Should I get inFamous or Prototype?

[Tinneh]

Rent Prototype.

Buy inFamous.

Prototype may be good mindless fun, but it's only fun for about an hour and the game is so unfinished and unpolished that it brings the whole game down.

Very reminiscent to GTAIV for me as I could probably say the same things about Prototype as I do about GTA

Does your cousin call you every ten minutes to ask if you want to go look at big American titties?

 

[Bat Vader]

Instead of buying Infamous or Prototype right away I think you should rent them and decide which one you like better that way. This way it will save you money if you decide you don't like either of them.

 

[Radioactive Bob]

I've only played prototype, but even i'll admit that after a while it gets repetitive and that feeling of badassery fades away and it just sort of feels...meh. So i'd go with infamous, i've heard great things about it.

 

[InfernoJesus]

Infamous is miles better than Prototype.

 

[kommando367]

What everyone forgets about prototpye is that it ripped off character design from Dark sector.

Dark sector

Prototype

I honestly don't know how they got away with that. It's like a copy paste job.

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In Prototypes defense, he only looks like that when using the Armor and Blade abilities.

Personally, I have found Prototype a more enjoyable game, but a generally comes down to what you want to play as.

If you want to play an extremely agile, fast, resilient, and powerful beast of a protagonist, don't mind "hunting down" a lot of the back story, and like close-medium ranged combat, Prototype is for you.

If you want to play, as the developers put it, a super hero simulator with a character that uses medium-long ranged attacks (most of which are lightning equivalents of standard shooter weapons), has a moderate amount of health, requires siphoning electricity to fill a energy meter which fuels most of his attacks, and you like moral choice systems, Infamous is for you.
Infamous also has better graphics if that matters to you.

Both characters have regenerative health, a gliding ability, and immunity to falling damage.

 

[Maibus]

Well I lack the ability to play inFamous, don't have a PS3, want one though >.> anyway I liked Prototype, I'd definitely try to check out both.

 

[imaloony]

I've only played the demo in InFamous, but they're both quite fun. Sucker Punch DID make the better picture of Alex Mercer in women's underwear, though.

I don't think you can go wrong with either, but I guess to put it in perspective, InFamous feels like Gears of War with Assassin's Creed stuck up it's ass, covered in the lightning graphics from Fable 1. In all the best ways.

On the other hand, Prototype feels like Devil May Cry after being beaten with Crackdown and then sprinkled with Metal Gear Solid (I dunno, those soldiers look pretty similar...). Again, in all the best ways.

 

[peduncle]

prototype

 

[Pegghead]

I've played a fair bit of infamous and I finished Prototype. Infamous is the far superior game.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

Never played InFamous (no PS3), but I've never enjoyed a freeroam sandbox game like I have Prototype. Sure, some of the missions are a little repetitive, and Alex Mercer really comes off as being a huge douchebag, but just being able to run around the city and freefall from the empire state building, landing on a dozen or so people, and gaining health for it really makes up for the games few flaws.

I say go with Prototype, but you'll probably enjoy either game.

 

[Zaik]

I've got both, and I have to say i spent a lot more time playing Infamous. Prottype is definitely worth renting, but if i could go back i'd not have bought it.

 

[elcamino41383]

I've played and beat both, and I believe Infamous is loads better. Prototype isn't a bad game, but it gets stale pretty quick in comparison to Infamous I think. For me Infamous always stayed fun, Prototype has the better "open world" kinda thing going on where you can cause mass mayhem and such, but only slightly better than you can in Infamous. Infamous is a lot more clean and smooth. To me Infamous is a buy, Prototype is a rental. Soon as I beat Prototype I traded it in. I still have Infamous and though I haven't played it in a little bit, I have every intention on playing it again. After beating Prototype I thought "meh."

 

[Deadlock Radium]

I had more fun with InFamous, also, Prototype is meh.

 

[Dxz5roxg]

I've played through Prototype and I'm currently playing inFamous for the first time. I'd have to say get inFamous. I'm not sure why but I like it more than Prototype. They're both awesome games though so if you get the opportunity play them both.

 

[S.R.S.]

inFamous did win Yahtzee's contest so you should get that based solely on Cole's sex appeal in a weird Cher get-up.