Prey

by 2K Games

Product Features

• Unique gameplay elements, such as gravity flipping, wall-walking and deathwalk, create an incredibly original first-person shooter experience.
• Portal technology allows enemies to appear out of thin air, creating new and completely original puzzles and gameplay techniques.
• Highly organic, living environment that is an enemy to the player.
• In single-player mode, spirit hawk allows you to decipher the spaceship's alien language and find advantages in battle.
• Built on an enhanced Doom 3 engine, the most impressive 3D engine used in a released game.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BHQZAQ
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: July 11, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,674 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #99 in Video Games > PC Games > Action > Shooter
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

From the Manufacturer

Tommy is a Cherokee garage mechanic who denies his past and is uncertain about his future. His world comes to a halt when he and his people are abducted to a menacing mothership orbiting Earth. Tommy taps his latent Cherokee spiritual powers to save himself, his girlfriend, and the planet.

Prey is a first-person shooter in which players enter a living spaceship which enslaves alien races and devours humans for lunch. Built on a heavily modded version of the Doom 3 engine, features include wall walking, gravity flipping, and intense single- and multi-player gameplay.

Product Description

Aliens turned Tommy's world upside down.  Nowhe's about to return the favor.Product InformationPrey is the story of Tommy who is a down-on-his-luck garage mechanic stuck inthe middle on who-knows-where on some forgotten reservation where NativeAmericans are tucked away out of sight out of mind.  And then theunthinkable has happend! Earth becomes prey to the galaxy's largest predator aspace bound Texas-sized alien that's looking to satiate its hunger with theorganic goodness that most populates Earth: Us. And the first course is acertain forgotten reservation.Tommy and his girlfriend have become prey his grandfather killed andhundreds of his tribal nation have been abducted through space-warping portals.Freeing himself all Tommy cares about is saving Jenny. But the spirit of hisgrandfather beckons him to embrace his heritage accept the ancient teachingsand prepare to battle the menace that threatens to destroy all the planet'slife.  It's a choice between love and responsibility. It's a choice thatcannot be made easily.Product Highlights Living weapons a faithful sidekick vehicles giant environments jaw-dropping memorable moments a story of redemption and destiny and a 3-Hour Epic Soundtrack by Jeremy Soule (Oblivious Guild Wars). The FPS of the year is in your hands. Imagine A Place where gravity isn't always down!  It can be controlled twisted flipped and even wrap around small planetoids. Imagine walking on walls and ceilings?  Can you handle this new challenge? Portals change everything.  Experience for the first time the really bending effects of a portal world.  Prey sets a new standard that will completely mess your mind. Multiple gamplay innovations from the developer that brought you Bullet Time including Deathwalk (dying is no longer annoying it's fun) and Spiritwalk (leave your body to explore ambush and solve mind blowing puzzles).Product

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Summary: WOW!! What a trip. Groundbreaking, awesome, original., August 3, 2006

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D. Crain "nanohead" (NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Prey (CD-ROM)

Each year, I wait for something to come out to blow me away. FEAR was the last one that I actually could not get enough of. Now PREY appears, and WHOA, what a ride. Fantastic visuals (I mean FANTASTIC). Great dynamics in control of the characters, cool weapons, the anti gravity stuff and portals are mentioned quite a bit by most who comment on this game, but they are just part of the whole thing.

The voice acting is almost uniformly great (with the exception of Jen sometimes), and the story is mostly original, save the overall plot, which we've seen a zillion times before. But the characters are new to the genre, (nope, no super human marines, or master gunfighters) and treats the traditions of the cherokee with respect and dignity.

There are some moments where it feels like some other games, an occasional dopey boss battle, and too many elevators, but wow, the overall pace, artwork, character control, and AWESOME MUSIC makes it the most movie like video game I've EVER played. Yes, even more than Half Life 2. The health regeneration is a little annoying at first, but then you learn to appreciate it somewhat, as it is less disruptive than having to go back 2 or 3 saves and start over.

