Prototype.

[yuki]

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

No game have I ever played has been more intensely frustrating as this game. I'm literally screaming at the top of my lungs at how BULLstuff the final boss is EDIT BECAUSE SHE'S NOT THE FINAL BOSS. JESUS loving CHRIST. I'm going out of my god damned mind trying to beat this, got Green down to half health THEN SOMEHOW OUT OF SOME loving HAT TRICK SHE REGENERATES SO I'M BACK TO FIGHTING HER AT FULL HEALTH NOT TO MENTION THE 15 HUNTERS I HAVE TO KILL NOT TO MENTION THEY KEEP RESPAWNING HOLY stuff WHAT THE forget WHO DESIGNED THIS.
There's a dent in the wall with the imprint of my fist, and my controller is probably broken. After an hour of doing this stuff I threw the controller and shut down the xbox only to realize I didn't save. I'm never playing this game again, this was only on normal mode and it's literally more frustrating than the loving Assassins Creed Templar fight. My head is exploding with rage right now. forget.

Finally calmed down enough to write an actual review of what I thought about the game.

Recently, we got Prototype. I've heard from literally everyone that this game is absolutely the finest creation of mankind.

Playing through it, It's rather mediocre. Yay, gore, yay flying. The funnest part was the parkour and the cutscenes. There's nothing that really makes this game appeal more than a spider-man game.

Firstly, combat. It's clunky, and Lock-On systems suck anyway, so that doesn't help. I hate fighting, I have a much better time assassinating everyone than trying to fight them with this stuff control scheme. Most of the time, you're fighting the same cheap-ass enemies, so it's not like variety helps. "Oh but there's powers!" Yeah, and I've used all of them, and they're all virtually worthless except the blade. (Yes I have fully upgraded them) "You can mix them!" Mix WHAT? I keep hearing this, but you can't mix stuff. I want blade mixed with grapple hook thing, can I do that? No. By "Mix", you mean you can do shield and (power) or armor and (power). That's not mixing, that's simple. Game devs, forget you. There's not a huge amount of combinations. FURTHERMORE, I find the guns more useful than any of the powers, by far, seeing as melee fighting with anything other than a human is Self Delete.

The Hunters. Oh god, how I hate them. You get three hits, then they do a charge-up thing into a combo, and you CANNOT STOP THEM. You get assraped (unless you're using a gun). Not to mention these bastards hunt in packs, so you're forgeted there too.

The missions. EXTREMELY stock. Protect this, kill this, steal a (vehicle). It's not innovative anymore. No one loving likes protection missions.

Logic? The Military will loving kill you, no exceptions. Trying to help them kill hunters or THE BIG ASS GIGANTIC loving WORM THING DESTROYING THE CITY? Nope, forget you. Both parties seem to be too arrogant to compromise.

Finally, the final boss, Elizabeth Green:
Appearance: I had to note this, because I felt NOTHING when it appeared. It's not scary, OR cool. It's a gigantic blob with a spinal cord that spits rocks. It looks like stuff, behaves like stuff, and is uncreative as stuff.

Now, as for the actual fight? No game has ever had me more frustrated or enraged as this game. The wall has a dent and my controller is probably broken. I can't express how INFURIATING this game is. forget this game, and forget you guys for telling me it was good. Excuse me while I go to the ER- I probably had an aneurysm.

Summary: Take out the powers, enemies, virus, military, and combat and it would be better as a parkour game.

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[yuki]

Went back and now am on the final boss WHICH IS THE SAME loving BULLstuff IN A DIFFERENT FORM: ARROGANT MILITARY, UNSTOPPABLE ATTACKS, EXTREMELY loving HIGH DAMAGE TOLERANCE, NO WEAK SPOT, NO INDICATION OF "HUNTER IS loving STUNNED SO BEAT THE stuff OUT OF HIM" BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD GET CLOSE TO HIM PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE loving UNSTOPPABLE MELEE ATTACKS DID I MENTION HE CAN JUMP INTO THE SKY AND MELEE YOUR HELICOPTER?

forget.
THIS.
GAME.

[Hifin]

I love it. Never makes me mad. Also, TURN YOUR CRUISE CONTROL OFF.

[TheArchitect]

It took me about 12 times to beat the final boss. I know how you feel, about 3 times I felt like going on there forum and just start bitching until I beat it. But see I can control my anger and keep it inside unlike someone :3 but now I finally beat the game on normal :D

[n0cturni]

I watched this video of someone playing, and he was literally mauling several tanks and helicopters using only melee.

[General Nick]

It's piss hard on normal. I used a trainer halfway because I kept getting smacked by a magic homing rocket that I somehow can't master or a hunter kept bitchslap-combo whoring me, then every time Alex gets hit by one thing he falls to the ground and takes his time getting up. By the time he gets up another rocket hits him and then woop, ALEX IS DEAD. No stuff. I thought he'd be alive after all that assrape.


