Prey
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted. As you dig into the dark secrets of Talos I and your own past, you must survive using the tools found on the station — your wits, weapons, and mind-bending abilities. The fate of the Talos I and everyone aboard is in your hands.
Features
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Sci-fi Thriller
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Nothing is as it seems aboard Talos I. As Morgan Yu, set out to unravel the clues you’ve left behind for yourself, and discover the truth about your past. What role will you play in TranStar’s plans, and the mysterious threat ravaging the station?
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Singular Setting
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Orbiting the Moon, the Talos I space station symbolizes the height of private space enterprise. Explore a lavish craft designed to reflect corporate luxury of the 1960s, and navigate interconnected, non-linear pathways built to hide countless secrets.
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Unimaginable Threat
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The shadowy extraterrestrial presence infesting Talos I is a living ecology bent on annihilating its prey. It’s up to you, one of the last remaining survivors aboard the station, to end the deadly attack of these haunting predators.
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Play Your Way
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Gain alien abilities to develop a distinct combination of powers and upgrade your unique skills. Craft increasingly useful items with the blueprints, gadgets and tools on board the station to overcome dangerous obstacles in your way. Survive unprecedented threats with your wits and ability to improvise.
Prey Review
I really wanted to love Prey. I’ve finished the campeign in Dishonnered (by the same studio) several ways, I heard they’d done work on an un-published half-life chapter and i’m a big sci-fi fan. You can see from the screenshots it’s a gorgeous looking game. I’m also a patient gamer, so when I finaly got it on sale, put asside days of my holiday, so I could play it un-interrupted.
I did not expect to be creeping around, scavenging for resources, collecting banana peel out of trashcans like some kinds of creepy space hobo. If you don’t scavenge every darn thing you can pickup you wont have the ammo to deal with the aliens when it does come time to fight. By the time you’re out of ammo, it’s too late, the aliens level up all the time, so back tracking to do some scavenging won’t help, because the aliens behind you are now as tough as the ones in front of you. You have to load to an earlier save game and spend hours replayijng the same missions, while stuffing your pockets with crumpled paper and apple cores if you want to make progress.
With all the gorgeous high-res graphics it takes forever to load new zones too, even with my I7 and SSD drive.
In missions I found myself repeatedly backtracking accross this spacestation, dealing with respawning aliens that constantly level up to more dangerous forms. OK, so you get a sense of familiarity with these areas, so you can use these spaces more effectily in revisits. OK, so you get to try naviagting them with your gained knowledge and abilities. But, it’s still backtracking , still stuff we’ve seen before.
Speaking of abilities the upgrade system, where the protagonist injects memories of how to perform skills, makes you choose between having cool alien psi-powers, the ability to shoot straight or bigger pockets. Yes, pockets are apparently a function of memory in the Prey universe. So with the need to scavenge scrap in order to make progress I had to skip all the cool alien psi-powers, so I could stuff my pockets with even more banana peel an cactus blossums.
Prey has too much horror, not enough run and gun. Or not enough horror atmosphere, making you think you have a chance to fight back, when you actually don’t. Either way not a fun game.
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