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.