Wikipedia pages for each:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(2017_video_game)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(2006_video_game)
It’s a bit of an apples and oranges situation but considering the history I’m curious which one people prefer in a situation where you could only have one. I believe 2006 is still considered abandonware with it previously being listed on Steam but being removed when they ran out of keys.
I liked 2017’s gameplay but I felt like 2006 was more memorable and unique so I think I’d choose it.
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2006 was a neat game with some particularly cool bits, but 2017 is one of my favorite games of all time and pound for pound is a superior game due to 2017 being a spiritual successor to System Shock 2.
Very different games though, I don’t honestly think they should be compared directly, it was already a weird choice for Prey 2017 to receive the franchise name.
I’ll second this entirely.
Prey 2006 is a slightly gory boomer shooter with interesting topsy-turvy levels, gravity tricks, a few cool enemies and guns and powers, and a campy alien abduction / invasion story. It might be a little underrated in its genre. Definitely fun.
But Prey 2017 was more of a clever stealth action / psych horror title in the vein of Deus Ex and of course System Shock. Brilliant interconnected level design, a deep story, a good (though not super original) roster of guns and superpowers, some tricky puzzles, and a few interesting and enemies. It gets a good amount of love but I still think it deserves wider recognition as an excellent game.
It’s frankly stupid that they have the same name.
2006 was mind blowing.
i hear great things about 2017 but it’s Prey in name only. Why on earth they won’t remake OG Prey I will never understand2006 all the way. I’ll never understand why they opted to cancel the sequel (which was looking amazing, btw) and use the same name for a completely new IP.
It’s was a really strange mix of puzzle and brainfucked mechanics. The story was original and something new/fresh.
I really hoped for a sequel or a reboot… The new IP is just ‘meh’… nothing special about it… Or maybe I’m just getting old and nostalgia is kicking in ^^
Damn, how is the Prey 2017 version one of my all time favorites but I didn’t know there was a 2006 Prey game.
They are completely unrelated. They just had a really cool name they didn’t want to lose.
It probably doesn’t help that it’s abandonware and was limited largely to the PC and Xbox 360.
A lot of people only hear about it in “top abandonware games” lists that would mention it and games like Alpha Protocol which was recently relisted.
