Prey

Played this one a few days ago. In addition to being a really nice demo (almost an hour long singleplayer, and includes multiplayer), the game itself is pretty interesting. I like the feel to it, kinda similar to War of the Worlds, and the presentation is fairly nice...although it's a little strange that your character doesn't have a body when you look down.

Some of those portal things just blow my mind...in one part you see a model of an asteroid in a case, probably about the size of a basketball. You step through a portal a little ways away, and you end up ON the asteroid, and looking out you see an alien soldier standing right where you were, except from your viewpoint he looks gigantic (since you've pretty much been shrunk down to a centimeter tall). And as you move around on it, the gravity pulls you toward the center, so it feels like the whole world is rotating around you. The gravity system that has you walking on walls and ceilings is pretty freaky too. Strange stuff, it's the only FPS game that's come close to giving me motion sickness.

Overall, it was fun, although I do wish they didn't fall back to the generic "teleporting enemies that come at you one or two at a time" mechanic that Doom 3 used. I really would've liked it if the enemies were tougher and more sparce instead of lots of dinky ones. I mean these aliens came to Earth in a huge ship, surely they can come up with beter body armor?

Originally Posted by Inhert

it still impress me that it's made with the doom3 engine but I wonder how it would have be with the Source engine, with the physic thing...

Well, Doom 3 has it's own physics engine (albiet not as complex as Source's), but I don't think the Source engine could've been easily modified to support multi-gravity or portals. Not to mention the shadowing system really adds to the setting...

Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

I keep pressing E instead of 'use' whenever I have to press a touchscreen, which is annoying as heck. Am I the only one that does this?

Yeah, I still do that occasionally even after playing Doom 3 (which did it the same way). It does make sense to do it like that, but it's hard to shake 8 years of having a dedicated use key for that purpose.

Jam it back in, in the dark.