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::PUBLISHER::
Activision
::DEVELOPER::
Radical Entertainment
::GENRE::
Action/Adventure
::RELEASE DATE::
06/09/09
::PLAYERS::
1
::LIVE::
Xbox LIVE Aware, Achievements
::COST::
$59.99
::FEATURES::
720p/1080i/1080p, In-Game Dolby Digital
Good: Off the wall sandbox action
Bad: Controls get annoying sometimes, story could be better
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[Prototype] Review
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Open-world sandbox mayhem has never been this silky smooth, violent and wickedly satisfying. Hollywood, eat your heart out.
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What happens when you take the darkest parts from Resident Evil and Blade, the action from Terminator and Die Hard and put them in a bowl and mix them together? You end up with Radical Entertainment’s Prototype - an open-world sandbox action title that takes place in a steadily decaying New York.
You play as Alex Mercer, a man who wakes up on the cutting table inside of a morgue with a bit of a memory shortage to find that the New York he once knew is being overrun by infected and continually mutating citizens and creatures…including yourself. You possess unimaginable genetic powers, allowing you to morph your body into a multitude of death tools, including being able to consume other citizens and use their body as a human disguise. Needless to say, you have a bit of a chip on your shoulder and you’re pretty intent on finding out exactly what the hell is going on and you don’t really care too much how you have to do it, but you seem to prefer the slice first, ask questions later approach and that’s perfectly fine with me.
Super powers in a sandbox sounds good to me.
As Alex, you will work your way through a total of 31 missions, spilling millions of gallons of blood and ripping anyone that gets in your way into multiple pieces all while trying to figure out why you are the way you are. There is no moral balance here; it’s all about over the top action and ridiculous amounts of violence. Like I said earlier, the game takes the best elements from silver screen flicks such as Blade, Resident Evil, Terminator and Die Hard and meshes them together. At times, though, Prototype can definitely go a bit overboard by throwing everything and the kitchen sink your way and its difficulty will jump sporadically from one mission to the next. Still, I couldn’t help but get all tingly inside when running up the side of a building in slow-motion (when you lock-on to targets the game slows down for a bit, adding a nice Hollywood style visual flare) with the camera angle pointed to the side as a helicopter is chasing me up the building only to meet its demise as I lunge forward to kill its occupants, hijack the helicopter and use it to destroy other helicopters and then eject out of it as it gets shot down and elbow drop a tank on the ground right before I unleash my devastator that wipes everything in existence around me off the face of this earth. Whew! Indeed, action is the key to Prototype and it delivers by the bucket loads.
In addition to the main story missions there’s a vast amount of side missions and events spread across Manhattan. These range from timed race events that use your glide ability to move as fast as possible from point-to-point, to destruction missions that require you kill X amount of infected in a given time, to helicopter gunfights and disguise missions that require you consume specific targets and use them as disguises to gain access to military bases. There’s also something referred to as The Web of Intrigue, in which there are very important citizens (doctors, military men mostly) spread across the city for you to consume. Consuming these targets will unlock more information about what exactly is going on. There’s quite a lot to do in the world and completing these events also gives you Evolve Points that you can use towards increasing your powers. And boy, there sure are a lot of powers.
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