Prey Demo

[TheGr81]

Has anyone else here played the Prey demo?

I've had my eye on this game for quite some time, and I'm glad the demo finally came. It's truly awesome. I recommend it to anyone with a broadband connection (it's ~450 megs). :thumbsup:

EDIT: forgot the link - HERE (http://www.gamespot.com/promos/2006/prey-demo/index.html).

[bothered]

Looks interesting, downloading, 2 hours to play time.

[Enverex]

Well I'll be damned. This game has a Platinum rating in WINE. I guess I'll try it out.

[deicist]

I was just coming in here to start a thread about this.

After playing the demo all I can say is wow... if the full game is as exciting as the demo I think this could be a HL2 beater.

[Hawk]

WOW, Pretty good size.. 30 min DL.
Gonna load it today and try it out.
Previews of it look interesting.

[lemonlime]

Good to see they are putting the DOOM3 engine to good use. I saw a trailer for it a while back and it looks pretty awesome. Going to grab the demo now :)

[bothered]

Played a good chunk of the demo, it is excellent, definately on my list.

[Private_Snoball]

If you purchase PCGAMER, you can go buy the newest one (August 2006) and the prey demo comes on that also. Saved me a 40 minute download :)

[Enverex]

Just completed the Demo (under Linux no less, kudos for making an easily cross platform runnable game) and it seemed interesting (the story) but I can't say I'm a fan of the Doom 3 engine. The space ship interiors always seem to similar. I did like the Blue Oyster Cult song that started playing at the start and the concept that you can't die is interesting too....

[Squill]

OMG I cant wait for this game to come out. Played the demo yesterday and I cant get enough of it!

[bothered]

I think the gravity effects that make the single player game such fun may harm the multiprey (sic) game. It works great in the single but the screen flips around too much for me in multi. I would buy it just for the single game anyway.

[primesuspect]

I'm enjoying the demo - i must say the PC version is way better than the 360 version. I'll never understand how on earth people can play FPS games on consoles.

The built in Logitech G15 support totally surprised me. It makes me keyboard all pretty like!

I am totally stuck in a room though. It's close to the beginning, called "wall walking" - the part where a crate rolls over and one of those little monsters comes out - i walk into the crate and then I'm stuck in a little room with a door that won't open, an alien handscanner thing that does nothing, and a pedestal with a glass case and a sphere thing inside. I've tried everything I can think of, and nothing does anything. I'm just stuck there.. Help!

[lemonlime]

I'm enjoying the demo - i must say the PC version is way better than the 360 version. I'll never understand how on earth people can play FPS games on consoles.

The built in Logitech G15 support totally surprised me. It makes me keyboard all pretty like!

I am totally stuck in a room though. It's close to the beginning, called "wall walking" - the part where a crate rolls over and one of those little monsters comes out - i walk into the crate and then I'm stuck in a little room with a door that won't open, an alien handscanner thing that does nothing, and a pedestal with a glass case and a sphere thing inside. I've tried everything I can think of, and nothing does anything. I'm just stuck there.. Help!

Ahh, that is a cool part :) Go to the side of the room opposite the sphere. You'll see two crates on their sides. They are actually portals that you can enter. What happens next is pretty cool--I wont spoil it for you.

[primesuspect]

I tried that! I can't enter them :-/

[Park_7677]

Maybe one of your sons can figure it out ;) ;D

I had trouble in some spots too. It almost made me sick at some points flipping all over the walls :Pwned:

[primesuspect]

I figured it out. There must be a graphic glitch with my card or driver. I found out by playing it on my 360 - and seeing that, hey, those crates - you can see what's on the other side of them! On my computer, they are just solid black squares, so I never tried walking into them. When I push up against the black square, suddenly the other side becomes visible.

glitch! lag! bad map! crappy team! :p

[FormFactor]

Ahh, that is a cool part :) Go to the side of the room opposite the sphere. You'll see two crates on their sides. They are actually portals that you can enter. What happens next is pretty cool--I wont spoil it for you.


I know exactly what your talking about, and I too thought that part was very cool!! Very innovative use of portals!

[TheLostSwede]

The "soul walking" feature is pretty neat as well. I just got the full game. Stunning piece i must say. They have turned the engine into a lot more efficient engine now. The only thing i really miss is native support for widescreens. I hate being limited to 1600X1200 when i know the rig can do more. Stretched out 1600X1200 doesn't do a widescreen any justice. It still looks mint though.

[deicist]

I just finished the full game, some really cool bits in there. It gets a little repetitive at times, but still a fun blast while it lasts.


