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Hi all,
22th of June, Prey demo released. This is a really cool science fiction first person shooter. It uses a modded Doom 3 engine and looks mostely like quake 4! For screenshots you can scroll down.
Singleplayer
The demo, and so does the game, starts with an interactive intro where you get known of the keys and environment. You, Tommy, a cherokee indian who doesn't like the life in the indian reservation, wants to go out! There is only one problem, his girlfriend doesn't want to go with him. Suddenly there's an alien invasion and Tommy, his girlfriend and grandfather are in the alien mothership. You can have a nice look around, and see the most stunning graphics, not to think about the nice hysterical screaming of all the other people who have been kidnapped... Here is where the game really starts. You manage to steal a weapon and there it goes again... Just run, shoot, and find for the exit. But wait! This is not really Prey is it? HumanHead Studios and 3D Realms have spent a fortune on the story (+100000$)! This is not an ordinary shooter where you shoot and find the exit! There's really a story! After a while, the nice features start to come. You see a lightpath on the wall and guess what, you can walk on it! This sometimes gives chaotic situations, where you see an enemy on the floor and you are just hanging above him. Very nice gameplay. You kill some monsters, solve puzzles, learn new tricks,... Let's take the deathwalk. When you die, you go in somekind of spirit of yourself, with a cherokee bow, and need to kill flying creatures. When you killed enough of them, you just return into your present state, into your body. You can also become this spirit in spirit mode. You can then stealthly attack creatures with your bow, or go through energy fields, which you normally can't pass. We also find a half life 2 - ish fysics engine. Almost all objects are interactive!
Multiplayer
Imagine... You are playing online with your friends, and suddenly you see one of your friends above you. You start shooting at him but... WTF? He's in spirit mode! While in spirit mode, you are undestroyable, but your body you left somewhere is extra vulnerable. Also being in spirit mode, can only be used for a small time in multiplayer. You can replenish the time by picking up your death friends' souls. After playing a while on multiplayer, a server where ping was 30 and only 8 people are present, and your own ping of 21, you find enourmous lag. Overall, it's a very cool game, a must to have!
positive
Nice gameplay
Good Graphics
Many features
Good story
negative
Multiplayer isn't perfect
Sometimes too chaotic
Overall
Graphics: 8/10
Gameplay: 9/10
Story: 10/10
Multiplayer: 7/10
Total: 87/100
Screenshots
Ingame multiplayer movie
Information
Demo download
Official site
Greetz,
Sars!
This post has been edited by Sars!: 24 June 2006 - 02:14 PM
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Gets my vote
