1/29/2024 0 Comments Prey 2017 game review![]() ![]() The most common are the headcrab-like mimics that can disguise themselves as small objects such as a health pack, lamp, or chair. Typhon aliens are spread throughout the station. ![]() It is great that all modules are completely open to explore for almost the entire game, apart from a few annoying hours in the first half when a weak story event demanded linear progress. The Talos-1 layout is fine, and there are plenty of hidden or locked rooms to access when revisiting areas. If the external airlocks are open, it is possible float to most modules directly via open space, although the exterior is cluttered and navigating with full six-degrees of freedom can be slightly nauseating. Getting from the Power Plant, at the base of the facility, to the earth-like Arboretum, found at the top, may be a slightly confusing and lengthy trip. The Talos-1 space station consists of around 12 modules connected together in a non linear fashion. Who can you trust? Who were you before you lost your memory? And who are you now? This hovering bucket of bolts wants to destroy the station while your surviving brother wants to preserve the research. Soon you are guided by a robot voiced by Morgan, programmed by Morgan, created in the event that something went wrong. Oh yes, Prey starts with a classic case of amnesia a cliché of near equal standard is reserved for the finale. Now TranStar wants to access the supernatural abilities of the Typhon, although an early side effect is memory loss. Neuromods grant users enhanced talents by copying a skill from another mind. Although Morgan is a leader at TranStar, he is a guinea pig for alien Neuromods because they are going to change humanity. The Typhon creatures escape their confines and you arise amidst the chaos.Īctually you awake, as Morgan Yu, inside a simulation just before the aliens begin to kill everybody. ![]() As so often is the case, we get to use 'gone too far' and 'science' in the same sentence. The half-mile long station is being used by TranStar Corporation to research a dangerous alien species, called Typhon, which have supernatural abilities. Prey takes place in an alternate version of the near future, on the massive Talos-1 space station that orbits the Moon. You will come to know the space station like the back of your hand Prey allows, and adapts, to many choices, although minor flaws keep it from reaching the dizzying heights of its action RPG cousins. ![]() It is an excellent game because it makes players an active participant in its hostile world. Prey is the same, you can sneak, shoot, hack, climb, explore, befriend, or murder when completing tasks on a large space station. Those games allowed players to approach situations in several ways and encouraged preparedness. Which begs the question, why even use the same name at all? Prey has far more in common with System Shock from the now defunct Looking Glass Studios, but it also shares themes and gameplay mechanics with the BioShock and Deus Ex franchises. It's a new universe with new rules, and apart from the science-fiction setting and first person shooting, the two games are barely comparable. Unlike that older game, it has no bizarre gravity shifts, upside-down walkways, portals, spirit walks, or Native American themes. Prey is a completely different game from the one that released in 2006 with the same name. ![]()
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