Prey tells the story of Tommy, a Cherokee garage mechanic stuck on a reservation going nowhere. Abducted along with his people to a menacing mothership orbiting Earth, he sets out to save himself and his girlfriend and eventually his planet.

In Prey, players enter a living spaceship that enslaves alien races and devours humans for lunch. Prey turns the first-person-shooter genre upside-down with new gameplay features like wall-walking and gravity flipping, making for intense single- and multiplayer experiences. Prey is built on a heavily modified version of Doom 3 engine and is developed by Human Head Studios under the direction of 3D Realms.

Bummer, we had an issue with this game. I have seen the other sites produce really good results yet some sort of bug is haunting us. We tried two test systems, the full version, the demo, another timedemo yet 8xAA-SLI will not work for me. Interestingly enough 4xAA does and with 83 FPS @ 2560x1600 that surely does not suck.

Half-Life 2

Your mission is to save the planet from total alien supremacy. See, that petite incident in Black Mesa was just the beginning: now those pesky Xen invaders and a new threat called the Combine have spread across the whole Earth, causing massive amounts of death and destruction. It’s up to you to set things right.

The source engine provides a gritty realism that surpasses (marginally) even Doom 3’s "Super-real" prowess. While maybe not as visually spectacular as Doom 3, HL2‘s lighting seems a lot more "natural"’. Let me put it like this, Doom 3’s lighting can seem like someone has inserted a laser light show onto Mars making it almost too spectacular, where as HL2’s lighting is just "accepted" by the eye as lights reflect, and create shadows with precision streaming through windows with an unnerving realism.

And yes again we see the game scale really well. At 2560x1600 we need to stick at 16xAA, which looks breathtaking!

Lost Coast

I had no more time for comparative results with a single GX2 card yet is scales the same as Half-Life 2 itself. HDR simply takes a larger performance hit and that's pretty much all there is to it. Both 8x and 16xAA can be used at 2560x1600, which is a truly stunning experience.