I remember the boss fight with Green. forget. She keeps upchucking rocks at you, making you fall to the ground and take your time getting up, then she upchucks more rocks at you and you fall again. Then the 5 hunters and hunter leader combowhoreslap you and you are dead in less than 10 seconds. At this point in the game I was like "No no forget this stuff." Got a trainer and turned on instant health. I wish there was a "Disable fall-on-the-ground-every-time-a-fly-hits-you-because-you-are-a-pusillanimous individual" option. Too bad. The game still sucked.

This "Evolution points" stuff is a joke. I just walk through central park and find at least 50 landmark locations and bam I can buy everything that is actually useful or I can actually remember the combo to.

4/10. I'm too lazy to go back in my posts and pull out my page long rant about how mediocre and waste of time this was, but oh well. In short the controls suck, the enemies suck and the whole upgrade stuff is a joke.
This game is a waste of $50, no multiplayer. Just save yourself the effort and go play it at your friends house or something and get pissed there, but don't break his stuff.

[yuki]

Against my better judgement, I beat the game. I'm so disappointed. Even the ending wasn't worth it. Replay value? I have no morale to play every single activity. Honestly, it's really loving mediocre.

[General Nick]

After (sort of getting close to) beating it, here's what I have to say:

Graphics
The graphics are very good. Nice, not too much bloom, right amount of distort, etc.

Pros: Average. Not too hard on the eye, but during the Supreme Hunter fight the red can get to you and can be hard to see things without thermal vision.

Con: Again, supreme hunter and the redness etc. If you switch over from an infected zone to a militarized zone you'll notice an extreme difference (or vice versa). An infected zone has ravens flying everywhere and squawking, and the sky is a deep red while the streets are full of 99% infected humans and 0.1% normal humans who will get killed by them. The 0.9% left is microorganisms that aren't important. A militarized zone is just average normal everyday New York, unless there are Bloodtox blowers spewing ugly red clouds.

Gameplay
Difficulty, controls, etc.

• Difficulty

Holy stuff am I playing the world's hardest game here or what? It seems like every time I have to do a mission it involves getting repeatedly homing missile'd by helicopters/tanks or getting bitch slapped repeatedly across streets by hunters. Not to mention the bosses are holy stuff impossible, namely ALL OF THEM. You either get stunned by that one guy's stunstick every time you try to do something, get smacked across the hive room by the Supreme hunter or get gangbanged by upchucked stones and 5 hunters, 2 of them being hunter LEADERS. I probably reloaded at least 15 times in a boss fight just because I got bitch slapped to 5th avenue or blown off the island by rockets. I try running away from them to gain health when possible thanks to my regeneration upgrades. Hey look I've been running around the room for at least 20 minutes now, where's my regenerated health? It just goes to half-way and thats it. Thanks alot. Might as well just go find another landmark location to compensate for that.

Pros: Absolutely nothing, unless you want rage and frustration.

Cons: Everything.

• Controls

Okay, the controls aren't bad. I'll hand you that. At times it's very fluid and great. Other times you want to pause and look back in the manual because you forgot how to do that supercool move you just got the upgrade for (Oh no wait, woops you just ran out of health and no longer in Critical Mass. Go consume more.), and other times you want to go "What the forget where are you going I said airdash FORWARD not backwards you stupid forget".

Pros: (Sort of) "fluid" controls. Easy once you get in the hang of it. Kind of like Crysis' nano suit circular panel thing, but with twice the amount of options.

Cons: Constantly forgetting moves unless you remember them in your head and the wrong button/key can mean your life. Also sometimes you want to do a cool devastator move (My favorite is that one where you shoot those tendril stuffs out of the palm of your hand like a Kamehameha move in mid air), but you press the right buttons and it didn't go. You try again- Oh no you just got shot by a rocket and you're no longer in critical mass. Boo hoo.

• AI

I'm confused here. It's both killing you repeatedly and being stupid at the same time. I run behind a building, NO ONE IS THERE, and I transform into Alex Mercer. Somehow someone saw me, but it was a civilian. Whatever. I run straight into a jam-packed street and do a huge ass stomp on the ground. Everyone runs into panic. I dash away and come back later. Here's the mark on the ground, why is everyone still here like nothing happened? Ah well, time to have fun. Stealth consume a military character, and call another soldier out for being "ZEUS", the most handicapped codename for an enemy I have yet to see. They don't care, they'll just blow the stuff out of that guy no question. The real "zeus" would run or do something other than go "What the forget I'm one of you guys stop!".

Pros: Meh. It's AI.

