i was playing this at my friends house... i fluffed it up, but then he took the wheel and subsequently killed 20 soldiers, hijacked a helicopter and destroyed a hive. and it looked freakin' awesome.
Review: Prototype
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I thinkRednog said:
alex does have memories before he was taken over, for two reasons:
1. When he absorbs people he accesses their memories, surely it worked that way when he was consumed by the virus.
2. Some things trigger memories for him, e.g. old photos.
Also, there must be a bit of him in there, as a virus would not destroy its own kind etc.
1. When he absorbs people he accesses their memories, surely it worked that way when he was consumed by the virus.
2. Some things trigger memories for him, e.g. old photos.
Also, there must be a bit of him in there, as a virus would not destroy its own kind etc.
Damn kids these days! Back in the ol' six four days, we'd get a stale lump of a cartridge and blow droll into it fifteen times until it connected, and we'd be damn happy about it! Now get off my lawn!
(It turns out I do the cranky old man much more often than it should be healthy here on the Escapist forums.)
(It turns out I do the cranky old man much more often than it should be healthy here on the Escapist forums.)
Poor Alex, who's cursed with awesome [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main.CursedWithAwesome]. Feel his pain, man.pantsoffdanceoff said:
This game is a Giant snooze fest in my eyes. I enjoyed the first hour or so then I became plain to see that it is just a beat um up. You can beat this game if you know the difference between the left and right mouse button. Many have compared it to spiderman. I can see how they would, but there is no web slinging and that is the thing that made spiderman so great. The feeling of freedom is there you can go anywhere but you find your self cursing the game after the 15th time you've crossed the city to get your next mission. Also, The control system is unresponsive at best on pc and down right restricting at its worst. It also breaks the cardinal rule imho for these types of games(free roaming with super human abilities.) The game takes control of your character at every opportunity. You will often be just watching when the real action takes place and this is often. Its also embarrassingly easy with hundreds of people roaming the streets to consume for health. Even at the very height of the outbreak. Oh theres more. Like many beat um ups you can get away with using the same combo you start out with with no real reason to upgrade other then making the game even easier. It also reeks of a obvious console port which it is. Its "quick menu" and very sparse options to tone down the Hdr/bloom, in fact you cant turn it off. The partical effects are over the top and serve more to block your view of the action then add to the realism of the game. Without these the game would look very dated so maybe that is the reason the option wasn't included. By the end of the game the hardest normal enemy fights break down to quicktime events. If you aren't already asleep they might not frustrate you as much as they did me. Quicktime events imo are the laziest form of game design except when they make you stay glued to your screen like RE4 for example, best use of them yet. The Ai is dumb as dirt you can literally glide directly into any military base hit every troop along the way and then land leaving a gigantic crater in the middle of the base and the npcs will only slightly alerted. The boss fights are easy and far from creative. You can beat the entire game including the end boss,or what I assume is the end boss I deleted the game after a 15min fight only to lose to a gimmicky ability it had, with the jump kick and by throwing objects. There are 6 different upgrades to movement and jumping but frankly I couldn't tell the difference without being able to put them side by side. There are 4ish BORING escort missions. Now you might say well that's not that many but when there are only 20-25 missions in the game those 1-2hours you will be escorting really stand out as the low point in the game. I might have lost you somewhere around number 5 of the reasons this game is bad. Just to let you know Iam not the type of person that hates every game he plays I really thought the main character and his powers were awesome. That is nowhere near enough reasons to buy or in my imo play this game. If you absolutely have to play this game rent it.
If you like this game Iam sorry but you have no taste what so ever.
If you like this game Iam sorry but you have no taste what so ever.
Just to give you an idea of how easy this game was I played reclined with my keyboard on my lap and the monitor 5 feet away while watching tv at 15fps when I was alone on top of a building(The game is poorly optimized on the pc). Apart from the magic missiles that appear miraculously midway in the game, and even they were more of an anoyance then a danger, nothing and I mean nothing in this game was a challenge.
If your not being sarcastic that sounds a lot like saints row 2. Except in Saint's row your limited to cheats in being able to survive long falls. From the way Prototype is like, your practically a immortal douche as versus an annoying douche.RAKtheUndead said:
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What is wrong with you kids that you actually believe DLC is right not a want?
I thought that, until I realised that it is so samey, then I decided that I hated it.CoverYourHead said:
That second thread indicates that there will be no DLC - now, I posit that there is a vast difference between patches, mods and DLC. Mods are fan created, which do not count in your argument, and which the dev said they are looking forward to seeing - thus indicating that there will be an encouragement of fan modding. The dev's PM indicated no DLC, which is not equal to no patches. Perhaps you aught to get your terminology right there before you pull on your big boy boots.Abedeus said:
Ah ha ha! Bless your little cotton socks. Diablo? Young? Diablo was released in 1996, kid. That might be 'old' to sprites like yourself but it's really, really not. Oh dear, you gave me a chuckle.
Welcome to The Escapist, Johnson. As part of an ongoing requirement of forum etiquette, per the forum guidelines, please keep your comments to single threads when you have multiple replies - rather than posting them separately one after the other.johnsom said:
Also, regarding your first post there, paragraphing is your friend.
