How did Prey get overlooked by everyone?

DeathTrip · Jun 2005

This game hasnt got any attention from gaming sites or G4(with their e3 coverage)

It looks seriously awesome imo.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=6393&type=mov

- the portals are incredible! so f'ing seamless and a cool gameplay touch.
- the graphics look great; the indoors and outdoors, the weapons, the enemies.
- going upside-down or sideways is also very cool, might need a barf-bag =p

gauss · Jun 2005

yeah i'm not sure--i was at E3 myself and didn't see it, though i did watch the UT2k7 presentation with some Prey teammembers (thanks moose!). the pc gamer shots when the game was revealed looked very Doom 3ish, but the shots really do the game no justice.

here's the link where i got it (lot of people on the bittorrent

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http://www.filerush.com/download.php?target=E305PreyVideo.avi

and the footage is, indeed, pretty impressive. what i think is interesting is how close they've managed to stay to the original design 'hooks' from the original incarnation of the game we were seeing in the late 90's (portals, crazy gravity stuff) and make it look like a lot of fun. i was skeptical about the descriptions of some of the native american stuff, but Prey does indeed look to be making a very good case for itself.

also: HOORAY FOR GIBS! it's been a long while since we've seen a proper FPS with flying gibs like that; it almost brought a tear to my eye to see that in the footage

also: God bless the Prey team if they're still using the same Radiant-based editor that's built into Doom 3 to make those levels, because i cannot imagine working on all that walking-on-the-ceiling stuff in that editor, good as it is.

KDR_11k · Jun 2005

It's going to be published through a streaming system only, I suppose the gaming mags were trained by the big publishers to ignore anything that circumvents the traditional publishing model [/tinfoil hat].

pogonip · Jun 2005

It looks really awesome pretty much as impressive as Doom 3 graphically speaking although I did think the Shamen guy was kinda cheezy looking. Anyways good luck to the Prey team it looks like they are making a very good game with the Doom 3 engine

Weiser_Cain · Jun 2005

Most interesting thing is the seemingly seamless scene transitions.

oXYnary · Jun 2005

I like the native American portion. Wish they would push that even more. The organic weapons are amazing!

HumanHead ehh? Im interested.

Jeff Parrott · Jun 2005

Thanks to SinisterGFX this was one I caught at E3. It was really nice to see the trailer in high res glory. Plenty of "Oh shit!" moments, which I really like in a game. Makes it more fun to tell people about. Like the gravity flipping, portals, little psycho kids, flying the ship, monster's crack, etc.

I was really suprised that no one was checking this out. AstroZombie and I walked right up and saw it.

Badname · Jun 2005

When i saw the vid i was in love! ;D
Realy cool stuff, I specialy like the levels and weapons. That part were you see the player flying to that small moon and the weapon he uses there damn I like it a lot.
I also think if the game sells good its a future more games will follow special levels and gameplay, because i dont think were waiting for the next doom4 with better graphics.

thnom · Jun 2005

This is what I wanted to see, the next-gen technology being used and not just pitch black like the shitty Doom3. This looks good, amazing action using the engine that is so powerful but seem under-used in doom3 (they could have made it black black with sprites and you wouldn't notice the difference

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m3rl1n · Jun 2005

This is probably one of the coolest and most inventive things Ive seen in gaming since I started gaming, when everything was new, and thats a long time ago. Compared to almost everything else I saw coming out of E3 this is easily top dog. I cant believe it got passed over so easily. Thanks for passing on the link.

But the single best part about this (being a QuakeRadiant fan) is that it truly shows what the D3Engine can do. I dont know how many times I tried to tell people that Doom 3 was more a tech demo then anything else and now that were seeing some of new games using the technology I feel somewhat vindicated

MoP · Jun 2005

Damn, that looks sweet. Some of the gameplay features seem really cool, like the portals, spirit-form thing, upside-down walkways and such.

Plus the monsters look cool ... and there are outdoor environments (although they still don't look quite as vast as some that the HL games showcased).

Some very nifty things going on like inverting gravity, physics-based stuff, and using vehicles ... it's like the best parts of D3, HL and Unreal thrown together!

StrangeFate · Jun 2005

hmm
Standard gray normalmapped environments, check.
Random features out of context like grav walking in a purposeless room, check.

I dunno, everything looks quite random to me, some good ideas thrown together without much tought, maybe the mediahas seen it all before often enough and normalmaps and monsters aren't so interesting by themselfes ?

KDR_11k · Jun 2005

Well, they reported on WW2 games so there was really no reason to overlook Prey. To me it looks like a fun environment, few people would notice that it seems to have no purpose outside of being a combat arena.

Weiser_Cain · Jun 2005

At this point I don't even care, I did have a problem with the crashing plane that turned me off at the start and it is a bit mindless but I'd still buy it if it would somehow push more games towards seemlessness(repeating myself). Still I'd like to know what they were running that game on it was as smooth as eggs.

kleinluka · Jun 2005

if you think about it, the plane is not so "mindless". it was probably coming from a portal and the pilot was like WHAT THE F...?!

i'm really impressed with the trailer, hats off to everyone who worked on it.

-=Warhead=- · Jun 2005

It reminds me of, Turok..
I hope they have his famous line in this game, When you die and get revived.. he should say.. I am Prey!.. Instead of I am Turok!

oh yea im so cool..

Negadeth · Jun 2005

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Most interesting thing is the seemingly seamless scene transitions.

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Try saying that 10 times fast.

I'm looking forward to this game, quite nice to see a game I saw a trailer for way back when Shadow Warrior came out get resurrected again. I was looking forward to this game back then, and I often wondered whatever became of it.

I still do about DNF, so I guess if they can get this out the door it gives me hope that someday, DNF will be finished!

Kevin Johnstone · Jun 2005

The best comment to come out of E3 I heard about Prey was 'It's doom3, with ideas!'

r.

KDR_11k · Jun 2005

That's the second best (i.e. funniest) game comparison I read today (best was "GTA is just like Pac Man, except the dots are people").

I hope this game is really as far along as the video makes it look, would be awesome. But then again it's online download only so I guess I can forget about playing it until I'm outta here.

RageUnleashed · Jun 2005

HOL-E-SHIYAT that looks awesome. Sure looks to be a short but sweet single player experience like pretty much all FPS games...but this one's sure got some sweet lookin quirky gameplay mechanics that should be fun to play with.

Weiser_Cain · Jun 2005

Most interesting thing is the seemingly seamless scene transitions ten times fast.
kleinluka I meant to say the plane part bothered me and the gameplay itself was a bit mindless.

How did Prey get overlooked by everyone?

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