2K's Prey officially open for business
by Alan Rose 
{ Jan 13th 2006 at 2:00PM }
2K Games, Human Head Studios, and 3D Realms have launched the official web site for their upcoming sci-fi shooter, Prey. The site doesn't quite have the "pop" that Black's online home serves up, but its presentation gives you a good feel for the game. Prey is scheduled to be released in June for the 360 and PC.
[via FiringSquad]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Nate @ Jan 13th 2006 2:26PM
Looks very promising...
But then again, I said that about a game that was eerily similar for the Xbox...Pariah...and that turned out be a crapfest.
This game does look much better graphically than Pariah, and the gravity engine could be pretty innovative....we'll have to wait and see though. I'm not gonna anticipate too much like I did Pariah though. I learned my lesson the first time.
ChronoZaga @ Jan 13th 2006 3:11PM
Would it be more fair to call Prey..
Doom 3.7
or
Quake 4.3?
Jesse @ Jan 13th 2006 5:22PM
Much like how Soldier of Fortune 2 is just Quake 3.7, Call of Duty Quake 3.1 and Jedi Knights 2 Quake 3.9?
Because a game is made on an engine of another popular game does not make it pseudo-sequels.
Is Half-Life just Quake 2.2 to you?
ChronoZaga @ Jan 13th 2006 9:11PM
Um, have you LOOKED at the screen shots? Lets see...
1: Other than the big bug and new skin on the sky, this might as well be an exterrior shot from Doom 3 or Quake 4.
2:Hmm, bio-organic baddies, don't the look familiar.
3:Big headed demons in a room that could have practically been cut out of either Quake 4 or Doom 3.
4:Big original bio-organic baddie jumping out of nowhere through a portal, which the site touts as a revolution for FPS's, but I seem to remember happening a lot in Doom 3
5:The player is in an "exoskeleton" mech or something or other. Okay, that's the FIRST drop on innovation.
6:Demons in a Doom 3/Quake 4 hallway.
7:Looks like an exterior or large interior environment, another super original bio-organic baddie or screen, and a lighting effect from the new weapon, or something off screen. The white lighting is something, I guess.
8:An indian in a cave. Wow, you got me there. The indian in the cave makes this game totally different from the other two that it looks EXACTLY LIKE.
AND...
Soldier of Fortune 2 was a complete overhaul, and felt and looked nothing like Quake 3, just as Jedi Knights 2 and Half-Life where games that could stand out, and stand up on their own. Prey, on the other hand, LOOKS like a cookie cutter image of both Doom 3 and Quake 4...except for that indian in the cave.
kizza @ Jan 13th 2006 9:30PM
Ive seen this game running on a disk I got with a PS2 mag, apparently its gonna be a PS3 game as well. I have to say, It looks really good, the demo ran for about 7-10mins & showed you several levels of the game. To say it looks like doom or quake is like saying that far cry looks like halo. Sure, both games are from the same viewpoint, sure they are both set in science fiction settings, but judging from the demo I've seen, Prey looks a lot more innovative than doom & quake combined.
There are awesome looking potals that lead to other areas, upside down sections, excellent weappons (like a space bug you carry round like a grenade, only to rip its legs off & throw them, then they explode).
Basically yes, its another FPS, but what I've seen makes it a FPS with a lot more originality & fresh ideas than the rest of them. Most FPS's these days greatest innovation is adding vehicles to drive round in. Least prey seems to be doing interesting different stuff.
ChronoZaga @ Jan 13th 2006 11:53PM
Far Cry and Halo are dissimilar in so many more ways.
People buying the same remixed crap from last year is why there is so little innovation in the game industry. I'm guilty of it too, but when is enough enough.
Also, here's a list of things similar to Quake 4 and Doom 3 in Prey that aren't similarities found in Halo and Far Cry...
Overly dark atmosphere: Ripped right of of Doom 3 and implanted in Prey.
Bio-Organic baddies: Doom 3 to Quake 4 to Prey.
Industrial Sci-Fi setting: Trademank of original Doom, updated in Doom 3, closely copied for Quake 4 but exactly copied for Prey.
