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.Release5 May 2017Mode(s),Prey is a developed by and published. The game was released worldwide on 5 May 2017, for, and.In Prey, the player controls Morgan Yu while exploring the space station Talos I, in orbit around Earth–Moon, where they had been researching a hostile alien species called the Typhon. As the Typhon escape confinement, the player uses a variety of weapons and abilities derived from the Typhon to avoid being killed by the aliens while looking to escape the station. The player gains access to areas of the station by acquiring key items and abilities, eventually allowing the player to fully explore the station in an setting.Arkane's Prey is largely unrelated to the 2006 game developed by, and is considered a reimagining of the set in a wholly new narrative. While, a sequel to the 2006 game, had been planned by Human Head, it fell into following transfer of the intellectual property from to, and was eventually cancelled in 2014. Arkane's game does not use any of the planned sequel's assets, and only incorporates the previous game's name and the broad theme of the protagonist being hunted by aliens.

Arkane built Prey as a to, providing the player with several potential means of progressing within the game. One of the points of divergence in Prey 's starts with the failedThe narrative concept for Prey came to Colantonio during one of his airline flights while on travel; on return, he started to engage with the Austin studio to flesh out the ideas for the narrative, design, and gameplay, looking to build as detailed a world as they had for the city of Dunwall used as the setting for Dishonored. Colantonio said that it took about a year from this initial concept to come up with setting the game in an alternate timeline that helped support this detailing. They considered how the future would have been different if Kennedy survived the assassination attempt, allowing them to flesh out the narrative and design of the space station. This itself directly attributed to the styled used in the various parts of the station, with the team considering what architecture would have influenced those most responsible for operating Talos I at the time. This ranged from considering what Kennedy would have seen frequently were he alive in the 1960s and 1970s, to envision how those funding contemporary commercial space efforts like or would style a space station.

As Talos I is a relative small space, Arkane was able to detail the station in depth, such as naming each, including those already dead by the story's present, and fleshing out background stories for them, as to make the game's world more cohesive.The narrative also directed them to the types of weapons that would be available to the player. Arkane recognized that as a research station, their security forces would only likely have common weapons, such as pistols and shotguns, and would not have the equivalent of super-powerful gear like Doom 's. What advanced weapons are available were designed to look like prototypes and have flaws associated with them being only in their testing phase. Avellone wrote and designed significant parts of Prey 's contentArkane's is credited with establishing the Typhon and the reason for their existence in the story.

The player as Morgan follows in the threat's wake, finding survivors that have no idea what just happened but need their help. Arkane wanted a more unique design to the aliens, and opted to use designs inspired by elements rather than stereotypical insect- or lizard-like species., also of Arkane, helped with establishing the early plot details with Morgan's awakening at the start of the game. Bare had reached out to circa 2013 to gain his help with the story, though at the time, Avellone was committed to other projects but wanted to work with the studio.

Once Avellone was able to, he contacted Arkane to offer his help on the narrative. Besides other parts of the narrative, Avellone was responsible for designing the non-player characters and the various missions that would involve these characters. Avellone felt these characters and their missions created dilemmas for the player to determine how to proceed, helping the player to define their version of Morgan as well as expanding on the game's universe. Avellone worked with Arkane on the story from June to about November 2016.Among other works, Prey was influenced by the films,. As part of the game's promotion, Bethesda partnered with the to show these three films during April 2017. Avellone also cited as part of his inspiration, describing it as an action-suspense film which has moments of comedy, even in the midst of heavy action sequences, and something he reused in writing for Prey.The original score was composed and produced by, who had previously composed the soundtrack for.

Additional music was composed by Ben Crossbones, Matt Piersall, and Colantonio, with each one providing a single track. The soundtrack was released for live-streaming music services a week before the game's release. Technical development Prior to Prey, Arkane had just released Dishonored 2 which used the studio's internally developed Void. At release, many players reported performance issues with the Windows version of the game, which Arkane fixed through patches, but led to some lingering doubts as to Arkane's ability to develop for the Windows platform. Colantonio said that Arkane wanted to remove that stigma for Prey, with the goal to produce a 'really flawless' version for Windows on release. The game was developed using, an established third-party game engine, eliminating many issues related to performance.

Colantonio also said that they 'doubled our thoroughness' in the areas of testing to eliminate other possible issues. Expansions During the, Bethesda announced a free update released on June 9, 2018 that added two new game modes to Prey, including a mode, and a Survival mode that adds modifiers to the game, such as weapon durability, that make it more difficult. Bethesda also announced the game's first downloadable content, 'Mooncrash', which is a adventure that was also available that day. They also announced plans to release a multiplayer 'Typhon Hunt' mode, where some players play as Typhon Mimics that can disguise themselves in the game's setting. The 'Typhon Hunt' mode was inspired by the 'Prop Hunt' mode that came about from; as Arkane started to show initial details of the main game, including the Mimic enemies, players responded that they were reminded of 'Prop Hunt'. Bare had not been aware of what that was, but after researching it, felt it was ideal for a multiplayer extension of Prey. Both 'Mooncrash' and 'Typhon Hunt' were modes prototyped within an internal following the release of Prey, looking to see how they could easily extend the game.The 'Mooncrash' DLC was further updated in September 2018 with a free patch that provided in-game customization skins that celebrated the team's favorite roguelike games, which included, and.The 'Typhon Hunter' mode was released on December 11, 2018, along with a -based set of puzzles set before the events of Prey.

