Bellias
07-16-2006, 03:32 PM
Hi Everyone,
This is my first post here so...yeah.
Before i get to my point, little bit of back story.
The very first FPS i ever played was the original Wolfenstein. Then Doom. Following in no particular order Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom 2, Half Life, Breed, F.E.A.R, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Dues Ex, Area 51, Red Faction and Alien vs Predator and a load of non enjoyable others.
Not the most comprehensive of lists, but a list non the less.
Apart from Duke and F.E.A.R non of the others really entertained me. Then about 3 months ago i remember seeing the name Prey again, on these boards whilst looking for some info on Duke Nukem Forever (how odd;) ) This was a name i hadn't seen in a long ass time. But, just as it did back when i first saw its name, i glanced over it thinking it would be another FPS that was going to be, in my opinon, a waste of time and more worse, my money. So i happily went on my way, continued to spend countless hours and pounds on World Of Warcraft just like i had done for the last 10 months.
Then last Saturday while browsing Gamespot i saw Prey again and decided to give a quick read to information they had on Gamespot. Consumed with intrigue i decided to download the demo before i committed my wallet to the game. It downloaded, i installed it...
Then the menu screen popped up and when the menu music hit, the first thing that happened was a chill went down my spine. Never has a menu screen for a game managed to do that to me....ever. I sat and listened for a few moments while i listened to it thinking how epic the music was. I knew from here that this was going to be different from every other FPS i had every played. I hit new game, screen goes black then "The World is full of Stories, and from time to time, they allow themselves to be told". This was followed by another chilling feeling (voice actor for Enisi was first class imo, as was all the voice actors imo)
The next 10 minutes of the demo upto the "Don't fear the Reaper" playing and the end of the first "scene" had me smiling with glee and anxious to get stuck in with the trusty wrench.
After the demo had finished, i couldn't wait to play the full version, knowing just from the demo this was a game which was going to have me glued to my screen. A week and many demo replays pass and i find my full copy of Prey on my doormat after getting in from work. I threw that disc in, instsalled that bad boy, and jumped straight back in for the next 4 hours till i had to go to bed.
Got in the next evening, ate and fired my copy of Prey up.
Then i get to the boss fight which changed my view of this game from great to superb. Big Spoiler incoming (website n00b and i don't know how to put the spoiler tag around it so until i do, i'll leave a big space :P)...ok i took a guess and it worked :)
The fight with Jen was simply amazing, in my opinion a defining moment in gaming. Never has a boss fight made me not want to kill it. Even after it was done and she told me to kill her, i ran around looking for something to help her and i even hesitated to shoot her once i realised nothing was going to stop the inevitable. I hoped all the way up until the end of game that this was just a ploy by the "Mother" which never transpired and up until the end in the Land of the Ancients, i felt quite down in having to shoot her.
If there had been more Jen in the game up until the point of fighting her, no doubt that would have been a pretty damn emotional moment in gaming. But it was pretty close as it was.
So in ending, Prey had some awesome features, wallwalking, gravity flipping, death walking but far more important than all of those was a story worthy of awards in my opinion. My only gripe, like a few others, was that it was too short. However, with what was done with the story, was so good i can forgive its length. My disagreement with our dearest George is that the story was so much more to the game than i think you think it was.
Of course i could have saved a hell of a load of space and just had that one sentence, but then i wouldn't have given everyone who made this awesome game the chance to read through my experience of playing it.
I just hope that if you do an expansion or sequel (or both), you will use the same voice actors as they managed to capture the emotion in the game perfectly.
Signed
A big fan of Prey
ps Sorry for the length of this post.
This is my first post here so...yeah.
Before i get to my point, little bit of back story.
The very first FPS i ever played was the original Wolfenstein. Then Doom. Following in no particular order Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom 2, Half Life, Breed, F.E.A.R, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Dues Ex, Area 51, Red Faction and Alien vs Predator and a load of non enjoyable others.
Not the most comprehensive of lists, but a list non the less.
Apart from Duke and F.E.A.R non of the others really entertained me. Then about 3 months ago i remember seeing the name Prey again, on these boards whilst looking for some info on Duke Nukem Forever (how odd;) ) This was a name i hadn't seen in a long ass time. But, just as it did back when i first saw its name, i glanced over it thinking it would be another FPS that was going to be, in my opinon, a waste of time and more worse, my money. So i happily went on my way, continued to spend countless hours and pounds on World Of Warcraft just like i had done for the last 10 months.
Then last Saturday while browsing Gamespot i saw Prey again and decided to give a quick read to information they had on Gamespot. Consumed with intrigue i decided to download the demo before i committed my wallet to the game. It downloaded, i installed it...
Then the menu screen popped up and when the menu music hit, the first thing that happened was a chill went down my spine. Never has a menu screen for a game managed to do that to me....ever. I sat and listened for a few moments while i listened to it thinking how epic the music was. I knew from here that this was going to be different from every other FPS i had every played. I hit new game, screen goes black then "The World is full of Stories, and from time to time, they allow themselves to be told". This was followed by another chilling feeling (voice actor for Enisi was first class imo, as was all the voice actors imo)
The next 10 minutes of the demo upto the "Don't fear the Reaper" playing and the end of the first "scene" had me smiling with glee and anxious to get stuck in with the trusty wrench.
After the demo had finished, i couldn't wait to play the full version, knowing just from the demo this was a game which was going to have me glued to my screen. A week and many demo replays pass and i find my full copy of Prey on my doormat after getting in from work. I threw that disc in, instsalled that bad boy, and jumped straight back in for the next 4 hours till i had to go to bed.
Got in the next evening, ate and fired my copy of Prey up.
Then i get to the boss fight which changed my view of this game from great to superb. Big Spoiler incoming (website n00b and i don't know how to put the spoiler tag around it so until i do, i'll leave a big space :P)...ok i took a guess and it worked :)
The fight with Jen was simply amazing, in my opinion a defining moment in gaming. Never has a boss fight made me not want to kill it. Even after it was done and she told me to kill her, i ran around looking for something to help her and i even hesitated to shoot her once i realised nothing was going to stop the inevitable. I hoped all the way up until the end of game that this was just a ploy by the "Mother" which never transpired and up until the end in the Land of the Ancients, i felt quite down in having to shoot her.
If there had been more Jen in the game up until the point of fighting her, no doubt that would have been a pretty damn emotional moment in gaming. But it was pretty close as it was.
So in ending, Prey had some awesome features, wallwalking, gravity flipping, death walking but far more important than all of those was a story worthy of awards in my opinion. My only gripe, like a few others, was that it was too short. However, with what was done with the story, was so good i can forgive its length. My disagreement with our dearest George is that the story was so much more to the game than i think you think it was.
Of course i could have saved a hell of a load of space and just had that one sentence, but then i wouldn't have given everyone who made this awesome game the chance to read through my experience of playing it.
I just hope that if you do an expansion or sequel (or both), you will use the same voice actors as they managed to capture the emotion in the game perfectly.
Signed
A big fan of Prey
ps Sorry for the length of this post.