Prey Sneaking Into Stores in July
Another long-in-development game is finally ready to go.
Tommy, the hero of new first-person shooter Prey, has a problem. The Cherokee mechanic has reached an impasse, not knowing how to fold his heritage into his life. But his soul-searching is interrupted when aliens land on Earth, and Tommy is the man who's going to teach them a lesson.
Prey had been cancelled by publisher 2K Games but it was revived to be built on a heavily modified Doom 3 engine. That engine let the developers at Human Head - Venom is creating the Xbox 360 version - work in for all sorts of shenanigans, such as walking on walls and inverting gravity.
Tommy's Cherokee heritage comes to the fore through spiritual powers that are awakened as you play. And when you die in the game, you don't really die. Rather you go to a spirit dimension where you fight spirits, earning health packs and the sort before you're thrust back into the marauding invaders' ship.
Prey has been a long time coming, but PC and Xbox 360 gamers will at last get to see what all the fuss has been about when it's released on 11 July in the US and 14 July in Europe. For more, visit the official Prey site and check out our massive hands-on preview.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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