumbfounding.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I am still pissed that I never got to play that game. The cinematic trailer is cool but there's tons of actual gameplay out as well.
Anyway, Bethesda tried to force the devs to let Bethesda buy them and the devs said no. So Bethesda cancelled the game and made up a story about poor quality and the game just being nothing more than a tech demo. The director said the game was actually almost done by the time it was cancelled, and that it certainly didn't lack in quality.
Then Bethesda forced Arkane to call their game Prey, pissing off prey fans and associating the game with a series it had nothing in common with. Then one of the main devs from Arkane left because of it.
The worst part of this is that Prey 1 and 2's dev Human Head Studios then went on to revive their old Rune series. Immediately after Rune II released the studio went bankrupt and Bethesda swooped in the pick up all the devs and open a new studio, Roundhouse. So they still got what they wanted. It's unlikely they'll ever let Roundhouse revive Prey 2 but I really hope they do.
See this seems like a situation where important lines in the legally binding contract between the Publisher and Dev should have been written in. Clauses like the publisher cannot back out after a certain point. Else who's to stop any Publisher really from just tricking a dev into making a game and then on purpose canceling it at the end and go nawwww sorry bruh we changed our minds, sucks to be you! byeeeee
Agreed. Human Head got royally screwed. I hope most devs are smarter with any contracts they sign.
Bethesda tried to buy the studio. When Human Head said they wanted to remain independent Bethesda canceled the game, bankrupting them. Very scummy move. Didn't surprise me though - this is the same Todd Howard who essentially took Ken Rolston's credit for making Elder Scrolls open world. Ever wonder why there is very little innovation to ES since Morrowind? Ken left early in Oblivion's development and Todd is a hack
EDIT: worst part is via developer diary thing, Human devs said the said the game was almost complete
Prey 2 would've been fucking awesome if it had come to fruition. I was pretty damn hyped for that game.
Yeah it looked great
Only issue was the main character who was a generic looking space marine / bounty Hunter
They had Tommy in the game as an NPC rather than the main character, made no sense to me.
From Eurogamer: "Raphaël Colantonio has revealed that nobody at Arkane Austin wanted Prey (2017) to be titled Prey, and how it felt "gross" to have released something under someone else's IP.
Colantonio, known as the founder of Arkane Studios, served as the game's director and writer. He announced his departure from the studio shortly after the game's release, citing burnout and a desire to spend time with his son.
The fact that the game was never envisioned to be a part of the Prey IP isn't new for fans of the game or Arkane. It was documented by NoClip last year, in which Colantonio and other leads on the game explained that Bethesda was insistent that Arkane's next project had to be called Prey. Colantonio described the decision as a "non-negotiable compromise"."
Prey (2017) was only called Prey because Bethesda didn’t want to trademark a new title. The title of Prey made sense for the 2007 game due to the aliens harvesting humans for food. Prey (2017) could have been called “Typhon” or “Talos”. A somewhat corny alternate title could have been “Cybershock”, as Prey (2017) is a spiritual-successor to System Shock.
There was also a large amount of bad blood and ill will towards the original prey development team.
This seemed like a effort to stamp out the original prey franchise which is a shame as the planned prey 2 looked amazing
the 360 Prey was a really cool game. i never played this one though as I thought it seemed like a weird reboot (turns out it wasnt). So I get what he says about using an already established name for something unrelated.
I actually skipped this game at launch because I rather enjoyed the 2007 360 game and was turned off when I saw no connection to the original in the previews.
I do regret not supporting it at launch, as this is a great game in its own right. He is 100% correct though, reusing the trademark hurt it. People were left confused, and it deserved better treatment.
Replies(1)I feel that the latest Prey movie may also be "inspired" by the original Prey game.
Still holding out hope that Prey 2 (to Prey 2006) one day gets released. The game was literally complete and is just collecting dust in one of Bethesda's vaults.
Yeah and all the footage that got released looked amazing. I really wanted that game!
Wonder what they would even call that, Prey 2 would both be accurate and misleading at the same time
I thought it was common knowledge that the only reason Arkane's Prey was called "Prey" was because of the cancellation of Prey 2, and Bethesda wanted to try to capitalize on the name, being it was still a known title.
We didn't get the official Prey 2 because the studio refused to be purchased by Bethesda after it was basically finished, which is really petty.
I'm not really that patient but I found Prey to be a delightful game, it's what I wanted Bioshock and Deus Ex: MD to be.