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Game Information
- Platform: Windows XP
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 18 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 18. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 18 years of age or over. - Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features
- Built on an enhanced Doom 3 engine, the most impressive 3D engine used in a released game.
- Portal technology adds a new dimension to gameplay, allowing enemies to appear out of thin air and create new and completely original puzzles and gameplay styles.
- Several never-before-seen gameplay elements such as Spirit Walking, Wall Walking, and Deathwalk.
- Highly organic, living environment that itself can attack Tommy.
- A deep, emotional story of love and sacrifice.
- Tommy has a sidekick, a spiritual hawk that can help him fight enemies and decipher the alien language of the living ship.
- Multiplayer game support that takes advantage of the unique gameplay styles in Prey
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
In a nutshell:
Although it was announced more than a decade ago this demonstrates that the best things really do come to those that wait, with the most original and technically advanced first person shoot ‘em-up in years.
Although it was announced more than a decade ago this demonstrates that the best things really do come to those that wait, with the most original and technically advanced first person shoot ‘em-up in years.
The lowdown:
Although it was conceived at a time when 3D graphics cards were still optional the basic idea behind the Prey portal technology is still the same as it ever was, allowing you to instantly step from one world to another in the game. You can even create the portals yourself as you battle grotesque enemy bosses in one area and jump back to another to recover. The game casts you as a Cherokee Indian with a number of magical powers such as spirit walking that let you explore the game world as a spirit, and deathwalk which replaces the normal need for intrusive quick saves with an innovative mini-game set between the worlds of the living and the dead.
Most exciting moment:
Not only is the portal technology amazing but the game’s use of gravity is equally inspired with gravity escalators that run up and across ceilings and some excellent zero gravity sections where you pilot spaceship pods and explore a tiny rotating planetoid.
Since you ask:
Originally intended only for the PC, the Xbox 360 version is being developed by British team Venom Games, who previously created Rocky Legends for Ubisoft, and features an 8 player multiplayer mode.
The bottom line:
Looks like being one of the top predators in the shoot ‘em-up world.
Harrison Dent
Manufacturer's Description
In Prey, gamers enter an unpredictable world where nothing can be taken for granted. Most of the game takes place within a living ship, a giant entity that can sense and react to Tommy's presence.
Prey makes use of Joseph's Campbell's renowned story structure, "The Hero's Journey," for guiding the main character arc. Campbell's extensive work on mythological story progression was made famous when George Lucas used it for Luke Skywalker's story arc in the original Star Wars.
Prey tells the story of Tommy, a Cherokee garage mechanic stuck on a reservation going nowhere. His life changes when an otherworldly crisis forces him to awaken spiritual powers from his long-forgotten birthright. Abducted along with his people to a menacing mothership orbiting Earth, he sets out to save himself and his girlfriend and eventually his planet.
Prey is serious, dark story, based on authentic Cherokee mythology. Themes of sacrifice, love and responsibility are explored and the story dives into emotional territory not yet explored by similar games.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
PREY,
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Prey (PC DVD) (Video Game)
Despite some negative reviews I think this game is well balanced FPS with some puzzles thrown in, but maybe slighty too easy for experienced players. The graphics are great and I loved the fact you can walk on the walls and that enemies can spawn above you. This keeps you on your toes and is fairly unique? (Tribes Vengence only other that springs to mind I have played). Get yourself a second hand copy and you wont be disappointed! I'm running P4 3.6Ghz, 2Gb Ram, Sapphire x850xt.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Let Us Prey,
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Prey (PC DVD) (Video Game)
This excellent game sees you playing the part of a modern day Native American who gets kidnapped by disgusting aliens. You have to rescue your girlfriend whilst destroying the Death Star (again). Been here before!
In many senses Prey is an old style, traditional shoot 'em up, with cardboard cut out bad guys ever ready to impale themselves helpfully on your weaponry. But in several important aspects the game play is innovative and fresh. First there are the gravity tricks. The game is set in space, right? So, gravity is optional to begin with. Developing this idea leads to glowing magnetic walkways that take you spiralling overhead into the ceiling. Jump off the walkway and you flip back to the floor. All the while getting shot at and shooting back. Or the switches that flip the gravity centre of entire rooms, allowing you to send baddies plunging to their doom. As well as effectively quadrupling the available game play space, these mechanisms set up some wonderful puzzles. How do I get that box over to that ledge whilst that force field is in the way? Flip the room, push the box, and flip the room back. That kinda thing. Then there are the portals - an innovation closely related to Valve's recent Orange Box puzzler Portal, with which it shares a common development heritage. In Prey the portals are pre-set, but mind-bendingly fun nevertheless. As if that wasn't enough, your character can become a spirit and pass invisibly through certain obstacles (such as laser surveillance and force fields), allowing you to get access to otherwise unreachable goals. You replenish your spirit energy by sucking up the glowing souls of your dead enemies, and when you die it isn't "game over". You get sooked through to a swirling spirit realm where you take pot shots at your disgraced ancestors to get your health back. Sounds confusing, don't it? But it all makes perfect sense in a game that is paced to lead you through the various mechanisms. The game looks great, being based on an updated version of the Doom 3 engine which allows much greater scope for rendering extremely large play areas. Metallic textures and organic alien sliminess are delivered with equal fidelity. Perhaps the only minor quibble would be the occasionally unconvincing character animation. With a soundtrack by Jeremy Soule who composed the music for the likes of Oblivion and some convincing voice acting, there is hardly a weak element in the game. The scope is breathtaking, matching the likes of Half Life 2. It's closest relatives are Doom 3 and Bioshock, with a nod in the direction of the aforementioned Half Life 2. If Doom 3 disappointed you, then you may well love Prey. It's everything that game should have been, and more.
29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Sorry to disagree with most of you, but it's really not that good......,
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Prey (PC DVD) (Video Game)
OK. I'll give this game credit. It is more original than many a FPS out there, and I guess it deserves some of your time.
But not much. You start off playing thinking it's a bit weird, and then it gets better... Beautiful graphics, original storyline with challenging but not overly hard puzzles, cool guns, cool locations with innovative ideas (the gravity belts and room rotating etc etc) and strange but impressive enemies. So far so good I hear you say. Indeed. And why the poor rating then? Well, I just got bored of it. It's ever so samey. Walk into room. Kill bad guys. Activate something to solve puzzle. Enter more bad guys. Kill bad guys. Exit room. Walk through corridors. Enter room. Kill bad guys. Activate something...... you get the idea. You get bored of the rotating rooms, the funny paths that lead up walls and ceilings that you can walk up. Even the 'spirit world' ends up being a bit tedious. It just doesn't seem to evolve very much the further you progress into the game, and I kinda wish it did. Don't get me wrong. It's not a bad game, but it's just not as great as some of the reviews I read before buying it. I guess maybe all the hype made me think it would be exceptional. And it isn't. Download the demo and give it a try. Just don't expect the full version of the game to add much more to it.
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