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Prey - Frontrunner for GotY 2017?

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by RPGWatch, Jan 2, 2017.

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    [​IMG]Gamesradar already found a strong candidate for the Game of The Year 2017: Prey

    Why Prey is already frontrunner for game of the year 2017
    As much as we try - as is only healthy and correct - to hold off early critical judgements, and let games meander the merry path of development unsullied by early assumption and prejudice, some seem to flag up their potential pretty brazenly from the start.

    We're not always right, of course. For every out-of-nowhere, critical step-up like Titanfall 2, there's a surprise disappointment like Mafia 3. But, eschewing all cheap, lazy, forum snark and flailing fanboy hype from the equation, some games just set off a certain kind of signal. And already, just a few months out from its first gameplay reveal at Quakecon 2016, with only one additional preview session at Arkane's Austin studio since then, Prey looks like it might have a chance of being one of 2017's biggest and most important standouts.

    Why? Well there are the obvious reasons of pedigree, of course. Certain studios earn the right to command confidence, and Arkane has arguably hit that stage now. Best known to the mainstream console gamer for Dishonored and last year's Dishonored 2, Arkane is the game dev supergroup when it comes to the dynamic, open-ended systemic gameplay of the emergent sim genre, its members having collectively worked on BioShock, Deus Ex, System Shock and Half-Life 2 in the past. Doing for option-laden, player-driven stealth sandboxes what Super Mario Galaxy did for the 3D platformer, Arkane's two most recent games represent a studio with decades of none-stronger insight into the fundamentals of its chosen genre, yet an uninhibited, forward-looking thirst for exploration and evolution.

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