Prey

Well, I just had "lets play something I already have on my pile". What a pleasant surprise! The levels are very well done - my sense of orientation is not the best, but in this game I don't need a map for orientation. A rare case. The game-play is FPS+story unfolding. You come back to areas you've been quite often, but it does not feel like a chore. You get new abilities allowing you to unlock areas which were hidden when you got there the first time. You have several way to unlock them - strong? remove the boxes. Hacker? Throw a "Recycler bomb" to remove them - gives you some materials too. Jump-climb style? Do it. You don't have to do endless grinding (hello "The Surge!"). You can do the tank playing style, or my preference: Slow, silent and deadly. But an important hint for the graphics: First adjust them in the normal menu the way you like. Then open "%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Arkane Studios\Prey\game.cfg" (copy paste into start -> run or explorer). Add: r_MotionBlur = 0 r_Sharpening = 0.50 r_ChromaticAberration = 0 r_HDRGrainAmount = 0 r_HDRBloomRatio = 0 r_MotionBlurCameraMotionScale = 0.0 and set it read-only, else the game might kill your options when you enter the options menu. Kills motion blur, color fringe, useless grain and exaggerated bloom.

Just finished the game. I am an older player who likes a good storyline in games like these. IMHO, Prey has a great story. When I was younger, I enyoyed playing System Shock. Prey is much alike System Shock, but with waaay better graphics, better game mechanics, bigger levels, better sound / music, and so on. As a sciense fiction fan, most I liked is the shere size of the space station. If my estimation is correct, it is about 700 to 800 meter in length. Sounds miniscule in comparison to other games having space stations multiple kilometers big. But here the proportions are correct. Flying in your suit outside the station lets you feel lie a fly buzzing around a van - well done. Levels are designed good and interconected good. You really have the impression being in a huge space station. The story is beautyful and I completed almost all optional quests. You can not go rambo in this game like in Doom or Serious Sam. Although I also like these type of games. Reduce your O2 supply to brain, grab your controller, pump up the volume, and let hails of bullets rain on the army of opponents rushing to you until you begin to giggle. This game is different. You have to find out how to take out the opponents best. I spent my neuromods mostly on human abilities and 4 Typhon abilites. And it worked like a charm. Tip: Make use of 'Combat Focus' often. The story got me hooked and I enyoied it up to the end. One of the games I watched the credits after finishing with a 'WOW' feeling. Very very nice. Technically, I had no problems, nor glitches, or any kind of crashes.

Amazing atmosphere and game play. Truly immersive. Great story.

Prey from 2017 is just one of the best games of all time, i really love the gameplay an the plot. I can easily say i would pay even f*cking 100$ to play Prey 2.

I usually don't care for games that have any form of jump scare mechanics but Prey drew me in and never let go. I enjoyed every moment of this campaign and I was sad to say goodbye after spending 35 hours in the main story. Replaying it on NG+ with survival mechs turned on seems like a wonderful idea though. And the Mooncrash DLC is actually pretty neat.