Cons: It's stupid and yet repeatedly kills you at the same time. It's like being dissed by a kid with a learning disability or beat in tic tac toe by a chicken._{Simpsons reference.}

• Enemies

agfddfgadsfs WTF WAS RADICAL THINKING. We've got like three variations of the same hunter here, all who will repeatedly bitch slap you and drain your health in <5 seconds, each with just more health/resistance to every attack you throw at them. The BLACKWATCH soldiers are okay, you can easily deal with them. IF THEY DON'T HAVE ROCKET LAUNCHERS. One rocket and bam you're on the ground. Get up and try to jump. Oh stuff a homing missile. Bam, you're back on the ground again. Get up and try to run away so you can transform behind a building and stealth consume your way up again. Bam, another missile. Adrenaline surge! Ruuuuuuun! Ah, your dead. Too bad.

The thing here is the rocket launchers and hunters. The normal hunters you can eventually just deal with but the groups of leader hunters (when you fight Greene SPOILER LOL) and the rocketeers/helis/tanks just piss you off to hell. I feel like Superman waking up from an eternal sleep or something but realizing I'm infertile or my snake is broken or some other horrific thing to happen to a man. I'm a loving shape shifting muscle massed armor shredding infantry ripping speed machine and yet I can't even take on a single base without being shot with a missile while I'm loving airdashing left and right across rooftops. It's like being a pyro and yet dying only by being backstabbed, and ONLY being backstabbed.

Pros: Nothing. They'll piss you off and make you want to actually murder someone. Make sure you don't do that or something else horrific like punt your kitten off a balcony. Don't even get me started on the loving Supersoldiers.

Cons: RAGE AND EVERYTHING I SAID.

Story
I don't feel like writing much especially since I skipped some of the Web of Intrigue movies because I didn't want to stop my action and watch a movie. Some of it made sense and some of it didn't. In other words, half talked about something and you could draw something out of it, and the other half talked about something oblivious about Elizabeth Greene and her tests and you didn't care nor did it have anything to do with your missions.

Pros: Slightly interesting. Radical could've done better by just making it more cliffhanger or something.

Cons: Boring. Seems sort of like a typical military conspiracy thing. Some of the movies are more about Greene and frankly you just don't care about her because she's just one boss and all she does is walk around and infect.

Events and Evolution Points
Events are just little side missions. I'll be honest the events are not really interesting to me as I'd rather just get on with the story and I made tons of EP (Originally before I learned it's real name I thought it was E-Peen) with landmark locations and consuming people/web of intrigue targets/stealth consuming soldiers to upgrade military skills in their bases.

Pros: Meh. I'm not mad here but there's really nothing here.

Cons: Again there's really nothing at all here. Just usual upgrading and bonus mission stuff.

Final words
Like Age of Mythology and its expansion, [PROTOTYPE] was a game that was an incredible idea but poorly executed (As in, the idea itself is cool but the game was not cool.). More cons than pros, and it's easy to get around 3 million evolution points by running around and consuming and gaining the 20 landmark locations in central park, the ones in Times Square and the ones on etc. Manhattan buildings. I got around 80 so far and that's my total sum. My brother has done every single side mission and is barely halfway done the game because so.

Overall rating: 6.5/10.
Again, great idea but poorly made. Needs a lot of improvement (Sequel anyone?). Hopefully they don't make something like this again. I don't want to piss my pants in excitement and then get disappointed. Like I said earlier to the Superman thing, it's like having a really big snake but not being able to get erections (and to those of you saying "do it flat lol", feel free to stick a wet spaghetti noodle into a keyhole and try it).

tl;dr: It's loving difficult to the point of actual murder, the AI is handicapped, the enemies will smack you off the island and kill you (repeatedly), the controls are meh, story is sorta boring and events will get you sidetracked from the story.

If you find this in blockbuster or your friend has it, just loan it and be done with it then give it back to them. It's honestly not really worth the $50/$60, really more like $20-$30. Sure you'll have some fun consuming people in awesome ways, doing parkour and causing commotion in the military, but ask yourself, will you do it forever?

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[XaMMaX211]

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[XaMMaX211]

IM ON THE loving LEVEL WHERE YOU GOT NO POWERS AND GOTTA loving FIND PATIENT ZERO I HAVE NO loving IDEA WHAT TO DO

[General Nick]

IM ON THE loving LEVEL WHERE YOU GOT NO POWERS AND GOTTA loving FIND PATIENT ZERO I HAVE NO loving IDEA WHAT TO DO

Oh yeah you have to find Patient Zero.

[Nystical]

IM ON THE loving LEVEL WHERE YOU GOT NO POWERS AND GOTTA loving FIND PATIENT ZERO I HAVE NO loving IDEA WHAT TO DO

Ok ok ok, Read Gen. Nick's post, then use Pig Latin to change the Words, then use Big G Ree code to change those words then it tells you where to go and what to do.

[XaMMaX211]

Oh yeah you have to find Patient Zero.

but hao