im curently playing infamous,while i alredy played proto on pc,cough back up.

Must say different games totaly.

And infamous is by mile more quality game.

You know i really agree with this article, the fierce competition made them both famous.

InFamous was great. The only way it helped Prototype sales was in pushing 360 fanboys (who I believe to be a small amount of 360 owners) into buying the game for no reason other than the fact that they didnt have InFamous on their system.

I think each game sold on its own, due to hype or word of mouth or whatever.

Just got the platinum for InFamous and I loved every minute of it (except finding every single blast shard. Got a little lucky with that though)

gave me a reason to not even want to play Prototype. Why settle for salad when you can have steak. inFAMOUS is steak, Platinumized steak in my case son!!

I've played both games, and both had their positives and negatives.

I preferred the storyline in inFamous and hunting for blue orbs and satellites. Though I found the super powers to be a tad unoriginal, with the exception of the last power.

Prototype's story was pretty simple and was able to figure out the twist a mile away. I found the super powers to be well done and somewhat original, though shame it was all melee based.

doesn't follow games much...that is all.

Sadly, I'll never find out if Prototype is good because of one major problem. It's published by Activision.

I'm confused... Now random Blogs are permitted in N4G?

InFAMOUS.

+1 To anyone who can guess who the beast will be ;)

It's the usual stubborness I always see with Xboix 360 owners. They would buy Prototype no matter how high or low it scored. Rather then admit that Infamous is great, they would rather hang on to Prototype just to prove to PS3 owners that our system is crap. Everytime we get an exclusive they hang on to what ever multiplayer game is similar to it and try to put down the PS3 game at all cost. Xbox 360 owners will rather die then admit that Sony has the goods.

...and I bought inFamous at $60, played through it twice and had a blast playing it both times.

I bought Prototype used at GameStop for 360, using a 20% off coupon, and a $25 giftcard (taking surveys online), beat it once, started a second game for some achievements, and then sold it to a buddy at work. It was a solid game and had an interesting story, but the gameplay and enemies were so cheap sometimes. It felt like they crammed way too many moves and powers in, and I didn't even use half of them.

inFamous was more refined and polished and was just a better overall game.

Oh yeah, I'm a 360 owner first, and a PS3 owner second.

Does someone else thinks the same will happen with God of war 3 and Dante's inferno, that there will be tons of GOW 3 vs DI.
I know that DI is a rather shameless copy of the GOW formula, but there loads of people out there who will say DI is not copying GOW(yes it is), and if it is copying it made the gameplay better than GOW ever was (I don't think), it is obvious that GOW had it time with us, and any gamer with hes barin in his cranium would at least realise some of the above, but fanboys tend to live in such denial they can twist and spin their reality to see what they want to see
EDIT: @Datruth, ok sory i make similar points, but I wanted to know if anyone believes teh same will happen with GOW 3 and Dante's inferno

So does that mean GTA made The Getaway series, the True Crime series, the Saint's Row series and nearly every other sandbox game famous?

Fail article is fail. Both games are different, the only thing they have in common is sandbox gameplay. InFamous never made Prototype 'famous' at all. The only reason why InFamous comes up whenever Prototype is mentioned (Or vice versa) is because 360 and PS3 fanboys fight over both games.

EDIT: How come no one compared Cool Boarders 4 to Tony Hawk's Skateboarding when they were released way back in '99? Or DMC and GoW?

Perhaps, but both games are pretty good. I preferred inFamous by quite a bit personally, and that's all that really matters for gamers.

Infamous is sick! I traded in Prototype to get another PS3 haha. They gave me like $35 for it.

well, indeed inFAMOUS made Prototype famous,

inFAMOUS being a PS3 exclusive made XBOX look bad because it didnt had any game coming out to stop it, so the new tactic was, take a multiplat game, and make it look like if it were Xbox exclusive,
i remember i laughed back in the day when xbox fanoys were goin around N4G saying
*lol this game will kick a$$, infamous sucks, sry ps3 owners*
*--dude but its multiplat ps3 owners can buy the game too*
*-- oh,.. er.. lol infamous sucks lolololol*

the only thing is infamous was released slightly earlier then Prototype if anything Sucker punch copied Radical Entertainment whoever wrote this seriously needs to ram his head into a brickwall for not having any commen sense

and yet he felt compelled to write an article about them?

*sigh* and people wonder why gaming "journalism" gets no respect in wider circles.

anyway, i played and own BOTH Prototype and inFAMOUS, and inFAMOUS is, has been, and always will be, the better game of the two.

it's a shame when Spider-Man: Web of Shadows is WAAAY better than Prototype, and WOS is MEDIOCRE!

i agree that Prototype wouldn't have gotten nearly as much hype if inFAMOUS didn't exist, but the truth is that inFAMOUS looked badass from the beginning (like Prototype), but being an exclusive meant that a vast number of gamers that didn't own a PS3 were going to be left out, and that makes them envious, and more likely to latch onto the nearest facsimile of the exclusive title.

believe me, if inFAMOUS was on BOTH the PS3 and 360, Prototype would have been IGNORED for the mediocre schlock that it is, and the 360 fanboys would admit that inFAMOUS was better.

but alas, it is the way it is, inFAMOUS is a PS3 exclusive (with the IP OWNED by Sony, so it's not going anywhere except maybe the PSP; which would actually be kind of cool, honestly. maybe a sidestory, or a new character that gets powers from the Ray Sphere...), and Xbox 360 fanboys have to pretend that Prototype is in the same league as inFAMOUS. anyone that has played both knows that is not the case by a long shot.

seriously, back when i worked at Luxoflux, one of the guys there who only owns a 360 swore up and down that Prototype was going to KILL inFAMOUS, and even after i brought my PS3 in to work, showed him inFAMOUS (first the demo, then the full game), and even after he grudgingly admitted, "that's badass," he STILL said, "but i'm not buying a PS3, even if it drops the price. Xbox for LIFE!"

THAT'S the type of mentality Sony is up against with fanboys. even when the other guys have something worth merit (hell, i love Shadow Complex and Mass Effect on the 360, even though i'm rather hard on MS these days. HINT: They DESERVE IT), they REFUSE to either acknowledge it, or admit that they want to play it.

and that's not just Xbox 360 fanboys, but fanboys in general. there are just as many Sony fanboys that refuse to acknowledge that games like Shadow Complex and Mass Effect are awesome, but since we're discussing inFAMOUS and Prototype, i cited Xbox 360 fanboys specifically.

it's not a PS3 vs Xbox 360 thing when PS3 fanboys are saying that Prototype is mediocre. IT IS. it really, truly is, and there is a MUCH better option out there for PS3 owners.

hell, even 360 owners have a better (and CHEAPER) option in Crackdown, which walks all over Prototype also.

Xbox 360 fanboys: don't cling to the mediocrity that is Prototype. pimp Crackdown instead, and get excited about Crackdown 2. i guarantee they're worth more of your time (i'm looking forward to CD2, considering how much i enjoyed the first one).

mediocre games from Activision aren't worth comparing to quality exclusives from MS,Sony, or ANY quality developer.

Articles like this are completely useless. The guy hasn't even played EITHER game. Why would anyone possibly care what he has to say?

Regardless, Prototype and Infamous are both great games. Infamous may be the more technically polished of the two but they're both excellent. Prototype gets points for extreme gore, hard Mature story, power variety, vehicles, etc.

And Leon S you ARE a joke. Saying Proto is a horrible game and that some soft, generic, terribly reviewed Spiderman game is better says a lot about your credibility as a gamer. You can keep your E rated Spiderman pal.