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Prey

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was a very well done games graphics wise. Very creative way to spin a FPS Game. I thought it was a little shorter than I wanted it to be but the time I did spend playing it was a blast.

Ohhh... Yes.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Okay, first of all, I think people are rating this game a lot lower than it should be. Prey is an absolute feast for the eyes. It truly messes with your mind! Yes, it is pretty easy, but that's because you can't die. An awesome new concept that keeps the game going even after you get killed. I have played many games in my time and Prey has shown me things that I have never seen before. Of course by now everyone has heard about the "portals" and the ability to walk on walls, but there is so much more that happens that I won't spoil for you.

Now I haven't really re-played the game since I beat it, but I love showing it off to my friends. And multiplayer has a whole new effect to it. Yes, the game play is pretty predictable, but I played more for the story than the game it self. I do wish there were some levels that took place on Earth (other then the first) but oh well. and incase you were one of the people that got a "direct song" insert, don't bother, it's a freaking waste of time. It is the dumbest way to listen to music.

I feel like Prey took my favorite parts from other games and put them into one. Get this game, but if you want to wait for the price to go down, that's not a bad idea.

P.S.
Just in case you were one of those people who racked their brains trying to figure out what band sings during the end credits (Like Myself), it's "Take Me Home" by "After Midnight Project".

Prey

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

"Prey" is weird. It's a weird game. Firstly it's a mix of genres: the game style is solid FPS, but the story is another matter completely. It's urban. It's sci-fi. It's mythology. It's all those things mixed up in a bizarre storyline featuring Native American folklore and levitating aliens.

Perhaps that's not the best start. I'll try again. You are Domasi "Tommy" Tawdi, a man of Cherokee descent wondering if one's genealogy is really worth a damn when you live and work on a crummy reservation, in the middle of a dusty highway somewhere in Oklahoma. Your wrinkly, feather-in-hair grandfather is on your case, fearing for your eternal spirit. Your girlfriend believes in all that crap and doesn't want to move away from her ancestral soil. And you're a garage mechanic who thinks there's more to life that dust in your coffee and truckstop thugs pawing at your girl.

That's how the game starts. You don't like it when thugs paw at your girl. You pick up your wrench - and you bludgeon them to death right there next to the bar. Your wrench gleams with sticky redness in the artificial light from the slot machines. Jen, the girl in question, screams at you. Then there are rays of pale green light slicing through the dirty windows and the cracks in the ceiling, and things in the room start moving of their own accord, and you and Jen and your wise old grandpa are being sucked into a huge craft hovering directly overhead, the jukebox wailing urban rock in your ears, and then--

Weirdness. The story is weird: as a Cherokee apparently with the power to stop the sentient alien "Sphere" expanding around the Earth, you must use your mystic skills to "spirit walk" out of your own body. You can do this to pass through energy field, and flip switches to open doors for your physical form, aided by your dead falcon Talon. Weird. The Sphere is run by a psychic alien race who strip planets for a living to prolong their own existence. Their vast ship is full of wandering tentacles and man-sized sphincters that belch acid. Weird. It's also riddled with artificial wormholes, doorways in the wall or in crates or on rails, that take you to different areas of the Sphere. Sometimes they throw you out on the roof. Distorted gravity keeps you there while enemies warp out onto the opposite wall, shooting at you with bugs that have corrosive gas for blood. WEIRD. You don't even walk on the floor in this game!

In fact, all of this weirdness is used to brilliant effect. The puzzles that sometimes temporarily halt your progress involve using the spirit walking and the gravity defiance to your advantage. Your weird weapons, including the afore-mentioned bug-grenades, vary from standard energy rifles to armour-piercing gun-arms blown from the shoulders of psychopathic alien giants. And don't expect to utilise any cool technology to open all of those cyber-organic doors. You have a severed hand.

In short, with "Prey" you literally don't know which way's up. You don't know what's more real, the spirit or the flesh. You don't know whether that body part on the floor will help you later on. You don't know if you'll rescue your grandfather or your girlfriend, or if those near-humans who are trying to help you will get you killed first. You don't know if you believe in yourself or your heritage.

You're the saviour of Earth, but you don't want the job. Can you handle the weirdness? It's dirt cheap now but sadly forgotten about, despite the good reviews it earned eighteen months ago. Get it. Enjoy it. Forget what's normal.

8/10

BORING

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: September 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The same old stuff with a different theme. You enter a living spaceship and the graphics are great, music ok, acting ok. Other than walking on walls, and upsidedown, there is nothing new. They use Indian Folklore to make the game "different". There are great books about our native Americans. Read "Hanta Yo" the best book ever written about the Lakota. This is just a bloodbath. There is gratuitous blood and body parts all over the place. Lots of screaming in the background. If you've played other FPS games, Doom, Fear, etc, then you have already played Prey. If you like bloodbath games, you will like it. I did not like it. My two stars are for effort.

Prey Review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this game very much has a few diffrent twists for a FPS.

Middle of the pack game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

There are some interesting aspects to this game, but there is nothing ground-breaking regarding the graphics or general gameplay. As most people have commented on various game sites, this is one of the easiest FPSs you will ever play. But it still was fun, and from what I read took a long time to actually get finished

good game, some new features

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this is an entertaining, if slightly too long FPS. what I enjoyed were the puzzles (always logical) and the graphics (cool). I also liked the fact that the character never dies saving you plenty of time and frustration. Besides that it was an above average FPS so all in all 4 stars is adequate. Recommended.

awesome shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i was waiting for a new shooter for a long time. this one is great with new ideas. Runs great on my 1.6 pentium. Awesome grafics and easy controlls. i wish all games would be that userfriendly. ID is a great game developer!!!

Great visuals, very solid game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's more like a 4.5 really...
All the gamers who enjoyed Doom3 and Quake4 should be very pleased with Prey: the Doom3 engine has never been so robust and looked so great; the story, while not groundbreaking, delivers more dramatic moments than its 2 predecessors and should definitely please sci-fi aficionados; the gameplay is enhanced by the no-gravity environments and the crazy portals...
The cons: the game is relatively short, probably a bit more than Doom3 and Quake4, in spite of the adaptative level of difficulty; just like D3 and Q4, some very mediocre textures can be found here and there when approaching walls, doors,...
Also, the portal system can get a bit repetitive at times, but it's such a new and cool looking feature that it's easily forgotten.
Once again, the engine is very much optimized, and those with fairly recent systems should be amazed when the game is loaded. At 1280x1024, with all details on and AAx2/AFx8, Prey is simply jaw-dropping, with ridiculously beautiful lighting and particle effects. The weapon design is insane, and even though there's not a zillion of them, the selection is definitely nice. The voices are very good too, and the music is from the guy who worked on Oblivion and many other games.
Compared to some of the newest games, I thought that Prey's engine would start showing its weaknesses, but overall I was pleasantly surprised by both the look and the content of this game.
FPS amateurs should definitely give it a try.

This Game Was Great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was great and worth every single penny. The story line was interesting but that's not what struck me. It was the overall design of the game -- simply fantastic. In some of the levels where I found my self in large open areas, I enjoyed checking out the scenery. When do you do that in an FPS game?!

I liked the Native American Indian aspect of the story and the designers did a great job fusing both the Native American and alien aspect of the story.

I was sorry the game ended -- I will definitely be interested in seeing how they will develop Prey II!

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