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Published by: 2k Games |
By Flaviu Volosciuc
Published: November 2, 2006
Print Gameplay: 82
Not the best around the market, but sometimes is really funny, especially when it comes to puzzles. The battles against the enemy from a flying vehicle called exoskeleton, are similar to Descent, and are really dramatic.
Unfortunately the player cannot die, and somehow this makes the game not so challenging for many players. The characters have stupid voices and the monologues and short dialogues are full of the f... word. These monologues gives you the impression that Domasi is the new Duke Nukem. But anyway, Domasi sounds more stupid than Duke.
Graphics: 95
The best thing about this game along with the physics engine. Although 3D Realms gave up trying to develop their own graphical engine, Prey looks great and much better than Doom 3 from where it uses the engine. The environmental design is glamorous and full of beautiful effects. There are moments where you just need to stop, watch and admire the view of the level. There are levels that look really fantastic but also creepy images such as the Earth, or the star that is the core of energy for the sphere,
or a bus that was just assimilated into the bowels of the ship
or different genitals!!! that are used as doors.
Multiplayer: 80
Offering just two modes: Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch, the multiplayer is not very consistent. You can play only on eight maps, but in the end you will get much more fun than the Doom 3 multiplayer because of the new features like gravity flipping, wall walking or spirit walking.
Sound: 75
Characters do have stupid voices. Only the voice of Art Bell gives some color to game's speech. Though if you have a Sound Blaster X-Fi card, you should see some improvements in the sound effects area, but that's all.
Hardware: 85
I have tested the game also on a Nvidia GeForce FX 5600 video card and the game was running much slower than Doom 3. Playing on a 800x600 resolution with all the graphical details to the minimum, you will see that they didn't use too many polygons on the characters despite the requirements that are needed to render one.
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