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Underestimated; really fun.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was skeptical about this game when I first started playing it because I didn't know what to expect but as the game went along I really started enjoying myself and noticing what a sharp shooter I was!! I think that the futuristic part of the game puts a lot of people off and all the topsy curvies confuse people but after a while you'll get used to it and start looking forward to it.

This would be a good game on the original Xbox, NOT the 360.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm a FPS freak. I love em! Having recently finished Gears of War (3rd person shooter,) Call of Duty 4 and Time Shift, I have gotten very spoiled. All 3 of those games are second to none. So when I play a game, my expectation bar is pretty high.

I'm only going to go into the major flaw of Prey, because for me, it's a deal breaker.

The primary problem is the actual shooting of the aliens (the main crux of the game.) When you fire at them it's hard to tell if you even hit them because all that happens is a little scene of blood splatter which may or may not be in the area you actually hit them. THERE'S NO REALISM IN IT AT ALL. The Doom 3 engine is just too outdated to compete with the other games out today. It falls way short of what I expect from a FPS.

Sure the scenery and the teleporation and other gimmicks are fun for about 15 minutes but if all I'm doing is going from dark room to dark room firing at aliens in an original Xbox, Doom-esque manner, I'm getting bored VERY fast. So fast in fact, I put the game back in the case after 8 of 24 levels. An Xbox 360 game this is not!

If you loved Gears of War, Time Shift or Call of Duty 4, I would recommend staying away from Prey. You will really be disappointed.

Price was right

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game, for the money, was a lot of fun. With good puzzles and a story line almost all should enjoy. Give it a try.

Prey

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Prey has an unusual format, storyline and main character model.

Story graphics run around 9 with the issue of respawn the weakest part of the game action. Respawing is simply pecular and though innovative interrupts the storyline to such a degree as to be annoying.

Great idea, well developed with lots of action. vehicle action (flying vehicle) is really very well done.

prey

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Game was alright. I have been trying all the highly rated 360 games. I guess how quick I beat one is the best measure, that is, do I walk away and leave it or play well into the night. It was okay, not Halo, Gears, or Call of Duty. But they all have their drawbacks.

Great game...could have been better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game, but could have been so much more. The story is epic, the characters are pretty good, the enemies are fantastic, but its missing something. It could have used some human guns, other than the wrench. But overall, I would reccomend it!

Half-life and Doom meets M.C. Escher

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's good. Upside down walkways, aliens, guns, puzzles, and it's simple. The game, as mentioned before, is repetitive although the scenery keeps changing, so I didn't lose interest. when I start playing I can't stop! The game is long too, it just keeps going and going and going.....

Good start

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Caveat: This is a single-player only review.

So I picked up this game on the cheap (its been out for over a year) to tide me over until I got Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4. I enjoyed the experience overall, but compared to the cream of the crop FPS out there, it just isn't as good.

The Good:
-Graphics are pretty good. This is id's Doom 3 engine at work. Good lighting, nice textures, and a good particle system. Impressive for a 1st generation 360 game.
-Interesting weapons. Breaks the convention of the typical FPS, including no reloading!
-Pretty length game.
-Plot. The use of Native American characters and mythology is a welcome change from the usual military based shooter.
-Physics puzzles. The gravity defying gameplay, and the portals are definitely innovative.

The Bad:
-Plot. Seriously... a giant sphere on which aliens hunt and devour organic material? Call the sphere a "Halo" and there you go. Or maybe its the Borg.
-The humans characters looks pretty bad... just blobs of polygons skinned with pretty low-res textures. The enemies look better.
-Weapons. Balance is an issue... you're never sure when to use what and on what enemies.
-For some reason, the combat isn't visceral. I don't know if its because they didn't use the controller feedback, or because the enemies aren't that interesting (is that a floating Buddha statue?) but its just not as much of a kick as other games.
-Physics puzzles. While they are innovative, they aren't very well integrated into the story. OK, I have to walk along the ceiling now. I wonder why. I have to flip the room around. Super... any particular reason? They are all interesting, but they don't really come together to form a cohesive game.
-Boss battles. Not a big fan, sorry.

It was a pretty fun experience, but I don't think I'll try it again. I'd rather go replay any of the Halo series, or Half-Life 2. Speaking of HL2, if you are planning on doing a game where physics are going to play a role, you've got serious competition. The physics puzzle in Prey were pretty much exclusively environmental, whereas the gravity gun in HL2 was both environmental AND combative. Prey was also the first to introduce Portals, but "Portal" did it better because it stepped back and allowed the player to get used to the concept without getting constantly shot at by weird aliens with big feet.

Still, if you can get it cheap, pick it up and give it a whirl. It doesn't suck.

Great story, great FPS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played the downloadable demo and thought the game was good enough to warrant spending $30 for the full game.

The draws for me were the interesting twists on the classic first-person shooter... things like the gravity-defying walkways that allow you to walk up walls and along ceilings, giving you a different perspective on your situation; the very organic appearance of everything, include the various guns you use (one appears to be partly a living organism, and the other is the cybernetic hand of a massive beast complete with implanted cannons); the clever puzzles where you have to enter "Spirit Walk" mode in order to find ways around obstacles; and the interesting mechanism for dealing with dying in the game (you enter the Spirit World where you must shoot your bow and arrow at bird-like creatures to refill your health gage before your spirit gets sucked back down to the mortal plane). Beyond that, I thought it was going to be a pretty lame story of alien abduction. I don't want to ruin the story for anyone, but the story and especially the endgame is simply spectacularly written and leads you very cleverly into an announcement for Prey 2... a sequel that will hopefully live up to expectations.

The game includes multiplayer capability and achievements, but I'm not a big multiplayer person so I can't really comment on how this game stands up as a multiplayer game, but the few times I've gone online it was fun, but nothing really special or unique in terms of multiplayer modes. You can choose your character appearance and a variety of options regarding the match settings, but I don't recall any multiplayer features that seemed like they were extraordinary in any way.

Could have been better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Dont know where to start. First of all The storyline isnt anything spectacular, or for that matter horrible. The graphics are ok but nothing really stood out. Yet if you are looking for easy achievment points this is a great game.

The one thing this game does have is alot of innovative gameplay. You will find yourself shooting alien weapons (not the usual pistol, shotgun, machine gun). You will also find yourself walking on gravity panels and walking on the roof and sides of room. This makes for more interesting levels but can get a little repetitive. The puzzles in the game are basically just there, to make you think for a few seconds.

The horrible thing about this game is, the online gameplay, as many achievments depend on this, you will most likely find yourself trying to get into a match. It is very hard to find somone actually playing this game online. Its a matter of luck. This is for good reasons, there are two modes, death match and team death match (boring). Nothing really stands out besides what I have mentioned earlier.

All in all I found this game as the average shooter. Much potential but none of it harvested (pun from game). I find the replay value very low, besides maybe to get achievments

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