A mindbending sci-fi FPS with plenty of awe-inspiring moments, but not quite enough pulse-pounding action to earn the all-time classic status it might otherwise deserve....
With Prey, Arkane cements itself heir to the immersive sim. Dishonored reinvented the genre, particularly the Thief branch. By contrast Prey feels very old—it's precisely the System Shock 3 successor Arkane pitched it as.The mastery is no less apparent th...
Abstract: <b>For</b>: Uses the Doom 3 engine so itll run smoothly and look nice. Attempts to be original.<br/><b>Against</b>: Fails to be original. Succeeds at being a funless parody of the genrel imparts no sense of achievement.
With Prey, Arkane cements itself heir to the immersive sim. Dishonored reinvented the genre, particularly the Thief branch. By contrast Prey feels very old—it's precisely the System Shock 3 successor Arkane pitched it as.The mastery is no less apparent th...
Although Prey's combat and narrative fail to fill the shoes of the games they're so obviously taking inspiration from, the visit to its Talos I space station is a marvel in interconnected level design and presentation. This is environmental storytelling a...
Published: 2017-05-09, Author: Tom , review by: stuff.tv/my/
Talos One feels immersive, encourages exploration and experimentation, Deep, involving story will have you hunting down every detail, Transforming Typhon mimics are genuinely unnerving
Not as non-linear as it pretends to be, Combat isn't all that exciting, Clumsy controls in zero-G
The scares, sci-fi setting and choose-your-own-way gameplay make Prey feel like a breath of fresh air compared to more linear adventures, and feels a lot like cult classic System Shock. Which can only be a good thing.With the development team made up of e...
Abstract: After the middling reception of 2018's The Predator, director Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane, Portal: No Escape) takes the franchise back to the basics in Prey… all the way back to the basics. Set over 250 years before Dutch's first encounter with...
