![]() ![]() ![]() You begin in the backrooms of the bar, wander about, speak to your companions, play on the poker machine, then beat the shit out of some customers with a spanner. It gets right what Half-Life got right, and so few games since have - it remembers to be ordinary before it's extraordinary. Swiftly captured after them, the bulk of the rest of the game takes place on a miles-high spaceship as Tawodi (known as Tommy) attempts to kill absolutely everything on board while shouting about how cross he is.īut we should back up, because before the aliens show up, Prey starts brilliantly. You are, in fact, Domasi Tawodi - a Cherokee garage mechanic and former soldier (read grisly muscly Native American dude) - who sees his grandfather and not-quite-girlfriend get captured by aliens from their bar. Prey stands out as an FPS that rather boldly doesn't feature a grisly muscly white dude as its main character. ![]() I am utterly mystified at how it was allowed to pass in a year as late as 2006. Packed with brilliant ideas that go nowhere, fascinating potential that's never realised, and some truly dreadful combat. (Extraordinarily, it's no longer on sale on Steam because 2K ran out of copies.) I managed to get hold of a copy (Steam key reseller if you must know, ew, not something I'm pleased to have resorted to), and have since completed it. It passed me by a decade ago, and has since entirely disappeared from sale. Which is odd, because it's a colossal pile of shit. Eventually completed by Human Head Studios, although using some of the original concepts (primarily the portal tech), it was released to rave reviews. 2006's original Prey came a full eleven years after 3D Realms began its production. ![]()
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