Posted on: June 30, 2022

YicklePigeon

Игр: 39 Отзывов: 2

A middling experience, buy when on sale.

Prey 2017 isn't so much a love letter to System Shock 2 as it is a warmed up rehashing. Others who are absolutely enamoured with SS2 won't see a problem with that. I should point out that I played SS2 back in 1999 and whilst I was impressed by it, it also was a terrifying experience that Prey 2017 doesn't deliver. I also played the original Prey (or the *real* Prey) back in 2006 and there is a commonality between the two on that point of not delivering: Prey 2017 isn't SS2 horror and terror but a grim tension that is never truly broken (I ended up mentally treating it as Duke Nukem (not a coincidence for me) when I got the golden gun as part of a minor side quest). The Real Prey didn't deliver because it couldn't make up its mind as to whether it was an action first person shooter with some puzzles or itself delving into horror, because attempting to do both in that game didn't work (the player being too powerful to be scared). Prey 2017 offers NPCs that are alive and help, but these are sparsely dropped in and are not the best made models (the faces of female NPCs looking extremely lumpen) and given the list of credits/blames the character artwork should not have been that poor of an effort. Given that your character is a mute in NPC interactions - which is a huge giveaway in of itself that I picked up on early - doesn't help with the "play your own way" style and leads to the awkward Half-Life style of writing. At least having an internal monologue would have been something, but alas not even that. Some will be impressed by how the levels look, but to me they just look poor. The foliage in the Arboretum looked no better here (in a 2017 game!) than in 2009's Arkham Asylum, which also done the Metroidvania style world far better. In short, I uninstalled the game after completion (almost the best ending, one human killed early on). If I want SS2, I'll play SS2 and if I want a better take on "play your own way"? Even the original Deus Ex wins on that front.

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Posted on: November 16, 2024

atlanticore123

Владелец игры

Игр: 102 Отзывов: 2

Immersive sim

Very solid game. You are enabled to play the way you want and progress through the game in many ways that would have you laugh or scratch your head. Graphics are good for what it is. Sounddesign is really impressive. Story is solid. Plot twists are strong. Multiple Endings. ----- One star deduction for wokeness: - main character was "race swapped" from what seemed to be Caucasian to Asian. (Which was a forecast on what is to come from Arkane in the future in terms of wokeness.) Unfortunately there are also girl bosses aka "strong whamen" and gay stuff in audio logs which feels like I am being fed an ideology. Why does scifi always end up like this? Anyway. Would be great to see a mod some day that removes all the gay stuff and girl bosses. Also it would be great if the main character/characters were raceswappped back to original (seen in trailer).

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Posted on: May 28, 2020

C.Majerczyk

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Игр: 376 Отзывов: 10

YES YES YES

One of the best games of all time. No more to say

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Posted on: August 12, 2020

cornbredx

Игр: 659 Отзывов: 30

This is a bad game.

People think that people like me think this game is bad because it's like System Shock. It's true that people have rose tinted glasses for that game, which was vastly improved by Bioshock in literally every way, but that game is not bad. It's a proof of concept that worked at the time, and the same developers improved with time in other iterations. Prey (2017) is a rip off, not inspired by but directly ripping off System Shock, and it has dull game play with boring enemies, a dull atmosphere and mechanics that were done better in many other games. It's so uncreative it even had to steal the name from another game. The first game I can think of in history to do that. I like Arkane's Dishonored series, but it seems like every other game they make is uninteresting or bad in some way. Even Dishonored is just ripping off Thief, but at least in that they added to it and improved on the concept. In this they made a worse thing then what they ripped off. Oh well. Can't win every time. My recommendation is skip this one if you are becoming curious about it at this point. It's really not worth it. If you're looking on GOG you'd be better off playing System Shock or Bioshock instead.

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Posted on: June 14, 2023

tgw105

Владелец игры

Игр: 127 Отзывов: 24

Great game but DON'T watch end credits!

This is one of the best games I've played, excellent settings, good plot, a range of enemies that will really test you and a nice balance of simply working to your own ends mixed with situations helping others. The game combine stealth with combat - you need to use both. One big warning though: DO NOT WATCH THROUGH THE CLOSING CREDITS WHEN YOU FINISH THE GAME - GET OUT QUICK!!! One letdown was the 'Mooncrash' DLC which offered nothing except really repetitive play. Apart from that though this is highly recommended - it's a game that regularly pops into my mind and once enough time has passed I'll definitely play again.

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