Yet Prey is also a game about a theme to which it commits in every quest, environment, and sidestory.
On the surface, Prey is more similar to System Shock than Bioshock and Dishonored could hope to be - space station, evil corporate experimentation leading to infectious enemies, paranoia, resource allocation, human enhancement, and computerized guiding voices. A combination of throwback and modern shooter, it succeeds brilliantly. Prey suggests that these sensibilities can work decades later. Often, due to technical constraints, the story was told largely through text and voice recordings and needed to be written to account for this. Sometimes the player could make a character build unable to progress further, having not recognized the importance of combat or crafting on a space station overrun with violent enemies. Stories had to be pieced together for the sake of depth and complexity. Worlds were more pixelated, but also more open. It has been a while since the first immersive sim games like System Shock and Deus Ex. Genre: First-person shooter (Immersive Sim)ĮSRB Rating: M for Blood, Language, Use of Alcohol, Violence Available on: PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox One
