Prey

I've managed to finish this game!! And it's great. Everything is good.

This game starts out interesting, but it becomes shockingly boring after a while. I haven't finished it, but I played long enough (20 hours) to get the point. The enemies are uninspired. The first enemy you encounter is basically a headcrab, except that it morphs into stuff. So you're walking around and HA! mimic in your face. That's kinda cool, except for the part that it happens ALL. THE. TIME. EVERYWHERE. The rest of the enemies are either floating blobs that shoot balls of stuff at you or walking scribbles that shoot balls of stuff at you. Also, exploding blobs. You get the point Weapons are underwhelming, and you are always artificially low on ammo - you can manufacture ammo, but you carry so little that you have to constantly go back and forth to replenish ammo. Also, the point of these kinds of games is that you can focus on some kind of specialization, but specialisation is for chumps. I invested a lot in engineering early to be able to upgrade sentry guns, but sentry guns just get demolished no matter how much I upgrade them. So I learned my lesson: just go for maximum conventional damage output. Enemies jus get deleted - problem solved. Exploration? You are absolutely not rewarded for it and the game forces you to follow a preset path anyway. Story? It's the old "you suffer from amnesia" bit. It's been done. Characters? Completely irrelevant. I did not care one iota if they lived or died. The game does have is a bunch of gimmicks. The mimic thing and being able to trigger computers with a foam dart crossbow - those are cool, but they don't carry the game. And just to finish, the game sort of implies that you are "prey" hunted by this unimaginable threat. There is nothing of the sort: enemies are pre-placed and they act like every other enemy in every other game: they see you, they shoot you. You move away, they forget that you ever existed. All that this games does has been done better elsewhere. Don't spend €30 on this.

Everything that this game steals from another game; the other game does better. This game is worse in every way than every game this one draws inspiration from. I wanted to like this game so much, but it just reminds me of other, better games with everything it does.

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