Similar to Far Cry in the way it alternates openness with corridor shooting (though the open levels in Prey are nowhere near as open as FC), but the similarities end here. The gunplay's a bit meh, not as fun as FEAR, but Prey's not as corridorish. Some of the creepy bits (like the ghost kids) kinda reminded me of FEAR actually, but the overall tone of the game is different. TBH the game's probably not as good as I'm making it look, but I have a deep-seated fondness for good level design in an FPS, and if the game can deliver enough of it to satisfy me then I can easily ignore other shortcomings. Prey's level design isn't uniformly good, but I enjoyed the set pieces a lot (I'd go into detailed description of them, but that'd ruin a lot of the fun if you do plan on playing the game) and that's probably influencing my overall opinion. Since those who have played both the demo and the full game say the demo's got a representative chunk of the whole game just grab it and see what you think for yourself. The entire game's pretty short anyway.
Back when it was being developer in-house at Apogee/3D Realms that was the big gimmick. There were some pretty nifty uses of it in the final game too.
