Hines on Arkane's Prey: If It's Great No One Will Talk about Human Head's Cancelled Title

Arkane Studios isn't simply busy refining Dishonored two these days. At E3 2022, Arkane also showcased Casualty'due south reboot for the outset time and Bethesda garnered some criticism because of the game'due south credible lack of whatsoever connexion with previous Prey games, not to mention the ever-looming shadow of Human Caput's cancelled Prey 2 game.

Bethesda'southward VP of PR and Marketing Pete Hines talked well-nigh this in an interview published by MCVUK. According to him, Arkane'due south Casualty can simply silence the negative chatter around the game by virtue of eventually turning out smashing.

Offset of all, we absolutely looked at a whole host of other options, with perhaps calling it something else. We ended upwards on Prey because it fit the tone of the vibe of the matter that they are making. We didn't tell the team that they had to accept a portal gun or the same characters or stuff similar that, so they were good with it.

For folks who may have played the original Casualty a decade agone, they're going to have to have this new one in and of itself, and not hold on to anything from the previous game. If y'all don't know what Prey is, then it doesn't affair. Information technology is a cool name that captures the essence of what they're making.

Our conventionalities is that, regardless of which camp yous autumn in, ultimately nosotros are going to go judged on what we put out. Non to bring up bad memories, but nosotros cancelled a Doom game that was in development, that wasn't living up to our expectations, and we started over with the game we shipped this year. Ultimately, whether or not that was a good idea was entirely judged by the quality of the production that came out. If information technology's great, then nobody is talking about the cancelled championship, or asking why nosotros didn't phone call information technology Doom 4. None of that matters when it's a really good game. The same holds true for Prey.

Prey won't be a horror game. Rather, it has been described as a blend of shooter and RPG in person view much like Dishonored, with an added psychological twist also as the unique space station setting. Prey, now powered by CRYENGINE, also features a large contiguous space instead of Dishonored ii'southward set up of missions; it should exist out in 2022 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox 1.