10 Most WTF Video Game Reboots

Ever since game and movie companies struck a chord rebooting old franchises, the gold rush was on.

Soon every major entertainment medium realized they could wring every drop out of their old properties, either through the nostalgia felt by existing fans or targeting a whole new generation.

Occasionally, reboots are allowed to become more than cynical cash-grabs. A good reboot can breathe new life into something dead or dying, take a chance to truly challenge its audience, or modernize old ideas for today's youth.

However, that usually is not the case, and quality reboots of beloved media are few. But even worse than the Quick Payday Reboot is the WTF, But Why Reboot: the reboot that come so far out of left field that they may as well have just been a new property.

Here are ten such reboots. Good, bad or even unreleased, these hot, spicy takes on old games can't help but beg the question, "What were you guys on when you thought of THAT?"

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.