Joined: Feb 21, 2006 Posts: 351 Location: Great Britain XP: 0
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject: Prey Demo - Your Views!
I grabbed this little gem this morning...
My first impression of this game was 'Booooring..' Then things started to heat up a little and drop you into an alien ship.. After a few minutes I started thinking 'Ohh, another Doom clone.. YAWN!'.
Then all of a sudden things started getting interesting, very interesting. Running up walls, killing aliens only to have then fly off and hit the ceiling, that turns out to be the floor.
And the teleports are well smart, I love the way you reorientate when you jump through them, really spins you out. And the part where your looking into a small glass cabinet with a planet in.. Well, i'll leave that bit blank for those that have not played it yet.
As for weapons, well i've only messed with four.. Which are a pair of stilsons, an alien rifle with scope, heavy alien machine gun (with 2 known ammo types charged from freaky alien things on walls) and the Bow and Arrow when you go into errm out of body mode.
Of the four I loved the Rifle for its semi fast fire rate and scope, the machine gun does some serious damage but with the red ammo type make sure nothing is close by otherwise you will get hurt! The other ammo type freezes enemy’s, quick to take small enemy’s out with.
As for the Stilsons, things get very very messy with these babys. Secondary fire is nasty too. Now the Bow and Arrow are very effective, just make sure you grab the souls of the dead before they disappear.
The comments coming from your character are also genuinely funny with comments like 'Now that was f***ed up... NOooo, this is f***ed up!'. and watch out for all them 'MAAAADD!!' people freaking out. Reminds me of Quake 1, only loads better. Really puts you on edge.
The programmers seem to have done a sweet job with this game and I can say without a doubt that I would go out and buy this game without a worry.
So a big thumbs up from me, although it does not take FPS's to the next level it for sure steps them up 2 or 3 notches.
Think Descent vs Doom3 and you wont go far wrong. Only with much much better GFX, SFX and from what i've played of it.. Better gameplay. So very much worth the download, even though its a heavy 1GB+.
So whats your thoughts on Prey? Disagree with me? Is this the ground breaking game that will set the 360 apart or just another Doom Clone? Post your thoughts here. _________________________________________________________ JAy3k1
Gprime8989 360-HQ Elite Member
Joined: May 12, 2006 Posts: 241 Location: Texas, USA XP: 138
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 12:18 am Post subject:
Pretty fun, Some of the weapons piss me off in multi but other then that the games decent.
elusiv1 V.I.P. Lifetime
Joined: Dec 23, 2004 Posts: 1111 Location: Atlanta, Ga XP: 264
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:39 am Post subject:
Not a bad demo, looks like a cross between Halo & Doom 3 in my opinion, the abduction scene was awesome at the start of the game, the only weapon I was kickin ass with was a damn wrench,didn't really get a taste of all the other weapons. I managed to try the multiplayer version but the only person in the room was me, maybe I'll give it another shot later on.. Prey looks like a real winner to me, I look forward to the full version. _________________________________________________________ Xbox V1.3
Xenium Ice
WD 160Gb HD
Joined: Aug 17, 2005 Posts: 208 Location: Minnesota XP: 2
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:00 am Post subject:
i agree doom+descent is a good thing, i love being in a true 3d environment again, its been a long time since descent
you forgot to put a poll option for "holy sh** this demo is freaky... it rocks" _________________________________________________________ .
JAy3k1 360-HQ Elite Member
Joined: Feb 21, 2006 Posts: 351 Location: Great Britain XP: 0
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject:
Not sure where the Halo feel comes from elusiv, but either way a damn good demo. I've yet to go online with it, i would think it would be some crazy s**t if any of the levels are designed like that one where you shoot the glowing things to spin the room around.
Just how the hell your going to find that twat of a camper in this god only knows. I do like the way you can actually shoot people through the teleporters tho. _________________________________________________________ JAy3k1
Loki77 360-HQ Freak
Joined: Feb 21, 2005 Posts: 614 Location: Nebraska XP: 0
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject:
the intro was cool- but, eh- you get into the game play- felt like a doom clone- which i thought was ok...so eh..i nmight buy it...dont know.
OneGoodReason 360-HQ Experienced
Joined: May 23, 2006 Posts: 161 Location: Australia XP: 0
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:10 am Post subject:
I downloaed it, but didnt feel motivated to play single player, play miltiplayer however and thought it to be a bit flat, felt like it was done a thousand times before.
Scooter _________________________________________________________ I live to play........ and i play to live
forahobby Administrator
Joined: May 22, 2003 Posts: 23944 Location: NSW, Australia XP: 3,060,092
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:28 am Post subject:
I really loved the first stage and the interactivity in it..
Playing poker, jukebox, switching channels on the tv etc etc.
Then I thought it got a bit boring.. Its exactly like Quake 4 really.
Same idea except in Quake 4 they are upgrading the humans to stroggs and not killing them all..
I enjoyed the first level and the beginning of the alien portion but then it just seemed much like every other game..
Ill probably get this title anyway just for the hell of it due to there being nothing else coming out im interested in.
Joined: May 23, 2006 Posts: 161 Location: Australia XP: 0
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:41 am Post subject:
well thats a great reason to get it isnt it? You should get over g fighters or moto gp anything, there are plenty of new releases
Scooter _________________________________________________________ I live to play........ and i play to live
forahobby Administrator
Joined: May 22, 2003 Posts: 23944 Location: NSW, Australia XP: 3,060,092
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:45 am Post subject:
MrScooteroooooo wrote:
You should get over g fighters or moto gp anything, there are plenty of new releases
Already ordered.. The girlie i normally get my games from in the USA has gone away for a few weeks.. I ordered MOTGP and OVERG so they are on their way..
heheh.. I want some Xbox live arcade points but my credit card is full as always.. I guess ill have to pay one of the boys in the USA to grab me a card..
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