There’s background emails and books on everything from genetic engineering to cooking lying around everywhere for those deep-lore divers amongst us, but where Prey really draws you in is via the prevailing trend, perfected in Dishonoured 2, for allowing the player to decide which sort of game they want it to be. It’s like Alien: Isolation hitting you around the head with a synthesizer made of acid. It basically makes you feel like you’re running around a living nightmare and goes on way after you’ve dispatched the mimic in question, which means you’ll spend hours crouching under desks wondering if there’s any more of the critters out there. When a random toffee apple (or whatever) leaps off a desk and tries to end you in a manner you’d rarely expect toffee apples to, it does it to a blast of panic-inducing music so sudden and loud that the makers of Insidious might consider it overkill. In a year so far short on familiar triple-A franchise releases, Prey sets out to be all things to all gamers, and damn near succeeds. Dishonoured 2’s brilliantly disorientating environment puzzles return – a flick of a switch can see an entire lab area reconfigured as a heliport – and as you explore the interweaving, multi-path open world of Talos I you may also be reminded of the stealth-or-glory back-routes of Dark Souls and Bloodborne. But there’s plenty else to jerk you back to other much-loved games: fans of System Shock, Deus Ex and Bioshock will be wracked with nostalgic spine-tingles, and the initial set of alien beasties, called mimics, are essentially Half-Life 2’s headcrabs crossed with The Thing. You (Morgan Yu) creep shivering through an abandoned space station (Talos I) scattered with the gruesome remains of scientists and infested by slimy critters clamouring for human blood like Fyre Festival punters clamour for rescue yachts. Most obviously, Prey is a sci-fi reskin of Arkane Studios’ CryEngine system to produce a hybrid of Dishonoured 2 and Dead Space. It’s (virtually) all of your favourite games rolled into one.Prey, the sci-fi first-person stealth-shooter from the same developer that brought us Dishonoured, is set to be the most immersive, pulse-pumping and pant-soiling gaming experience of the summer. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.If someone had crept up behind you as you finished off the last replica Delilah of last year’s supernatural steampunk stealth wonder Dishonoured 2 and whispered in your ear “wanna play that again, but in space?”, you’d have Far Reached their hand off, right? Well now you can, except blasting away at manic killer mini-octopuses instead of quietly throttling dopey royal guards. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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