New Prey Game Announced, I Hate It

So Bethesda released a trailer for the new Prey game and it turns out I'm not impressed. In fact, I bloody hate it.

First off, it's got nothing to do with the original Prey game, it's a bloody re-imagining of the franchise. The franchise has had one game and a cancelled sequel, it doesn't need re-imagining. One story about a Native American coming to grips with his peoples culture and ways while fighting an alien force which is harvesting humans. The sequel was said to follow one survivor from the plane that crashed in the original game as he finds himself on an alien world as a bounty hunter. Hell, the end of the first Prey has the government pretending the events never happened so you could have had this game connected to it, but nope, it's a re-imagining and not a sequel.

So after all the waiting, after all the hints of a return, we finally get a new Prey game. A game that has nothing to do with the original. A game that would have been better off being called something else other then Prey. A game that has now disappointed me to the point that I now see it in a negative light because of this.

This isn't Prey, this is a cash in on the name. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go play the original Prey and enjoy what was one of my favourite first-person shooters.

Edit: Ok, so perhaps I need to better explain a bit better now I've calm down a bit. What I was saying is that I'm not bagging the game out for being bad or anything (Hell, the trailer really doesn't show any actual gameplay or real story and is more of a mess if anything), but rather that it has nothing to do with anything that is the Prey universe. A re-imagining still has to somehow remain loyal to the original series. Star Fox Zero is an excellent example of a good re-imagining, which still sticks faithfully to it's original series, but still introduces new ideas and gameplay. The new Prey feels more like taking the original Mario Bros and making a Sonic game, calling it a Mario Bros re-imagining. It's going to upset fans of the original.

What is even more insulting is that there was already a great idea in production called Prey 2 that Bethesda owns and would have full control over. It was still set in the same universe, was connected to the original and was going to feature the original protagonist at some point in the game. You would play a bounty hunter with par-core skills and an array of gadgets. The trailer was amazing and people were hyped for it, so why not simply take what was already made and get another company to continue production on it. As many people who weren't fans of the first game still stated that they were more looking forward to Prey 2 then this new game based on the trailer alone.

The fact they cancelled what was to be a great sequel to do a somewhat confusing re-imagining that has nothing of the original about it just seems to infuriate me more then anything.