for game thats been in development for a long time, prey doesnt seem so much greater than any other average FPS
Tommy somehow escapes and you have to find your girl, and grandfather.
The game leaves you in a fleshy like hallway with wierd walls and animals.
The thing about prey thats different from other fps is really nothing but the strange gravity defying space ship. There are portals in the game that take you to different perspectives of the spaceship, either up on a wall or on the ceiling. It can be really cool until you realize the portals only take you were you have to be and you cant use them when ever you want.
The portals are kinda like doors. They just take you to the other room, or in this case another point of a room so you can either keep traveling or do puzzles. This makes the game very linear.
The game is indeed linear. Theres never any backtracking and is a straight forward game. You kill the occasional enemies, do the occasional puzzle, and uncover parts of the story(which is pretty decent)
The graphics in prey arent excellent but are nice. The character models arent really appealing and nicely detailed, but everything else is. The weapons are all fleshy animal like beings of the aliens. The space ship is a mix of organic matter and metal. The game looks good but it looks kinda identical to doom or the chronicles of riddick, which were on the xbox...........................
The games soundtrack is really nice, you got some famous rock songs like "you got another thing coming" and i believe "dont fear the reaper"
Tommy talks alot in this game as you progress, making witty comments that sometimes get annoying and you want him just to shut up.
Prey is a decent FPS but is too linear to keep playing over and over again, and is just a straight forward FPS that isnt really difficult either(when you die, you can get back to life playing a mini game and return to the exact place you die....)
Prey does have multiplayer that is occasionaly fun but wont take you off battlefield or halo2. The multiplayer is really quick, a little to quick, kinda like quake(so its gonna be hard to snipe and shoot with people dashing through). The multiplayer makes use of the gravity defying antics of the singleplayer, which is cool and makes you wonder why other fps multiplayers dont use this amusing trick.
Prey is worth a rental, or unless you gotta have. Once you beat it a few times, and play the multiplayer for a while, prey isnt gonna be great as it was anticipated to be.