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believe it or play it for yourself !!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 20
Date: July 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game freakin rocks, definitley for a mature gamers,sorry kids ! this game makes quake 4 look like doo....doo.....( if you didnt know they used the quake 4 graphics engine) it has been supercharged!!! I have to make myself stop playing this game...I loved halflife 2,quake 4 was awesome,king kong ruled,GR advanced warfighter bla bla, if all pc games were this cool and run this good it would be awesome, this is by far the best pc game next to halflife 2 that ive ever played !!!!!!!!

Warning

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 22
Date: July 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I recently BOUGHT this game, I installed it and expected to play it. Well, the security feature on this game detected something on my system, and I had to download an illegal crack to play the single player. I havn't gotten to try the multiplayer yet, because after paying for the game, the people who secured the game from pirates think I've stolen it. If you don't know what Deamon tools is, go ahead and buy this, otherwise, I'd just pirate the damn game.

Some new ideas, not enough meaty game play!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 19
Date: August 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I don't doubt the people that rated this game higher than 2 stars enjoyed it...but they must be easily satisfied types with no desire to play a challenging or original game. I find most people like that enjoy easy to defeat enemies and lame AI.

My rating may seem harsh..but trust me. Download and play the DEMO first. You will get the idea very quickly. PREY also made huge claims that it was going to be THE game to beat. HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!! Too funny!
If you have played HL2, DOOM 3 or FEAR...you will be biored with this lamer.

PREY does offer 2 new concepts and 1 KIND OF new concept...gravity, your character is an American Indian and portals.

AMERICAN INDIAN -
The main character is an American Indian...or native American. I really liked this! In real life, I am 6' tall, I lift weights and look like I just stepped out of a DOOM 3 Marine platoon mission. I am sick of playing stereotypical, blond haired, crew cut, muscle bound guys. I really enjoyed being an American Indian. Yiour character has a super power...he goes into the "spirit" world which allows him to travel and do things his mortal body cannot do. NICE TOUCH! This was definitely a fresh, new angle for gameplay.

GRAVITY -
They threw the rules of gravity out the window. You can walk upside down, side ways etc. This is very nice because you get lost/confused sometimes. It does mess with your middle ear a bit. lol However, this does get old after the first 1-2 hours of gameplay.

PORTALS -
Enemies appear from portals. Instead of enemies pre-planted and waiting for you, they pop out from portals. This is nice. You cannot always attack from behind and it is surprising when they swarm you. The problem is...there is just noit enough challenge to the fights or enough clever AI in the enemies to keep you hooked. Some bob and jump...kind of reminds me of the old days of DOOM. Yes!! The enemies were that predictable.

NOW TO REVIEW THE REST OF THE GAMES FEATURES.....

WEAPONS -
Lame, uninspired and nothing that really gives you goose bumps. Even the weapon sound effects were too "quiet" with no umppphhh behind them.

MUSIC -
OK. Not bad. Then again...nothing great. Some old classic rock songs thrown in to give an earthy feel.

VOICE ACTING -
Down right horrible. No emotion, no feeling, no soul behind any of it. The grandfather was the only believable voice. Very lame script too. Down right awful altogether.

GRAPHICS -
Nothing new. Not as beautiful as Doom 3, Fear or Half-Life 2.

GAMEPLAY -
OUCH! Talk about a YAWN fest! I kept waiting for some challenging , visceral battles. NOTHING! Everything was predictable and easy to beat. Basically, you spend your entire time winding your way through a space complex. PREDICTABLE. You will find blocked paths and locked doors. PREDICTABLE. Creatures will try to stop you. PREDICTABLE. As soon as you start wal;king on the upside down paths, creature teleport in to attack you...everytime! PREDICTABLE...dear God it was PREDICTABLE!!! Weenies that can't beat hard games without trainers or cheat codes love this kind of game. It makes them feel like their gaming gods. Real gamers will be bored to tears with this one.

Nothing got my blood pumping, nothing that made me cry out or grit my teeth. I doubt my pulse got above 80bpm!!! I never sweated a single battle or came close to dying. UGHHH!!!

The battles were too easy..even on the hardest setting. I finished the game within 7 hours. More of my money thrown out the window.

Save your money. Play the demo that is downloadable from the official site. Play the demo twice. If you still have a craving...rent the game...then if you still like it...buy the darn thing. I enjoyed this game at first..but after hours 1 and 2 rolled by...I knew this was going to be a stinker.

