10 Most WTF Video Game Reboots

10. Prey (2017)

Prey has a storied history. The original game, released in 2006, spent about a decade in one form of development or another. It was well on its way to becoming the next Duke Nukem Forever, another game made by then-publisher 3D Realms that spent over a decade in development limbo only to finally release as one of the worst games ever made.

Prey focused on protagonist Domasi "Tommy" Tawodi, a young Cherokee man who has to save his girlfriend from aliens. Outside of a few novel features, it was a completely straight-forward shooter. Guy with gun shoots aliens - you know: video games!

A very promising sequel also spent a fair amount of time in development hell, before being purchased from 3D Realms by current publisher Bethesda, and promptly canceled.

That brings us to Prey (2017) - a first-person shooter/RPG/survival horror hybrid that sees protagonist Morgan Yu creeping his way through a human-made space station, confronting or avoiding the phantom-like alien Typhon. There's emphasis on player choice, various forms of upgrade currency, crafting, skills trees, and survival elements more common among modern-day Rogue-Lites.

To TLDR it for you: It's basically System Shock 3.

So what ties it back to the original Prey? Well... there are guns and aliens, and... um... space, I guess. But that's about all the two have in common. Them and almost every other video game.