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Arkane and Bethesda’s new Prey game has very little to do with the original game from 2006 or its cancelled sequel, yet it uses the Prey name. So why exactly does the new first-person sci-fi title make use of the IP?
“Well it was a matter of, first of all it’s hard to find a name for a game, and it’s a good name – sounds good,” Arkane creative director Raphael Colantonio told GameSpot at QuakeCon.
He continued: “I think the association that people have about Prey is that it’s about aliens on a space station, and it’s a first-person game. When we were done with Dishonored, part of the team did Dishonored 2, and the other part [of Arkane]… we wanted to do another one of those games that we usually do, which are in first-person, with depth and simulation and narration, all that.
“This time we wanted to make it on a space station, with aliens, and you had to survive with the full ecology, etc. As we started it, the name was available, and the connections were easy to be made. We just thought, ‘Okay, makes sense,’ so there we go.”
Last month a video about the new Prey saw Colantonio state: “Prey is not a sequel. It’s not a remake. It has no tie with the original.”
Prey is scheduled for a 2017 release on PS4, Xbox One and PC.
Source: GameSpot
