OK so I understand what your looking for.
First let’s get the enemies. Going off of pred 2’s trophy scenes we have a vast array of alien species from that scene alone let alone what you can create given the set-up.
We also have colonial marines. They’re humans, no need to specify.
So any series that can’t accommodate both humans and monsters are gone.
Most games, including pred games, typically focus on one element of gameplay. Predator specializes in two.
Ranged and melee
Two dedicated systems that changes how each enemy plays based on your own playstyle.
And I’m not talking PHG melee either, I’m talking dark souls melee. Except also remember that I brought up limb damage. So dark souls with limb damage, but better than bloodbornes limb damage.
Imagine using a combistick to slice open an alien rhinos stomach and have it bleed half it’s health over the rest of the Fight.
Your not getting that from Samus.
So the franchise has to allow for
Dedicated Melee and ranged gameplay
Monster and human fights
Heavy dismemberment
Bow there is a series that meets these requirements.
Horizon
What separates Predator from that is stealth. Mainly in how it can be implemented.
Horizens stealth is the shit, with 90 different blind spots and 90 different same solutions.
For pred I’d like to take inspiration from Mark of the ninja. While MOTN does have hiding spots, stealth 8n that game was more about where you can’t be, rather than can be. Further more each encounter was more of a puzzle about breaking the enemies set up, rather than basic timing.
Preds cloak provides the first part brilliantly. Where you have to be in close quarters or specific sections to be seen.
The second part is three fold
One part is just game design
The second part is equipment. MOTN allows you to easily break set-ups using equipment, that pred easily has that due to their advanced tech.
The third part is mobility that goes beyond human capability
There’s also another potential grab where the predator can use terror tactics featuring dismemberment that Horizon can’t since their dismemberment is exclusive to their robots.
So
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Melee and ranged
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Monster and human fights
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Heavy dismemberment
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Proper stealth gameplay
Name a franchise that can feature all 4 of those. If you can, well good job I’ll try to find something else pred has over them.