A Monumental Achievement

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

We are seeing a trend in video games towards an art form. This game officially places video in the genre of art. For the first time players are able to feel for the characters and the storyline. Prey is one of many games pushing the genre like: Half-Life, Gears of War, and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. This review will not give away any spoilers but there is one part in the game that will have players on an emotional level on par with many movies. Also of note is the beautiful soundtrack composed by Jeremy Soule who does for this game what John Williams did for Star Wars and Jurassic Park. Furthermore the environments need to be seen to believe. There are literally planets with their own rules of gravity, and all gamers who have beaten this game will fondly remember the cube. The presentation is top notch and the production values surpass most games on the market. Prey is a must buy for anybody even remotely interesting in gaming. This is a start of revolution in art of some kind.

killing kids ????

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: July 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

uhhh! hey scott ,how do you kill a ghost, Ive been trying to kill that small girl (ghost) and she just wont die no matter how many times I shoot her she still comes back !!!

awesome game ,one of the best fps Ive ever played !!!!graphics are the best, comprimable to chronicles of riddick ,just play the game ...you kill no children, just plenty of cannibalistic aliens who have it coming !!!!!!

Shooter or puzzle game?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game as a shooter so I am wishing they had some way to let a buyer know that it is also a puzzle game. I don't like puzzle games because they can always make them harder than you can figure out just by being non intuitive. I gave up at the walkway puzzle because I just know that this is the way the rest of the game is going to be.

can you say overrated?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: July 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this is the perfect example of a game that's only rated well because of the graphics. while some games have awesome graphics and gameplay and deserve praise (like half life 2 and far cry), this game doesn't.

it starts off really cool. you're a cherokee boy in a bar talking to your grandfather. you don't believe in his native american traditional ways and you want to get off the reservation. then something really crazy happens, transporting you to the FPS game.. and it's all downhill from there. the shooting is just nothing new, nothing that hasn't been done better before. one example of a game that really brought fresh and exciting gameplay to the world is the call of duty series, and they did it with a well-worn genre (world war 2 games) and brought amazing life to weapons that are over 50 years old and had been featured in many games before!!! well, it seems that prey has a great story here, and they can invent any new weapon that they want, but the gameplay is just boring... i know the real reason this game is rated so high is because of 2 things: it's NEW and the GRAPHICS. well i've seen better graphics, and new does not equal better. even if i'm the only person on earth who thinks so, i think this game is nothing special or particularly fun.

Nothing new just alot of HYPE

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: August 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Another FPS set on a lifeless spacestation......did we really need another? Plays just like Halo 2 but with less weapons. Graphics are excellent but nothing new or exciting.

I have the game on PC but would have preferred it on XBOX. A controller is much easier to operate then keyboard and mouse, especially when trying to manuver upside down and side ways and shoot at the same time.

If this had come out a few years ago it would have been revolutionary but HALO and DOOM have been there and done that.

Killing Kids?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 16
Date: July 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's a good shooter, although I think the engine needs a lean left/right capability. But why do you have to kill children in one of the early levels? Isn't that a little perverse? People will like this game, no doubt, but be aware it's an adult game, and parts can be hard to stomach. YMMV.

--Edit--

I couldn't manage to sell this game, in mint condition, unregistered, on Amazon.com for a cut-rate price. That ought to tell you what people think of Prey these days. I went ahead and finished it, and - wow, just wow, this is almost certainly the worst game I've ever played. As the hours plodded on, I kept looking around for a fork to plunge into my neck.

The later levels present one uninspiring challenge after another. As the game progresses, it somehow becomes even less dynamic than it was in the beginning. The Unreal engine really shows its age here, with extremely limited movement or precision, but that doesn't matter, because the entire game is on rails anyway.

Each major fight is won by strafing and blasting - YAWN - and as the monsters get more and more advanced, their behavior is less and less interesting. Some present no feedback whatsoever, they just play out their scripts until you blast 'em dead. Nothing is at all challenging about the ending levels - in one boss fight, after discovering that movement wasn't any help, I won by standing still and spamming the mouse button while reading the Drudge Report on another machine - but the truth is, a challenge wouldn't matter anyway, because the death & rebirth sequences seem to have no effect on your success or failure at all. The only way to lose is to literally get bored and quit.

The glowy "pixel light" graphics are a high point, and are used to good effect in many places, such as the lightning gun, the spirit tunnel and the gravity portals. But even that one-trick isn't enough to save this pony, as the effect is so overused as to make gameplay impossible: blasts of enemy "pixel light" fire, so indistinct from their surrounding that they're invisible, seem to randomly assault the player in some encounters, including the utterly contrived final boss fight. It's a waste of a good technology.

I never got to play multiplayer, because the few servers still up are always completely empty. That should tell you something.

On final analysis, this game is an incredible waste of time. Don't recommend this to your friends or even your enemies. I would give it zero stars if I could ammend the rating.

Prey

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was unlike any other I have played. The gameplay was awesome and well as the story line. I found the whole gravity complex and welcomed change in this game, cause me to adapt to new enviroment unlike any other.

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