Excellently Innovative Gameplay
However, Prey does something completely different from games like Doom, Quake, and all the others: It innovates on the genre. Prey takes all the good things away from the now classic experiences of Doom and Quake, and adds in it's own spin on things. It introduces many new concepts such as portals and changing gravity on a whim, while adding an excellent storyline to back that up. Thats right, Prey has a good storyline, one that you will actually care about. At first it may seem like like your average guy saving his girlfriend storyline, but it gets much more complex than that as you move on. To emerse you even further into the story, the weapons are all unique to the alien race and offer interesting gameplay, but sometimes don't feel too rewarding to shoot.
The main character Tommy's Native American background also adds an interesting take on the gameplay. When he gains his spiritual powers, he gets the ability to do things like spirit walking ( a maneuver which lets him leave his body to pass through force fields, and sneak up on enemies) and the death walk. The death walk is a very interesting idea that will prevent all the controller throwing moments that you may be used to in certain games. It works like this, when you die you are sent to a spirit realm and have to take down two different types of wraiths with your bow and arrow. They are either blue or red, and depending on which one you hit, you will gain extra spirit or health powers for returning back to the mortal world. This is an excellent new feature in games, and I would hope to see other game developers to explore this concept of eliminating the game over screen that many of us hate so dearly.
Overall this game is highly recommendable, and is sure to get you out of the summer gaming drought blues. It offers many new, interesting, and innovative gameplay elements and looks pretty doing so.