Prey Dev Explains What the New Game Is and How It Plays

"Prey is not a sequel. It's not a remake. It has no tie with the original."

Why call it Prey then?!?!?!?

Im not going to lie, I loved the direction and story of the first game. I really wished they wouldve made a sequel based off that game. Im also disliking the idea of this new game not being a horror sci fi type game.I just dont understand why change something thats not broken. Its like the devs dont even care what the fans think. They couldve put out surveys before making that big decision.

i'm gonna write my own game, i'll call it maybe, um, Call of Duty

It will not be a sequel. It won't be a remake. And It has no tie with the original.

But i'm still going to use the name

My second most hype game next to DEus Ex Mankind divided

While I don't necessarily feel the same way about it, my brother loved the first Prey, and I know he'd be disappointed if this Prey isn't connected; if it only has the same name. If it's not connected, which it isn't, they really should just use a different name. People that wanted the cyber punk Prey 2, wanted the cyber punk Prey (and that had connections to the first), so to give this game the title it is without the connection, it's just doing it to get people excited. Makes sense when it comes to business, but is unfortunate. I thought this game looked pretty cool though, and I'm interested to see more.

this explanation sounds a bit like Quantum Break, which is not a good thing.

the original's story and gameplay was great. hopefully this game will live up in some, if not all ways. though the fact that there is no native American protagonist already loses it a few points for me. i will hope that once starting this game all the preconceptions and issues about them ruining a great IP will fade away.

I don't understand if its not sequel or anything related to Prey, why can't them just make new title instead use the name Prey?

If you need to "explain" what your game is, then you've already failed. Maybe next time, don't recycle a old title and not expect people to try to connect the two. Also, your trailer should evoke the tone an feel of the game while showing gameplay. Nobody should be confused.

Arkane studios was found by ex-Looking Glass studios employees. So expect a System Shock vibe from this game.

for all those that have issues with accepting that this game is called Prey:
Imagine it's an alternative timeline where it has no connection to the original one. There fixed xD.
Now you are free to enjoy the title for all it has to offer xD

Prey was a solid game, good enough to finish and enjoyable pretty much all the way threw. I dont really like the idea of stripping the name only, kind of disingenuous.

"You will fight using powers learned from aliens"...yea this game is going to suck.

"Prey is not a sequel. It's not a remake. It has no tie with the original."

Why. If it has nothing to do with it, then why are you calling it Prey? Call it something else. The only reason you're calling it Prey is to attract people who will not read this story and think it does have ties to the original.

"Prey is not a sequel. It's not a remake. It has no tie with the original. You have to look at it like a reimagining of the idea."

This doesn't make sense. If you are re-imagining the idea, it is tied to the original.

If the only tie is "Aliens abducted the main character", then WHY THE F*** are you calling it Prey?

The original had an amazing premise, an native-american in crisis with his identity and origin, alien abductions, portals, modified gravity shootouts... A re-imagining of Prey could be great, but this is NOT a re-imagining, it's just use of an old IP.

All the idiot gamers will come in saying "Why name it Prey then?". Well...reimagining the IP doesn't require using the released source material. First of all, what we got out of Prey wasn't what the original concept was suppose to be. If you were a gamer before consoles made gamers brain dead, you would learn that Prey was VERY different than what we got in 2006.

You don't just NOT use a name when there is a world already build around an IP. There is a major difference between make a game that utilizes nothing from the IP as opposed to a game that utilizes the IP but not the stuff from another game. Its not a remake or reboot because its not removing anything from the world and its not a sequel or remake of the previous game. How the F*** is that so hard to grasp?

I'll say it again, how hard is it for people to grasp this? Its bad enough when gamers judge games for being like another game instead of its own merits. Yet gamers STILL can't grasp the concept of IP's?

this so far is the most interesting game of 2017......this and Mass Effect Andromeda if it launches next year....

The E3 trailer looked real interesting, and I could not give less of a **** about the previous Prey getting an authentic sequel. This game is pretty high on my watch list.

So you fight venom

why name it prey then?!

That's unfortunate. Prey was a cool game that didn't fully capitalize on it's interesting ideas. The sequel that was being talked about that eventually died also sounded kinda cool, although that too didn't sound like it would capitalize on the cool concepts that the original Prey professed.

Oh well. We may never get that game, but at least there's still the original Prey.

"Prey is not a sequel. It's not a remake. It has no tie with the original" Then why even bother using the name at all? All you're doing is pissing off people who wanted to see the bounty hunter version of Prey 2. Think, what sounds better? Bethesda presents an exciting new IP from Arkane Studios OR Arkane Studios is rebooting Prey and the only thing they're keeping is the name.

I really liked the first prey, thought the environment and crazy weapons that were alive were cool, I don't see why they just didn't do a sequel with those same foundations the first game built. As far as him describing the game as "narrative, action and a little layer of rpg" he might as well have said "its like every other game". Hopefully it turns out good though I'm not ruling it out quite yet, just feel like they shouldn't even call it Prey, just think.of a new name cause it can be misleading to fans of the original

Then i have no interests in it.