Prerelease:Prey (2006)/Differences

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Owning to the long development and many creative visions of Prey, several ideas would be scrapped.

Paul Schuytema's version of Prey has the most similarities, as much of its ideas, universe and documents inspired the final game.

Story

To do: MachineWorks Northwest's Prey games, like Prey Invasion, appear to be based on an older version of the final story.

Little is known about the story in the Tom Hall iteration, outside of character details of the main lead.

it is unknown how the game's story evolved when Human Head picked up development duties. 3D Realms appeared to have reconsidered the game's name as "Dark Harvest: A Tommy Hawk Adventure" by 2001. While the game wan't retitled, the name would continue to be used in design documents.

Characters

Domasi "Tommy" Tawodi

Tommy is the only character to have been featured in every iteration of the game in one way or another.

In the Tom Hall iteration, his was known as Prey of Earth. First, he was a successful native American businessman/politician who, after losing a court case over his ancestral lands, would retreat into the wilderness to access the ruling, where his abduction by aliens would occur.. His body would then be fused with a "biotech suit" and have to fight off various hostile threats.

Render of Prey of Earth's face seen with wireframe and phong-shading by artist Douglas Wood.

For reasons that are unclear this plot was abandoned, Tom Hall provided one being, "it totally obscures the character, who is the real focus of the game". As such, Prey of Earth was later written to be a paranormal investigator, akin to Fox Mulder and Dana Sully from the X-Files. He would be captured and thrown into an arena with a gigantic alien warrior, which at that point he would need to win the fight against it and survive to find his way back home.

Prey of Earth was dropped as a character after the team disbanded in August 1996. Outside of his native American heritage, he shares very little with his latter counterparts.

In November 1996, various names were proposed for the protagonist during the early stages of the game's reboot, some of these included "Ravin Brave" and "Justice Black Claw". Some files from around the time also proposed a story that he be a "down and out security guard on a space station". The name Talon Brave would ultimately be chosen as seen in a January 9th trademark by 3D Realms the following year.

Talon Brave Sun, his full name.^Verfiy

Talon would still make it into the final game, in a way, with Tommy's deceased pet hawk that accompanies him.

Little Information exists on regarding the evolution of Talon into Tommy after the second restart however some titbits are known. When George Broussard began revising the Preyweb documents, Talon's name was changed many times into Tommy Hawk (however the "Talon" name still managed to slip in a bit), By October 2005, the name Tommy Tawodi was chosen, before being slightly adjusted to the final name (with "Tommy" simply made a nickname)..

Enisi

Known as Great-Grandfather.

Jen

Known as Mary Thunder.

The Mother

Known as the Staleene Keeper.

The Keepers

TBA

The Hidden

TBA

Enemies

While not confirmed, its very unlikely that any work was ever done for enemies in the Tom Hall iteration. Concept art showcasing some does exist, however.

Weapons

Dart Gun

As seen in a design document from 2002, A "dart gun" was proposed by Human Head.

Portal Gun

In a 2017 retrospective of the series, Scott Miller would state that he wanted to add a portal gun to the game in order to one-up Valve's own game about portals that was to release the following year. He estimated that the game needed about 4-6 more months to implement such a feature.

"I felt like the game needed another four to six months,".. "Because there was some key things that weren't in the game that I really felt were important. And one of those key things was putting back in that portal gun."... "It was just... a crying shame that we didn't have that portal gun in there, because, you know, a year or two later the game Portal comes out, and... steals our thunder in that area,