Doom 3 engine: Not necissarily a negative, but I had to reply to the silly Halo/Far Cry comment
Portals: Sci-fi staple, so not a negative, but not revolutionary by a long shot.
I have no problems with FPS's, but if you think Prey is revolutionary or different, you're kidding yourself.
And I can't get over the Halo/Far Cry comment. Far Cry and Halo are two very different settings. Prey might as well be set in the Deamos station (or whatever it's called) from Doom 3. It is so much the same I can barely stand it. If you want to make a point, make it, but let's not be silly.
kizza @ Jan 14th 2006 5:55AM
hey chrono you dikkhead, halo & far cry have the same paradise island setting. If you llok at certain levels of both games, you could mistake them for the same game. Get over it, I've seen moving footage of Prey & it looks the goods & different to anything I've seen. If you have'nt seen the game in action then shut your mouth. I have, & it looks smooth, crisp & different.
So p[i$$off, cause only my op[inion counts tossers.
ChronoZaga @ Jan 14th 2006 11:13AM
Wow, lets resort to childish name calling, shall we? I had watched the one minute 360 movie and the eleven and a half minute E3 movie on the web site, and I stand by my opinion.
If a company wants to make a FPS, great. A story line where 1 man saves the world from aliens has been done a million times, and it will be done a million more, so that's fine. The design themes behind Prey, however, are so similar to what I've seen in the near future that I am thuroughly unimpressed.
On a subnote, saying Halo has a paradise island setting is simply bending the truth to suit your argument, it's much deeper and mutigaceted than that. Also, attacking your opponent with name calling only makes you look like a child who's run out of arguments, stick to attacking my opinions and facts, or your opponent can simply "take the high road" and act superior to you, because you've proven that they are.
ChronoZaga @ Jan 14th 2006 11:17AM
mutigaceted, what is that? SOrry, ment multifaceted.
ChronoZaga @ Jan 14th 2006 11:32AM
Also, near future, that'd be near past, as I'm not psychic.
kizza @ Jan 14th 2006 6:28PM
"Wow, lets resort to childish name calling, shall we? I had watched the one minute 360 movie and the eleven and a half minute E3 movie on the web site, and I stand by my opinion.
On a subnote, saying Halo has a paradise island setting is simply bending the truth to suit your argument, it's much deeper and mutigaceted than that. Also, attacking your opponent with name calling only makes you look like a child who's run out of arguments, stick to attacking my opinions and facts, or your opponent can simply "take the high road" and act superior to you, because you've proven that they are".
Sorry Choro but You've just contradicted yourself by saying you saw around 15 mins of the game & you've generalised it as the same as every other game. How do you know that there is not a paradise island level, like every other FPS these days.
If people like you saw a 15min demo of halo before it came out, & a demo of far cry, with both demo's showing the island setting (that were there biggest selling points), you'd swear they were the same game. If you don't like the look of the game, don't buy it, but I shall reserve my expert critique until I've actually had the controller in my hands playing it. As they say "Don't judge a book by it's cover". And considering we have only seen a little more than Stevie Wonder of this game, pesimists like you should not comment on someones hard work.
If you were bright enough to be a developer, I'm sure you would love to read some little internet nerds flaming of your un released, unplayed, hardly seen game that you had been slaving over for the past 2 years or so. I understand people flaming sh!t, already released games, but comon, this is a real hard industry, so give these poor bastards a chance before you go writing them off.
I hardly attacked you with name calling, so don't be too hurt by my dikkhead comment (I mean, its true).
Just try not to be a hypocrit by defending 1 FPS, then hanging crap on another one that you know sweet F.A about. By the way, name calling is fun, it gets up little peoples (like you) noses. Try it sometime, instead of using that pathetic psuedo-intellectual, mother superior, mumbo jumbo crap.
I mean someone who thinks they are superior to another person they've never met, that they've typed on a internet site with. Is obviously a very sick person with dillusions of granduer. ahahahahaahahhahahahah.
"He called me a dikkhead, I win, I'm superior". ahahahahahahahahhahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha....... you keep thinking like that buddy, & your teachers at special school with give you a minibadge, retard. hahahhahahhahhaha.