I love how Dan Bull comments on this and no one cares... Psssh lame

The similar case between Quake and Quake II.

@@MondySpartan or Quake 2 and Quake 3. The only related games are Quake 2 and Quake 4.

Who is this guy and why should I care?

@@Cr1t1calMystic OK?

Therion 777 I don't know about that I wasn't a lot in to games then but the animations surprised me

The id Tech 4 is (still) a great engine. Also the first engine to use bump mapping. The SDK for it is also royalty free since 2013/2014, so you can make and sell any game using that engine for FREE!

Therion 777 it's not that 2006 graphics are that good, it's that in 11 years graphics haven't improved one bit

Peter Campi it's not nearly the first to use bump mapping! you tripping? you could maybe say that it used it most impressively

Actually, +Cheappy V, the id Tech 4 engine _is_ the first game engine to use real-time bump mapping. The first showing of this tech was at the *2001 Quake Con* with the early prototype for Doom 3 as a tech demo. Formerly, only big budget Hollywood SFX teams used bump mapping in CGI films since the early 90s (and some 90s video game cutscenes to a degree), but id Software changed that with their development of the id Tech 4 engine between 2000 and 2001. Although Half-Life 2's engine also showcased bump mapping in 2004, the E3 showing for HL2 was in 2003, thus Valve was inspired by id (again) to match their tech.

😂😂

Blue Oyster Cult in a videogame? Must be a flippin masterpiece, instabuy, thx for this information.

If you have it on PC, don't forget to get Sikkmod for a HD graphical update. Also, the SDK for the game is worth the download (non-euclidean level design + gravity defying object settings).

Also Barracuda. Another badass song in that game.

Tonguefunsome When aliens from distant worlds attack, there is only one way to defeat them... *MORE COWBELL!*

And judas priest!!!

Residence of Evil it looks like shit... to me

You look like shit! Lol, totally kidding. :P

It was a amazing game

Agreed. That whole conveyer scene was horrifying. And from other comments, it only gets worse.

i would actually prefer it for horror

Yes, there is. They seem to be unrelated and could have had different names.

Game Intros & Finales exactly what I was thinking

vin 950 so it's worth buying??!!!

Zusse They do both contain wrenches...

Zusse yeah I played it and I'm pretty impressed. It just feels terrifying to encounter an enemy and that's a good feeling. Although I'd prefer prey 1 remastered as it is more of my taste 😁

Ray Cocker & The Darkness

one of those games that stays in memory. Loved it!

I couldn't agree more. It's by far my all time favorite computer game ever....and I've been playing PC games for nearly 30 years starting with the Wolfenstein 3d shareware I picked up at Radio Shack as a kid.

lol no

I agree, I remember when I first played this way back when it had so many awesome ideas, and the graphics back then was the best I had seen great memories wishing they made the second to fellow on

You haven't seen how awesome it really is. It's a shooter set on alien spaceship, guns are sort of weaponized alien lifeforms, the whole ship itself is a living being. Not to mention changing gravity, portals before Portal, hovercrafts and many other things.

triaal_ It is like with the movie Total Recall. There is the badass film Arnold was in, then there is the bullshit reskin that was attempted

It kind of reminds me of Fallout 3 and Fallout NV, but better quality animations (which says a lot because Prey came out before those two).

triaal_ Its a legit old school shooter man, one of the last we got. damn shame too.

you're 13?

The game introduced me to him, then a few years ago I found out just how tin foil hat he is, and now I want to play it again knowing that.

puttymon LOL

puttymon there is an achievement for it?

What, like before shit even goes down? When you're "in the city"? I'll have to try that.

Lol my first achievement unlocked and when I did unlock it I was surprised.

Same I did it too in the demo

@Connor Force *Comment of the year award goes to you!*

Should have been called Neuroshock

It shouldn't be called Prey, but it's still a criminally underrated game

@@UndeadBug It is basically a new system shock game in terms of gameplay

I think Neuroshock probably does fit it better. You hardly feel like prey with how powerful you are, even on higher difficulties.

