Prey is 20-30 hours long with multiple endings a lot going on with a plethora of side missions to complete if you so choose. The story was good, ending was decent(Was a bit let down but with multiple endings they generally tend not to be deep more minor dialogue alterations at the end), the gunplay was fun throughout and at the end you really felt powerful but still a bit challenged by enemy variety and strength.ĭead Space 2 is only around 12 hours long and it's fun, scary and delivers a good story.

After I came back a few days ago and started afresh not caring so much for finding all characters in each area as I visited each area I ended up having a blast and really focusing on the game as a whole.

I found the beginning to be a bit dragging and a lot was thrown at me that felt like it was super important and required more of me(Locating each and every crew member but ended up just being something you do by default on the side and the terminals just helped you find ones you were missing). It's more of an RPG where you have multiple choices that have an impact than Dead Space which is more on the rails go to X, do Y and get to the end of the game. Prey is totally different to any of the Dead Space games. My answer would have to be both having just played Prey and having it on the back burner until now since it was released(Sometimes I just start a game, play the first hour or two then come back a month later and lose interest). If you were to ask me if Dead Space 2 is worth buying I would definitely say yes but you're asking to choose one over the other(Or both). It was a great series and one of full on terror evolving to a more action orientated series(As is generally the progression of horror series). I've played and beat all of the Dead Space games(Dead Space 3 solo and then again in co-op which was a nice experience with additions added for the co-op character to add things up and make sense).

Do you need dead space 1 story for 2