Prey! It's Back!
DOOManiac
Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
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Of all places, <a href='http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/05/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm' target='_blank'>CNN Money</a> breaks the news that this year's E3 will feature the resurfacing of Prey, this time under the DOOM 3 engine.
If you don't remember or perhaps have never even heard of Prey, don't feel bad. It's been in development since some of you were toddlers. In short, its the game that out-Duke-Nukem-Forevers Duke Nukem Forever. A more thorough history can be found <a href='http://atlas.secs.oakland.edu/~lcmatero/prey/history.htm' target='_blank'>here</a>.
The game is surely started completely from scratch after being dead for years, so for all intents and purposes it can be considered a 'new' game. Just a game that has years of bad press stacked against it right out the games. Will it most assuredly suck? Probably.
Still, its always interesting when something like this happens, mainly because it so rarely happens. I do hope there's a Keen game in the midst or perhaps another Rise of the Triad.
If you don't remember or perhaps have never even heard of Prey, don't feel bad. It's been in development since some of you were toddlers. In short, its the game that out-Duke-Nukem-Forevers Duke Nukem Forever. A more thorough history can be found <a href='http://atlas.secs.oakland.edu/~lcmatero/prey/history.htm' target='_blank'>here</a>.
The game is surely started completely from scratch after being dead for years, so for all intents and purposes it can be considered a 'new' game. Just a game that has years of bad press stacked against it right out the games. Will it most assuredly suck? Probably.
Still, its always interesting when something like this happens, mainly because it so rarely happens. I do hope there's a Keen game in the midst or perhaps another Rise of the Triad.
Comments
The only game I'm looking forward to is Spore. It sounds like pure awesome.
To roughly paraphrase Star Wars for a moment: "Now that's a name i haven't heard in a long time.... a long time."
Back in it's time, Prey looked and sounded awesome, boasting these new fangled portals things and coloured lighting that put Unreal to shame. Wow.
EDIT: Also, i doubt it out Duke Nukem Forever's Duke Nukem Forever. The reason behind this is that DNF cropped up every few years with a few new screenshots and obviously a new engine, they've just kept everyone hanging on, Prey just died, there were a few limited scraps of media, but eventually nothing was said about it and it was as if it never existed.
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I dunno if you meant for this or not, but that's actually what they are calling it. Area 51 mode. heh.
While we're at it, I always thought TF2 trumps DNF in terms of how long we've been waiting, considering that it was <i>originally</i> going to be on the Quake 2 engine as a direct sequel to TF on the Quake engine. Or so I have heard.
But DNF has been in development far longer than TF2. DNF development, at least at the very basic "hey lets make a sequel" level, started after Duke3D shipped in 1994, before Quake ever came out.
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Wow. That I didn't know.
"Preditor" as the level editor?
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