The potential
for Prototype was there. The first
three or four minutes of the game
are awesome. The initial cut scenes.
Yup. Awesome. The fact that you are
Alex Mercer- a dude infected with
the an ultra-horrible genetic virus
that makes you super human-
available to absorb other people's
life energy, shape shift, turn your
hands into claws and swords, jump
from rooftop to rooftop, smash tanks
with an elbow drop... you get what
I'm saying. Alex Mercer is awesome.
Unfortunately Prototype is not the
game that it should have been. I'm
not sure it's the game that Mercer
deserves.
The storyline goes like this. A
horrible virus has taken over
Manhattan and it has taken over your
body turning you into a Zeus-type
badass anti-hero with more powers
than he knows what to do with. Your
job as Mercer is to figure out who
gave him the virus and who unleashed
the virus on Manhattan. Along the
way you'll face military opposition-
infantry and mobile vehicles. And
you'll also face some hatched nasty
offspring of the virus and a bunch
of zombies in New York. Not bad as a
storyline goes. Basically you're
Mercer and Manhattan is your
playground for wiping out virus
mutants and the military that's
trying to get rid of you. It's an
open world game where you go from
event to event and mission to
mission and overall it's very fun in
that sense.
What's not fun.
This game was about two months from
perfection. The graphics aren't that
great. The cut scenes are okay but
overall the graphics feel like
something you'd play on one of the
older-generation systems. There's
something cool about being the
super-anti hero especially when you
can do elbow drops on tanks- that is
awesome! What's not awesome- a
plethora of bad guys that aren't
that hard to defeat. They're just
too many of them clustered together.
The enemies aren't that hard to
defeat they just kind of cheat your
way into 20 minute battles with 700
different enemies. Lots of action,
but possibly a little too much.
Sometimes you'll find yourself
battling a group and you'll have to
fly around and dodge for 10 minutes
at a time because you're health has
depleted and you need to regenerate
after dodging bad guys and getting
hit anyway.
The gameplay can be frustrating and
the graphics are frustrating. That
can equal a rotten time for gamers.
The good parts of the game though-
some of the moves in the game are
nothing short of badass and the
storyline itself is pretty badass
too. Too bad the graphics aren't up
to snuff with the environments and
some of the bugs in the gameplay are
pretty frustrating. With those few
issues fixed a fun game could have
turned into something amazing.
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