Prey preview at bit-tech
The first game to offshoot from the Doom 3 engine is Prey.
Nice.
"The continual toying with gravity and your sense of up and down
is more than a barrage of set-pieces; it's a clever adjunct to combat,
allowing enemies to remove your footing and you to do likewise
by shooting gravity switches. When you head online and
face real-world enemies in boring-sounding deathmatch
and team deathmatch modes, the mechanics of the single-player
game freshen proceedings in a way that we haven't had since
Half-Life 2 gave us the gravity gun and threw us a toilet bowl"
is more than a barrage of set-pieces; it's a clever adjunct to combat,
allowing enemies to remove your footing and you to do likewise
by shooting gravity switches. When you head online and
face real-world enemies in boring-sounding deathmatch
and team deathmatch modes, the mechanics of the single-player
game freshen proceedings in a way that we haven't had since
Half-Life 2 gave us the gravity gun and threw us a toilet bowl"
Sounds the mastery of the manipulation of gravity might be turned into an artform
Nice.
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