PREY

[lonelyjew]

I'm sure many of you guys have heard of the game but how many have you have played it? I downloaded the demo and I have to say it's a pretty amazing game. It's unique gravity system and portal system set it appart from any other fps, especially in the multiplayer. I thought it was pretty fun(enought that I went out and bought a pre-order today) and I think you guys might get a kick out of it.

Here's a link that you can download the demo from.

http://files.filefront.com/SEARCH/;5.../fileinfo.html

[solodude23]

I downloaded it, havn't played yet. Is it scary?

[xMACx]

nope, I found it very silly.

[solodude23]

The MP is one of those kind that annoys me and pisses me off. (Quake, Doom, etc) Theres always some guy that is unbelievable good who scores like 20 or more kills than the guy in 2nd place, and every time you encounter him you die immediatly. He uses the same weapon all the time too...

Those games are not for me. (MP at least)

[Butmonkey]

Event horizon?

[[R-MOD]Bob_Marley]

Isnt that last one from event horizon?

[Butmonkey]

top one from the game, other 2 from Event Horizon

[A.J.Sawyer]

good demo

[[T]Terranova7]

Prey has some interesting concepts. I haven't played the demo but I've read a few previews on it.

They have this thing called sprit walking where the player leaves his body to walk around as energy of sorts. This helps with getting through shields and/or sneaking up on enemies. The body can be attacked and when it is you are instantly snapped back to your body and receive extra damage. Another thing is this little death system where you die and you go up into some sort of realm where you battle it out for your right to stay alive, then you returned to your corpse alive.

Sounds pretty good, but its probably not my type of game. Seems a bit too fragmented and wild with all these portals and gravity walls and alien guns... Though if it has a good singleplayer I might go in and try it (Doom 3 had a weak story which compelled me to quit it)

[00SoldierofFortune00]

It was ok mostly for me. It seemed too close to Doom except with a lot of ideas thrown in to reinvent itself and seperate itself from Doom. But when all is said and done, the AI still sucked so far, the walking on walls thing is ok(some get nacious(sp?) from it) in MP but won't last long, and the graphics were ok but with low poly counts and too blocky.

The MP is good for those quake kind of people, but won't keep anyone interested for very long because it is mostly run and gun.
I personally injoyed Quake 4 multi better because at least it is bigger and easier to snipe with more powerups n such.

I don't have much faith in the Doom 3ish AI unless they really pull something off. The story is what is really saving this game and is the main selling point. The not dying and bow thing is a good way of making it so you won't have to load the game. That along with the portals is another good points. the gravity thing is ok, but like I said it won't last long because you will feel more annoyed or probably sick from going upside down all the time.

The game isn't scary so far, but it did have a funny part with the kid which most would probably find "disturbing."

All in all, I would say it is an ok game, but nothing really shocked me in the game. The guns look really nice and portals, but the AI/human/walls/objects/ characters still look blocky as always. They said it was an updated version of the Doom 3 engine, but it mostly looks the same except maybe a little more optimized. Its good if you want a good story and such, but it doesn't seem like an HL2 or Far Cry.

For me, they are just trying to reinvent the whole Doom 3 game and engine, but it still seems like the same enclosed/dark area/room game with a few tweaks.