One more comment on the music. I was amazed at how cinematic it was. I felt like I was in a live action movie sometimes. Just awesome.

My library of PC games numbers over 100, and I've played them all. But this one is in a class by itself. Yes, its somewhat short, but the work that went into it was intense.

I would ignore most of the adolescents that talk about the "doom 3 engine" (heck most don't even know what it means, they are just repeating some noise they saw on some forum somewhere). What the inside technology is has no bearing on the implementation of the game, story, visuals, music and scenarios. This thing is just plain great if you like the alien/hero shooters.

I can't wait for more. Kudos to the developers and artists that built this thing. What a piece of work

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A new approach that really freshens up the genre, July 18, 2006

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J. M Quiggins "Sole_Fish" (Owensboro, Ky. USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Prey (CD-ROM)

Graphics. Not bad. Music. GREAT. You get samples from the Grateful Dead, Judas Priest, Ozzy Ozbourne and SO many more. Physics? So real it just *may* make you a little queasy at first. Story line? Totally UNREAL. The storyline consists of Indian folklore. This is not your typical shooter in most ways. Sure, you have weapons, sure you blow a lot of crap up. But, that's where the similarities begin and end. There is so much more richness to the environment. There is so much more challenge here than is in most FPS games. So, to the reviewer who poked fun at us gamers J. Jiminez (below), the reason we get so excited about the latest game and the latest technology is very much similar to the reason why you feel the need to be so judgemental and pompous. We just can't help it. It makes us feel good. Hopefully his review hasn't been deleted. Otherwise this whole rant will look rather foolish.
Anyway, this program runs VERY well. It takes up about 1.5 gig in drive space. Very little for such a fully loaded game. It does come on a few CD-rom discs. It can be a little complicated for the run0and0gun types. A little like Deus Ex meets Aliens VS. Predator. You get to walk on the walls and ceiling a lot. This truly is a special program that deserves to get a LOT of attention.

28 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Play Prey, July 11, 2006

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OverTheMoon ([e-mail]) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Prey (CD-ROM)

Prey is a bona-fide 5 star game. Play it soon because everyone is going to be raving about it. The SUMMER BLASTER for 2006 is HERE! Basically it is Turok meets Doom 3 on steroids. If you like first person shooters (fps), then getting Prey is probably the next best move you will make next to owning Half-Life 2: Episode 1 and F.E.A.R. The future of fps in space has not outlived its lifespan. If you liked Doom 3, which was the last good adrenaline pumping monster mash on Mars, then you will love Prey. Prey is back to basics again, whopping up the graphics considerably, brilliant lighting effects and a frightening story to boot that isn't afraid to have lots of gore and shocks around the corner. It has a certain feel of HALO about it too with its alien-type weapons. You play an Indian who has been beamed up off his reserve into a spaceship where the aliens are eating up the humans. Prey has awesome in-game action sequences and is quite shocking for the sum of its fiendish parts. You have an old Indian trick out-of-body-experience (OBE) which helps you to reach areas in the rooms you can't normally get to. The rooms also rotate when you shoot switches which offers various level puzzles to get through. Most of the time you totally loose your orientation which makes the play even more fun, especially when portals start opening after room rotations. Duke Nukem lovers will also enjoy the fun on display. An alien's severed hand to open doors is a nice touch. Art Bell's radio talk-show of the aliens invasion is broadcast at various junctions in the game. You don't die either. Well you do, but you are given unlimited chances to regenerate your blue or red health by shooting at blue or red birds in the land of your ancestors. It is a great idea and works. The Boss fights are massive. You even get to fly some aircraft with fire power. Running along anti-gravity tracks around rooms upside down and across walls while unloading your gun into the screaming aliens that have driven people insane who are crying banging on doors is probably reason enough to own the thing if it wasn't for the photorealistic gfx. Slime on the wall has never looked so real. The end boss battles are amazing. The graphics are simply outstanding. This is a high quality fps that deserves your time and CPU power. Prey it today.

*ADULTS ONLY*: contains VIOLENT GORE and BAD LANGUAGE.

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