So far, the adage "better late than never" justified. Legendary long-term construction with a heavy fate, which still appeared on the shelves, once awarded the highest ratings of players. It is, of course, about Max Payne and our guest today Prey. But let's not forget that in the far-distant future to visit us zaskochat comrades, more overgrown with myths and tales: Duke Nukem Forever and STALKER
 | Talon's alive! |
The main character of Prey, of course, Tommy Hawk, an Indian, and not any Talon BRAVE. But the developers made a small reference to that same game, which is intended to 3D Realms nine years ago. Phantom of the hawk, following your shadow, just name Talon. Tommy genuinely surprised: "And what I can to help my dead pet?". But the spirit of the bird shows the right path, looking for the right switches and doors, so do not lose sight of him.
 | |  | In fact, this is not the enemy is on the wall, and the player. | | No, it's not a hologram of the planet, it's - Map alien spacecraft. |
One cold night ... Today's Prey - a game in which almost nothing remains from the project, the designers conceived of 3D Realms, scary thought, in 1997. Developers do not just once or twice changed the graphics engine to redraw from scratch concept. And somehow exhausted authors even grumbled that "no Prey will not. History BRAVE Talon (Talon Brave) is completed and before it began. " Now it is difficult to say what ideas and thoughts wanted to convey to us developers. License for the game with a modicum of hope gave a good judge of action games studio - Human Head. A 3D Realms become an observer, who stood silently in the background and wondered skill and tenacity in the builders of new gaming Colossus.
Yes, the story of Talona BRAVE remained unfulfilled in history. Screenwriters have found, in our opinion, is more unusual and memorable characters - Cherokee Tommy. A hero who is torn between life in the modern city and life of the native people, sits in a bleak evening eatery on the edge of the reservation. Under the slow hard rock his girl-bartender serves customers in and tells Tommy about his plans for life. Suddenly the roof of a building collapses, and under the roar of the turbines green rays up on board the spacecraft all the hapless visitors. Start rescue relatives of the protagonist recalls the famous train ride from Half-Life. Get used to it - a sense of "somewhere I have seen it" not be released to the finish.
| Time Machine |
We believe you take a look at the first images of Prey. Look out - this game could be if 3D Realms does not blow all the time. Nine years ago, the developers have promised a breakthrough in the genre of shooters. "Victim" (namely, as translated name of the game) was just a player: instead of the heroic destroyer of all life - fearful of every shadow of humanity one who would be horrified at the sight of even the most harmless monster.
 | |  | Risen grandfather in this place will teach you a couple of Indian tricks. | | He's not huge, it is we are small. |
But by the middle of the game authors begin to recur, and recently The amazing levels appear to be no better than the filthy dungeons of the Third Reich.
Our well-prepared Indian army in the U.S., so he had no problems to obtain weapons and move deeper into the spaceship. Initially, levels of an alien spaceship excite the imagination. You move not on ordinary deck with endless tubes and computers, but on guts half organic, half-man-ship. Hence the local color: the living and breathing the door fillers Weapons "ammo." On the ceilings hung harmless creatures, endlessly generating explosive balls-organisms. The walls now and then spit out scraps of human bodies and fetid green jet of air. Especially to a place that still looks real people, from time to time you encountered on the road. Distracted, they helplessly struggling in the door, frantically shouting, whispering something under his breath and writhing from convulsions. Tommy did not hesitate to screw the expression stronger and defy such an environment the last word.
Guns are also quite standard: automatic, sniper rifle, a hybrid plazmagana and a shotgun, a grenade and a couple of surprises gunshot. But the appointment of trunks in appearance it is impossible to guess! Grenades in Prey - a little three-legged creatures that have yet to catch! Shotguns and assault rifles resemble living organisms, their designers are generously decorated with suction cups, pins and even eyes!
| In the afterlife Indians |
Frankly speaking, in Prey you're immortal. Once the enemies are still shoot Tommy, his spirit goes to the afterlife. Within a few seconds, you Targets Archery flying ghosts everywhere, thus replenishing health and quiver with arrows. After that rises from the dead in the same place where the untimely deaths and avenge contented themselves aliens. The system saves it soon becomes necessary only when tired of playing and you go to the menu.
 | |  | To shoot at intruders can even through portals. | | The scene at the bar - one of the most memorable in the game. |
Head over heels After his death in the catacombs of the spacecraft Grandpa will take you to the valley of the ancestors, and teaches a pair of Indian tricks. At any time, Tommy's soul can leave the mortal body and move freely around the ship. In this picture is slightly blurred and immersed in soft blue tones. In this form, you pass through the protective screens and through the fire, disabling the protection or even kill your enemies! To deal with the lively and very much flesh evil aliens, you have a "spiritual" bow. A boom for him - the souls of fallen enemies. A little sad that the invaders are not afraid of ghosts and happy firing of Tommy incorporeal, dealing with the noticeable damage.
Riddles based on the trip fields and opening the doors of our Indian spirit, meet once every ten minutes. Fantasy authors and are summed up, so that soon break protection alien spacecraft you learn with your eyes closed.
| "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" |
Portals not only output to another part of the ship, but you reduce in size. In Prey is an episode where you become a hero miniature game and get on a small cobble-sized ball! On the basis of this trick, incidentally, produced some puzzles.
 | |  | These cute kids - one of the most frightening and dangerous enemies. | | Arrow in the head - and the alien invaders will fall to the ground. |
But much to the place came jokes developers with gravity and portals. On the ship, there are special lanes, walking along the walls and ceiling. Thanks to them, the world literally turned upside down! You can even get lost, forgetting where the upper part of the ship, and where the lower. The authors perfectly turned a firefight with the enemy in different planes, when you run across the ceiling, and he on the floor.
The idea with teleports also in his own good, but far from new. In addition, portals do not appear where you want, but only in advance ugotovlennyh places. Movements are becoming commonplace harsh when you realize that the glowing windows - only door out of the impasse of the plot.
Another victim But because of the shortness of the history of scanty imagination of developers becomes apparent only towards the end. In Prey has original ideas, a delightful picture, bold design and mellow sound, just right for an alien spaceship. But look at the game as a saucy breakthrough in the genre that promised 3D Realms? Dismiss.
| Worldly pleasures |
At the bar, from which people are kidnapped by aliens, there are slot machines such as "one-armed bandit" and Pac-Man. And in the corner, there is even a small tape recorder, losing hits of the 70's and 80's of last century. It is a pity that basically have to play on board the ship. Sure that the developers would get a great shooter in the urban environment.
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