2006 Looks Better Than 2017

@@kevinheatcoat2190 you need your eyes check buddy

@@GreatExtended I think he means that there is a real-life dirt built into the Prey 2006 design that is lacking in the futuristic Mirrors Edge cleanlyness of Prey 2017.

@@johnsmithy7918 really? When did the 1st reply said that ? He only said "looks better", you read his mind or sth?

​@@GreatExtended You poor soul. You are not even wise enough to ask nicely for something you seem to need to learn.

PowerOptix that's exactly what all the people in my basement say.

Mr Fisher You're house is being raided by a Seat Team Six

PowerOptix It needs more cowbell.

What's the song?

Amen to that lol. Classic right there

Read this as it happened

It only came out for Xbox 360 & PC. Won;t be easy to track down on disc (despite pc version requiring a cd key to work). 360 has it digital, and its playable on xbox one as of Feb 13, 2018. (updated comment Aug 5, 2019 with better info)

I could get the CD for a cheap price maybe

I just got it on bittorent

Sorry i won't illegally download it. (even if Gaben was right about it, because it should be available on Steam)

u can still activate keys for prey on steam ;-)

2006 Prey is on Steam, but cannot buy it from Steam store. You can find cd key from cd key re-sellers quite cheap and it works on Steam.

You can get steam key for the game and it still works

Got it on a used disc for 13 dollars for my old 360

The intro is about the only thing they got right too. The rest is linear, lonesome and without much story - very reminiscent of Doom 3 in that regard. But it is one hell of an intro.

Broken Smile "almost cried" Jeez get over it.

xD

Broken Smile I wouldn't call it atmospheric, it honestly was clunky and had awkward delivery. That and having the protagonist interjecting "eww gross" made him look more like a middle schooler during sex ed. It had no build up, just a bar fight that made me wonder if Tommy was a fucking psychopath, only to be interrupted by aliens. Because fuck narrative pacing. That and the characters just felt wooden, even if you were to upgrade the game to modern standards. Poor writing and delivery can't be compensated by anything.

I finished it 7 times, I know what you mean. What about the ending?

Google+ Sucks! did you play the new one?

It is.....

By today's standards? Not really, but excellent for 2006.

Jerrod Shack or 2008 standards maybe

@@jerrodshack7610 I dunno man, raise the resolution and it doesn't look far off from like, Fallout 4 with the settings on low.

no

Huh. It seems like YOU never played Prey, friend. Because at the end of Prey, the protagonist is given the opportunity to explore the galaxy. So the series could've gone in all kinds of directions. Point is, Prey 2 was supposed to be connected to the first game. Yes, it was going to be different but it was not a reboot like Prey 2017.

Maybe it's just because the name is catchy and it fits, the entire game is pretty much about your race being the 'prey' for an entire alien race for food/resources and isn't that the very definition of the word prey?

There is no spoon yes and I assume there was marketing involved maybe they thought it will bring more people to buy it

Cablecar18 It'd so Bethesda can sit on the IP instead of letting it die with some dignity.

Prey 2 was going to take place a few years after the original. The main character was going to be a bounty hunter, and Tommy was going to return as a mentor type character to help you out along the way.

Yep XD

andromeda literally almost killed my pc yesterday

Yeahhh, not really tho...

Heavy Caliber Yes really though, now stfu

Hidden Desire no

Mean Guy people have the nostalgia shades, fucks sake if they want prey 2 so fucking badly fundraise it.

carlos conde wasn't this game suppose to be a sequel but was later scrapped and just rebooted altogether

Carlos Martinez It isn't a reboot. And Prey 2 was cancelled because of Bethesda's greediness with Human Head Studios.

carlos conde except a company holds the copyright to it and you can get sued into debt for the rest of your life for trying to make it.

+Mean Guy Honestly I don't like all this hate either.I played the new Prey and loved it.

BBMMTR And it is called PCMR.. sorry i had to.

