Bethesda has officially cancelled long delayed and awaited sequel Prey 2.
The game would have been a sequel to a game that came out in 2006, a particularly brutal sci fi horror first person shooter. The original game had you playing Cherokee ‘Tommy’ Domasi Tawodi, as he is abducted aboard an alien spaceship, and has to work his way through the ship to stop the alien menace.
The sequel would have completely shifted gears, putting you now in the role of a US Marshal, Killian Samuels. Killian was also an abductee, who has no memory of the incident, and is now a bounty hunter on an alien planet. He meets Tommy, compelling him to a quest to recover his memories.
Prey 2 was officially announced in March 14, 2011, although plans for a sequel were confirmed as early as shortly after Prey’s release. The game was being developed on the Id Tech 4 engine, and apparently retained its original vision when publishing rights were transferred from Radar to Bethesda.
However, it was under Bethesda that rumors of cancellation began, with rumors coming up in March 2012 and May 2013. In turn, Bethesda progressively delayed the game’s release, removed the game from their site. There were also rumors that Human Head was taken off the project, with Arkane Studios and/or Obsidian Entertainment each working on the game.
Bethesda Vice President Pete Hines revealed that the game was cancelled at PAX Australia this year. In doing so, he confirmed that Human Head was still working on the game, but this has now ceased. Pete explained that the production was not living up to expectations, so they opted to cancel it.