Enjoy your stay.
I personally think that this game is worth it, the story missions are okay but do get repetative but it's all really up to creativity and how you do it.
The web of intrigue is one of my favourite parts because you find out the back story for everything on the game, it doesn't really make that much sense when you fight the specialist as the main boss until you find out what it was and how he knew everything about the virus its self.
The combat is fairly basic or simple but using a combination of the different powers can provide to be fun and useful.
Alot of people seem put off by how it looks so similar to infamous but the truth is that this game was actually held back years because of the problems in production.(Or they're just lazy bastards)For example the parkour idea etc was originally meant for this game but being held back so long the idea was taken and alot of similarities can be seen in games such as crackdown, assassins creed etc.
This may or may not have made alot of sense but i'm drunk and i tried, i was going to say a few more things but i've forgotten already.
The web of intrigue is one of my favourite parts because you find out the back story for everything on the game, it doesn't really make that much sense when you fight the specialist as the main boss until you find out what it was and how he knew everything about the virus its self.
The combat is fairly basic or simple but using a combination of the different powers can provide to be fun and useful.
Alot of people seem put off by how it looks so similar to infamous but the truth is that this game was actually held back years because of the problems in production.(Or they're just lazy bastards)For example the parkour idea etc was originally meant for this game but being held back so long the idea was taken and alot of similarities can be seen in games such as crackdown, assassins creed etc.
This may or may not have made alot of sense but i'm drunk and i tried, i was going to say a few more things but i've forgotten already.
I'm enjoying this game quite a bit. My only real problem with it is the difficulty curve is kinda' wonky... It's fairly easy one minute, incredibly frustrating the next.
Edit: Also, the person who thought it was a good idea to slow down the game every time you get hit with something needs to get kicked in the face.
Edit: Also, the person who thought it was a good idea to slow down the game every time you get hit with something needs to get kicked in the face.
Okay, how about you go to Kitchen Country Buffet or yell at skateboarders.Nerdfury said:
I did play before (SNES), but Diablo is the only game I remember from that time. That, and Mario, Contra, Jungle Book (;d), Alladin, Smurfs... and some crappy demo versions of games I wouldn't touch.
Point is - ad hoc arguments suck.
There are other threads, but if you weren't an ignorant prick, you would simply go to Activision forums and see, that developers simply don't give a shit about the community. They haven't responded to ANY of the threads, despite saying it many times how they love the community and so on.
FACE IT - Games changed. If they didn't, we would still be in the 8-bit era, where you couldn't tell apart an eye from a leg, and gameplay was as complicated as making coffee.
Today, DLC, patches, post-release support is a STANDARD. So you get more SALES. And if week after release you tell players you won't support the game (SUPPORT = PATCHES TOO), that's a dick move.
I'll let you pretend to have your internet victory here, because there's clearly no arguing with kids that have grown up thinking that DLC is a required 'standard' after releasing games and think that argumentum ad hominem is a great way to present the pro- argument.Abedeus said:
I didn't grow up thinking that DLC is required.Nerdfury said:
I grew up in a country where you had to wait a LONG time before you got Internet, cheap games and affordable PC parts. I grew up on expansion packs after a year or half, but mostly on the fact that in these days, DLC is common and PATCHES ARE MANDATORY.
Reported for trolling, grandpa. Stop living in the past and look at today's market.
So you can't stand to an argument without writing in caps, and so you resort to accusing me of trolling, then telling me you reported me for it? That's sad.Abedeus said:
Patches and DLC may be common, but when a game is released working they are not, and will never be mandatory. Patches are only 'mandatory' when there are glitches in the game or things need to be fixed. When a developer makes the effort to release a game and they make it so it plays fine, the standalone game is all that is required.
DLC may be some kind of 'standard' for you and people like you, but no dev is 'required' to release anything beyond the standalone game. Hell, they're not even required to release patches or updates to fix things. I've yet to hear any friends of mine report such issues with Prototype. Why fix what ain't broken? Because it ain't broken.
Today's developers are yesterday's oldschool gamers, and while DLC may be becoming more widely available thanks to broadband internet and such, creating a fully finished, entertaining, standalone game requires no DLC and maybe you should learn to be satisfied with games that took a lot of effort to create rather than getting sniffy because there's no bonus extra crap available.
That's what I'm talking about. I used caps so you will finally notice it. Thankfully, it worked.Nerdfury said:
Yes, hundreds of players have problems that glitch the game, have stutterings regardless of specifications, sound issues, and none of the devs even bothered to address those problems.
Patches are mandatory, especially if for well-known problems. Otherwise, devs are willingly selling a faulty product.
Also, I don't know how you can consider Prototype necessarily "finished" game. They were talking about cheats, quests, secret locations... Example? The leg, that was supposed to give you a sidequest. Dozens of people have found it, and it does NOTHING. Or we've seen in few trailers that a single jump can send you flying up to 2/3rd of Empire State Building, while in reality it barely jumps over a medium-sized building... if you charge up for 5-7 seconds.