6 reviews liked by reversewings


Prey

2017

meh, not really for me

The story started well but then lost me after a couple of hours

I'm sure the lore is good but a setting like this one has never clicked for me so I kinda didn't care. Also IDC how good the lore is, the notes and emails are lazy and boring. 90% fillers and 10% actual interesting information. There is good world-building and environmental storytelling here and there, but my god, so many emails.

The gameplay is the best part tho. I'm not an immersive sim guy, but even I can appreciate it. There is one major thing however that I hate about immersive sim - it's a stealth game cuz u lack ammunition. I just feel like I'm forced to use a melee cuz god damn, even when I level up my crafting abilities to craft more bullets, I still can get enough of them to comfortably play. Constant going back and forth, just to craft more bullets from the previous crafting table. IK it gets better after, but damn, I just don't like stealth.

Anyway, I respect and appreciate this game. I spoiled the story and endings for myself after abandoning it, but immersive sims are just not for me.

Do yourself a favor and play this one on the Nintendo Wii in 2008 the way The Joker intended

if you ignore the whole game and only play the zombies its 5 stars

Honestly just found the whole thing pretty boring, to be honest. It just felt like Fallout 3 all over again, and the writing didn't grip me. Didn't make it past the 2nd planet.

Disappointingly mediocre.

This game is identical to Fallout 3 (a game 11 years its senior) with little improvement to those already problematic mechanics laid out by Bethesda. Instanced areas, floaty movement, familiar quests, sidequests and characters. Gross.

The gunplay feels tight, but everything else is unadventurous and ordinary. Truly a lost opportunity to make something great--as evidenced by its ending sequence virtually mimicking Fallout 2.

Graphics and the world look amazing though :)

I enjoyed this game a lot but it just felt like it kept going on and on. I never finished it, but it definitely was a fun time for as long as I was going at it.