By Alec Meer on August 9th, 2011 at 3:33 pm.
Yes, it’s that oldest of all the jokes. But I’m afraid a screenshot of Tommy’s actual back is all we’re getting from Human Head today. Given exactly thirty-two in every five hundred and twenty-eight people on the internet were vocally distressed to discover that Prey 2 would be ditching the first game’s Native American protagonist Tommy in favour of a white soldierdude named Killian Samuels, you’d have thought the first unveiling of Tommy’s NPC appearance in Prey 2 would have a little more hullabaloo. But no, just his back. And a bit of his nose, admittedly. Will he be purely a talky character, or will you fight alongside him somehow? I don’t know these things. I’m sorry. Look, I’ve got this picture of his back, and that’s all. Stop looking at me like that. What do you want from me?
So there you go. There’s the picture of a man’s back. That’s my story. We’ll always remember this moment.
Aww. Demoted from a half-original protagonist to a Magical Native American. Lame.
report
now correct me if im wrong but wasnt his character in the first one a native american with magical powers?
report
Yeah, but that’s only half the trope. The other half is, “…who teaches the white protagonist something insightful about himself.”
report
Actually Tommy’s real trope is “Stupid, stubborn, genre-ignorant asshole who doesn’t listen to mentor figure despite the screams of the player controlling him, and as an obviously predictable result, gets his girlfriend killed.”
Have I mentioned how much that bothered me? Well at least in this game Tommy can’t screw up any worse because most of the named characters from the first game are dead.
Oh, sorry. Spoilers.
report
Good to see that in the future, fashion sense hasn’t changed.
report
Except that it doesn’t take place in the future. It’s just a few year after the first one.
report
That’s the definition of future.
report
And the first game was released when?
report
Don’t make me turn my back on you!
report
“I was like you once; a stranger in a strange land. Now I stand guard over these crates. There are monsters behind those crates. I’ll give you 50 creds if you take ‘em out.”
report
OH my lord I laughed. The 50 creds really sold it. 50!
report
With the amount of expectations I have for this game, I’m bound to be disappointed. Yet, I fervently hope this game to has S.T.A.L.K.E.R.’s open levels and atmosphere, Ass Creed’s fluidity and a deep, interesting storyline as in The Witcher 2 without any of the Mass Effect games’ pretentiousness.
report
Damn you for bringing my hopes up. Now I want all games to be like that.
report
I sort of want Cyberpunk: The Masquerade from these shots.
Slim, slim chance of it being that level of good, though.
report
Cyberpunk: The Masquerade sounds a lot like Deus Ex.
report
I have a feeling he’ll be a bounty target at some point but then you’ll find him and he’ll do something magical and you’ll realize you were working for the bad guy all along ™
report
UUUUUHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was I the only one who want’s to see Tommy die in a length court case.
report
“But no, just his back. And a bit of his nose, admittedly.”
And his luscious, long locks. Reminds me of my hair… I just want to run my fingers through it. Which I can’t do, obviously. It being a digital representation of a digital character and all. But, I do have my hair. Which is awesome. As good as Sterling Archer’s, if not better. Now I’m going to find a mirror.
report
Can you get a comb through your hair? Or is it so thick that it’s not really possible?
report
At least you’ve ‘got’ hair!
report
He may well be magic, but finding another human in a strange world of aliens will probably be quite a big plot point for the game…
report
He’s the only other human out there, and [veiled spoiler] after the choice he made at the end of the game, and what was hinted at by -insert big nasty who shall go un-named here- after you dealt with it, he’s clearly going to be a major plot point, if not THE major plot point.
report
That left arm…
report
Good implied question.
report
*Cough*
report
In his right hand, he holds his gun… also in his left.
report
While we are at it, what is that thing protruding downwards from his right arm, that looks suspiciously similar to whatever he may be holding on the other hand?
report
Maybe he just holds a spare magazine in his left hand. Just after taking it out of his underpants. Where he was keeping it to prevent security guys from finding it. And to impress girls.
report
We know he’s going to be the twist right? Through out the first 3/4 of the game we’ll be hunting him then he’ll let you know what’s really going on and you’ll team up to take on the big bad.
report
Man, he’s still wearing the same clothes, too. Those things must be rank by now.
report
I’m pretty sure the clothes have fused with his skin.
report
Leather jacket and a jean pant. They never go out of style, do they?
report
He’s got a bar to run,who’s going to look after it when he gone off Alien shooting?
report
He must be working out.
report
PREYs endiong was so goddamn predictable.
Would have really been a surprising mindbender if he would have started to do good things with the structure instead of the clicheed and visionless “Oh no, power corrupts, i must destroy it!”-crap.
report
Except that he was right. It wasn’t the case of “Oh no, this untested and wholly new power will surely corrupt me if I use it” – it was “this thing has been corrupting people for thousands of years, there’s no indication whatosever that I would be any different, better destroy it”
Tommy actually had an arc in Prey. He started out whiny and petulant, sick of ancestry, a drunk and he breaks down and beats a guys head in. With a wrench. In the first 5 minutes.
His familiy and girlfriend died because he was all “shut up, grandpa I got this magic bow now, gonna go save my girlfriend!” instead of listening and getting his actual superpowers.
He got a lot humbler the longer the thing went on.
report
I wonder where he buys those jeans in space.
Maybe aliens can clone clothes as well.
report
I liked the original Prey a lot. It good old Sci Fi corridor shooter with a strong storyline and a couple of technical gimmicks to keep it interesting (portals and gravity shifting). The game did have one humungous flaw however: There is no penalty for dying rather you actually get rewarded for dying by being jetted off to the nether world where you can pick up extra health and mana.
report
Rock Opera: Tommy
report
I am in favour of having more minorities as main characters. But Tommy? His story (while above average in depth for shooters, with actual character development (GASP!)) is told, and you can only fuck it up by adding to that. I refer to the exemplary Matrix 2/3, which clearly have never been made.
report
I was kind of disappointed with what they were removing from Prey in Prey 2. But then I saw what they were replacing it with and decided it was best to shut the fuck up and let them make that awesome looking game for me to play.
report
wait, who is tommy
report
That Native American kid sure plays a mean pinball.
report
IB4 Turok!
report
and on today’s character porn, here is a nipple shot of Tommy!
report