Prey (PC)

Although Prey has fantastic graphics and generally enjoyable game play, it's the kind of game best played under the influence of mind-bending drugs, since that's the only way you'll ever understand the plot. You play as Domasi Tawodi, a Cherokee garage mechanic who is abducted by aliens. Yes, I'm afraid you heard me right, a Cherokee Indian abducted by aliens. The rest of the game is focused on trying to navigate your way through the ships biomechanical bowels, armed with a monkey wrench (a non too subtle nod at Gordon Freeman's trusty crowbar) and a wide variety of squirming flatulating things that this game passes as weapons. To survive you must use the ...  Read the complete review

Being a fan of the FPS genre I was looking forward to Prey, especially having heard the praise about it's graphics. Unfortunately it turned out to be a disappointment. You take on the role of Cherokee mechanic Tommy. Whilst in his girlfriend's bar aliens attack and you are abducted along with your girlfriend and grandfather. You manage to break free from the alien device holding you and set off to free your grandfather and girlfriend. Unfortunately almost immediately you see your grandfather die and his spirit grants you powers. Throughout the game you can switch between the "real" world and the spirit world. Entering the spirit world ...  Read the complete review

Games come and go as far as I'm concerned and rarely do I get excited when the new release is paraded across the gaming press. The main exception to this, for me, is the First Person Shooter genre that I find quite interesting. I think it's something to do with the story-telling element and I think it works better in this genre than most others. Like other genres, the FPS one does have its own 'A-list'. On the PC, these are generally regarded as the Doom series, the Quake series, Half-Life and, I suppose, Halo. Prey was a strange game in that it was originally announced years and years ago (possibly as far back as 1998), and then simply disappeared. However, ...  Read the complete review