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RADAR PREY<br />
The world’s biggest Rubik’s Cube or, as<br />
Broussard says, “the most complicated light<br />
switch.” This is one of Prey’s many puzzles.<br />
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This centurion is looking for the no-good polecat that shot his paw. After you<br />
perforate your first one, his sidearm (read: his arm) becomes your weapon. This is<br />
the biomechanical assault rifle. There’s no “ammo,” but don’t let it overheat.<br />
(gotta love that name!), and alien monsters sprout<br />
firearms. This carries over into your weaponry as<br />
well. The assault rifle you eventually get is, in fact,<br />
the arm of a centurion creature that you ripped<br />
off after defeating it. Small, combustible creatures<br />
known as crawlers serve as grenades—tear off<br />
one’s head like it’s an extra-spicy Cajun shrimp<br />
and lob it into a crowd. Alternately, pluck off a<br />
couple legs and it’s a sticky bomb.<br />
But this game is far from some trippy, easily<br />
categorized FPS in which HR Giger will meet MC<br />
Escher. Beyond the melding of man (or alien) and<br />
machine comes surrealistic gravity and realitybending<br />
environments. And puzzles—lots of logic<br />
>> Red warrior is about to die. Scratch that; red warrior is dead. The PC version of Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows has been canceled. >><br />
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puzzles. In fact, Miller says, “We wanted to have<br />
an ebb and flow to the game’s pacing so that it’s<br />
not all relentless action. I think the Half-Life<br />
games have successfully shown that a good mix<br />
of puzzle gameplay works well in an FPS. So,<br />
with Prey, we’re leaning to a 60/40 split between<br />
action and puzzles.”<br />
Portal technology was a big deal back in 1997.<br />
What it means, in essence, is that each area is<br />
treated as an individual room. Wow. Not much of<br />
a big deal these days, but the portals here are<br />
used with insane amounts of new effects. Portals<br />
tear open constantly around the ship. Alien<br />
“hound” creatures will leap out from another part<br />
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Using portals,<br />
hunters can<br />
seemingly pop in<br />
from out of nowhere.<br />
Here’s what happens if you don’t feed your<br />
irradiated pups their Kibbles ’n Bits.<br />
THE NEXT BIG THING...<br />
Scott Miller on<br />
the original<br />
game: “I look<br />
back at the<br />
original Prey<br />
screenshots<br />
we have, and<br />
they make me<br />
cringe.”<br />
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