Aspyr Media, Inc. today announced the Mac version of Prey has shipped to retail outlets nationwide. The title was developed for the Mac by Aspyr Studios, Aspyr’s internal development team, under license from 2K, a Take-Two Interactive Software publishing label.
Prey is a groundbreaking first-person shooter that turns the genre upside-down with new gameplay features and next generation graphics. Breaking the traditional first-person shooter format, Prey introduces innovative gameplay elements including wall-walking, portals, spirit-walking and gravity flipping, which allows for insane eight player deathmatches.
Prey tells the story of Tommy, a Cherokee garage mechanic stuck on a reservation and going nowhere. His life changes when an otherworldly crisis forces him to awaken spiritual powers from his long-forgotten birthright. Abducted along with his people to a menacing mothership orbiting Earth, he sets out to save himself and his girlfriend and ultimately his planet.
Multiplayer support for Prey provided by GameRanger. GameRanger 4.6.3, released on January 9, 2007, required. Free download available at http://www.gameranger.com/
Prey is rated “M” for “Mature” by the ESRB and is available for Mac for $49.99 at http://www.aspyr.com
For more information, fans can visit Aspyr’s site, http://www.aspyr.com/product/info/67 or Prey’s official site, http://www.prey.com
Bow your Mac heads and let us prey.
(to both Zune users: it’s “let us spray”)
I am so tired of these “angry aliens” scenarios.
Oh yea, this was the one about the Navajo Indian, who is a garage mechanic, who has trouble accepting his rich tribal heritage, whose girlfriend-with-the-heart-of-gold is kidnapped by space aliens on a humongous mothership hovering over earth and is mentored by and old, Yoda-like medicine-man character who unleashes his “inner-self-spirit-good side of the force, follow-your-heart-and-you’ll-do-the-right-thing-power especially with the help of lots of really BIG guns ‘n stuff to defeat those nasty, no good, evil space-alien creature thingies.
Man, I can’t wait for this to hit the BIG screen. (Not to mention the fan.)
“I am so tired of these “angry aliens” scenarios.”
True. I’d rather blow the crap out of E.T. and his friends any day.
The main character, Johnny, sounds a bit too much like the California gubernator and former Terminator, Arnie, for my tastes.
But more striking is the voice of Enisi, Johnny’s grandfather who sounds *exactly* like Chief Longwalker, who formerly lobbied against an xBox videogame denegrating Apache indians, and is featured on a couple albums by Yes.
But IMBD lists the voice actor for Enisi as John Galt, which begs the question (Sorry, hidden joke for Ayn Rand fans.)
Having Art Bell play himself was just inspired!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466931/
What are the system requirments for a G4 or G5 machine? I looked all over the site and saw nothing about Macintels either. Am I supposed to just take the red pill or something?
PPC user,
It’s all on here:
http://www.aspyr.com/product/game_specs/67
It looks like the new MacBooks are excluded (due to their lame Intel video chip,) but the MacBook Pro laptops are OK.
I’ll quote the specs for you:
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
CPU Processor: PowerPC G5 or Intel chipset
CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz
Memory: 512 MB or higher
Hard Disk Space: 2.5GB free disk space
Video Card (ATI): Radeon 9600
Video Card (NVidia): GeForce 6600
Video Memory (VRam): 64 MB
Multiplayer: Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported, requires a broadband connection
Media Required: DVD Drive
Supported Video cards:
NVIDIA GeForce 6600, 6800, 7300, 7800
ATI Radeon 9600, 9650, 9800, X600, X800, X1600
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
CPU Speed: 2.0 GHz
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4.8
Memory: 1 GB
Video Memory (VRam): 128 MB
NOTICE: Intel integrated video chipsets are not supported.
Notice: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some disk and virtual disk drives.
Notice: Apple original CPU’s only, CPU upgrades not supported.?
@PPC user: download the free Aspyr Game Agent and run it on the machine you’d be playing the game on. it should tell you whether you have the specs for it.
or you could go to Aspyr’s website yourself and look it up. i did the homework for you this time:
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
CPU Processor: PowerPC G5 or Intel chipset
CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz
Memory: 512 MB or higher
Hard Disk Space: 2.5GB free disk space
Video Card (ATI): Radeon 9600
Video Card (NVidia): GeForce 6600
Video Memory (VRam): 64 MB
Multiplayer: Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported, requires a broadband connection
Media Required: DVD Drive
Supported Video cards:
NVIDIA GeForce 6600, 6800, 7300, 7800
ATI Radeon 9600, 9650, 9800, X600, X800, X1600
RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
CPU Speed: 2.0 GHz
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4.8
Memory: 1 GB
Video Memory (VRam): 128 MB
NOTICE: Intel integrated video chipsets are not supported.
dang, unfettered, ya beat me to it.
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sorry for the dupe folks!
Ha ha haa haaaah haaahahaa!!!
He’res the dubed down Mac-version for you cats to play on you puny single GPU 128MB video cards.
No SLI fo-yoo I guess it doesn’t really matter cause most of you don’t even know what it is.
I’m a Mac using professional but a PC gamer because, face it theMac is stil not a gaming platform, with the advent of Direct-X 10 PC gaming is about to take a quantum leap, and unfortunately for the Mac the simply is no equivalent.
The demo runs very well on my MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.16Ghz.
http://www.macgamefiles.com/detail.php?item=19386
bigMARK must have SMALLballs.
MDN: kind – as in I am being kind.
And while I’m at it:
Wouldn’t prey for the Macintosh be any Windows machine? I mean, seriously folks. My snowglobe iMac can eat a Dell sandwich any ol’ time.
“He’res the dubed down Mac-version”
Speaking of “dumbed-down”…
You can’t make this stuff up.
Single player looks awesome but i am loving multiplayer right now.
Doesn’t it bother any of you ‘gamers’ that Aspyr REQUIRES that the CD/DVD remain
mounted in the drive in order to play the game?
I HATE that. I have dozens of purchased games installed on my laptop (Macbook Pro).
I don’t want to have to haul around all those CDs/DVDs in order to be able to play
a game anytime I want.
Resist this trend. Nip it in the bud. Refuse to purchase any game that REQUIRES
you to haul around the disk with you in order to play the game.
Just say NO to DRM on games!!! And let Aspyr know how you feel.
Doesn’t it bother any of you ‘gamers’ that Aspyr REQUIRES that the CD/DVD remain mounted in the drive in order to play the game?
I HATE that. I have dozens of purchased games installed on my laptop (Macbook Pro). I don’t want to have to haul around all those
CDs/DVDs in order to be able to play a game anytime I want.
Resist this trend. Nip it in the bud. Refuse to purchase any game that REQUIRES you to haul around the disk with you in order to play
the game.
Just say NO to DRM on games!!! And let Aspyr know how you feel.
Blah Blah blah…you guys are blindly following the mac herd of sheeple that accept the sub-standard gaming experience that you average Mac provides. Sure you can buy a Quad core Pro Desktop and a high end video card but you still won’t have DirectX-10 when you’re finished. Hence the Dumbed down gaming experience (please excuse my previous typo, I like you am not perfect)
The point I’m trying to make here is the average Mac is a lame gaming machine when compared to a PC. Sorry to burst your bubble.