Still too expensive ?

A decent game which I think recieves overly negative press on occasion. Not a masterpiece by any means, but a fun and occassionally unique and vertigo inducing take on the FPS, and better than Doom 3 anyway. Steal for a fiver.

And best use of Don't Fear the Reaper, ever.

Well I have $6 sitting in my paypal, so I think I'll get it.

I enjoyed it, had a decent atmosphere and the portals were cool, i would say worth 5 bucks!!!

Now if only if I could get a computer that could play it for that much...

Steam? Any help here?

ok price. the game wasnt that good but yeah wasnt that bad either. i played it for a bit.

let me know when they have portal for $5. i'll jump in like crazy (already have it for 360 but would love to play with the mods that the PC gets)

almost worth it...

@diablofreak: i intend to buy the pc portal stand-alone just to have.

I'd play through it for free. Can't bring myself to pay anything for it though. I played the demo on Xbox Live, and even that was barely something I could finish. Not a bad game, I guess, but kinda wasn't my thing.

If you didn't play Prey, 5 bucks is worth more then enough.

Isn't it around 8 dollars to rent a console game at a local B&M?

It was hyped to death, and did fall in some expectations (especially multi), but the ingenuity of portal and the excellent storyline/premise (when was the last time you went berserk as an Indian adolescent receiving higher power from your gramps) did grant a first day purchase for me.

If you liked wolf3d, this is in some sense, a spiritual successor.

@johnny_ultimate: In my estimation, the best ever use of Don't Fear the Reaper in a serious setting was in the opening movie to the game Ripper, which actually happens to star Christopher Walken, but it's nothing like the SNL skit he was in!

That's about the right price. I'm pissed as hell I paid full retail for it.

As a game, it's a well made, but run-of-the-mill FPS with some quality visuals and a few gameplay gimmicks. The portal tech and gravity hijynx are fun and make for some trippy sections.

My only real gripe with it is what an incredible fucking douchebag the lead character, Tommy, is.

He whines constantly, treats his grandfather like a retarded sack of shit, and only really cares about himself and his girlfriend. I'm not used to greatly disliking the main protagonist. He continues to flat out deny his native heritage even while talking to his dead grandfather in the fucking afterlife. I could kind of buy him being skeptical at first, but not 4 hours into the game given all he's witnessed.

But...it's at least a $9 game, so $4.95 is a steal. ;)

@Strange Bedfellows: The SNL sketch is cool, but thats just because of the cowbell ;)

Haven't seen this Ripper film alas. But the start of Prey is just a really decent use of music in a video game, which is a rarity. Of course, there is the whole issue of how it wasn't on the jukebox before the whole invasion thing, but thats nitpicking...

Hmmm, $5 for an "OK" game (I haven't played. just going by some comments) seems like a good deal. Lord knows I've paid $65 for some steaming piles of shit.

i paid 10 bucks for the collectors edition last year on boxing day....10 bucks at EB (brand new) and 60 at Wal-mart in the same mall hehehehe

That's $4.90 too much. Imagine how I feel having bought it for $60 new.

Prey is an excellent FPS that introduced some new gameplay mechanics. People are truly too hard to please anymore. It's a shame how elitist and snobbish gaming has got over the last few years. =(

4.90 is a great deal for this. It was a fun game, I quite enjoyed my play through. Don't have my copy anymore either,s o I may pick this up and have another go at it. :)

just bought it, thanks for the news.

Does it come with a free barf bag? Last time I played it I got motion sickness.

I strongly advise you to try the demo first. At this point, it's not a matter of $5, it's a matter of your time. With so many amazing games out, this one hardly warrants your attention.

well worth it especially when you convert it into pounds three quids a god deal

I bought it for about that from a second-hand store. Didn't like it. It had some brilliant design concepts, but no idea how to use them. Boring, basically. And incredibly easy, almost to an insulting degree.

It also crossed the line with child-violence, and I'm surprised I rarely see this mentioned.

My memory's blurry, but there's something like this: two children are huddled in a corner crying, then one gets possessed, chases the other one (still crying) around and then tears them apart or gorily impales them on a spike or crushes them or gibs them or something like that. Either way, the main character's response is something like "well that was weird" or "this is just getting creepy" or some other asshole platitude. The way the scene's presented is pure ammunition for the 'games desensitise you' theory.

Not the best game, but surely worth $5 if your PC can handle it. They had portals *before* portal and wacky gravity before mario galaxy yet every still tries to hate on it. What you got against the native americans?

@frostcircus: I'm sorry but no game is going to make me let one child harm another in real life. I guess I'm just strange that way.

Picked it up yesterday. I've been considering buying it at the normal $20 price, so I just couldn't let this go. I'm a few hours in and, at the very least, it's worth a fiver.

Got it yesterday too! A good bargain for an average game... like a lost prequel to portal.

@AverageJoes: I wasn't suggesting that at all.

Aberrant Gamer was right, it's not even safe to lightly brush up against that topic.

I just bought it. Might as well, it's only $5...

@MasterOfPastures: Like, say, Narbacular Drop?

i really liked prey. had more fun with it than the halos, thats for sure. pretty underrated. best $5 game ever? i think so

I really liked the demo, alot of the reviews I read were really good too. Unfortunately theres no way I can make this $5 in my pocket take digital form. I yearn for the days of digital-money-scanners.

