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Pros: -In Prototype you wield many destructive and diverse powers and moves. Some of the powers can shape-shift your body, while others improve your mobility. You can purchase various upgrades using the evolution points that you obtain through killing enemies and doing missions. The upgrades are very numerous. -Tanks and helicopters can both be piloted and you can also use different firearms. -Your mobility within the game world is amazing, you can run up the side of the buildings or glide between rooftops. -Various objects can be picked up and thrown as projectiles. Very few games allow you to pick up a car run up the building and throw it from the roof top. -The graphics in the game are solid and its impressive how the frame rate holds up despite all the action on screen. The pedestrians are well detailed, and so are the grotesque "infected". Cons: -The story is very weak and has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. -The game's missions are repetitive. Just about every mission will boil down to you killing things with extreme prejudice. The repetition is only punctuated by the fact that the entire city is unlocked from the very beginning of the game.Read full review
Prototype is an excellent game. If you enjoy free roaming games such as Grand Theft Auto, you'll love Prototype. You play as Alex Mercer, in a city ravaged by an infection, and military soldiers roaming everywhere.. Helicopters in the sky, tanks on the ground.. And guess what? You have super powers, and you're pretty much invincible. Form your arm into a blade, or a giant fist.. Or maybe you feel like you want to play with a bladed whip.. Go for it! I recommend this game, for the fact of the free roaming gameplay, fun to kill everything in sight, and the story is pretty decent. Only things I found wrong, was the story was a bit short.. I beat it in two or three days. And the city is a bit small.. Sure, it's Manhattan, and Manhattan is pretty big. But since you can jump 40 or more feet, glide, dash in the air, and get around pretty quickly, you might find yourself wanting more.. Or running out of places to discover. And, after the story, there's not too much you can do.. There's still upgrading your powers, and doing the side missions, but, after that, it gets kinda dull. Final thought: if you can find it cheap, buy it. This probably wouldn't have been a game that I would have purchased on release day for the $60 price tag for new games, but since it's been out for awhile, it's a decent buy if you're looking for something fun.Read full review
Prototype is a mildly flawed yet superbly entertaining experience. The plot is wonderfully presented and the apocalyptic tone throughout the game is expertly done. The many powers that Alex Mercer learns are very fun to use, especially on the poor little civilians. The learning curve is perfect; Prototype is very challenging but never left me feeling helpless. Unfortunately the game could have used better control mechanics with regards to the aerial movements; I often found myself air-dashing back and forth trying to land on a mission marker. Otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed the Prototype carnage and highly recommend this game to anyone looking to play a horror-themed, open-world game that won't disappoint.
its a good game i bought a second game for my friendAt the outset, Mercer is a much easier character to control than he is to understand. Making giant leaps, gliding through the air, and even running up the sides of skyscrapers are effortless actions. You could probably make it from one end of Manhattan to the other in a straight line using nothing more than the sprint button if you really wanted to, since it's the only one you need to scale buildings, barge through crowds, and overcome obstacles like cars and rooftop air-conditioning units parkour-style. No fall will ever hurt you, no obstacle is impassable, and there are very few enemies who can keep up with you when you're at full clip. Combat is also relatively simple early on, but as you progress and learn more about who and what Mercer is, his repertoire of moves grows exponentially until remembering which button combinations trigger which moves in which of his five forms becomes something of a challenge. You certainly don't need to remember how to use every single move you unlock with evolution points, which are earned by doing just about anything, but it's unfortunate that even after picking favorites you might find yourself having to hold down up to three buttons (a trigger and two opposing face buttons) simultaneously to perform them. Regardless, combat in Prototype is a blast. Using a slick radial menu that slows down the game any time you call it up, you can shape-shift into different forms that morph your arms into blades, a whip, and hammerlike fists. You also have the option to use more conventional weapons dropped by enemies and, eventually, to hijack tanks and helicopter gunships. The latter are especially fun, because you can use a whiplike arm to latch onto them in midair--even while falling from another helicopter that you've been shot down in. One benefit of having all of these options available to you, as well as the ability to disguise yourself as any human character that you "consume" (read: absorb) to regain health, is that many of the already-varied story missions (as well as a couple of the boss fights) can be approached in a number of different ways. For example, if you need to destroy an item inside a military base, you could attempt it in one of the aforementioned vehicles, walk right in there and set about killing or consuming everything that moves, stand on a nearby rooftop and throw things, or even disguise yourself as a soldier and distract the real military by pointing at a nearby character and declaring that he's the enemy. As a soldier look-alike you can even call in airstrikes from your unsuspecting comrades, but you get only a very limited number of these. Some missions, and almost all of the optional challenges scattered across the island, force you to play a certain way, but for the most part you're free to use the environment and everything in it however you see fit.Read full review
This game has an interesting premise and story line but the actual game play is a little annoying and gets kind of boring by the time you get to the end. I got it because I was told it was similar to the Infamous games...average Joe who gets super powers rampaging through a free-roam environment with upgradable powers, etc.. It's an accurate comparison to some extend, however Prototype doesn't come anywhere close to Infamous (at least the second one) in terms of graphic detail, character interaction with the environment or game play. Playing the game gets annoying because the controls don't allow for as much interaction in the environment as I'd like. Enemies can attack from all sides at once and I found the controls often don't cooperate in allowing me to react in certain ways like diving/jumping out of the way. There's a glitch that allows the character to become damaged even when an attach doesn't appear to have connected on screen. The controls can sometimes get tricky when navigating around the city with the climb, dash and glide abilities..the rotating camera view doesn't automatically adjust or recenter at all so you have to work hard to keep up with Alex's movements or you'll end up somewhere you didn't intend on being. I also felt there were more powers and abilities than were necessary. Some of them I only used once during the game or not at all. Many of Alex's attacks can be a little too slow and leave him very exposed (especially with the Whip arm). The game could've also used some more diversity in the types of enemies. You don't get that far into the game before the only things that are a threat to you are hunters and military helicopters; and even then only in large groups. There are lots of side missions and thing to keep you occupied but the get a bit monotonous too. Prototype was an ok game at best. I might be interested to check out the 2nd one just for the story but I doubt I'd ever touch this one again (and I do play most of my games over and over).Read full review
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