A shooter with a lot of potential with a feature that makes it feel like a puzzle game.
User Rating: 7 | Prey (Collector's Edition) X360
Prey is an ambitious game. A game that feels like Doom 3 with a puzzles twist. You have access to interesting organic weapons, and a spaceship known as the Sphere, with many gravity defying puzzles for you to solve as you advance. Many interesting features such as SApirit walk, Wall Walk, and Death Walk are present within the game. Being a linear FPS there is limitations, but even with them this game is big on environment. But what makes the game feel less like a shooter and more like an adventure/puzzle game is the Death walk feature. This feature makes it so that when you run out of health, you don't die, but rather are sent to lets just say a different dimension to attack wraiths for spirit and body health. Basically, your invincible, and because of this, it takes all of the strategy out of the shooter element of the game especially the boss battles, making the puzzles your only sense of enjoyment. Another flaw of this game is that it has absolutely NO replay value. The multiplayer is laggy 90% of the time, that is if you can even find a match in progress, and once you finish the single player, it's pretty much a bore fest, even the end of the game the first time becomes bland with the same gimmicks and puzzles each time. Worth a rent but definitely not worth a buy.