Who wouldn't want super powers? But what if attaining them included such things as memory loss and a city rampant with monsters, zombies and the military all after your ass? No one is your friend and everyone is your enemy or in this case a speed bumps in your massive romp of carnage in New York City.
Prototype is a fun game for what it is set out to do. It gives you an open city fairly accurate to New York City and throws in a billion zombies, militia, helecopters, tanks, cars and the kitchen sink. Then it gives you upgradable powers so you can run around smashing crap up all you want.
The game's story is fairly good, though it is ill presented. It jumps around here, there and everywhere sporadically with flash backs and "memory" nodes to help you understand just what the smurf is going on. Though in doing so it can confuse many people and there are many holes in the story that either don't make sense or shouldn't have been included.
The controls are responsive but the more powers you get the more uncontrolled you feel when fighting enemies or even running around. Like when you upgrade your speed and jump abilities sometimes it's hard to control Alex Mercer when fighting or running up buildings.
The Lock-On system is helpful and useful but when you have 500 enemies attacking you it's still hard to shuffle through which enemy to attack. It doesn't help that it's complete chaos all around you with civilians and monsters all over the place. So it can be a little daunting on your focus of who you're attacking, etc.
My first playthrough took a good 20 hrs to complete the story and a few side missions with many, many more left to do and many trophies to unlock and things to do, so it's a fairly long game.
That all said, Prototype is a good game for what it was set out to do. It is fairly challenging on Normal mode and there are lots of cool things to do and encounter in the sandbox. If you like chaos and running around blowing crap up you'll love this game, if not, it can get tiring and frustrating fast.
While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.
Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.
It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny
Armored Core VI?
Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.
Is something big coming soon to branch the story?
No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).
Trevor in GTA 6 is a sadist and psychopath who dabbles in cannibalism. Should be top of the list. These game “news” sites should hire people that know games.
As the world reels from the shockwaves of the seismic news that Microsoft is acquiring the proverbial swamp of the video-game landscape, Activision Blizzard King, it only seems natural that our minds should now shift towards what the fallout will be for presumably years if not decades to come.
Another Prototype would be awesome.
As for Singularity, I don't necessarily need a sequel, I just want to see Raven be able to flex their creative muscle again; not just be relegated to assisting with CoD. A lot of the old guard is still with the company.
That's part of what I'm hoping to see come from this acquisition. Revive teams like Vicarious Visions and Ravem to actually allow them to work on their own new projects again.
As great as that would be the deal wont finalize until end of fiscal year 2023. Until after that date MS wont really have a say as to where resources will be spent. So we wont realistically see anything until perhaps 2026 or later.
I think that’s a point that so many people are missing. Things will not change this year or next year at all. Maybe some changes might be apparent in 2024 but 2025/2026 is a good estimate of when things will really start happening. And I don’t think we will see as big a set of changes as some are suggesting.
Those teams having not worked on anything, the employees find jobs at other companies, they don't just remain unemployed till someone at the publisher decides to revive the team, they need to eat lol
That said, this list of games makes me unexcited for anything outside of CoD that Activision has to offer. All games are in stale genres, like Guitar Hero, Simpsons Hit and Run, these are long surpassed genres that are going to be difficult to revive.
@gamer75 if it is a combination it has to have my seal of approval. Such as a new Warcraft game or a new Warcraft mmo, or an action game based off the night elves orcs and humans if it’s a new IP. I’ll let you know after I talk with Microsoft
Man I’ve been waiting for Protoype since the last one. Protoype could seriously be MS’ answer to Infamous (freaking loved that game as well, hope Sony make a new one soon).
That's one I see being tossed around a lot to bring back, even if not from Raven themselves.
Put so many hours into those games over the years.
I'd like to see Activision get the Transformers license again and continue the War and Fall of Cybertron games. the movie games were crap and the game that combined both movie and Fall and War of Cybertron sucked a new Prototype would also be good as well.
You deserve a 1000 likes haha 😂. It’s a shame High Moon didn’t get to continue making Transformers. If they got a decent budget i think most of us TF fans would be excited.
Ms bought Activision and everybody dancing for what? For cod? Ms want to atleast earn some money Back from those 70 billion dollars.... The only thing they count on is more gamepass subscribers via Activision cod, diablo and over watch 2 1st Day free at gamepass. If they decide to make them exclusive to xbox they Will lose profit from ps4 and 5 sales. As For a New ip or an existing ip like over watch 3,diablo 5 or anything else like a New transformers Dont you think that developers need at least 3 years to Do something decent?
Anyway my opinion is that ms want to make videogaming Just a subscription a la netflix and that ps5 will beat xboxsx in sales like ps4 beat xbox and xbox one x..... All the money ms spending It Will defentily make more gamepass subscribers as for games we all must wait at least 3 more years... And thats why ps5 will get ahead in sales they have more AAA in the pipeline already plus lets see their answer for gamepass... P. S i Dont support subscriptions from neither company and i didnt buy switch plus for n64. If they give me the option to buy n64 games then yes i Will buy them but i am not paying for a rental.
Re-imagining of River Raid and the original adventurer Pitfall. Oh Zork is also a great game.
Out of all the games in which you play the bad guy which ones are the best? Which games are the most fun to play as the bad guy at its blackhearted fullest?
Good review. I was under the impression that you weren't too into this game at first, but it seems it managed to win you over, eh? Well, glad you had fun with the game. I'm not too sold on it being worth a full-price purchase myself, so if I get round to it... I'll rent it, I guess. Admittedly, there are more positive things being said about it than negative, but still, I'm not sold.
I knew this game had promise, I'm currently playing through it and found that I just can't put it down, the game is so sadistic in ways, your review is spot on to what I've played so far, its not the best looking, but the game looks alright for what takes place during the core gameplay. It's a fantastic mixed breed genre of a game, I really like what Radical tried to do and will follow the franchise in the future, as Radical keep on mentioning the possibility of it being a franchise.
I'm just getting a little irritated with belching Elizabeth Green, if you know what I mean.
Good review. I agree with everything you said. When I first started playing I thought it was ok, but the more I played the better the game became. I now think it is a very good buy. So glad I got it.
Fair review. I personally would give the game no less than a 9 as it's amazingly fun and gory with a story that is presented in a stylish way that must be followed closely to be understood.