for anyone wanting the prey screenshots from PCg

[Cerberus_e]

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[DI-MeisterM]

Well, these are scans, not high quality screenshots

[Gryph]

Just looking at those enemies again and I'm really impressed. They're just really badass looking.

[lonestar]

Cerberus_e said:
I don't even know what language that is...

if you take a look at the top level domain, you could guess it's from russia...

[Kristian Joensen]

Yeah and the text looks russian too.

[trackit]

yeah, the language is russian

i'm not russian, but i can speak russian

the article dont say anything what we already dont know though... (this is no surprise ofcourse )

[Cerberus_e]

but now the ones who don't have the magazine have the screenshots too.

[Dawid van Straaten]

Thanks guys now I don't have to go and buy the PC GAMER for a lot of cash. I live in South Africa and if I want to buy MAGS from overseas, I have to take out a lot of cash, our currency stinks. Thanks again.

[Agulf]

[something] Duke Nukem Forever, [something, something, something] Prey [something] Human Head [backwards N] 3D Realms.

It's a conspiracy!
... No but seriously, (edit: what does this first part say?
I'm just guessing, something about 3DR developer of dnf kicks a** and human head also kicks a** and prey & dnf kicks even more a** and this [insert some incoherent(sp) babbeling]?

Edit: Doesnt support russian chars? changed

[Nacho]

Agulf said:
(edit: what does this first part say?)

"As was earlier stated, the American gaming magazine PC Gamer obtained information about the long prolonged and very desired game of the past century - Prey. We can wait for Duke Nukem Forever, Prey from Human Head and 3D Realms will make sure of that."

More or less.

[avatar_58]

Wow its the 2nd Doom3 expansion! Err..umm...excuse me...

[Kristian Joensen]

It doesn't look that much like Doom 3 at all. Sure it looks a bit like Doom 3 in places. But we are atlking about a "dark" sci-fi game made using the Doom 3 engine, you would expect that.

[Kristian Joensen]

So to the extent it indeed looks like Doom 3 it is a very good thing.

[lvlmaster]

Kinda curious, but who all thinks Doom 3 is an ugly game? I for one think its sexy as hell It may be dark, sure...but that was IDs design decision, not engine limitation. There are plenty of areas in Doom 3 that I can still look at and give an O face.

[Nacho]

The graphics for humans wasn't breathtaking. The monsters looked nice. The thing that made that game special was the animation.

[Gryph]

The level and demon textures were awesome. The only part not that great was the humans but that's because we had already seen how hardcore HL2 did it.

[FireFly]

I wouldn't say Doom 3 looked stunning. The models and textures were too low res/poly to give that impression. However the lighting made the world seem 10 X more realistic, so the graphics really grew on you after a while.

[Lengis]

lvlmaster said:
Kinda curious, but who all thinks Doom 3 is an ugly game? I for one think its sexy as hell It may be dark, sure...but that was IDs design decision, not engine limitation. There are plenty of areas in Doom 3 that I can still look at and give an O face.

Doom 3 was a showcase, no doubt about it.

[Mister_Lynyrd]

I think I would have rather played the build seen in the old video...

...I've already played Doom3, don't want to again...

[Roma Loom]

Agulf said:
[something] Duke Nukem Forever, [something, something, something] Prey [something] Human Head [backwards N] 3D Realms.

It's a conspiracy!
...

Believe me - there's nothing interesting here. Except for the "fact" that the games' release is [_quote]: winter 2005... Ehh... Boring...

[Gatinater]

I thought this game was scrapped, Canceled. I haven't been paying much attention To Duke 4vER for the past three years. I hadn't really heard much about this game at all. So I thought it was vaporized.

I had heard of it and had a mild intrest, but sources had been doubtful.

[Ivan]

I can read most of it: Bulgarian is pretty close to Russian.

Now I see where Yatta took his avatar from.

[0marTheZealot]

Kristian Joensen said:
It doesn't look that much like Doom 3 at all. Sure it looks a bit like Doom 3 in places. But we are atlking about a "dark" sci-fi game made using the Doom 3 engine, you would expect that.

It looks almost exactly like Doom3. If I didn't know it was Prey, I could have sworn it was a good quality MOD or a scene from RoE (if I didn't play RoE).

[Steve]

Man. That looks like doom 3.

[trackit]

lvlmaster said:
Kinda curious, but who all thinks Doom 3 is an ugly game? I for one think its sexy as hell It may be dark, sure...but that was IDs design decision, not engine limitation. There are plenty of areas in Doom 3 that I can still look at and give an O face.

Personally i dont think that doom 3 engine is bad.

I have only playd doom 3 at my friends place, so i havent playd it through, but judging by what i saw i can say that doom 3 graphics/lightnings are good and its not a bad game, but...

What i didnt like about that game is the following:

1) its way too dark and you have to use flashlight most of the time to see anything

2) lack of "interactivity" and ability to shoot/break things. (you could shoot some can of coca at most)
You can blast with minigun all over the place and nothing even breaks...
Combine that with "underpowered" sounding of weapons and you get no feel of real thing.

