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| From: Take 2 Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: £24.99
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 792
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: sci-fi-action-games
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
ESRB: Adults Only
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 18 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5026555245456
EAN: 5026555245845
ASIN: B000EP7IQU
Release Date: July 14, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: PREOWNED Item will be sent 1st Class Delivery within 24hrs - 48hrs
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In a nutshell:
Although it was announced more than a decade ago this demonstrates that the best things really do come to those that wait, with the most original and technically advanced first person shoot `em-up in years.The lowdown:
Although it was conceived at a time when 3D graphics cards were still optional the basic idea behind the Prey portal technology is still the same as it ever was, allowing you to instantly step from one world to another in the game. You can even create the portals yourself as you battle grotesque enemy bosses in one area and jump back to another to recover. The game casts you as a Cherokee Indian with a number of magical powers such as spirit walking that let you explore the game world as a spirit, and deathwalk which replaces the normal need for intrusive quick saves with an innovative mini-game set between the worlds of the living and the dead. Most exciting moment:
Not only is the portal technology amazing but the game's use of gravity is equally inspired with gravity escalators that run up and across ceilings and some excellent zero gravity sections where you pilot spaceship pods and explore a tiny rotating planetoid. Since you ask:
Originally intended only for the PC, the Xbox 360 version is being developed by British team Venom Games, who previously created Rocky Legends for Ubisoft, and features an 8 player multiplayer mode. The bottom line:
Looks like being one of the top predators in the shoot `em-up world.
Harrison Dent
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| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
 Filled A Gap July 26, 2008
Ross Whiteford
While playing Prey I really enjoyed it. Especially the difficulty of dying. I lost interest in this game halfway through becuase of the similarity of all of it. It is just shooting with a minimal story line. I'm sure a lot of people enjoy this quality but I felt it needed the story to progress faster and there to be more of it. Still a fun game to play.
Involves Blue Oyster Cult April 3, 2008
C. Hay (Cheshire, UK)
Honestly, people should play this game simply for the abduction sequence at the beginning to the tune of 'Don't Fear the Reaper' by Blue Oyster Cult. It's a classic gaming moment, certainly, there's not much classier out there.
Overall this game is a flawed gem, but a gem nonetheless. Sure, the graphics have dated and much of the gameplay is derivative (you are a moving object, destroy other moving objects) but when it comes to the portals and the gravity based gameplay, this is genuinely memorable stuff. I'd recommend at least for a rent.
 Unimaginative and boring like so many fps! March 16, 2008
DAvE (UK, Leeds)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
For:
1. Some of the more expansive maps looked impressive.
2. A few of the puzzles are fun.
3. The revolving floors/walls/ceilings is novel (to me anyway) and interesting.
Against:
1. Utterly baffling at times where to go or what to do, and worse why? It was either incredibly linear (most of the time) or I was totally lost (almost everywhere looked the same).
2. No tension, suspense or excitement, or any need for strategy whatsoever in the game play, just blast moronic aliens when you meet them - come on! half-life is 10 years old and that had far better AI.
3. For a 2006 game the graphics look tired, plastic, and don't compare at all well with the Unreal engine games like Gears of War, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter etc.
4. The weapons were terrible. They looked bad and sounded worse, and were always unpleasant and grating to fire. What were the developers thinking?
If this game had come out during the xbox's days, it would have been an okay game. But by the standards of games released in the last couple of years it's just dull, annoying and frustrating. I was so bored by about half way through, I used on-line video walkthroughs to get me to the end. And was I relieved to finish it!!
Who's Next? We Are Next March 8, 2008
Mrs. Dawnc Alexandre (Jersey (CI))
My brother got me this game for my birthday as it was cheap at under 10 and it is a First Person Shooter game, which are my type of games anyway.
In Prey, you play as a character named Tommy. In the beginning of the game, you start off in the bar, which is owned by his girlfriend, Jen. Tommy is bored at living in the reservation and wanted to travel elsewhere and leave home for a short while. However, Jen refuses, as her home is where she belongs. An argument commences and Tommy is hooked up in a bar-fight. After successfully finishing off this battle the entire building is lifted by a gravitational force into this green coloured ray of light. Tommy is then held captive along Jen and his grandfather, Enisi, Tommy is then set free after a large explosion occurs in the building, but unfortunately he witnesses his grandfathers death after a cutting machine is used to crush him. Desperate to save his girlfriend, Tommy seeks for someway to stop the machine for good and save her Jen from this terrible fate. And so, an adventure for Tommy has just begun!
You must help Tommy travel through this weird galaxy in an attempt to save his girlfriend Jen and the Earth. Tommy has supplied himself with his trusty Wrench so he is not alone when it comes to taking out these weird creatures, which lie around the corner. Not only that, but Tommy can also use there weird looking weapons featured around the galaxy to take out those nemesis too. The game brings out a lot of confusion as well as the levels present weird challenges. One minute you walk underneath a tunnel, the next minute you might be upside-down walking along a loose platform! The game also presents a spirit mode in which Tommy can use his spirit to go to places where you cannot as a human and get to places you cannot reach in your usual state!
Prey is currently available for PC and the XBox 360! The XBox 360 Version provides 44 Unlock able Achievements giving you a grand total of 1000 Gamerscore Points!
My Personal Game Score: 8.5/10: Excellent, Wonderful, Good One
My Wish: When you finish the game, the credit scene takes so long, and even when it's finished, you've still got to do a couple more things before you actually finish the game and get the achievements so I wished you can press a button to skip the credits!
Final Comments: Overall, Prey is quite an easy game and you can get all 44 achievements with no problems. If you are after a FPS game with easy achievements and an easier chance to get 1000 Gamerscore Points, this is a game for you!
Check out my Gamer-Tag if you are interested
BulgyDragonZord
Review By Captain Chris Kipper
You get what you pay for. August 18, 2007
Jamie S. Shilling
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
So Ive played about half of the game and its far too dull to keep me engrossed.
Theres nothing spectacular about this game I can think of that makes me want to play it anymore, if it wouldn't cost me more too return it than the money I'd get back I would no longer own the title.
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