An Easter egg fromPreyhas appeared in Arkane’s latest open-world FPS titleRedfall. Having recently been released to mixed-to-poor reception,Redfallsees up to four players group up to take back a coastal Massachussets town that’s been taken over by vampires and their violent cultist followers.
Arkane’s sci-fi titlePreywas released in the summer of 2017 and while it’s highly praised by many today, it unfortunately flew under the radar commercially at launch, selling very little in a year that saw the releases ofThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild,Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin’s Creed Origins,andHorizon Zero Dawnamong others dominate the gaming zeitgeist. Despite this, attention has been brought to Arkane’s sci-fi horror title in recent years with Xbox’s acquisition of Bethesda seeing the latter’s massive library of games landing on Xbox Game Pass permanently.Preyhas managed to garner somewhat of a cult following since, with many gamers discovering the game for the first time and realizing what they had missed out on in 2017. While many people seemed to have forgotten aboutPreyat launch, it’s clear that Arkane never did.
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Reddit user Tsundereployer posted an image on theRedfallsubreddit featuring a bottle of Green Beetle Gin fromPreyappearing inRedfall. The bottle in the image looks to be sitting on a table inone ofRedfall’s safehouseswhich are safe spots in the town where players can take refuge while they refill ammo and health as well as accept safehouse missions. The Reddit user also pointed out that the back of the Green Beetle Gin bottle names Transtar as the bottler, the tech corporation responsible for building the Talos I space station and the Pytheas research facility in thePreyuniverse.
The appearance of a Green Beetle Gin bottle inRedfallcould mean one of three things. It’s possible this is merely a case of a reused asset, which is very common in the realm of AAA game development. However, a studio like Arkane has always, at least up to this point, acted with immense purpose and precision even in the most minute details of its games. With that, this could simply be an intentional Easter egg nodding to Arkane’s beloved Talos I space station, or it could perhaps imply a larger connection between thePreyandRedfalluniverses. SinceDeathloopdirector Dinga Bakaba confirmed last year thatDishonoredandDeathloopexist within the same universeit’s not outside the realm of possibility for Talos Iand the quaint, nautical Massachussets town of Redfall to share the same universe as well.
Whether the Green Beetle Gin bottle inRedfallis hinting toward a shared universe withPreyis yet to be known for certain. At this point, with howpoorly receivedRedfallhas been at launchit’s doubtful Arkane would want to marry it to any of their more highly praised and adored titles.
Redfallis available now on PC and Xbox Series X|S.
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