Our Preyers have been answered

Downloading it now!

downloading it right now, its f-ing huge

They broke the friday rule YAY

I just noticed...wasnt it supose to be like 600MB? Screw im downloading it so who cares

im more pumped about this than i thought i would be. germany beating argentina, now this. its a good day.
this info should be passed over to joystiq so a larger audience can find this out. then again, more people downloading a 1.17 gig demo will slow live down.

"Yea, we broke the normal 'no new stuff on Friday' rule so we could get this to you." - Major Nelson.

from http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2006/06/30/Demo-Prey.aspx#comments

Let's hope the reason for the delay was because they needed to increase their bandwidth. 1.17GB! HUGE! Can't wait to try this one.

Go Germany!

And go Prey Demo! Hurray!

..oh, why can't I remotely turn my x360 on and dl this?!?!

game looks good.
when the aliens come blue oyster cult's "don't fear the reaper" plays on the juke box
MORE COWBELL!

just got to the second level and found some sort of dimensional portals. nice visuals.

prey looks very promising.

is it taking long to DL?

Deleted Chromhounds to make room for PREY.

Downloading quick for me. 10 min. 55% done

mines going along really quickly.

Man 'o man! First it was that people could hardly wait for full versions of games, now it's all about having to wait for a demo! Before we know it, people are going to be pissing and moaning because a screenshot or movie wasn't released in time. After that, then what can you cry about? Knowing that there are so many little babies out there, who knows.

Agh, it's slow over here.

Just 25% complete.

"Man 'o man! First it was that people could hardly wait for full versions of games, now it's all about having to wait for a demo! Before we know it, people are going to be pissing and moaning because a screenshot or movie wasn't released in time. After that, then what can you cry about? Knowing that there are so many little babies out there, who knows. "

Isn't crying and moaning about people crying and moaning sort of hypocritical, trivial, and simply pointless?

WOW is all I can say!!! What a way to start a holiday weekend, first the chrome Hound s Demo and now THIS!!! YAY!!!

Played it and it was pretty good. Beat Single player and couldn't find anyone to play in Multiplayer. I might by purchasing it.

That demo sucked.

My download is fast. I just started it, maybe 5 minutes ago, and it's already at 50%. Probably beat the rush since I got off work early.

i started downloading it about two hours ago...it got to 20% in 5 minutes, not bad....then I got kicked off of the server(which happened about 20 times trying to get the halo 3 vid) and when i went to download it again, i had to start at 0%, and now im at 6% in 20 minutes

Average FPS in my opinion. Maybe I'll rent it, but won't buy it.

What, can't save the game in the xbox 360 demo??? What's with this. The pc version lets you save the game just fine. This needs to be fixed. Cna they even make live patches for demos?

I am liking this game alot. Though I normally steer clear of twitch shooters, opting instead for more tactical play like Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six, this game has a pretty good feel to it.

The single player is real cool, I like how you can interact with pretty much everything, including the arcade machines in the bar at the beginning. The levels featured in the download were pretty easy and I was able to run through it quickly, but I do like some of the puzzle elements showcased requiring you to switch to the 'spirit walk' mode.

Multiplayer was overall pretty choppy and seems to require quite a bit of bandwidth to host a stable 8 player room. (My one meg upload was able to host a full room with minor lag complaints when people dropped out of the room during intense firefights.) The weapons are unique, and the maps showcased are pretty cool. Mastery of the maps may prove difficult at first as it can be hard to keep your bearings with all the changes in gravity, however after a couple rounds I was able to learn the positions of a couple key weapons. (The "Leech gun" sun beam owns all!)

This really did not impress me. All it is is a combo of unreal tornament, quake 4, and condemned. And the combo was not that good. I love the premise and the realism of the abduction and the "ride " through the "sphere."

"Isn't crying and moaning about people crying and moaning sort of hypocritical, trivial, and simply pointless?"

Yeah, I suppose it is. Perhaps I should ask your permission to speak next time. Another statement that could be considered "hypocritical, trivial, and simply pointless" is:

Go shove it, Franky Digital! Yeah!

Have a nice day.

"Man 'o man! First it was that people could hardly wait for full versions of games, now it's all about having to wait for a demo! Before we know it, people are going to be pissing and moaning because a screenshot or movie wasn't released in time. After that, then what can you cry about? Knowing that there are so many little babies out there, who knows."

Spaceboy, let me get this straight, and correct me if I am wrong, but you seem to be pissing and moaning over the fact that OTHER people are pissing and moaning over having to wait for downloads. That put you in the same boat as them.

Well, actually it doesn't because you tried to be funny or witty and didn't realize you were pointing the finger at yourself, which makes you look pretty dumb right about now.

Everyone go crash the servers, unintentionally, of course. :)

Wow....this game is just awesome, I can't wait for the full game. I am not a huge fan of FPS games on the xbox, they just get old...but this game is a lot of fun.

Played it game play was amazing. Wow. I'm buying this game day july 11th. The Demo downloaded pretty fast in about 35 minutes.

Demo was awesome, reserved my copy today...the special edition, natch.

I enjoyed the demo. Glad I preordered this...should be a decent FPS. I like the puzzle elements and the visuals were "Quake 4" nice. Not Halo 3, but another good distraction until Gears of War comes. Isn't it weird to see 3d Realms in the beginning credits? Flashback!

I still can't download it! It hangs at 1% and says please try again later! Uhhgg!!

My goodness, this game is wonderful! Excellent graphics, fabulous controls, acceptable voice acting...all I need to do is try the Live portion of the demo.

'Prey' reminds me a LOT of 'Half-Life'. Small critters that can be picked up and used as weapons, alien tentacles and oozing orifices, etc.

Looks like they took a lot of ideas from Valve...

I accidentally changed my gamertag while playing it, so it ended prematurely... lol

Anyway, even when I'm not a fan of FPS, it plays great. I would probably not pay 60 bucks for this game, but perhaps 20 or even 30. It has a lot of original things I had never seen before on an FPS. But maybe it is because I haven't played every single FPS that flooded the PC and the original Xbox.

What I found was a game that reminded me of Doom and Chronicles of Riddick from the Xbox. The graphics were a mixed bag for me. The environments looked to be photo copied from Doom 3, but the characters in the game, more so the "good guys" had a last generation look to them. I just wasn't blown away. The enemies however, looked much more realistic, and had a solid, un-pixelated appearance that shouted "nex gen!".

It's hard to tell how good the game will be from the short demo, but aside from your standard FPS action (which this game is in no short supply of), there are some unique twists. The game has a bunch of "windows" that allow you to move about in strange ways. For instance, you are moving down a corridor, and a "rip" appears in mid-air right in front of you, allowing you to step through and put you in another part of the ship. Or a crate is knocked over, and rolls toward you, and one of the sides opens up, and you can see another location of the vessel, and you can climb "through" the crate.

The best one, was when you saw a display case with a skull inside of it, and somehow you end up in the case, miniaturized, and doing battle with the enemy on the skull, as real-life sized enemies peer through the glass at you. That was, as the main character eloquently described it "fucked up."

Finally there is the ability to run and down walls and battle on ceilings. In the single player, it seemed gimmicky, but I can imagine that it would be much more fun in the multi (which I didn't try yet).

So, I can't judge this one yet, but I think I'll hold off on a quick buy. I'm still bitter with 2K over MLB 2K6, and I'm in no hurry to reward their rush the games to market mentality, but I'm glad that Marketplace gave me a chance to check it out.