3) enemys are mostly dumb (no AI) and too "zombie like" Combine that with too dark (and indoor) atmosphere plus enemy spawning and you feel like a zombie yourself after a while

4) levels are too similar looking/feeling and the lack of some larger or outdoor areas.

these are the main issues i had with doom 3. So if 3DR/HH adresses some of them or even better all of them then Prey will be very good game... im sure of that

[Agulf]

Thanks for the translation

And.. Is it really a problem that prey looks like doom 3? I mean, It's not exactly strange that it does. This is like saying Vampire Bloodlines looks like Half-Life 2.
And we dont know if it will have the same "flaws" like "lack of interactivity" since it's an entirely different programmer at work. My guess is they modified the engine a bit or alot.

I have no problem with these scans at all. In fact, I think they made a better job than Quake IV with the engine.

[trackit]

Agulf said:
And.. Is it really a problem that prey looks like doom 3? I mean, It's not exactly strange that it does. This is like saying Vampire Bloodlines looks like Half-Life 2.
And we dont know if it will have the same "flaws" like "lack of interactivity" since it's an entirely different programmer at work. My guess is they modified the engine a bit or alot.

yeah, thats what i meant. That doom 3 engine is not bad at all and those "flaws" that doom3 game had dont have to be in Prey automatically...

[Steve]

Well, is this game going to be interactive? Not like tipping over a box due to the physics engine - (wow ) The old E3 vids show that prey had a lot of interactivity. Surely the developers haven't gone backwards in regards to that?

I'll be happy if the game has interactivity. If not ... well, that will suck.

[Mister_Lynyrd]

My snap judgement... (snap, mind you)... is that this is gonna be a lame Doom3 ripoff with portals, and that's it. IMO there is no way they can pull off the cool shit shown in the earlier video.

I could be wrong. Still waiting for DNF, the last cool game ever made.

[Asmodeusz]

Steve said:
Man. That looks like doom 3.

The screens look good, although, yup, it looks like D3. I can't really complain about the engine, just hope prey will not be darkness all the time, and I hope they throw in some big exterior maps with some more colorfull and highlighted objects. There are portals though which is really cool. Maybe one portal could take you to a present looking city? Or a forest by <font color="red"> during the day </font> ? I really look forward to it.

[Kristian Joensen]

Mister_Lynyrd said:
My snap judgement... (snap, mind you)... is that this is gonna be a lame Doom3 ripoff with portals, and that's it. IMO there is no way they can pull off the cool shit shown in the earlier video.

I could be wrong. Still waiting for DNF, the last cool game ever made.

I say your snap judgement is pretty bad. But ultimately we will find out, tis winter according to Take Two.

[Steve]

Asmodeusz said:

The screens look good, although, yup, it looks like D3. I can't really complain about the engine, just hope prey will not be darkness all the time, and I hope they throw in some big exterior maps with some more colorfull and highlighted objects. There are portals though which is really cool. Maybe one portal could take you to a present looking city? Or a forest by <font color="red"> during the day </font> ? I really look forward to it.

I hope there's some nice city levels. Man that would kick ass.

[Kristian Joensen]

City levels onboard a alien mother-ship ?

[Steve]

Kristian Joensen said:
City levels onboard a alien mother-ship ?

No smart ass

There's a city-like level shown in an old video.

[Kristian Joensen]

Prey is set on a alien mother-ship.

[hell-angel]

Kristian Joensen said:
But ultimately we will find out, tis winter according to Take Two.

where did you read that??

[Agulf]

where did you read that??

Apparently that was in the text.


And about the interactivity part... I think I'm safe to say it depends on how involved 3DR has been during the project.
Personally, I'm just going to wait and see how they pull this off. I have this feeling it will be very good.

[0marTheZealot]

Asmodeusz said:

The screens look good, although, yup, it looks like D3. I can't really complain about the engine, just hope prey will not be darkness all the time, and I hope they throw in some big exterior maps with some more colorfull and highlighted objects. There are portals though which is really cool. Maybe one portal could take you to a present looking city? Or a forest by <font color="red"> during the day </font> ? I really look forward to it.

That's exactly my thinking. So far, we haven't seen any extensive outdoor environments on the Doom3 engine. The ones we have are small and take a hard FPS hits. Unfortunately, it looks like, and this is preliminery at best, that Prey will be another corridor shooter with maybe a few minutes outside. It definately does not look like the Prey of yesteryear.

Good artwork and good directing trumps most everything. I hope Human Head realizes this.

[Killd a ton]

i'w played a bit with doom3ed and i find that the engine is cababl of a fairly big out door's.

[Kristian Joensen]

To Omar:

This is from the article/preveiw:

"Prey is begin built using a heavily customized version of the Doom 3 engine.
The game featrues larger and much brighter enviroments than those seen in Doom 3. Wheras id's shooter relied on constircted passageways and ominous darkness, Prey's alien mother-ship is marked by huge, cavernous spaces as well as more traditional passages."

And I will add that we are talking about dark sci-fi game beeing built using the Doom 3 engine.