From the PlanetXbox360 feature review:
"It takes a lot to standout in this day and age of cookie-cutter video games, with sequels and last-gen remakes infecting every aspect of our daily entertainment intake. There are two very popular categories or genres for next-gen video games to fall into right now, first-person shooters and open-world titles. Whatever the draw is to these two genres it has developers and publisher flocking to push out as many games as possible, whether or not they are the least bit innovative This week marks the releases of an "open world" action game from developer Radical Entertainment and publisher Ativision titled Prototype. During our play-through the "Grand Theft Auto" and "Infamous" comparisons were flowing and when looking at the game from a general point of view it's easy to see why. Once we sat down and put our hands to the controller Prototype instantaneously differentiated itself from all those other open-world video games, and by the completion of story mode we were thoroughly impressed with what it had to offer. If you are looking for something different and are into mature themed brutality then you have to pick up Prototype, which is in stores today."
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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.
Make sure not to skip over this game (and to me it is better or at least on par with Infamous), this review is right on with what I feel about the game and I am happy that the summer is bringing us such good titles; well done Radical, well done!
I have to agree with this review (although not on the fact that some are saying it's better than GTA or Infamous), even so the game is fantastic and the pure amount of variety and brutality gives reason for it to be a day one purchase for me; thanks for the positive heads-up!
this game is a 8 max... graphics are ugly...
All neutral websites give this game 7/10.. Fanboy website give it a 9.2/10 just because 360 doesnt have InFamous, and they want InFamous to have a lower score than this multi plat release.
But after reading the review I didn't see enough substance to rate this as high as 9/10. If it's going to score that high, I need to read about some accolades in storytelling and general gameplay (with the mention of how smooth, bug free, etc. it is).
I'd be interested in the reviewer tacking on another 2 pages to that review and going a bit more in depth with it rather than an overview that reads much like many of the previews we've seen.