Recently Played Games Review
I can't always make a review about a new game. Often, so many games come out that I never catch wind of that I never play until much later. Like this "Frogger" game. You're a little frog jumping through traffic...ok ok...fine. I'll be more serious. Just kidding. Or am I. Or am I not? Just kidding. Or am I? Maybe.
PREY: This is going to be GAME OF THE YEAR!! in my opinion. I've played it for about 4 hours so far. I couldn't stop playing. I really shouldn't have started playing at 1 am when I installed it. Honestly, I have a couple games in my closet that I bought last year some time that I still haven't installed. Tiger Woods 06 for example. I played it on the XBOX 360 after I bought it for the PC and realized I wasn't really interested in it because of a putting/chipping exploit that everyone online takes advantage of. Really turned me away from the game. Then I found Shot Online Golf and found it to be a fascinating game that I continue to play on nearly a daily basis. I'm currently a level 35 soon to be 36. You have to be a level 41 to try out for the Semi-Pro level which I look forward to doing sometime in October or November at my current rate of progression. I'm already alot better than alot of semi-pros and full pros out there. Typically, I normally win rounds of golf against just about anyone. What was this review about? Oh yeah...PREY. Let's start over.
PREY: Yeah, it's a first person shooter game. An FPS. There was DOOM. Then came all the DOOM clones. Over the years, once in a tremendously great while, there is some great innovation that comes along and blows away all other FPS games that came before it. Some new niche that is exploited and really makes the game better. Halo 2 is a great example of this. Counterstrike is another example. Then usually there are a ton of clones that are made of those games. Call of Duty/Call of Duty 2 are both great games. Battlefield 2 is called a great game though I'm not a huge fan of it because I suck at it. PREY has made yet another huge leap. Basically, you are on board a huge alien space station fighting your way through to save your girlfriend from impending death. Your uncle is killed very early in the game but continues to help you through the spirit world which you find yourself a part of. You don't actually die in the game. You have to fight your way through the spirit world by destroying the dishonored dead. This restores your mortal body to a point that you return to the battle field to continue murdering aliens. Sweet. It doesn't hurt that you have a done of awesome alien weapons to help you along the way. One of the most innovative features in this game is the gravity thingamajiggers. I don't know the real name for them. I'll call them GTs from here on. You shoot the GTs. Some are on the walls while others are on the ceilings. When you shoot them, the gravity that effects you becomes relative to the orientation of the GTs. So you'll find yourself walking on what was before the ceiling or was a wall. You can already imagine how these would come into play in multiplayer games. You HAVE to learn how to take advantage of these GTs in the game in order to progress through single player. You simply can't make it from one side of a room, for example, to another without using these GTs. Another thing you have to utilize is your spirit self. Basically you leave your mortal body temporarily to get to places that your mortal body cannot get to. Through fire, through a force field, across a bridge that you cannot see as a mortal being. As a spirit, you use your spirit bow and arrow to destroy enemies.
Another thing you have in this game is simply walls that you walk up and your gravity is relative to whatever way these walls take you. Once you leave the wall, however, your gravity goes back to whatever it was before you began climbing on the wall. Another thing you have in this game is worm hole type things you go through that in effect teleport you to other parts of the ship. Might be across the ship. Might be across the room. There may be several of these worm holes in a single room that all go different places. There are also captured humans that were apparently captured long before that help you along the way in different parts of the game.
You really need to play this game for yourself to truly understand how different this game is. The environment both inside and outside of the ship is very interactive. It reminds me a bit of Half Life 2 where you have so many things going on around you as you are minding your own business fighting through different levels of the game.
I highly recommend you play this game even if you aren't really into FPS type games. This game brings a whole new dimension. Literally. At least try the demo. Available on both PC and XBOX 360. The 360 version is very comparable graphics wise to the PC version.
PREY: This is going to be GAME OF THE YEAR!! in my opinion. I've played it for about 4 hours so far. I couldn't stop playing. I really shouldn't have started playing at 1 am when I installed it. Honestly, I have a couple games in my closet that I bought last year some time that I still haven't installed. Tiger Woods 06 for example. I played it on the XBOX 360 after I bought it for the PC and realized I wasn't really interested in it because of a putting/chipping exploit that everyone online takes advantage of. Really turned me away from the game. Then I found Shot Online Golf and found it to be a fascinating game that I continue to play on nearly a daily basis. I'm currently a level 35 soon to be 36. You have to be a level 41 to try out for the Semi-Pro level which I look forward to doing sometime in October or November at my current rate of progression. I'm already alot better than alot of semi-pros and full pros out there. Typically, I normally win rounds of golf against just about anyone. What was this review about? Oh yeah...PREY. Let's start over.
PREY: Yeah, it's a first person shooter game. An FPS. There was DOOM. Then came all the DOOM clones. Over the years, once in a tremendously great while, there is some great innovation that comes along and blows away all other FPS games that came before it. Some new niche that is exploited and really makes the game better. Halo 2 is a great example of this. Counterstrike is another example. Then usually there are a ton of clones that are made of those games. Call of Duty/Call of Duty 2 are both great games. Battlefield 2 is called a great game though I'm not a huge fan of it because I suck at it. PREY has made yet another huge leap. Basically, you are on board a huge alien space station fighting your way through to save your girlfriend from impending death. Your uncle is killed very early in the game but continues to help you through the spirit world which you find yourself a part of. You don't actually die in the game. You have to fight your way through the spirit world by destroying the dishonored dead. This restores your mortal body to a point that you return to the battle field to continue murdering aliens. Sweet. It doesn't hurt that you have a done of awesome alien weapons to help you along the way. One of the most innovative features in this game is the gravity thingamajiggers. I don't know the real name for them. I'll call them GTs from here on. You shoot the GTs. Some are on the walls while others are on the ceilings. When you shoot them, the gravity that effects you becomes relative to the orientation of the GTs. So you'll find yourself walking on what was before the ceiling or was a wall. You can already imagine how these would come into play in multiplayer games. You HAVE to learn how to take advantage of these GTs in the game in order to progress through single player. You simply can't make it from one side of a room, for example, to another without using these GTs. Another thing you have to utilize is your spirit self. Basically you leave your mortal body temporarily to get to places that your mortal body cannot get to. Through fire, through a force field, across a bridge that you cannot see as a mortal being. As a spirit, you use your spirit bow and arrow to destroy enemies.
Another thing you have in this game is simply walls that you walk up and your gravity is relative to whatever way these walls take you. Once you leave the wall, however, your gravity goes back to whatever it was before you began climbing on the wall. Another thing you have in this game is worm hole type things you go through that in effect teleport you to other parts of the ship. Might be across the ship. Might be across the room. There may be several of these worm holes in a single room that all go different places. There are also captured humans that were apparently captured long before that help you along the way in different parts of the game.
You really need to play this game for yourself to truly understand how different this game is. The environment both inside and outside of the ship is very interactive. It reminds me a bit of Half Life 2 where you have so many things going on around you as you are minding your own business fighting through different levels of the game.
I highly recommend you play this game even if you aren't really into FPS type games. This game brings a whole new dimension. Literally. At least try the demo. Available on both PC and XBOX 360. The 360 version is very comparable graphics wise to the PC version.
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