Facebook Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 So anyone else picking this up Tuesday? It's basically a joyous mixture of Hulk: Ultimate Destruction and Crackdown. It's my most anticipated game in the first half of this year. Here'e a little info: [GAMEPLAY] The gameplay in Prototype is centered around Alex Mercer's superhuman abilities. Alex has superhuman strength, speed, agility, durability and healing as well as the abilities of consuming his fallen enemies, shapeshifting his body and easily moving in this 'New' New York City environment. Radical claims that there will be 750 "unique combinations" of powers. The game is set in 3rd person. Alex Mercer's family history is kept secret, aside from his relation to Brian Mercer, a less successful brother. Alex is strong enough to throw cars with little effort, run at high speeds and jump great distances. He can climb, run up the sides of buildings and fall from great heights without damaging himself by way of gliding. His signature ability is to absorb the biomass of his fallen enemies. When he does this he gains the victim's memories, knowledge, and can change into their image whenever he chooses. He can also change his own body to emulate offensive, defensive or sensory tools. When Alex consumes an enemy, he gains their memories, their body, and the ability to mimic their appearance. Consuming memories will help him unlock nodes of the Web of Intrigue and advance the story. He also consumes useful skills, eventually giving him the proficiency to pilot military vehicles and use various kinds of weaponry (so he can absorb 100 or even 1,000 years worth of information within the time span of one week). Consuming dead foes and bystanders augments Alex's biomass, providing him with health and energy to perform devastating moves. [DISGUISE AND STEALTH] By consuming people, the character is reported to be able to take on their appearance, as well as knowledge. While disguised as military personnel, you can claim other soldiers to be Alex and have the surround military units execute him. [COMBAT] Alex can use standard attacks like punches and kicks that can be charged up for more power and linked together for combos, and enhanced with biomass to do even more damage. He can also perform advanced techniques like air combat and execution moves which are used to consume people. Alex's body can assume nonhuman forms as well. His offensive transformations include forming clawed hands and blade-like arms, hammer-like appendages and sending his claws underground to cause spikes to burst up and impale enemies vehicles. Abilities can be upgraded for increased attack power by spending "evolution points". When Alex's energy meter is full he will be able to perform area-affecting "devastator" moves such as causing a large amount of spikes to shoot out of the ground or cause sharp tendrils to shoot from his body in all directions. Alex can alter his body's defenses to resist damage or ward off attackers. Defenses include sharp spines protruding from his back, a forearm shield, and more. He can change his skin into armor plating that lets him bash his way through traffic instead of jumping over it and also gives him more protection from attacks, but slows his speed. [EXPLORATION] Alex can adjust his senses to perceive things in the environment that normal humans would be unaware of. These senses include infra-red, night-vision, thermal vision (which can double as an Infected Sensor and is the same thing as infra-red) and the ability to track individual enemies in a crowd (similar to Altair's Eagle Vision in Assassin's Creed). Movement in Prototype is inspired by parkour. Alex will automatically maneuver around or through obstacles or straight up a wall of a fifty story sky scraper (depending on his current form), allowing the player to move him with ease using the simplified movement controls. This allows the player to be able to focus on combat, rather than maneuvering through crowds or jumping over cars with lightning speed. Official Website: [Prototype]. Sign up for their newsletter using one of your spam email accounts and get a code to unlock the body surfing power where you essentially throw a mutilated body on the ground and surf his remains down the street! Top 10 reason why it's badass: Radical's Top 10 trailer, if #8 doesn't sell you on it then I don't know wtf will. Some lucky sob's have gotten it early and have been running live streams over at Justin.Tv [Random questions/answers] Does it have MP and/or co-op? No Will there be a PC port? Yes, June 10th on Steam from what I hear, but PC gaming is dead so who cares Does health regenerate? Yes, you also get health by killing people and mutants With there be a demo on Live? No How many missions are there? about 90 How is the mission structure? Think GTA4, you can get missions anytime, or just run around killing stuff. How long to beat? Developer says 20-30 hrs on a non-speedthrough, that's doing all missions and attaining the highest ranking in all medal challeneges, I've heard of speedthroughs (only doing the 30 odd "main" missions) talking about 6 hours. Is there a New Game+? Yes Can you run up the side of a building, jump off, glide for half a mile then turn your arm into a spike and ram it thru a helicopter? yes you can This game will be epic, drops June 9th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corris Veteran Posted June 6, 2009 Veteran Share Posted June 6, 2009 I'll buy this when it gets a bit cheaper, looks like good solid fun, in a destory everything kidna way. :D Though a small question, why the Microsoft section? its a multiplatform title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajputwarrior Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 i just like how this guys name is facebook, and even has the facebook logo as his avatar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facebook Posted June 6, 2009 Author Share Posted June 6, 2009 Though a small question, why the Microsoft section? its a multiplatform title. Everyone knows the 360 is the only console that matters. i just like how this guys name is facebook, and even has the facebook logo as his avatar Should I have gone with the MySpace logo instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PricklyPoo Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Looks fun, but graphics kinda suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperHumanly Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 I'm playing the game right now, it is in fact awesome...pretty unique game play. It's endless fun just running around on buildings and slicing people into pieces :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyro Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 do you work for a game store superhumanly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antaris