I guess I wasn't the only one who sent the news in though, nobody got props for it.

Sold! Seriously, that's a steal. I loved the demo, but never got around to picking this up. Now I have no excuses!

Wow, that's cool. I wish Steam was on the 360, instead of XBL Arcade.

Wow, that's really a STEAL! I remember having a decent time with the game, however, very little of the story actually resonated. Can't remember a damn thing about why I was shooting creatures on a space ship. Still, it's hard NOT to recommend it for five dollars.

Must buy now.

Rented this game for 360 and loved it.

Already bought it from Steam before this was up :D
It's a fucking awesome deal to be honest. I had it on the 360 when it first came out at full price, was quite sad to see the online segment was so laggy at launch and killed off any potential the game had.

@frostcircus: yeah actually it's just some polygons assembled and textured to look like children. (hint:it isn't real) don't know if you can accuse them of too much child violence. now if human head had actually filmed children impaling eachother then yeah, i'm totally against that. lol

@johnny_ultimate: Not better than Doom 3, but I otherwise agree with you.

Purchased and now downloading. I loved the hell out of the demo, (seriously, the "Don't Fear The Reaper" scene was GREAT.) and I've been waiting on it due to the lukewarm reviews. Although I agree that Tommy is a moron.

I just hope it runs well. The demo ran fine, (other than a few hitches here and there), but I'm sure there's some resource-sucking environments further into the game. Hell in Doom 3 comes to mind.

I rented this when it came out and the only things I can remember about it are "Don't Fear The Reaper" and the wall vaginas.

Okay, everybody please ignore my first post.

I'm torn between knowing that the "don't fear the reaper" sequence in the beginning is worth five bucks, but also knowing that the same five dollars could go towards a more lucrative purchase...

@jimmy5150: A quarter pounder.

I had to comment on "wall vagainas" because as implosive it is, it is true. It didn't help that fetusks-look-alikes spawned from it.

The 5 bucks are worth it for the first 30 minutes and the mini-tommy and giant mob-portal-esque moment.

Best 20 minute intro since HL1.

The plane moment in Bioshock does not compare to the 52's crashing in Prey.

Then I got lost with all the eagles, out of body experience, and one of the worst level designs in one of the best environments to date. It was painful to finish the game.

$5 is a lunch at McDonalds. I'm in on the download. Wish more games would do this, there are pleny I would jump on that are at least 5 years older than Prey.

@Fortyseven: lol dude, Tommy's got one hell of an attitude and he was nowhere nearly afraid of the situation.

Yeah, I made the purchase like 10 seconds after I saw that it was only 5 bucks. I wonder what the sales numbers are going to be like.

Steam should have 5 dollar games more often! It's a pretty good way to rejuvenate sales in games that perhaps didn't sell too well when they first launched. Even a CD costs more than 5 bucks. Hell, I usually spend more than 5 dollars on lunch.

Budget Non-budget games, ftw!

Why does my subtotal come out to 19.95 before I pay for it on Steam? Did I miss it or does that change if you keep going on to purchase it?

@sparksterz (Xfire): Some people say restarting Steam itself fixes it. Was $4.95 for me when I checked it, though.

It was Doom III with a native american... uh, pass.

@Ortega: Yep that did it, thanks for the heads up!

@jimmy5150: A more lucrative purchase? Like..shares of stock?

I've fell prey to yet another impulse buy.

I bought a retail version of this for five bucks, brand new, last year. I haven't been able to really get into it because I'm too busy beating Half-Life, but the graphics alone are worth $5.

This is a decent game, well worth a Lincoln bill.

Now if only the game was any good, this might be a good purchase...

@johnny_ultimate: Well all the time they spent on that could have gone into finishing Duke Nukem Forever, but no, this was more important apparently. :(

I believe it was an honest attempt to make something original out of the FPS genre. They had some good humor, the weapons were neat, and the engine was top-notch. I bought it full price, and I think $5 is a steal for anyone that enjoys FPSs.

the level design was very interesting, as were the weapons (organic) and the game had an eerie atmosphere. Definitely pick this up for $5.00 if you haven't played it.

This is a no-brainer if you've never played the game before. johnny_ultimate hits it on the head. Its got its flaws but overall its a fun and sometimes surprising shooter. The biggest downside is the end-boss battle, very old-school but not in a good way. Don't let that stop you from enjoying the rest of it though. Also, the multiplayer is a novel take on quake-style deathmatching.

I would, but Steam only supports crap operating systems. Oh well, maybe Valve can get my $5 when Gabe Newell grows a fucking brain and stops living in 1997.

Steam - the saviour of gaming (provided Valve never sell out or are otherwise corrupted).

the atmosphere was no denser than an episode of Sesame Street, the B Movie acting wasn't cheesey enough to be regarded as such (it just remained in the poor camp), and the gameplay was hindered by apparently unintentional claustrophobia - old school indeed but not in the Serious Sam sense of the phrase!

I really enjoyed Prey. I picked it up for like $20 about a year ago used. I had just moved and didn't have an internet connection. It was worth the $20...and I would definitely buy it for $5.