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Anonymous

Prey

(Review From Amazon)

General Comments:
Good first person shooter. You never really die because you end up in the spirit world where you get to recover and fight again. Some levels take a little more effort to figure out the maze. I needed to go to a third party site to help me through one level. If I would have looked on the floor I wouldn't have needed to. I would recommend it.

Anonymous

Shooter or puzzle game?

(Review From Amazon)

General Comments:
I bought this game as a shooter so I am wishing they had some way to let a buyer know that it is also a puzzle game. I don't like puzzle games because they can always make them harder than you can figure out just by being non intuitive. I gave up at the walkway puzzle because I just know that this is the way the rest of the game is going to be.

Anonymous

Sioux mysticism meets L. Ron Hubbard

(Review From Amazon)

General Comments:
This is a decently paced game with good graphics and an operatic story line. I was particularly struck by the ghost walker mode where the main character is traveling around in an out of body experience. It's kinda like Carlos Casteneda in space though perhaps a little "hokey", and without a coherent philosophical message. The intent is good fun but leaning a bit much on the Native American experience as a super power. The American Indian computer gamer is obviously not the target audience.

Anonymous

I love this game, but the naysayers for the most part are also right

(Review From Amazon)

General Comments:
Pros:

* Minigame instead of dieing is great. It's simply acknowledging that many people exploit (ahem cheat) quicksaving and quickloading to inch their way through a game. If you are a casual gamer, this is what you do. The price that you pay for doing this is waiting to reload areas over and over. Really boring, this is more fun. It doesn't make the game less challenging to replace quicksaving with a minigame. A true "hardcore" gamer would already be reloading the area when he dies, so nobody loses by introducing this minigame. And I'm glad that someone has finally done this.

* The puzzles are not challenging, but they really do alot to relieve you from the feeling that you are doing a corridor crawl. Funny gravity, walkways, portals, spirit walking, flying around in a ship, it's a blast! And they do well to pace it out introducing the different elements to the game. Just as the novelty stars to wear off you're introduced to another trick. Also good pacing on introducing the different weapons, and the different enemies. All of this combined together ensures that the novelty doesn't wear off until the end of the game.

* That also means that I felt that the game was the right size. If it was longer it would have become boring.

* I loved the cinematic feeling to the game, and I liked how the two different elements (the mysticism and the aliens) were not disjoint, but instead made a unified theme for the story.

Cons:

* Enemies are dumb, predictable.
* While the weapons are effective, and even neat to look at, they don't feel like they pack a punch. Please, just give me a shotgun, I miss that feeling.
* I'm tired of the aliens invade plotline for shooters.
* The boss battles are even more tired. Who here hasn't played through several boss battles nearly identical to these before?
* The multiplayer is simply awful. There is almost nobody online, and why would they be? The servers are very laggy. I feel like I'm playing on dialup. And those maps are pretty boring too.

Get this game for the single player, it's a heck of alot of fun. This is a wait for bargain buy. The single player for any shooter is not worth $50, well maybe Half-Life 2. You only pay that money for a shooter if it has a killer multiplayer and alot of people are playing it.