Though you have a way to reset the corruption level counter, the countdown is more of an annoyance and resource drain than a mechanic that intensifies gameplay. Once corruption hits level five, the simulation crashes. With every new level of corruption it reaches, enemies you’ve killed respawn stronger than they were before. To make matters worse, a corruption timer ticks away during every simulation.
If one of your characters is killed by an enemy or environmental negligence, the whole simulation resets, wiping out your progress and creating a new base where enemy and item layouts are randomized. Mooncrash’s biggest feature is its roguelike ambitions, which is the expansion’s biggest success and failure. You also have to complete certain story missions to unlock other characters. The tales make each playthrough more interesting than just getting out alive. Most of them are enjoyable short stories that give you a little insight into each character, like the security officer’s friendship with a custodian who’s actually a backstabbing Kasma operative. Each one represents a different character build you might have made during the Prey campaign, like the gifted mentalist who has access to a ridiculous arsenal of powers (such as telekinesis or energy blasts) but limited health, and the security officer who’s good with a gun. While the universal goal for everyone is to escape the moon by any means possible, each character also has a special objective for you to complete. The narrative wrapper requires that you play as all five crewmates. The setup is delightfully odd, a strange structure that wisely puts experimentation with Prey’s enjoyable toolbox of skills and weapons first, even if (once again) the narrative payoff is lacking. Something’s gone wrong on the moon, and he has to find out why by running simulations of five base personnel who made it off the base, then recording that data for Kasma. Peter’s been monitoring TranStar’s secret lunar base. You assume the role of Peter, a hacker working for TranStar’s chief competitor, Kasma Corporation. Mooncrash is a side story, taking place after the base game. The Mooncrash expansion pack remedies most of the base game’s ills and creates the experience I wish I had played last year. However, tedious backtracking and dull combat often muddied Prey’s offerings.
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I loved exploring the mysterious space station Talos 1 and learning how to bypass obstacles by turning into coffee cups or raising former crewmates to fight my battles. Arkane Studios’ immersive reboot of Prey was entertaining, even if it lurked a little too long in the shadows of Deus Ex and System Shock for its own good.
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