Watch past the end credits for the sequel setup ;)


There's some bits that had me scratching my head occasionally, and a couple of sections that really had me twisting my brain round trying to figure out what to do....but a bit of logical thought and 3D thinking will get you through :)

[bothered]

Finished the full game?
How long is it? I thought it wasn't out in the UK till the 14th?

[TheLostSwede]

It's been out for "evaluation" for a good 2 weeks now.

[deicist]

And if you know someone who works in a games shop you can call in a favour ;)

[bothered]

So how many hours of play did you get?

[deicist]

Um... I'd say 6 to 8 if you play through it solidly and don't spend time gawping at all the cool stuff. Longer if, like me, you take time out to mess with the fun stuff.

[bothered]

How dissapointing.It seems to br going that the better a game looks the less game time you get, apart from oblivion which will play for years!

[TheSmJ]

Mack, you very well can play the game at custom resolutions, you just need to edit the preyconfig.cfg file to do it.

Add this anywhere in the config file:

seta r_customHeight "1050"
seta r_customWidth "1680"
seta r_mode "-1"
seta r_aspectRatio "2"

And your game will then load up at 1680x1050 with an aspect ratio of 16:10. :)

[deicist]

Depends how much it's going cost, if it's £30 or so I'd say it's worth it. compared to other entertainment that's fairly good cost per hour. you'd be lucky to get 8 hours of quality cinema for £30, or songs you could listen to for 8 hours for that much.... and it's 8 hours of quality gaming. There's a couple of points where it gets a little repetative as I said but the vast majority of the time you're thinking 'whoa'.

[entropy]

So I just did the rotating cube thing. Holy wow, that was genius. Took me quite awhile to notice that something was moving.

[deicist]

So I just did the rotating cube thing. Holy wow, that was genius. Took me quite awhile to notice that something was moving.

Yeah, that one had me stumped for a while. There's a few sections in the game that will have you scratching your head for 20 minutes or so until something suddenly clicks and you realise what you need to do :)



Also, the bit when you're walking down a really dark corridor and Tommy says 'Damn it's dark in here, I'm doomed. Ha!

[morfeu]

Just finished the demo, great game, im gonna buy it! :)

[Cyclonite]

Anyone have an issue of the screen going black with just the mouse pointer visible after exiting the game? Both the demo and the full version. I have to hard reset to get anywhere.

[ronbo]

I am playing the full game now. It reminds me of doom 3. Everything is indoors and it is dark. Graphics are real good and gameplay is smooth.

[Cyclonite]

It uses the Doom 3 engine. ;)

[bothered]

Depends how much it's going cost, if it's £30 or so I'd say it's worth it. compared to other entertainment that's fairly good cost per hour. you'd be lucky to get 8 hours of quality cinema for £30, or songs you could listen to for 8 hours for that much.... and it's 8 hours of quality gaming. There's a couple of points where it gets a little repetative as I said but the vast majority of the time you're thinking 'whoa'.
I know but... I prefere to compare it with PC games. Almost all the games I've played are far longer than that, Thief, Deus ex, F.E.A.R., HL2 etc. The latest Tomb Raider was very short (and not very good). There seems to be a trend with games where they are becoming much 'prettier' but much shorter. I don't want to spend £30 on something that'll be finished in a few days, I don't think I'll play the multi much if at all. I may wait till it's down to £15/£20. I'm not really into 'cutting edge graphics' at the cost of game play time, I'd rather it didn't look as pretty but had a good story you could get involved with for weeks.

[primesuspect]

gogamer.com has Prey on 48 hour madness for $29.90

not a bad price. Of course it comes at a time when I don't have an extra $30 in my "fun budget" :-/ Maybe somebody will get it, and then sell it to me for $10 next year :p

[bothered]

Had a look around for it the other day. 35 pounds at PC world, and everywhere else, 21 from Amazon. Are we UKers ripped off or what?

[TheLostSwede]

Well, you picked the most expensve store of all. 21 is cheap. http://www.play.com/Games/PC/RNR/3-/688401/Prey/Product.html

They have it for 25 shipped.

[Daxx]

This is a really cool game. I'm probably 80% through the full version now and it's been a blast to play. Of course, I'm a FPS guy, so just about any FPS gets me going but I have enjoyed the new twists that this game has thrown in to spark up an old concept.

I do agree with the others...the game is gorgeous, but a little too short on game play. I suggest you do stop to smell the roses and check out the eye candy.

[SoLo]

Loved it...great gameplay..nice graphics..all around good game. 8/10