![]() ![]() You can go anywhere and accomplish tasks in any way you see fit as long as you have the necessary skills to overcome the roadblocks put in your way. After a short, although very clever intro, the space station of Talos 1 opens up as your sandbox and you’re given free reign to go about it as you please. But what Prey mostly is all about is exploration. While System Shock dealt with the technological and Bioshock concerned itself with the biological, Prey delves into the neurological aspects of the equation, on one hand balancing such heavy topics as what it is that makes us human while simultaneously on the other hand pursuing the profound goal of unlocking humanity's potential to turn into coffee mugs at will. Explorationįor all intents and purposes what Prey should have been called is Neuroshock. ![]() In the process of making things "right" you will traverse said station, unlocking it’s various areas in a somewhat non linear fashion, meet station personnel with their own set of problems that only you can solve, and generally try to avoid an unlikely end at the hand of the alien menace. ![]() As a result of said complications, which are best left as vague as possible, an alien lifeform known as the Typhon infests the station. Taking place in the near future you inhabit the role of scientist Morgan Yu who is engaged in experimental research aboard the Talos 1 space station when things, as is usually the case in videogames, take a turn for the worse. There are no Indians, jukeboxes, portals or bounty hunters to be found here, but what is left is another excellent effort from the makers of Dishonored that is the closest we’ll get to System Shock 3 anytime soon. In short Bethesda acquired the rights to Prey and decided to blow the proverbial dust from this withering license by handing off development to Arkane with apparently the only artistic direction that their game have “Prey” written on the box. When talking about Prey the first thing to get out of the way is how it’s only relation to the original Prey franchise is through a convoluted business justification that could only result from business folk making highly illogical business decisions that probably looked pretty smart in an excel spreadsheet. ![]()
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