CVG: "The new hero is revealed on screen. His name is Sergeant James Heller, and he's a growling army veteran who's grieving the death of his young family at the hands of the Blacklight Virus.
His design won't win any originality awards (unless someone starts up a ceremony called the IRONY BAFTAS), but he certainly fits Radical's criteria for a Prototype protagonist to a tee. He's uniformly grizzled, ultra-confident, keen to embrace his new-found superpowers, and he's very, very highly motivated... about killing Alex Mercer."
In an industry that grows increasingly reliant on remasters, few were worth complaining about, making the original versions preferable in most respects.
Not sure what happened with FFCC. They really bungled it big time. It's a shame too.
I really wanted to play that one too, but after the demo I was disinterested in buying it.
Glad Square really likes putting out demos. It can help you dodge a bullet. Lol
To this day, the Crystal Chronicles remaster still left me with a sour taste. I really wondered how Square reacted to the feedback.
I thought the Prototype games had terrible graphics even when they first came out. Pretty crazy that the remasters essentially got nothing in the way of visual upgrades. A resolution bump. Yay.
Let alone Activision kept those prices at release price for a year before they even thought to reduce them in a sale.
To me, this topic is pretty easy to answer as I recall laughing at loud when Bethesda announced that PPL on consoles (Xbox1 and Ps4) would need to buy Skyrim Special edition and it would be free for existing pc Owner because it was basically the same game at max setting.
I often gave this answers to numerous ppl who where happy about paying 40$ for cheap remaster that would have been free on PC by saying everybody wins PC players gets the upgrade for free because they never paid in the past for quick fix that a mod of graphics card could do and Consoles players get to pay because they love paying and defend the practice of paying (like the numerous I have a VHS tape of the movie why don't they give me a free DVD version).
So for me, any crappy Remasters that deserve to be on this list are the ones that only give a frame boost and resolution boost for a full-price experience from the previous generation. Now ill exclude compilations like Batman, Uncharted Trilogy, Bioshock Trilogy, etc. because they were actually giving you more than 1 game so I'll count them as a collection instead of remasters Nor should I included games that have complete remade graphics or add new playable elements (Metro 2033 Redux, Quake, Gears of War Ultimate)
Since there are too many games ill give some example that comes to mind: Heavy Rain Remaster, The Last of US remaster, God of War 3 remasters, Burnout Paradise city Remaster, Tomb Raider Definitive Edition. Baja: Edge of Control HD, etc.
Again my main complaint here (has it was last gen) is that these kinds of remastering are now free (called performance patches now) but were sold at a premium price despite having almost no work to put in.
Andrea Gennaro has released a HD Texture Pack for Prototype 2 that improves the textures of all the three zones (Red, Green and Yellow) of the game.
I can’t get it to work, I got the two HD packs and when I tried to run that Tex.exe nothing happens.
It's not rare for the hero to become the villain in video games. Luke Lube looks at five of the best good guys gone bad from Big Boss to Jill Valentine.
The whole idea of the last game was that the infected guy IS the virus who only falsely remembers being the people it ate. Does that mean that the Alex Mercer virus is suicidal and wants to escape from the memories of all the people he ate in the first game? Is the Alex Virus losing control of itself and staring to change into something worse and it requires another thing like it once was (a Heller virus) to stop it from doing something REALLY awful? What's the angle?
Anyway the game still looks fun. The city is looking better. I hope they improve the infiltration parts and give us more stuff to hijack.
A "power trip" in a game world only feels worthwhile if the characters you have power over behave like actual people. Prototype 2 will need massively improved AI for any of that potential to matter.
I hope the devs understand that it's not just about how many ridiculously lethal moves you can pull off...