Crew members, both living and dead, are well-realized with personalities that make them more than just fodder. Talos-1 is a massive place: not just structurally, but also emotionally and politically. Is he or she sympathetic toward coworkers? Would Yu risk life and limb for them? What about humanity? And how does our scientist interact with brother Alex Yu, the man in charge of these experiments? Prey lets us decide the answers to these questions just as much as it lets us determine how Yu confronts the Typhon monsters running around Talos-1. The best parts of Prey often stem from how Yu interacts with other people. Prey is concerned with who Morgan Yu is, and the game lets you choose nearly every facet of their person, including gender, skills, and even morality. Suddenly you find yourself in the position of having to keep these aliens from getting off the station-at any cost.
After a trippy introduction, Prey thrusts you headfirst into its world, where merciless monsters called Typhon roam the research-focused Talos-1 space station, tearing the inhabitants to pieces. There’s a sense of fuzziness there, an inexplicable unease that something is not right. Prey begins slowly, in appropriately sedated fashion, as scientist Morgan Yu awakens in an upper-class apartment.
