I thought Prototype 2 was pretty damn good actually, much more polished than the first. At least they did their best to improve the sequel.

Prototype1 felt like a game made by walmart. cheap crap. All the cars were yellow cabs. It was a waist of 15 mins of my life I will never get back.

might have to rethink purchasing Prototype 2 for PC - sounds like there will be little support for it once released :(

You have to be totally ignorant to trash talk this developer or say it doesn't matter. Look around gamers, its another studio that is closing down. Say what you will about Prototype 1 and 2, but they were pretty solid games and they were pretty original.

THIS is why bigger companies aren't pushing new IP's or taking very many risks, at some point those risks are going to either pay off or kill you. In this case it killed the studio.

They did competitive open world games, until open world mission design and/or production values started to evolve.

Their games were still too much "go there kill that", and unlike Infamous (which is just as mind numbingly repetitive), they didn't manage to build any proper mythology or sense of style around it to make people look past these design shortcomings.

So long...

Goodbye Radical Entertainment, it was fun.

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WHAT?!? WHY? That's one of the best developers that Acti have aside from CoD studios!

I think this says alot about the state of console gaming. The media can say and act however they want, but studios are dropping like flies. Digital distribution and free to play is where things have to go, consoles can't just drag their feet.
also, hate to say it but prototype had almost every aspect of what is ruining console gaming. Too many stupid cutscenes, slaps the player in the face with a stupid story, mind numbing combat so broken that they just make it it so easy you can't lose, and open world just for the sake of being open world.

It's a shame. I'm probably in the minority here that really liked Prototype 2. I hope things work out for them.

And yet another studio chopped by Activision...SMH, is that how its gonna work, shut down studios until they're down to SledgeHammer, Treyarch and Infinity Ward...

Ms should pick them up as I think there games would fit well in there family of studios. Ms has 20 studios now but only few of them cater to the core and I think they should get rid of a few studios and bring in free radical for the next xbox. Its nt like they can't afford it. Help the community ms and gain a established dev team on the xbox.

"some employees will remain working for Radical Entertainment supporting other existing Activision Publishing projects"

By other projects they mean Call of Duty no doubt.

Damn i enjoyed prototype 2...and the simpsons hit n run was like my childhood game

I really didn't care for either of the prototype games but it is sad that the studio is closing. It just shows you how the game industry really is. It is either do or die when it comes to games.

im not to sure why people are trying to say prototype was a great game....did you see that ending? shit was real lame.

Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! I love both Prototype games....now I lose this franchise along with Socom, and the Mercenaries series....I pray some company makes Prototype 3 some day...now I will be buying all the DLC for both games!!!!!

scarface was the only good game that they made... what a shame...

SMH.

I can't FUCKING Belive no one mentioned THE HULK ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION!!! that was there BEST game ..

GOD DAMN IT!! I want prototype 3!

Prototype was a good game idea, but the first one could have been done better and I don't know anything about the 2nd one. Well besides alot of my friends on PS3/360 didn't pick it up.

It looked good but with some many huge titles out their, its hard for one to stay alive.

Cole MacGrath laughs

I think Activision did this purposely actually, they need as many people as they can working on COD to accomplish what a team of around 60 people did with COD4(give or take ten people). Soon they will have 1,000 people working on COD and that's no BS.

It was only a matter of time. Everything is getting sunk into COD.

People sure get upset when you say Prototype was not a good game. Not everyone likes a shallow game where you run around murdering innocent people for no real reason. That was Prototype in a nutshell whether you liked it or not.It really wasn't that deep or original and there are better sandbox games then it. And the second one didn't even improve on the concept at all, they just made a even less likable character. I am not telling you not to like the game if you want but let's just call a spade a spade here.It's wasn't as if Prototype was some super leap in gameplay or some deep meaningful story or even that great of a murder sandbox or anything.

sad to read yet another studio dies because it tries to do something different, this gen is horrendous.

At least they will move to another publisher that doesnt suck like activision.

I wasn't a fan of the prototype series but the devs do have talent. Hope they find something else to move onto (far far away from activision)

I will laugh the day that Activision-Blizzard kills CoD and lays off whatever studios are working on that franchise.

I will also laugh the day after, when their stock hits rock bottom and they are removed from public exchange.

Prototype 2 was a lot of fun. I have a feeling that a lot of the people bashing it only played the first one, which admittedly had flaws. Radical has been refining the open world superhero experience since the hulk and prototype 2 showed that they had really started hitting their stride. Closing them down was a mistake in my opinion. But 10 billion people will still buy the next COD so I guess it doesn't matter.

Whats so wrong with COD other than it dominating millions of gamers time and those same people spend less on other games. if you liked to play Goldeneye or Perfect Dark split-screen with your friends on the N64, then you more than likely love playing COD online with a bunch of your buddies. Just saying it's not all COD's fault. Prototype was an average game and Prototype 2 was an above average game. If I remember correctly both sold fairly well, so I'm not sure why they got shut down when other games are crap and sell less.

