Watch a minute of cancelled Prey 2 footage

Andrew Borman, the digital video games curator on the Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y., shared a clip from Prey 2 despatched to him by Human Head Games final week. 

Seems like an excellent day to put up a brief video I used to be despatched from @humanheadgames cancelled Prey 2. Still stay up for the day that I’ve extra to share. #prototypes #prey2 pic.twitter.com/3Fl0lB4puN

— Andrew Borman (@Borman18) March 24, 2018

It has a appear and feel very totally different from final 12 months’s Prey, which was a quieter, tenser sport set in an area station ravaged by an alien menace. But it’s additionally a giant departure from the primary sport. Here, we see a narrative sequel to the unique, set in a neon-drenched metropolis and characterised by a whole lot of run-and-gun FPS motion.

Prey 2 was announced by 3DRealms shortly after the launch of the unique Prey, however work didn’t start till fairly a bit later, after Betheda’s guardian firm ZeniMax purchased the rights to the IP. Bethesda finally cancelled the sport, and rumors on the time claimed that Human Head had been hamstrung intentionally – claims that Bethesda’s Pete Hines has strongly denied.

But by the point it was cancelled, an ex-Human Head developer says, it was well beyond the point of being a demo and was a “full game.” It simply seems, it was a sport Bethesda didn’t need any extra.

We wound up fairly nicely off with 2017’s spiffy reboot of the collection, nevertheless it’s fascinating to see what might need been.