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Trailer (http://www.prototypegame.com/index.html)
I LOVED the original Prototype, but this trailer looks iffy. Graphics look the same (ie: unimpressive), gameplay looks the same but for a few improvements (though I'm sure there would be lots of new powers and stuff, but that's hardly innovation), character seems either like a douche or exactly the same as Alex Mercer...
The website previously known as Murder Your Maker has now metamorphosed into Prototype 2, indicating that that game will be out in 2012 - but not mentioning anything about formats (although it's almost certainly Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3).
The footage from the trailer looks very similar to the first game, which makes it even more surprising that there's going to be a sequel at all. The original received largely mediocre reviews and sales and was generally deemed inferior to Radical Entertainment's previous game The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction - to which Prototype was something of a spiritual sequel.
The idea of playing as a new character certainly seems a positive change though, as you fight against, rather than as, hoodie-wearing sociopath Alex Mercer. The new game is still set in New York City and will cast you as Sergeant James Allen, who has decided that, 'to kill a monster, you must become a monster'.
This just makes me mad. I liked Alex Mercer. He is probably one of my favorite video game characters simply because he is unapologetically an utter sociopath, even before his transformation.
What do you guys think? I'm on the fence. I really don't want to kill Alex Mercer, but beyond that, I played the shit out of the original, so I don't know that I really want more of the same. Its even in the same place...
Krylo
12-12-2010, 07:53 PM
I was hoping for a sequel playing AS Mercer and finishing off the military industrial complex that created him and the mother...thing, and the child and all the other shit you could learn about by eating people.
Playing as a member of the complex and killing Mercer doesn't fix anything, and is stupid.
Doc ock rokc
12-12-2010, 07:54 PM
HA! I KNEW IT! My friend owes me 20 bucks! er
Yay honestly I can't wait for it. I kinda knew that if Infamous was going to do a sequel then Prototype would get one as well as they almost matched in sales.
I am a little sad they are not going to focus on mercer but then again It could still be him...maybe.
Karrrrrrrrrrrresche
12-12-2010, 07:58 PM
I have to say I expected to not be Mercer, since he's more or less a physical manifestation of a god of death and destruction by this point, but playing as a military man?
What the fuck.
Bells
12-12-2010, 08:17 PM
too early guys... i mean, this could go many ways. As in, trying to explore Alex's Human side for a bit, or creating empathy between the new protagonist and him. Maybe in the end this new guy could see that Alex is not the monster, the group that created him is the real monster.
It could swing in a few ways yet.
Bells, I'm going to guess based on that post that you did not play, or at least did not beat, Prototype. :I
Prototype was awfully written, as was Mercer, but the gameplay was basically playing Spiderman 2 as Carnage so FUCK YEAH MORE PROTOTYPE.
Prototype was awfully written
NOTHING WILL PROTECT YOU FROM ME! NOT MEN! NOT WEAPONS! NOT ARMOR! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zFhU--m2p8)
Are you threatening me or verifying my statement?
Sky Warrior Bob
12-12-2010, 09:09 PM
Well, I'll have to wait & see, but I'm not feeling this one. The setting isn't changed, and the story doesn't seem all that different. Just seems like a big old recycle of the original title.
I mean, more so than usual for a sequel.
SWB
Ryong
12-12-2010, 09:25 PM
I wonder what's his plan to kill someone who took a nuke and lived.
Aerozord
12-12-2010, 09:56 PM
I wonder what's his plan to kill someone who took a nuke and lived.
eat him
The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk
12-13-2010, 05:59 AM
I'm unsure about this. On the one hand, Alex Mercer is probably the most boring, uncharacterised character in videogaming history, who has even less depth than a cardboard cutout, so replacing him with someone else might actually generate some kind of actual plot that I might care about this time.
But then on the other hand, it's still in New Goddamn York city (ver.234675/gamma6), with the only difference being, "it's a bit more fucked up than last time." Still though we can guarantee the new powers are going to be pretty fucking awesome and the idea of fighting Mercer as someone who is as powerful as Mercer himself is a perfect recipe for some seriously awesome battles.
So as long as the gameplay's good it'll probably be pretty fun, the downside being it's essentially a rehash of the first, so probably not worth actually buying instead of renting.
Token
12-13-2010, 09:31 AM
The first Prototype is still one of my favorite ways to relieve stress, so I'm actually sort of psyched for this. I'm a little put off by the new character though; I mean, after the last game, I was under the impression that Mercer was going to have to go find and destroy PARIAH...
Amake
12-13-2010, 09:46 AM
NOTHING WILL PROTECT YOU FROM ME! NOT MEN! NOT WEAPONS! NOT ARMOR! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zFhU--m2p8)
Indeed (http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1917134).
So they're going with "Prototype 2"? Nothing funny about that? Nothing you should traditionally be doing after completing the prototype? No creative sequel names that could be made out of that?
The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk
12-13-2010, 10:14 AM
NOTHING WILL PROTECT YOU FROM ME! NOT MEN! NOT WEAPONS! NOT ARMOR! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zFhU--m2p8)
Indeed (http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1917134).
He's also an enourmous A-Hole (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5DkMwSj1to)
Locke cole
12-13-2010, 10:22 AM
Indeed (http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1917134).
So they're going with "Prototype 2"? Nothing funny about that? Nothing you should traditionally be doing after completing the prototype? No creative sequel names that could be made out of that?
Dude, I can't wait until they release "final product"!
Aerozord
12-13-2010, 04:13 PM
So they're going with "Prototype 2"? Nothing funny about that? Nothing you should traditionally be doing after completing the prototype? No creative sequel names that could be made out of that?
I'm guessing "Test Model" didn't do too well in focus groups
Bells
12-13-2010, 06:50 PM
Bells, I'm going to guess based on that post that you did not play, or at least did not beat, Prototype. :I
Well Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me for trying to have a little baseless blind faith in the gaming industry... HUMF!
Aldurin
12-16-2010, 09:28 PM
My big issue is that it's freakin' New York AGAIN. I don't know how they managed to make monotonous drivel out of a skyscraper jungle but they did.
Couldn't the plague trash somewhere else like Empire City at least? That was cool, even had a tower made out of trash.
And I didn't like the writing, especially non-WOI cutscene dialogue.
I just hope it keeps it's badass gameplay, and hopefully they'll adapt multiplayer at some point (though I have trouble fathoming how 16 Mercers going head-to-head would work).
Doc ock rokc
12-16-2010, 11:16 PM
My big issue is that it's freakin' New York AGAIN. I don't know how they managed to make monotonous drivel out of a skyscraper jungle but they did.
Couldn't the plague trash somewhere else like Empire City at least? That was cool, even had a tower made out of trash.
And I didn't like the writing, especially non-WOI cutscene dialogue.
I just hope it keeps it's badass gameplay, and hopefully they'll adapt multiplayer at some point (though I have trouble fathoming how 16 Mercers going head-to-head would work).
is it in New york? I didn't see any real New york landmarks. it could be Chicago or something (also I c wut you did thar)
the story of Prototype 1 was a horribly hilarious but that gameplay just saved its ass.
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