Prey Trailer Gives a Warped Alternate History Lesson Involving JFK

Learn the night history of Talos I in the latest trailer for Prey. Bethesda Softworks released a new video explaining the story behind the Talos 1 facility, where Arkane Studios' psychological kickoff-person shooter Prey takes place.

The trailer description beneath does a decent job of setting up the retro-drawing styled trailer:

In the alternate futurity of Prey, President Kennedy survives the assassination, which sets off a turn of events leading to the key conflict. After recovering from the attempt on his life, Kennedy threw his nation further into the space race by taking control of a U.S./Russian joint program and transforming a Russian satellite into a fully functional R&D facility meant to study non-terrestrials. This facility later became Talos I, a highly advanced infinite station owned by the TranStar Corporation.

Players in Prey control Morgan Yu, who wakes up on space station Talos I and has to dauntless the conflicting menace known as the Typhon that completely overrun the station. It's your job to survive and figure out exactly what the who they are and what they desire. I should mention that Morgan has been imbued with mysterious conflicting powers. I guess you'll demand all the help you can get when dealing extraterrestrial beings of unknown origin and trying to salve humanity at the same time.

Personally, I'm a sucker for whatsoever alternate history takes. This i in item virtually Kennedy surviving his assassination and then escalating the infinite race between the Usa and Russia sounds awesome. While this isn't exactly Prey two, I'k curious to see where this direction for this Prey reimaging goes; then again, that's exactly the point Bethesda's VP of Marketing Pete Hines made when he mentioned that as long every bit Arkane's game turns out to exist dandy, no one volition complain anymore of Human being Head'due south Prey 2 cancellation.

Prey, which is powered past Crytek's CRYENGINE, is expected to launch side by side twelvemonth on Xbox I, PlayStation 4 and PC. Final week, information technology was revealed in a trailer that players will be able to choose the gender of main grapheme Morgan Yu.