Release and marketing Prey was released on 5 May 2017. Arkane and Bethesda provided a for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles about a week before the game's launch, covering about the first hour of gameplay. The studio did not opt to provide a demo for Windows systems, citing that they had to choose between either the consoles or personal computer for demo released.

Colantonio also said that with the game's release through, interested players can try the game for up to two hours under Steam's return policy, effectively treating this the equivalent of a demo. Technical issues On release, reported that the Windows version of Prey lacked those technical issues that has troubled Dishonored 2, and called the game 'the best performing triple-A game' they had seen in several months. 's Digital Foundry also found the computer version of Prey to run exceedingly well across even low-end computers, in contrast to problems it saw for Dishonored 2 at release.However, some reviewers and players found that after several hours of playing on the computer version, their saved games would become corrupted, and the game would crash when transitioning between areas once this started to occur.

Restoring from older saves would eventually cause those to be corrupted as well, making the game impossible to complete. Bethesda reported it planned to release a patch to fix this issue in the week following the game's release. Trademark dispute Just prior to release, No Matter Studios, the developers of an upcoming video game Prey for the Gods, announced that, due to objections from ZeniMax Media, they had to change the name of their game to. ZeniMax reported that they had to defend the Prey trademark to avoid losing it in taking objection to No Matter's trademark filing. Reception Critical reception ReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScore(PC) 82/100(PS4) 79/100(XONE) 84/100Review scoresPublicationScore8/108/108.25/106/108/1079/1008.5/10VideoGamer.com8/10. This section needs expansion. You can help.

( May 2017)Prey received 'generally favorable' reviews from critics, according to.Critics praised the fully realized atmosphere of Talos 1, with some labeling it a 'luxurious sci-fi playground'. On the other hand, combat proved divisive. 's Tamoor Hussain found fight sequences 'rewarding', while 's Dan Stapleton considered combat Prey 's 'biggest weakness' partly due to periods of unresponsiveness. Concerning the story, GameSpot found protagonist Morgan Yu's journey somewhat 'thin', and TrustedReviews called the storyline 'lacking'.

Ranked the game 12th on their list of the 'Top 50 Games of 2017', ranked it 11th on their list of the 25 Best Games of 2017, and ranked it seventh on their list of the 50 best games of 2017, while ranked it ninth on their list of the 25 Best Games of 2017. It was nominated for 'Best Setting' in 's 2017 Game of the Year Awards, for 'Best Xbox One Game' in 's Game of the Year Awards 2017, and for 'Best Shooter' in 's Best of 2017 Awards. Sales Prey debuted at No. 2 on the weekly sales charts in the United Kingdom, trailing the Nintendo Switch port of. These figures were considered disappointing due to a lack of competition from AAA new releases and the fact that the opening week sales were 60% down from Arkane's previous title,. Additionally, Bethesda's decision to hold review copies until the official release date was mentioned by outlets as a factor for the weak launch.However, Prey captured the top spot in its second week of release, besting Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a rise partially attributed to the positive reception the game received from critics, though sales were down 32% from its debut week.

In doing so, Prey became the first Bethesda game since 2016's to reach number one on the United Kingdom weekly sales charts.In Japan, Prey debuted at No.5 on the weekly sales charts when it released in late May with 7,105 copies sold for the PlayStation 4. However the Xbox One version did not make the charts. Accolades YearAwardCategoryResultRef2017Ping AwardsBest International GameNominatedBest StorytellingNominatedBest Action GameNominatedBest Game DesignNominatedBest Action GameNominated2018AwardsArt Direction, FantasyNominatedItalian Video Game AwardsBest NarrativeWonExcellence in NarrativeNominatedReferences.

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Prey 2 could have been great. Having spoken to a whole bunch of developers that worked on the project before it was quietly put on ice in 2011, I'm convinced of this. We're going to get into some of what happened there in a piece we're publishing tomorrow, but in today's episode of Here's A Thing I want to tell you about the game we never got to play.There's plenty of stuff here that we never heard about at the time, from its clever mix of combat and traversal to the way it links back into the narrative of the first Prey. But perhaps my favourite discovery was the game's big plot twist and the ending it would have allowed.Enjoy!

As I mentioned at the start of the video, I owe a huge thank you to each of the developers that spoke to me about their work on this title: Nathan Cheever, Brian Karis, Amelia Von Haden, Norm Nazaroff and David R. Theyr'e all incredibly talented people and I'm delighted to be able to talk about what they were up to, all these years later.I usually like to include the audio from my interviews for those after a little more detail here, but given some of the discussions surrounding Bethesda/Zenimax I won't be in this week's post.As ever, if you have any questions about the episode, I'll be in the comments.