Anyone playing Prey?

[Mochan]

I would have thought Renz would have posted a topic about it by now. I just bought a car and man cash is not in plentiful supply right now, and for the first time ever I am in debt. Urgh!

Well how is it? The game is looking spectacular and I am really looking forward to playing it soon. And if it is better optimized than Quake 4, I should be in for a treat.

[BaneNWN]

I would have thought Renz would have posted a topic about it by now. I just bought a car and man cash is not in plentiful supply right now, and for the first time ever I am in debt. Urgh!

Well how is it? The game is looking spectacular and I am really looking forward to playing it soon. And if it is better optimized than Quake 4, I should be in for a treat.

I played the demo and was impressed deffinetly looks like a better sp campaign then doom 3 and quake 4,and yes the game is optimized graphically for great performance.Seems they really tweaked the heck out of the engine with Prey.Id even go as far as to say it ran better then halflife 2 did for me.I was hitting 50 FPS easily with all settigs maxed accept the AA.I dont have exact numbers but i could tell it was over 50 FPS and not a stutter at all.

[DBS]

It is getting good reviews.

[Mochan]

So was FEAR, but....

[Cuddly Knife]

I'll give some impressions, but it's from the 360 version.

1. Solid Story- While it starts off with the typical crybaby forced to save his girl and the planet, it ends with something bigger. Even when I thought that the story was going one way, it kind of shifted directions. There was also one or two cheeser moments, but they weren't too bad.

2. The atmosphere is also excellent. The whole world is squishy and bloody, but also made of machines and sphincters, and the alien tech is fun to look at, if you like looking at stuff. That was my favorite part about Doom 3. Just walking around slowly and checking out some of the machines(and lighting) at work. BTW, some excellent lighting in this game. There is a lot of stuff going down in this game, too. From random events happening in the backgrounds, to conversations being brodcast from Earth about weird alien abductions and sightings and such. Much more impressive than Doom 3 in every way. The views were also something that impressed me.

During the game, there's a part where the hero takes a jab at Doom 3 with a sweet line. Funny ****, when you hear it in game. I'd say it, but I'd spoil it.

3. The gameplay is pretty much how Doom 3(and Quake 4, from what I played of the demo) handled, which is straight up run-and-gun but with the semi-cool gimmick of running up certain walls and ceilings. Basically how Waco said it would be, and that's a corridor FPS. The open areas aren't really that open, and the enemies always appear in front of you, but near the final levels you get to fly a, some kind of flying dealy, complete with a tractor beam. I guess it handles like a game made off of the Doom(or whatever it is) engine. The weapons are good, but they don't really give you reasons to use anything except the machine gun-type weapons unless you're fighting bosses.

If Doom 3 scores averaged about 8/10, then this game should be about a 8.7/10

This game thrashes games like Doom3 and the like, but falls short of games like Far Cry and CoD2(multi-player), and my favorite ever, Stranger's Wrath(single -player).

Live is lagtacular!! I wonder how it runs on the PC.

p.s. How do you spell ceilings?

[DBS]

It is on sale at www.gogamer.com

[SanjuroChupa]

Has anyone tried getting the game through Triton? Not much info at the Triton forums... http://forums.playtriton.com/

I logged in, bought the game, and was playing it in 16 minutes :) :) :)