Prey (2017 video game)
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| Developer(s) | Arkane Studios |
| Publisher(s) | Bethesda Softworks |
| Director(s) | Raphaël Colantonio |
| Writer(s) | Ricardo Bare Chris Avellone |
| Composer(s) | Mick Gordon |
| Engine | CryEngine |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Prey is an upcoming first-person shooter video game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game is scheduled for release in May 2017 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Originally in development by Human Head Studios as a sequel to the 2006 game Prey, the game fell into development hell and was eventually canceled by Bethesda in 2014. Bethesda announced Prey as a re-imagining of the original game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016, with the Austin branch of Arkane Studios taking on development duties.
Prey is a first-person shooter with role-playing game elements and strong narrative. The player takes the role of Morgan Yu, a human aboard a space station with numerous hostile aliens. The player will be able to select certain attributes of Yu, including gender, and decisions made by the player will affect elements of the game's story. To survive, the player controls Yu to collect and use weapons and resources aboard the station to fend off and defeat the aliens. According to creative director Raphael Colantonio, the station will be completely continuous rather than having separate levels or missions, at times requiring the player to return to areas they previously explored. The player will also be able to move around the outside of the station in zero gravity and find shortcuts connecting parts of the station. Colantonio also stated that the aliens have an array of different powers that the player-character can gain over time; one such alien has the ability to mimic everyday items such as a chair.
Prey takes place in an alternate timeline where United States President John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt in 1963. As President, Kennedy directed more funding into the space program, allowing it to flourish. Drawn by humans' activity in space, an alien force made up of many different species, collectively called the Typhon, appeared and started attacking Earth. The United States and the U.S.S.R. banded together to fight off and capture the Typhon. Together, they crafted the space station Talos I in orbit around Earth's moon as a prison for the Typhon. Over time the station grew out by various groups, several different decors across the station ranging from retrofuturism to Art Deco. The United States eventually took full ownership and created research labs atop the prison spaces to study the Typhon. After a fatal incident between the scientists aboard the station and the Typhon, the United States shuttered the project.
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