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.
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Not all video game protagonists are sweet, jolly, or wholesome. Folks like Agent 47 are cold, ruthless, and reserved and it shows.
I'd like to believe Joel's situation is more about turning into a calloused survivor in a cold-hard world who may have made selfish decisions. Not inherently ruthless.
Ah, fond memories of strangling all the people in their hotel rooms in Hitman 1
Lara Croft, Nathan Drake etc, cos they pretend to be the good guys but are mass murderers that show no remorse.
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.
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.