Prey 2006 had the same amazing graphics on Xbox 360 :)

Both games are good.

finished the og 7 times. Do it

Finished the demo 30-50 times. Back then the demo was as popular as the game. But you couldn't download full games yet, when you could, they were often overpriced. So demo's were popular back then.

Alexandre​ One day. One day i'll finish it. If it becomes backward compatible that would be cool

It's a very good game. Not exactly earth-shattering, but it's memorable and has a lot of cool elements to it (like the mixture of Cherokee spiritual powers and alien weaponry). I'd say it stands pretty well beside Doom 3. Both used the id Tech 4 engine, both involve fighting aliens (well, okay, demons in Doom, but you're on Mars and let's face it, it all feels very alien), both used supernatural elements mixed with high-tech weaponry (native american spiritual powers for Prey and traversing Hell and even using one or two demonic weapons if I recall, like the cube, in Doom). It's something I had been meaning to purchase for myself and play through properly since I was young. I don't remember how I first heard about it, I think it was a demo like you, but I watched a lot of it played through KZfaq (not all of it, though) and eventually decided I should buy it. That was years ago and I only just bought it this month. $5 off eBay with free shipping, _damn cheap,_ and I just finished it tonight. Worth every penny. Especially since I used a free $5 credit from eBay to buy it.

The important thing to remember is that they both had openings that fit what the game was going for. Like you said, the newer Prey was driving the mystery. The 2006 Prey wasn't about that. Sure, you wanted to know who was trying to harvest your planet, but this was a shooter in the vein of Doom and like Doom, the protagonist couldn't give a shit less about why they're there, he just wants one thing. In the case of Doom, the protagonist wants to kill demons and send them crawling back to Hell. In Prey, the protagonist just wants to save Jen. 2017 Prey = Sci-Fi Survival Horror (more or less) 2006 Prey = Sci-Fi "Horror" FPS with Supernatural elements Their approaches were different, but appropriate for the tone of each game.

The new one doesn't suck

I personally prefer the 2017 version like 2006 version was kinda boring to me

videogiocatore3 and I personally loved the mystery of the new prey

@@lukeduran12 *The new Prey looks boring.*

Both games have a very strange existence both have nothing to do with each other aside from the name and basic premise of being forced into space with involvement with aliens but on then there is the gameplay which is only slighty different between both games and generally IMO Prey (2006) is like a better Doom 3 While Prey (2017) is sort of like Resident Evil Meets Doom so i mean both games are great in their own ways and I'm saying this after playing both games to just say neither are fully unique but their good game nonetheless.

@@Princess2Warrior you won't be saying that for mooncrash

Mr Catalyst when games were fun and less politically correct and more unregulated. Now everyone focuses on covering their ass from the pc Nazis instead of producing quality content

Griffin Corbitt u are not old enough to remember 2006

Yep. But prey 2017 was good too.

I played the recent one before the 2006 one, objectively you are right. However the 2006 is far more unique, and probably will be the one people gush about on retro game forums in 10 years, while the 2017 will be more or less forgotten. It's poor name choice and dry setting deny it the notoriety the original is earning over time.

@@anasevi9456 Prey 2017 is a very well received immersive sim. I've never heard of the 2006 version till now. As long as Arkane keeps up it's spotlight in the genre people will keep running into Prey after playing stuff like Dishonored and Deathloop.

@@LiamFarleyMA Arkane is a great studio

Dragonk116 well i would say prey refered to how the typhons saw you.

how about; Dead Bio: space shock dead space and bioshock because thats basically what this game is and a little dishonoured

I'd say it fits System Shock better. Which is what Dead Space and Bio Shock both were based off of, so...

Dragonk116 Yea like Run Like Hell 2, Dead space 4, Doom 4 1/2, 🚀 or just prey 2

I heard that it might have been originally going to be called "The Experiment" or something

Well morgan really doesn't have any character, at least, the one we play doesn't (and that's kind of on purpose) I think the AI that helps you, december is basically what Morgan Yu would be like since it's basically their conscious printed onto an AI. Tommy as a player character is definitely meant to be more of a character while Morgan is a blank slate.

