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Prey | 
 enlarge | From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $10.98
You Save: $19.01 (63%)
New (39) Used (27) from $8.76
Avg. Customer Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 2780
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 29914
Model: 710425299148
UPC: 710425299148
EAN: 0710425299148
ASIN: B000C427NM
Release Date: July 10, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Not sealed but Brand New!! Disc has not been played or removed from case!
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| Features:
| • | Serious, dark story, based on actual Cherokee mythology | | • | Portal technology allows enemies to appear out of thin air, creating new and completely original puzzles and gameplay styles | | • | Several never-before-seen gameplay elements such as Spirit Walking, Wall Walking, and Deathwalk | | • | Highly organic, living environment that itself can attack Tommy | | • | Control a spiritual hawk that can help him fight enemies and decipher the alien language of the living ship |
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Product Description
In Prey, gamers enter an unpredictable world where nothing can be taken for granted. You'll become Tommy, a Cherokee garage mechanic stuck on a reservation, going nowhere in life. When an otherworldly crisis awakens spiritual powers from his long-forgotten birthright, he & his girlfriend are abducted by aliens who need him to save the planet -- even if he's not sure he can. Multiplayer game support that takes advantage of the unique gameplay styles in Prey Deep, emotional story of love and sacrifice based on the Hero's Journey story structure -- the same used to tell Luke Skywalker's story in the original Star Wars
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| Customer Reviews: Read 46 more reviews...
 prey April 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Game was alright. I have been trying all the highly rated 360 games. I guess how quick I beat one is the best measure, that is, do I walk away and leave it or play well into the night. It was okay, not Halo, Gears, or Call of Duty. But they all have their drawbacks.
Great game...could have been better March 30, 2008
This is a great game, but could have been so much more. The story is epic, the characters are pretty good, the enemies are fantastic, but its missing something. It could have used some human guns, other than the wrench. But overall, I would reccomend it!
Half-life and Doom meets M.C. Escher January 23, 2008
It's good. Upside down walkways, aliens, guns, puzzles, and it's simple. The game, as mentioned before, is repetitive although the scenery keeps changing, so I didn't lose interest. when I start playing I can't stop! The game is long too, it just keeps going and going and going.....
Good start January 9, 2008
Caveat: This is a single-player only review.
So I picked up this game on the cheap (its been out for over a year) to tide me over until I got Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4. I enjoyed the experience overall, but compared to the cream of the crop FPS out there, it just isn't as good.
The Good:
-Graphics are pretty good. This is id's Doom 3 engine at work. Good lighting, nice textures, and a good particle system. Impressive for a 1st generation 360 game.
-Interesting weapons. Breaks the convention of the typical FPS, including no reloading!
-Pretty length game.
-Plot. The use of Native American characters and mythology is a welcome change from the usual military based shooter.
-Physics puzzles. The gravity defying gameplay, and the portals are definitely innovative.
The Bad:
-Plot. Seriously... a giant sphere on which aliens hunt and devour organic material? Call the sphere a "Halo" and there you go. Or maybe its the Borg.
-The humans characters looks pretty bad... just blobs of polygons skinned with pretty low-res textures. The enemies look better.
-Weapons. Balance is an issue... you're never sure when to use what and on what enemies.
-For some reason, the combat isn't visceral. I don't know if its because they didn't use the controller feedback, or because the enemies aren't that interesting (is that a floating Buddha statue?) but its just not as much of a kick as other games.
-Physics puzzles. While they are innovative, they aren't very well integrated into the story. OK, I have to walk along the ceiling now. I wonder why. I have to flip the room around. Super... any particular reason? They are all interesting, but they don't really come together to form a cohesive game.
-Boss battles. Not a big fan, sorry.
It was a pretty fun experience, but I don't think I'll try it again. I'd rather go replay any of the Halo series, or Half-Life 2. Speaking of HL2, if you are planning on doing a game where physics are going to play a role, you've got serious competition. The physics puzzle in Prey were pretty much exclusively environmental, whereas the gravity gun in HL2 was both environmental AND combative. Prey was also the first to introduce Portals, but "Portal" did it better because it stepped back and allowed the player to get used to the concept without getting constantly shot at by weird aliens with big feet.
Still, if you can get it cheap, pick it up and give it a whirl. It doesn't suck.
 Great story, great FPS September 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I played the downloadable demo and thought the game was good enough to warrant spending $30 for the full game.
The draws for me were the interesting twists on the classic first-person shooter... things like the gravity-defying walkways that allow you to walk up walls and along ceilings, giving you a different perspective on your situation; the very organic appearance of everything, include the various guns you use (one appears to be partly a living organism, and the other is the cybernetic hand of a massive beast complete with implanted cannons); the clever puzzles where you have to enter "Spirit Walk" mode in order to find ways around obstacles; and the interesting mechanism for dealing with dying in the game (you enter the Spirit World where you must shoot your bow and arrow at bird-like creatures to refill your health gage before your spirit gets sucked back down to the mortal plane). Beyond that, I thought it was going to be a pretty lame story of alien abduction. I don't want to ruin the story for anyone, but the story and especially the endgame is simply spectacularly written and leads you very cleverly into an announcement for Prey 2... a sequel that will hopefully live up to expectations.
The game includes multiplayer capability and achievements, but I'm not a big multiplayer person so I can't really comment on how this game stands up as a multiplayer game, but the few times I've gone online it was fun, but nothing really special or unique in terms of multiplayer modes. You can choose your character appearance and a variety of options regarding the match settings, but I don't recall any multiplayer features that seemed like they were extraordinary in any way.
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