Prey video available

[The Cacodemon]

http://dmode.datamachine.net/prey.html

it's pretty slow for me, though.. anyone have any mirrors??

[Ivan]

WTF is this?

[Eclipse]

Check the E3 demo topic, there's a couple of mirrors and discussion in there.

[John]

Ivan said:
WTF is this?

WTF do you think it is. Read the title.

[Ivan]

John said:

WTF do you think it is. Read the title.

I was just questioning the content of the link he provided.

[John]

When I clicked on it, it went straight to the video with some text before it. Yatta showed me the e3 video as well at DVU (in my sig ) and its the same thing. Meaning that video = Prey E3 video but shaky cam (not officially from HH or 3DR)

[Ivan]

Maybe I don't get redirected/don't see the video because I don't have that DivX thing you told me about on MSN.

[Yatta]

Ivan said:
Maybe I don't get redirected/don't see the video because I don't have that DivX thing you told me about on MSN.

You need WMP 8+. Not DivX. )

[avatar_58]

Ivan, I use firefox and I didn't see any video either. I have wmp10 and it still wouldn't show up. I checked the source code and simply copied the filename and it worked.....so apparently that must be some non-standard html or something is up with the wmplayer commands used...

[Ivan]

avatar_58 said:
Ivan, I use firefox and I didn't see any video either. I have wmp10 and it still wouldn't show up. I checked the source code and simply copied the filename and it worked.....so apparently that must be some non-standard html or something is up with the wmplayer commands used...

Cheers bro! /

[NutWrench]

There's nothing there.

[Ivan]

NutWrench said:
There's nothing there.

http://dmode.datamachine.net/Preye32k5.wmv

[DissidentRage]

Wow. It's like nothing I've ever seen before. I'm sold.

[Ras]

Yeah, great job so far, Human Head. What you're doing looks great even in poor quality shaky-cam. I saw someone on another forum making ignorant statements about Prey the other day, and now I just have to laugh. "Who cares about portals? Why do they think players even want them?" Innovation, perhaps? Bringing something new to the FPS genre? That video answers all of that, as far as I'm concerned.

I especially enjoy the part where Tommy flips gravity by shooting those targets. Good stuff.

[Mblackwell]

Aynone else spot Duke?

[Water12356]

Duke!?!? Where!?

[Joe Siegler]

NutWrench said:
There's nothing there.

Yes there is - it's an embedded video - it's not coming up in Firefox.

And speaking of videos..

http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=7031

[Ras]

Curses! Mercury only!

So, is this a high-quality direct version?

[Gryph]

Shacknews was nice enough to make the Quake Wars HD trailer publically available the morning after it was Mercury exclusive. I hope they do the same with Prey.

And they aren't direct feeds, they're recorded with HD camera and are on a tripod so it's steady and good looking anyway.

[Ras]

If I downloaded more, Shack would be worth the money, from what I've seen. Even the free side gives you a really speedy, solid connection.

Anyway, hopefully you're right, and it'll be available to all tomorrow.

[QuiGonJ]

I saw the Prey video today at the ATI booth. I will say what I thought. This is what I said to HH: Half-Life 2 looks like a steaming pile compared to Prey. Looks great!

The demo begins in a bar. Two very naturally-animated looking folks are standing there, a lady tending, and a man drinking. Then everything begins to shake and a spaceship knocks a hole in the ceiling. The spaceship sucks up things into it, and it looks like it either digitizes or transports them as they go. The guy gets sucked up, and then you materialize on a spaceship. At the same time, a jetliner transports in, and crashes.

I don't pretend to understand the controls, but I watched Talon wander through the ship killing various things. Every so often he would walk on glowing white tiles that are something like gravity plates, and you walk up walls across ceilings, it feels like an Escher painting at some point, and I might add, a cool Escher painting at that. There's realistic physics, natch, and gravity rotating panels to shoot at various places that make doors slam down and you can smash things under falling (though non power-up and non-breaking) crates.

And of course, you can use the portal gun. It is seamless, moving through the portals had no load times, though I have no idea what hardware was powering the video. You can shoot through the portals, and the demo showcased the wide variety of levels available. There's open Arizona desert, there's spaceships, there's DooM 3 looking bases, and in one place you climb in a spaceship and it feels like the movie Independence Day.

The demo closed with Talon talking to his mentor, an older Indian who I assume was the medicine man of his tribe, offing the advice "Do not become Prey".

I came away thoroughly and completely impressed. This was one of the high points of E3 for me.

Afterwards, I pointed out that I would be happy to write this up on the 3DR boards for one of the cool Prey t-shirts HH had and were not giving out except to VIPs. They gave me the shirt, me did the writeup.

[ADM]

Joe3DR said:

Yes there is - it's an embedded video - it's not coming up in Firefox.

And speaking of videos..

http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=7031

Cool! I might sign up for a month just to grab some of those

[Little Conqueror]

All I have to say is, this game will rule. Mark my words.

[Yatta]

Someone please upload the trailer somewhere if you have it; I'm not paying crapshack or whoever to download a single video.

[Ras]

Qui-Gon, good report. I can't wait to see all of that for myself when the HD video gets a wider release.

Gryph, thanks for pointing out the Quake Wars trailer. That is a thing of beauty. I especially like when the Strogg ships crash down to Earth. I think I'm going to love this generation of gaming. George, make sure DNF looks that great.

[Eclipse]

QuiGonJ said:
but I watched Talon

Tommy. Talon is the hawk.

[lonestar]

hey, shack is great. quiet, you! ;P

like said before, someone download it on fileshack and upload it for public folks, if any mercures are around. thx.

it's not the 10 minute prey video, only the one minute long prey trailer. but hey, it's HD and should offer some new content.

[Cerberus_e]

I want the full 20 minutes one

[NutWrench]

That was pretty cool.

(I wish we had a video captured directly from the game and not from a camcorder).

[Spooger]

Here we go:

www.preyhq.com

I suppose the url can be considered something of an early announcement.

edit: link has been changed for the people experiencing access problems.

[DI-MeisterM]

Spooger said:
A link to the Fileshack video will be provided shortly

www.preyhq.com/preye3shack.wmv

I suppose the url can be considered something of an early announcement.

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /preye3shack.wmv on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

[Spooger]

Hotlink protection. Sorry about that - working around it as we speak

[dark_angel]

Working here!

Thx for the link Spooger

[Ronald McDonald]

What kind of codec do you need to play this?

[Spooger]

Ronald McDonald said:
What kind of codec do you need to play this?

http://www.free-codecs.com/ has pretty much every codec available if you don't have what you need. They have plenty of all-in-one codec packs that will help you play most anything.

[DI-MeisterM]

Great video, many thanks for the link!

For videoplayback I suggest this program:
http://www.videolan.org/

[Ronald McDonald]

I can't watch it

[Gryph]

You need HD codecs.

I love how the fat enemy with the scythe twirls like a ballet dancer. Great video! Thanks Spooger and ShackNews.

[George Broussard]

Cerberus_e said:
I want the full 20 minutes one

The demo was only 12 minutes or so. Not 20. I think the shaky cam video that's out there cuts off about a minute early.

[Cerberus_e]

downloading, thanks in advance, also thanks afterwards, because I know the video will be good