Clearly this studio couldn't find a way to generate a perpetual income system that their games could be built around...

Like Diablo 3.

meh, Prototype is so unpolished and without any charm compared to inFamous.

when someone is comparing those two games I feel like they're putting inFamous in the same category as Prototype when inFamous is such a more polished and better made game.

Infamous and Infamous 2 pushed PS3 console system sales.
Prototype 1 and 2 were inferior games because they were multi-platform and they ripped off Infamous and Infamous 2.

Poor sales killed off Prototype IP and ultimately Radical. You do not meet sales targets you lose money and are forced out of business. It is the harshness of the free market. You either make enough sales and make profits or lose money and go out of business.

I think Bungie will be one of the last big name developers to sign with Activision. Everyone knows how much of a piece of shit, sorry company Activision is to work for.

To all the people calling out cash cow on Activision

Explain Transformers War for Cybertron getting a sequel.

If a games company isnt making a return on a series do you honestly expect it to keep it going? Yeah its bad the devs are out of the job but when you go into the games industry you know the risks but they had 2 chances to make or break and the industry is cuthroat these days. Please dont comment if you have no idea how capitalism works.

Sorry but if you find that offensive or stupid you might want to apply for residence in a communist dictatorship.

If Activision tells you to make a Call of Duty, DO NOT say no.

I jest of course, but it's plausable.

So one of the only non-COD studios left is High Moon Studios? I'll be gutted if Activision closes them after Fall of Cybertron.

Sad. Prototype 2 is awesome. Much better than games like Infamous or Crackdown. It's the best "superhero" sandbox game around. Very violent and gory... right up my alley. >:)

NO ACTIVISION, NO!!! FIRST BIZARRE AND NOW RADICAL, SCREW YOU AND YOUR CRAP RECYCLED COD GAMES, ME BUY NO MORE!!!!

Oh Activision, is there ever a time where you are not horrible? This is my most hated company in this industry. Sadly, the stupid drones who buy Call of Duty ever year will keep giving them billions of dollars EVERY YEAR. F*ck you Activision.

I'm very disappointed for this news. When so many people lose their job is always a tragedy. But Prototype is a bland ip despite the AAA investment made by Activision. The gameplay,characters and the entire project was a mess with a very low appealing. The sales numbers are the proof. The closure of Radical entertainment is only a obvious consequence.

Pretty much the fate of every studio tied to Activision or EA. Who cares. Mediocre games anyways. Good riddance.

BEST NEWS I HEARD ALL DAY.

you would see that Activision didn't Shut them down. What really happened is that allot of them got fired because prototype 2 didn't sell enough copies and the studio will no longer be making any games of their own, instead they will be helping with other Activision projects.

I see many of you guys lashing out at Activision for doing this but you must remember that this is a business and like any other business, if the product isn't making any money you stop selling.

If you guys want to be angry at someone you should be angry at your selves for not supporting the game. The only good news out of all of this is that the PC version is still set to be released the end of next month.

prototype games were a low quality games anyway. good for real gamers that they close.

Shame, haven't played any of the Prototype games, but I heard from a friend of mine that the first game was great.

I was never fond of Prototype...Mainly because I was sick as hell when playing it and being sick just made me pissed off at it for some reason.

It should be noted that I haven't played either game, but I have a theory. Prototype didn't sell well because some gamers didn't care for the game, they thought it was bad. Making a sequel for a game that not a lot of people cared about (think Final Fantasy 13 and Final Fantasy 13-2, 13-2 sold horribly) almost guarantees the failure of the game. There's always a chance that it will do good, but FF13-2 was a great sequel and still sold horribly because nobody liked the first. Many people evidently don't like to play the great sequel of a game they disliked.

The Xbox division has not listened to the customer since the 360 days. Ever since Kinect, Microsoft has been about selling us what they want and trying to tell us it’s what we want rather than actually selling us what we are asking for.

Microsoft does have a history of running things into the ground simply because they don't innovate or give products breathing space. I fully expect in the long term they will manage the same with Call of Duty and will kill it, just as they killed Halo and Forza and many other IP's over the years. This also extends to things like windows phones and such. They just were not competitive and did not listen to consumers.

Battlefield has beaten Call of Duty in players number not in sales maybe but in players

So far everything XBox touches die...

Same shit every year, give it a rest.

If they're going to do stuff like MW3 and BLOPS 7, at least make the campaign split-screen co-op. The way the maps are structured there's no reason not to, and it just adds value to a game that's short on it as it is.

Pretty sure BF6 will “pay the bills” just fine 🤪
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COD is turning into a sports game wash, rinse, repeat. At least Ubisoft stopped doing the yearly releases with AC and it worked.

Call of Duty can die only by killing itself. This can happen to any franchise and happened to Medal of Honor which ironically was created by the original team that made Call of Duty.