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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!

Great fun, but too short.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The title says it all. Great fun, inventive beyond words, and an awsome story line, but its short enough that I'd advise waiting for the price to drop before you buy it.

Prey

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Good first person shooter. You never really die because you end up in the spirit world where you get to recover and fight again. Some levels take a little more effort to figure out the maze. I needed to go to a third party site to help me through one level. If I would have looked on the floor I wouldn't have needed to. I would recommend it.

PREY!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Prey dominates. Enough said. The graphics were amazing, storyline kept me playing for hours at a time. 3D Reams use of the DOOM3/QUAKE4 engine shows off what this amazing technology can do. System requirements aren't too steep as this game came out in 2005. Its fairly cheap and well worth the money.

Great single player - Dead multiplayer, c. Nov 2007

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game can now be found for between $10-20, and is well worth that price. Plenty has been said about the game. The story is well written for an FPS. The handling of death (visible in the demo) and the ease of use of the weapons and pleasant puzzles that are simple enough to keep the pace of the game going are refreshing.

That said, keep in mind that that $20 you're thinking about spending on this game will just buy you a single player game. I got the opportunity to play the multi-player game via the demo, but I swear - there's just as many people playing the demo as there are the real game: 0-2. I've never seen more than 2 people total, across all available servers, in either the demo or the full game. If you're looking for a multiplayer FPS for online play, you're apparently looking at the wrong game, given the apparent death of the community of players.

:Update - Though there are many, many idle servers in the current build of the game, there is often one that lights up with 3-5 players at the end of the week. Still a largely dead community, but there are some multiplayer matches to be had on weekends. Everybody seems to congregate at the same server, regardless of which, but there still isn't ever an adequate number of players to get a decent CTF match going. All DM or Team DM all the time.

Try This!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Inintially, I found this game quite difficult to play and understand. As I perservered I became more and more hooked, as the game has several unique aspects that I had not experienced before. While it plays like a regular first person shooter, its strength lies in the creative puzzles that the player has to solve to continue through many stages. While I had to resort to walkthroughs several times in the early stages, I learned the approach and allowed myself the necessary patience to work it through. It's really fun and challenging.

I don't know why I waited so long

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game. Weapons, enemies, and environments are imaginative and seriously twisted. Portals and gravity play make for some interesting puzzles too.

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.

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