Prey for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

prey is a fun innovative fps that has solid gameplay and a good story line for single player mode (offline) it has cool weapons too, but i usually go for games that are fun to play online and prey just isn't one of 'em. The reasons why its not good online is just that its a little 2 fast-paced and has extremely jaggy movements, its disorienting too, but the worst part is that the lag can sometimes be almost non-stop and ruins the experience. after playing this game like 30 mins u will want to go take a break, its not like a strategic game at all. So bottom line if u like tom clancy type shooters don't buy/rent it, on the other hand if u like quake or unreal championship rent it first but dont buy.

When this game first starts out, it has a definite Half-Life "what the heck is happening?" kind of feel to it. The first two or three levels were really interesting, but it went downhill from there. This game, despite its attempts to be unique, is just like any other average shooter. Even the weapons are the same old thing, just done in living, alien versions. You start with a wrench, like Half-Life's crowbar. Then you get an automatic rifle that doubles as a sniper rifle. There's the acid gun (pretty much a shotgun), autocannon (like an M16 with a grenade launcher), rocket launcher, and crawlers (grenades). The only unique weapon is the leech gun, which has four different kinds of ammo. You "leech" the ammo out of energy modules scattered throughout the game. It's basically elemental, with red energy rapid-fire, lightning blasts, close-range ice puffs, and a sun beam.

I will give the game props for its use of gravity. The walkways which allow you to walk on walls and the ceiling are kinda neat - watching enemies fall off when you shot them never got old. The portals that transported you to various places throughout the level and the ability to spirit walk through force fields was also new and interesting.

Gameplay features aside, this game was kinda ho-hum. I know most people don't play shooters for the story, they play to shoot stuff. Those people will greatly enjoy this game, I think. Everyone else might not enjoy the game so much. My biggest problem is the main character's dialogue. He seems like your average teenage guy that can't tell his girlfriend that he loves her, but this guy is like 30. It was annoying. They also felt the need to make him swear in every sentence, probably to make him seem like a bad-azz. It didn't work. I have no problem with swearing, but constant swearing for swearing's sake is bothersome.

The multiplayer is the weak spot, being laggy to the point of not even being able to move. Had this been fixed, I'd say 8.