Prey

[Cuddly Knife]

I figured I better make a thread about this game for impressions and such...

...since it got a 9.0 from IGN!

Humanhead's final product culminates in an excellent, deep first-person shooter experience that, right now, is unrivaled on Xbox 360. There really is nothing quite like it. The selling points are many. The spirit feature doesn't, in fact, get too repetitive when you die. Instead, it prevents you from re-covering already well-tread ground. The wall and ceiling climbing may make some gamers motion sick, but for the most part the experience is really, really fun. It turns into a pretty heavy-duty multiplayer skill in the end, and though I like it, I think some folks might end up getting tired of it real quick. The wall and ceiling climbing is wild and fun, but combined with phenomenally cool level design, with come great puzzles and some rather iffy, illogical puzzles thrown in, a surprise enemy, and some really cool weapons, Prey finishes everything off with smart presentation, impressive graphics, and great sound. The game is a little shorter than I had hoped, and the graphics aren't quite as good on the Xbox 360 as they are on the PC, but this should be a slam dunk on Xbox Live. The multiplayer modes are sure to have gamers deeply involved over the next several months. The options, technical experience, and the amount and quality of online games are straightforward fun.

[Cuddly Knife]

Hmm, but Gamespot scored it a 7.5. I'll still get it, unless Chromehounds appears the better game.

[Fivespot]

Took me a week but I bought Prey today. I was watching reviews, reading your feedback, etc.. before deciding on a purchase. Frankly, I'm sick of Doom3 and Quake4 style games (can't believe I'm writing that) so I intially wasn't interested.

That changed for two reasons-
1. The game was made in Madison, WI and I love supporting local business. Especially local videogame business which is rare in this neck of the woods (quite a contrast to SF or Seattle as examples).

2. Sounds like it has a great story. So few games these days offer this quality and I'm starving for it lately. I played the demo and noticed the story-telling immediately (much better than most FPS games even after playing it for such a short period of time).

I'm still playing through the 1up campaign on FarCry but could use a break and will try this instead. FarCry 1up is LOOONNNNGGGGG (or at least it feels like it). CK?

[Cuddly Knife]

Far Cry is a long game. And they make you play it through on each different difficulty for individual achievements! Bleh. Prey seems like a long game at first, but that might be because I stare at stuff for minutes at a time. I'm actually enjoying it more the second time through, now that I know the whole tale, but it's also taking half the time to do it.

I've decided that multi-player is a piece of crap until they do something about the lag. I'm still gonna be playing it though to get the rest of my points.

[Cuddly Knife]

Prey To Get Fixes -- and Females
Ritual is working on patches and new content for the popular game.
by Kathleen Sanders

August 11, 2006 - Today, via Ritual's website, Project Lead Chris Rhinehart assured fans of Native-American-battles-aliens shooter Prey that they should look forward to a patch and some new content "soon."

According to the post, Ritual is working on the 1.1 patch which, among other things, aims to fix various bugs, adds widescreen to menus, and updates the multiplayer browser. Rhinehart also said that Venom, who developed the Xbox 360 version of Prey, is working on a patch, too.

In response to player requests for maps that function well as 1v1 maps, Ritual is working on four new maps that will work well for 2-4 players. In addition, the studio is planning six new player characters: Jen, Elhuit, Mother, Becky (a blond victim from the single player campaign), Hunter, and Elite Hunter.

The additional content is planned for the PC and X360 versions, but the ETA is no more specific than "very soon."
It's about stinkin time.