The Prey 2 Thread

[K100]

[ZuljinRaynor]

Doesn't look like Prey at all. Drop the 2, please.

[K100]

[marioman360]

Well- it looks like Prey is getting the Max Payne treatment...

[ryche]

Is that guy visiting the Resident Evil universe or did Umbrella Co. exist in Prey?

[Duke's New Chainsaw]

I think it's just an ad for Coca-Cola.

[wayskobfssae]

They might as well just call this game "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. of Prey".

What a disaster. Why put this in the Prey universe at all?

[Morbid]

haha what a joke! Tommy... -the greatest loser protagonist that has ever been in a game-



has now joined the Special Forces of EVOL!!!



of course another influential, non-poser dude, the Mighty Grandfather Enisi



told him to do so in another... "spirit session" they had and Tommy quickly became the fierce Mano-warrior/Punisher/Rev-anger! we 've all been waiting for to play in the sequel of... Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell...

[ZuljinRaynor]

Originally Posted by Morbid

-the greatest loser protagonist that has ever been in a game-

That would be Hawke from Dragon Age II.

[wayskobfssae]

It's not Tommy for sure. From what I can gather, the ONLY connection this game has with Prey is that the main character happened to be on the plane that crashed into the biosphere. But, he escapes, presumably through the Hidden's portal (how else could he?) and then becomes a hitman on another planet.

So, all this has to do with Prey is the prologue. If the devs give a crap at all about the original story (and it seems like they don't), I can't see how anything that happens separate from Tommy or Mother can have anything to do with it. Logically, we won't be seeing any familiar aliens, because why would anything connected to the biosphere not be living on it? When your planet moves with you, and you do everything to sustain it, you really don't have a need to set up homes on other worlds. So... yeah. Horray for another lame sequel that only relates to the original in its title. This isn't being done for any other reason than to sell extra copies because some people will just see the name Prey 2 and buy it without thinking. There's no other reason for this to be a Prey game. Prey is dead, unless someone later one decides to make a proper sequel.

[K100]

First details from Gamereactor:

- Main character is Killian Samuels, sheriff and prison guard.
- Been in development for 3 years
- X360 main platform, PC and PS3 versions in development (as announced)
- Pretty nice graphics overall (not jaw-dropping but good), graphics style a mix of Bioshock and Mass Effect
- "Heavily inspired by Mirror's Edge, but also Mass Effect, Riddick and Blade Runner" - Producer
- Use the surroundings, big areas where you can sneak up on enemies using the shadows
- No multiplayer, 3D, Kinect or Move
- As said in the PR, 2012 release date

Screenshot 1: Gameplay capture, showing gun (no HUD), and some kind of human gekko alien.
Screenshot 2: Some Krugan Mass Effect alien in some Halo Reach esque bubble shield.
Screenshot 3: More aliens beating another alien in a back alley
Screenshot 4: Mass Effect esque bars confirmed
Screenshot 5: Weird 8-eyed looking aliens confirmed
Screenshot 6: Hot alien chick confirmed

I'll read through the text and update the OP in 15 minutes or so.

Update:
- Tommy/Intro spoiler:First level is basically the beginning of Prey, but instead of controlling Tommy you control Killian.
- Human head: "If the first Prey was the Luke Sywalker version of the story, Prey 2 is Bobba Fett's story".
- The project has been restarted several times
- Open game structure. "Go wherever you want, talk to whoever you want, do the missions you want".
- GR: "Killian as flexible and limber as Faith of ME, leaping over hights, hanging by arms from pipes, balancing on thin boards and jumping like a cat upwards structures"
- GR: "An enhanced Killzone esque cover system, battles looks so flexible, brings your thoughts back to Vanquish"
- Parkour moments when being chased by enemies
- Money can be used to upgrade your armor, weapons, but also abilities, example to make enemies hover in the air
- Human Head: "Every area is comparable to Assassin's Creed 2", whatever that means. Planet is Exodus. Desert levels, big cities, "in the wilds", cave areas
- GR: "It has the moving scheme from Mirror's Edge, the freedom of Mass Effect and the fire fights of Killzone 2" (writer loved Prey 1)
- Different kinds of ammo, weapons can be customized/rebuilt
- Producer: "Who would pick the MP mode of Prey 2 ahead of the one in for example Halo Reach? We'd rather to a really good SP adventure"
- There will be DLC
- There will be vag portals, but fewer of them and "with different looks"
- GR: Loot system "similar to the one of Boarderlands"
- All the aliens look very human like, except for some of their limbs and obviously faces. Very similar to the Mass Effect aliens in both looks and armor/clothes, nothing like the Prey aliens.