@@R0GU351GN4L no its not

It was finished, it was not released because Bethesda wanted to kill human head in retaliation because they didn't accept their buyout.

The Player of Talos l

Heimskr's Journey Do you get the reference?

nope

The Player if so portal is accidents in aperture and half life accidents in black mesa and there are a lotnmore

Typhoons

Absolutely! A good example of why it’s so important is that without *PREY* (which was both an excellent game as well as a groundbreaking one), we wouldn’t have gotten “Portal”. It’s overlooked far too often I feel. Good to see other like-minded fans here!

Same here I actually had a phantom teleport in my face going down stairs in beginning so it kinda scared me a bit

I'd be interested to hear you come up with a few good ones for it, O mighty name maker.

Easy. Typhoon Shock.

they had the IP and no intension of doing prey 2 so... There is a reason.

I got a better one: Nuero Shock. Since the main means of upgrading in the game is Nueromods and they are derived from the Typhoon it makes sense.

Heh what about Talso 2 right? As that's the place where everything happens. Foxtrot 343 I understand that I was saying that, Prey was a good name for it because it fits the game and that most other names people come up with are based around the enemies or the place, which is shit and not how a game gets a good fitting name.

I played both but 2017 is better to me, I find it more enjoyable

Prey 2017's problem is that it's worse than Deus Ex, Bioshock or Crysis. Prey 2017 lacks one of the most fundamental aspects of any immersive sim and that's an interesting world. Prey 2006 had a really memorable and messed up world with a lot of weird tech and enemies that made it stand out. Prey 2017, meanwhile, is so focused on fleshing out the average joes in the station doing everyday, mundane things like playing tabletop games, having relationship issues, corporate politics, etc. that it fails to flesh out the world or the enemies in any significant way. The pacing is also terrible because what little information we do get that's interesting, like the history of Talos 1 or the fact that they're performing unethical experiments on death row inmates, are all revealed very early on, giving very little motivation to explore this world because the only thing you'll find is someone wanting to play nerf darts in the office or some shit. Who cares if there are 6 different ways past a door if I don't care what's behind that door. And I don't even expect the greatest story ever. Crysis 1's story is merely functional. But what I would like is some hook to keep me interested in what's going on. It is, after all, supposed to be immersive. Prey 2017 has none of that, and thus I have no reason to bother exploring.

It feels lile a mash between Bioshock 1 and half-life

@@mohamedelkayal2068 Nah, it feels more like gta v.

It was meant to be a spiritual successor to System Shock.

@The Hawk void yah

It feels more like dead space and system shock/bioshock combined.. It's pretty good

Don't forget about a child murdering other child .

Deutsche Hierarchie Gamestop

The 2006 game was only for xbox 360 and PC. Not very easy to track down.

The Dukenator I just bought a copy from gamestop a few months ago.

Hakeem Lawus+ We don't have gamestop in Germany. Maybe I can find the pc version that the dukenator mentioned, on Amazon or something.

Deutsche Hierarchie You should be able to. Good luck hunting down a copy

2006 was boring asf to me

Sure thing! Said it all, you should watch the trailer of the cancelled Prey 2 and see what it would look like, man it would've been awesome! Remember the abducted plane that crashed on The Sphere? Well, apparently, Prey 2 would focus on one survivor aboard that plane! Kinda gives me some badass ideas for script-writing!

theres def heavy HL1 influence, even in the later part of the game (the marines in HL1 vs dahl in prey)

kinda hard to find it, but now i did in 2018 hehe it's way better than Quake and Doom, so it's pretty worth it!

Thing is, that game was a straight up shooter. I beat it a few times, but the multiplayer is dead.

The Dukenator which is why I feel as if prey 2017 is better designed for its combat... and seeing as it was made from the guys who did dishonored its very good level design wise as it gives you a lot of options to tackle things.

Javen same :)

Javen well about the first game thing lol

Javen don't hate prey

Nah I'm good

at least I'll get the sweet release