![]() ![]() I was a little let down that the "repeat the same day over and over" plot thread was discarded so quickly (literally 20 to 30 minutes into the game, so I'm not spoiling much). ![]() Selected scenes from the first 20 minutes of Prey, which set up the story and reveal an early twist. A lot of questions still remain, though, and answering them quickly becomes the driving force in the game. A prerecorded video message Yu had sent to herself quickly fills in some of the gaps left by the daily forced amnesia. Leaving the apartment, though, it becomes apparent yesterday's test was an elaborate simulation, the veneer of which has now been torn off by the inky black Typhon busy destroying the station. Yu wakes up the next day in what at first seems to be a Groundhog Day-style loop, where nothing has changed. Protagonist Morgan Yu takes a chartered helicopter to a testing facility only to watch helplessly as the scientists studying her are attacked by amorphous, black crawling creatures. Prey starts off not on a space station, but in an apparently tony San Francisco apartment. Enter the Typhonīut I'm getting ahead of myself. Even backtracking through previously visited corridors isn't that much of a chore, since newfound abilities often let you explore nooks and crannies you could only get a glimpse of previously, in the best "metroidvania" style. But it feels much more dense and carefully designed than those open-world environments ever could. ![]() Talos I is also relatively small compared to the sprawling vistas of games like Fallout 4. Little details from discarded pieces of paper to e-mails sitting open on terminals to hidden caches of food and items in logical locations tell a slowly unfolding tale of how this vibrant station became halfway ruined. From the receptionists' desks to the crew living quarters and experimental labs, Talos I feels like a place people actually lived and worked in. Largely empty of life now, the base is still full of little signs from when it was a going concern. Talos I is a towering, gleaming base hovering in the gravity well between the Earth and the Moon, built out of an alternate history joint effort between the Soviets and the United States and later incorporated into the near-future of 2030. Links: Steam | Official Web siteThe protagonist of the newly rebooted Prey might be Morgan Yu, but I'd argue that the star of the game is actually the space station where Prey takes place. Platform: Windows (reviewed), Xbox One, PS4 ![]()
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