Veteran Posted June 6, 2009 Veteran Share Posted June 6, 2009 Everyone knows the 360 is the only console that matters. The millions of PS3 and Wii owners would beg to differ... The idea is to be non-bias Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facebook Posted June 6, 2009 Author Share Posted June 6, 2009 The millions of PS3 and Wii owners would beg to differ...The idea is to be non-bias Sorry, I have what humans call a "sense of humor", I'd explain it all to you but this is a Prototype thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 I like this guy :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo003 Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Enough with the console crap; maybe he posted it by mistake. Get back to the topic and mod will eventually move the topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted June 6, 2009 Administrators Share Posted June 6, 2009 Multi-platform Thread moved here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookie Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Looks fun, but graphics kinda suck. They aren't great but half the time you're moving too fast to get a good look. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t0mbi Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Alright, well ive played this game way too much today and now my arm is cramping up lol..but this game is seriously sweet as! There is soo much mayhem going on in it, sometimes it gets a little overwhelming! This is the first game ive played that is set in New York that actually is populated like it is a city with 19 million people in it. There are people and cars galore! Heaps fun to play. Anyone else got an opinion on this game? I'd give it a 8.5/9 out of 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkymunky Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 This game is awesome, however a bit short imo. 8.5/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qumahlin Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 This game is awesome, however a bit short imo.8.5/10 Pretty much every open world type game is short if you do nothing but the core missions. The whole point of sandbox type games is to have fun, do crazy stuff, etc. That is personally why I don't understand how GTA4 got so many bull**** 10/10 reviews. After you beat the game there was essentially no reason to play it again unless you were playing multiplayer; whereas you have games like Saints Row 2, Crackdown and Prototype where after the game is over, you still have incentive to keep playing just because of how insanely fun the gameworld is. I can't think of another game that has as accurate an amazing of a game world as Prototype. I use to live in NY and it's been a blast going to various locations I know of in manhattan to see if there are landmark spheres hidden there and sure enough there are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razorwing Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Is it worth the $70?? That is my main question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo003 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Pretty much every open world type game is short if you do nothing but the core missions. The whole point of sandbox type games is to have fun, do crazy stuff, etc.That is personally why I don't understand how GTA4 got so many bull**** 10/10 reviews. After you beat the game there was essentially no reason to play it again unless you were playing multiplayer; whereas you have games like Saints Row 2, Crackdown and Prototype where after the game is over, you still have incentive to keep playing just because of how insanely fun the gameworld is. I can't think of another game that has as accurate an amazing of a game world as Prototype. I use to live in NY and it's been a blast going to various locations I know of in manhattan to see if there are landmark spheres hidden there and sure enough there are! That's the thing, it takes me half an hour to pretty much do all the crazy thing you can do in a sand box game. After that there's nothing else new, kinda like "been there done that". Not only GTA4 but Saints row 2, crackdown etc even games like infamous. After few hours I think I did pretty much everthing you can do in a game like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smigit Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 That's the thing, it takes me half an hour to pretty much do all the crazy thing you can do in a sand box game. After that there's nothing else new, kinda like "been there done that"Pretty much my complaint about open world games too. Sure something like GTA IV had a pretty nice city but ultimatly there isn't a lot to do in there besides the core missions and a few side things. It's a genre that is still rather immature in a way I feel as while the map may be open the world doesn't feel open in that you can do what you want. That will progress over time.That said, it's not like many or any other games in other genres offer that amount of freedom either...but most don't sell the game advertising as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t0mbi Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Is it just me or is this game a little too hard on Medium? I was gonna go again on hard, but no way! lol SO much mayhem! And the targeting system is a bit lame. eg; your fighting 3 hunters and you charge up an attack and then lock on!!..to a hydra 100m away :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolerodan Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 So whats the verdict? I've been waiting for this game since i've heard of it but Id rather read up on peoples thoughts of it before I go purchase it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razorwing Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 So is it out for you guys? Canadians get it tommorow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y2kboy23 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Been calling around to every store today and nobody has it. They are saying that the 9th was the "shipping day" and not the "release day" as everyone has been advertising it as. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Spork) Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 its been leaked ..... i just want to know is the PC version a PORT or not and how the controls are my 360 is over out for service :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razorwing Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 its been leaked ..... i just want to know is the PC version a PORT or not and how the controls are my 360 is over out for service :/ well if it's not made for PC.. it is always a PORT. -.-.. it's logic man. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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