First, a few details: Prototype was developed by Radical Entertainment, the developers of games like Scarface: The World is Yours and The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction – games I wasn’t really delighted with, but one can always hope for the best, right? Also, the title was published by Activision and right now you can probably secure a good deal since it’s been out for quite a while!
Prototype tells the story of Alex Mercer, a ruthless revenge-seeking antihero who, obviously, has lost all his memories but gained instead incredible powers: from shapeshifting to flying and many in between. Thrown in a city infected by a lethal virus that turns humans into zombies and surrounded by military forces that wish to destroy both the infected and Alex, our main character will simply run through packs of enemies (and regular people), draining life and trying to figure out what the hell happened. And yes, “hell” is a good word to associate with the game’s world.
Fortunately, you will have some things to make your life better: you will win experience points by completing in-game missions and these experience points can be spent on upgrading Alex: speed, resistance, special attacks and so on, they can all be unlocked through playing and most of them will add some extra fun to the player… but yet again it’s a short lived fun. Because, in the end, in the chaos dominating the open world in Prototype, it will all resume to choosing a few attacks and performing them over and over again.
Unfortunately, you can play most of the game without taking advantage of all these cool things and usually there won’t be a real need to do so. Which is sad, because once you get used to mashing the buttons, you won’t try too many other things – and won’t really be allowed to since the chaos I kept talking about will make randomly hitting the attack buttons the best choice as you will have trouble controlling Alex.
Even though a blast, as I said in the introduction, Prototype is kind of a chaotic one. It still remains a blast, indeed, but one you can’t really control as you would’ve wished to. However, Radical’s game does manage to deliver what an action title should: fun, tons of enemies (or at least living beings) to destroy, awesome attack moves and superhuman abilities. It also gives the player a well done game world and some impressive visuals, so if you don’t care too much about the depth of a game and the moves that require finesse, but instead you would go for brute force, Prototype is the perfect game for you. It’s not perfect for everybody, but there are certainly a few people in this world who consider Jessica Alba ugly, right?
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