Could not get into Prey. Tried twice and it just does nothing for me. The mimic got boring quickly and it just felt forced to me, all hanging together on a wafer thin premise.
To me far from being the spriritual successor to System Shock 1 & 2, it just felt like an underbaked mimic of better sci-fi games.
I gave the game a good 8 hours and in that time the only thing that grew on me was a complete apathy for the game.
For me there are so many better System Shock style / inspired games including Soma, Alien Isolation, Dead Space 1-3, Dishonored, Dues Ex etc. That doesn't even factor all the Bioshock games.
Prey tries hard, but just feels like a poor mimic beaten into creation rather than crafted by a blunt spanner - and given that is pretty much how you will end up spending a large chunk of your time playing the game it is apt.
Prey may have not been the greatest game, but for me it was much better than what Prey 2 turned out to be.
So there it is, my view was completely polar opposite and a different perspective on it, but different strokes for different folks.
