This Should Work

Prey for the Xbox 360 and PC has been in the making for about 8 years and has now come out of development purgatory to reveal a game that’s visually amazing and relatively fun.

The “story” in this sci-fi first person shooter is par for the course; a dude, Tommy, finds himself on an alien spacecraft and must kill everything that moves in order to save yourself and ulitmately save the world. The plot device that makes this game different this: Tommy can’t die. Tommy, because he’s a Cherokee Indian, enters the “Spirit World” when you run out of life. From the Spirit World you find your way back to the real world and pick up right where you left off.

The Spirit World makes it pretty easy, but this game is still fun because of all the level design. There are two things that help set this game apart from other FPS games: portals and wall-walking. Portals allow Tommy to warp to different place, or he can look through the portals and shoot or throw bombs at enemies .

The wall-walking is where things get a little dizzy. There are pathways that allow Tommy to walk along the walls and ceilings of certain rooms which can make for some dizzy-ing effects. I would find myself tilting my head to the right as Tommy walked along the walls.

This game is based-on the the Doom-3 engine which means it has a high level of light-shadow details. However for a game that has a high-level of details you rarely see it becuase everything is so dark! Most of time I’m running around with some external light source (in most cases Tommy’s Zippo lighter) just to see where the hell I’m going.

Overall it’s a fun game and I’m glad I got it.

[tags]xbox 360, prey[/tags]

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