
He's out to ask some POINTED questions
Mix together Spiderman, Assassin’s Creed, Incredible Hulk, Grand Theft Auto and Destroy All Humans and you’re probably getting a bit close to the game Prototype (and an awful plastic mess in your blender, too). It’s a third person sandbox title which puts you in a beautifully detailed New York that just happens to be in the grips of an ever spreading mutating super-virus. It sounds like pretty entertaining stuff, right? Unfortunately, unlike the game’s main character, this game has a few limits that might not seem immediately obvious.
Players take the role of dead-man-walking Alex Mercer. You wake up in a morgue about to be autopsied with no memory of how you ended up there, and upon discovering that you’re in posession of super strength and speed you do what any normal thinking person would do: you crush a few people’s heads and haul arse.
This may be the first flaw in this game. Alex is completely a-moral. Feel free to blow up, rip apart or consume as many innocent bystanders as you like. Feel free to pick them up and hurl them at your enemies if you like, they’re sort of like fleeing ammunition in this regard. Read more