Prey 2

No Tommy, no portals. Got it? Human Head’s upcoming shooter sequel merrily dispatches with the two most iconic elements of the 2006 first game, which has already caused quite a lot of grumbly consternation in Internet Town. Just wait, though, until you see where the developers have taken the game instead of revisiting its past.

Prey 2 is not, for the most part, another game about shooting monsters in corridors. Despite its genre-shifting, rest assured that it remains a direct sequel to the first game’s tale of nasty aliens invading Earth, but it is absolutely determined to expand the story rather than retread it. Mildly controversially taking the place of Prey 1′s Native American star Tommy Tawodi is the oddly-named Killian Samuels (who’s Ian, and why does he have to be killed?), an all-American Air Marshall involved in a plane crash caused by the events of the first game. He – and you – have very little idea what went on between said crash and the situation in which he finds himself for Prey 2. Suddenly it’s several years later, he’s on an alien planet known as Exodus and he’s a bounty hunter. Eh?