[dan2091]

Screenshots! Screenshots! Also, I don't get the first point from the updated list:

*Tommy/Intro spoiler:First level is basically the beginning of Prey, but instead of controlling Tommy you control Killian.

So, we're talking about the airlplane crash, or that you're in the bar with Enisi and Jen?

[MegaMustaine]

I'm willing to give the game a chance. I really hope that 3DR had their finger in the making of this current version before the property was sold. If so I have a lot of confidence that this will be a great game.

[Bam050196]

I'll give it a chance too.

But if Tommy doesn't even make an appearance, I'm not buying it.

[K100]

---------- Post added at 12:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:28 AM ----------

More infos from joystick mag:

"Received the french magazine Joystick, and it pretty much says the same as Game Reactor, but there's more:

- Chris Rhinehart compares the side quests of the game to Red Dead Redemption (i.e: cold-blooded murder or bringing back alive the wanted guy) meaning that there's the core storyline but the way you settle the optional missions draws the character.

- Missions feature infiltration, shadowing, murder contract...

- Since you're a bounty hunter, one can ask you to kill a prey, but that prey could ask you to kill instead the one behind that contract, in return for money.

- James Sumwalt (creative director) says the size of the area is at least as big as Rome in AC:B.

- Finishing off a victim or killing his attackers will influence your reputation meter (Red Dead again).

During a mission, after asking a tip about his target to a hot female alien in a strip club, Killian grab a slope before jumping towards a structure.
The magazine says: "it wasn't scripted, it was live and smooth, and there's no glow/highlighting bumping in your face to tell you where you can hang from".

Also, they confirm Human Head is using an updated version of id Tech 4."

Source: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...&postcount=113

[Bam050196]

Huh, and I thought Brink was the last id Tech 4 Game.

[Nacho]

Turns out it's not...

So far, the game looks and sounds like it will be a ton of fun but it doesn't seem to tie into the first game much other than the intro. It's too early for me to tell if the intro will be the only real connection to the original, it may start to root itself more deeply as the game progresses perhaps?

Either way, it sounds and looks great (as I said) but I'm not sure it's a good sequel to Prey... maybe a cool side stroy?

[SpinX]

Very strange choises...

I hear nothing about any portals, gravity, spiritual abilities...

I think they should have just launched a new IP...

[Nacho]

Originally Posted by SpinX

Very strange choises...

I hear nothing about any portals, gravity, spiritual abilities...

I think they should have just launched a new IP...

Portals have been confirmed though they will not be as prevalent as in the first. I think shifting gravity will be available as well but that is more so an assumption.

Anyways, this news makes me want to play Prey again, maybe grab some multiplayer if anyone's around on my 360.

[The Dukenator]

Originally Posted by Nacho

Portals have been confirmed though they will not be as prevalent as in the first. I think shifting gravity will be available as well but that is more so an assumption.

Anyways, this news makes me want to play Prey again, maybe grab some multiplayer if anyone's around on my 360.

I still play Prey 360 from time to time. Its hard to get a mp game going, no one wants to play it. Had a friend help with getting all of the mp achievements long ago. The only achievement I need to get is the Blackjack one.

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If Prey 2 has MP, which is unknown at this point, they would have a variety of game modes compared to Prey 1 MP.

[crunchy superman]

Originally Posted by The Dukenator

If Prey 2 has MP, which is unknown at this point

It's known. There will be no MP whatsoever.

[dan2091]

Originally Posted by SpinX

Very strange choises...

I hear nothing about any portals, gravity, spiritual abilities...

I think they should have just launched a new IP...

I don't think there will be spiritual abilities. Tommy had them because of his beliefs. Unless the character turns out to be cherokee, too, or a very spiritual man with strongs beliefs, I don't think we'll se the spirit walk coming back.

