Prey
Platform: PC
Publisher: 2K Games
Review Type: Touchy
Version: Demo
Prey is Doom 3 on mescaline. Your avatar is Tommy, a Cherokee war veteran with intimacy issues...who is abducted by aliens. The spacecraft you have to shoot your way out of is an Escher-inspired piece of work. Sticky floor surfaces let you walk up walls and across ceilings. Gravitational pull can be adjusted with the flick of a switch. And then there are the portals. These windows through space pop up all over the place with barely any rhyme or reason. Sometimes boxes and other passageways act as gates to other spacial planes. The feeling is disorienting, in a good way. Where a game like Descent could get you turned around in debilitating ways, Prey flips and flops you just enough to get your adrenaline up.
It should be noted that there a bunch of mutated fuckers are shooting at you the whole time. Despite a handful of spirit-centric powers, like Tommy's ability to go all ghosty and pass through certain obstacles, the game is still a run 'n' gun shooter. One entertaining and inventive enough to get you through a couple weeks of the summer drought.
Somebody scores extra points for loading the songs "Barracuda," "Don't Fear the Reaper," "Free Ride" and "You've Got Another Thing Comin" on the jukebox in the game's Cherokee dive bar.
Recommended
Download the demo.
Publisher: 2K Games
Review Type: Touchy
Version: Demo
Prey is Doom 3 on mescaline. Your avatar is Tommy, a Cherokee war veteran with intimacy issues...who is abducted by aliens. The spacecraft you have to shoot your way out of is an Escher-inspired piece of work. Sticky floor surfaces let you walk up walls and across ceilings. Gravitational pull can be adjusted with the flick of a switch. And then there are the portals. These windows through space pop up all over the place with barely any rhyme or reason. Sometimes boxes and other passageways act as gates to other spacial planes. The feeling is disorienting, in a good way. Where a game like Descent could get you turned around in debilitating ways, Prey flips and flops you just enough to get your adrenaline up.
It should be noted that there a bunch of mutated fuckers are shooting at you the whole time. Despite a handful of spirit-centric powers, like Tommy's ability to go all ghosty and pass through certain obstacles, the game is still a run 'n' gun shooter. One entertaining and inventive enough to get you through a couple weeks of the summer drought.
Somebody scores extra points for loading the songs "Barracuda," "Don't Fear the Reaper," "Free Ride" and "You've Got Another Thing Comin" on the jukebox in the game's Cherokee dive bar.
Recommended
Download the demo.
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