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Get Prey for $4.95 this weekend

Category: PC, Posted: 03/29/2008 at 06:17PM CDT by Brendon Lindsey, Editor-in-Chief

Prey Remember Prey? That game that was delayed so often it ended up not quite meeting the expectations we made for it? (If that doesn't help you remember that's fine, because I'd guess at least a quarter of all big releases fall into that category.) If you never got a chance to try it (or didn't want to waste the money on it) you're in luck, because this weekend only, the game is available for the low price of $4.95 on Steam. In other words, you can buy the game for the price of a rental (which is what most people did to play Prey the first time around).

"Here's a deal you can sink your teeth into: this weekend only, pick up the acclaimed first person shooter Prey for just $4.95. In Prey, players enter a living spaceship which enslaves alien races and devours humans for lunch. Prey turns the first person shooter genre upside down with awesome new gameplay features like wall-walking and gravity flipping, making for intense single-player and multi-player experiences. Prey is built on a heavily modded version of the Doom 3 engine and is developed by critically acclaimed developer Human Head Studios under the direction of 3D Realms," the Steam release reads.

So is it worth the price? Here's what the long-gone Adam Aragon had to say about Prey in our review: "From a perspective outside the nitpicking, it's a really fun game; it's scary, fast, brutal, and very well executed. Despite its shortcomings, it's still definitely worth playing. It's not perfect, but it's damn close at times."

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Posted by brokenfridgehinge on 03/29/2008 at 07:28PM

Why isnt it showing up in Steam at all? Ive done a search and everything... :S

Posted by KindGalaxy on 03/29/2008 at 07:45PM

The only 2K Game Australia gets is Bioshock, all Civ games, and Prey, and Pirates are no longer available due to licensing agreements. (or the shit US dollar and they want you to go to a store and pay $30 for Prey)

Posted by Wasabi on 03/29/2008 at 07:57PM

I played this a while ago on my brother's XBox, and I was very surprised. I'd heard all sorts about it being disappointing and crap and such, but it was fun, there was a very clear motive for your actions (thanks to your character's actions) and it had some interesting gameplay. My only real criticisms of it are that some of the weapons are useless, and occasionally the way to advance is completely unknown.

Posted by brokenfridgehinge on 03/30/2008 at 12:16AM

What so Aussies can't take advantage of this deal?

Posted by KindGalaxy on 03/30/2008 at 12:17AM

That's Right! Otherwise I'd be playing it right now >.

Posted by brokenfridgehinge on 03/30/2008 at 12:28AM

Wow fast reply. That is fecking ghey. Looks like they've just kicked themselves in the nads by not including us, and dashed any chance of me ever playing the game.

Posted by KindGalaxy on 03/30/2008 at 01:08AM

It's not the first time, check the CoD 4 price; 88.50 USD, we don't get the Rockstar games, we don't get the Atari games, nor do we get the THQ games like STALKER, Company of Heroes and Dawn of War. Luckily we did get Epic's games so the Unreal series, and we have the iD Software games up there too which is good but yeah, we do miss out on alot.

Posted by jambo on 03/30/2008 at 08:48PM

Be nice to have some other people on Steam to play Prey with, awesome multiplayer.

Posted by Archem on 03/30/2008 at 11:08PM

Well, since I already bought this for closer to the price that it's worth, I can say that this amazing deal is lost on me.

Posted by Alex6969 on 03/31/2008 at 01:25PM

Damn, I missed it. It's back up to 19.95