I could join a MP party, but on PC. I don't own a Xbox, unfortunately.

-Edit-

I guess naming the game as Prey 2 fits with the themes of the game, bounty hunting, etc.

[The Dukenator]

Originally Posted by crunchy superman

It's known. There will be no MP whatsoever.

Edit:
Read the earlier posts about no MP in Prey 2, but things can change.

[Gryph]

I'm actually quite interested in this game after these two magazine articles.

[wayskobfssae]

Originally Posted by bulldozer

A very different character, with none of the attributes that made special Prey 1. I agree with that statement that they should've just launched a new IP. Just how difficult is to launch a brand new IP in a multiplatform FPS using id tech 4 nowadays?

Producers in recent years have been being told that unless you have a franchise to base something on, it's risky and shouldn't be done. This is why there is currently a film in development called Battleship... based on the classic board game. It's plot? A story about alien space invaders of course (more specifically... human naval vessels vs. aliens) !!! So... yeah, instead of launching a new IP, we get a movie based on a board game that had nothing to do with aliens at all... made more sense to them, simply because it was a pre-existing franchise.

[Altered Reality]

So, if this is not a sequel but a "sidequel" (events that happen ALONGSIDE those of Prey), why put a 2 in the title? Why not call it something like "Prey: Dark Side of the Sphere"?

[wayskobfssae]

Originally Posted by Altered Reality

So, if this is not a sequel but a "sidequel" (events that happen ALONGSIDE those of Prey), why put a 2 in the title? Why not call it something like "Prey: Dark Side of the Sphere"?

The Sphere has nothing to do with this story either (aside from the really weak prologue attempt at connecting this protagonist with the first game)

[ReadOnly]

It was just an example. The point is that they shouldn't have called it "Prey 2" since it's not a continuation, but a different game in the same universe.

[Rellik66]

Heh, call it Prey: Hunted

[Kit]

The Blade Runner setting combined with bounty hunting has me excited.

Agree with the above comments about them not needing to use the Prey IP. Seems pretty pointless given the reception the first received.

[wayskobfssae]

Originally Posted by Rellik66

Heh, call it Prey: Hunted

Prey: For a Proper Sequel

[nebiatsu]

Pray: That they will change the name
:P

I like the sounds of Mirrors Edge mixed with Borderlands, but the rest has me very confused and worried.
Indeed, 1 more vote for new ip.
No need to drag down the Prey name.

[Kit]

Originally Posted by nebiatsu

No need to drag down the Prey name.

If anything the Prey name is making people more wary.

[dan2091]

Originally Posted by Rellik66

Heh, call it Prey: Hunted

Awesome

[fast-1]

This game is looking better if they are explaining to us what is going on in it.

[ReadOnly]

Originally Posted by bulldozer

This sounds like an expansion pack. Kinda like the expansion packs for the original Half life, which were "meanwhile"-like stories.

Not really. Story-wise that is called spin-off. And expansion pack is just some added material/levels/campaign to technicaly the same game. Prey 2 is a stand alone game and a spin-off rather than a sequel. That is why number "2" is misleading.

[wayskobfssae]

Who let these idiots get ahold of Prey?

http://beefjack.com/news/prey-2-drop...a-puzzle-game/

Prey 2 will get rid of the Portal-predating portals that defined the original game. But why? Developers Human Head explain.

“We explored a lot of the ways you could use portals and gravity in combat, and I really wanted to shift away from making it too much of a puzzle game,” lead designer Chris Reinhart told the latest issue of PSM3.

“Portals and gravity were the functions of The Sphere [the mothership in the original game]. And The Sphere’s gone.”

Could they try any harder to make a Prey game that isn't Prey?

[ReadOnly]

Who let these idiots get ahold of Prey?

Human Head? Well...

[wayskobfssae]

Originally Posted by ReadOnly

Human Head? Well...

Yeah, I know... but, this can't even remotely be the same dev team, can it? Just....

... yeah.

[crunchy superman]

Developers do what the money men tell them. Money men want a game that looks and plays like every other action game, and without all the portals and puzzles that might confuse their target customer base of me-too dullards out there.

Money ruins everything.