[Prototype] Review

Title of the Game: [Prototype]
Platform of Game: Available on the PC, Xbox and PS3

Genre of Game: 3rd Person Action (sandbox) game

Developer: Redical Entertainment
Publisher: Activision

Product Model Year:
9 June 2009 (NA)
12 June 2009 (EU)
10 June 2009 (Aus)

Game Requirements:
Operating System: Windows XP Service Pack 3 or Windows Vista Service Pack 1
CPU: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 1.86 GHz or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4000+ or better
Memory:1 GB (XP) or 2GB (Vista)
Hard Drive Space: 8GB of uncompressed hard disk space (Plus 500MB for swap file.)
Graphics Hardware: DirectX 9.0c compliant card with 256 MB 3D hardware accelerator (NVIDIA 7800GT/ATI® Radeon™ X1800 256 MB or better) and support for Pixel Shader 3.0
Sound Hardware: 100% DirectX 9.0c compliant card

Description of the game: Activision is known to publish various DC universe hero games, prototype is a step away from that. Prototype is their own proprietary work, so it's interesting what they have done here when they are not bound to storylines of exsisting characters. In prototype the main protagonist is Alex Mercer. Alex has superpowers that is probably a combination of various other super heroes. Think, the powers of the hulk, wolverine, the thing, spiderman, batman, and various other superheroes rolled into one. His powers are on a genetic level, they are caused by a mutated virus, unlike his DC universe conterparts.

Game Play: What you get when you combine all of those heroes into one game? You get a superbly entertaining game. His powers never really feel over the top as the challenges your are faced with usually requires a mixture of these powers to solve. However, the downside is that the game doesn't really give breathing room. Unlike other games, where you are having alot of problems trying to deal with one monster, this game will throw you 4-5 immedietely after killing that difficult creature. It can be quite steep.

The game has an interesting way to tell it's story, through the web of intrigue. It's a system in which each person you consume, will reveal a little bit of the story, but their story are not directly connected to each other. They are just saperate memories of each different person in the story, and you have to piece them together. It works really well.

Graphics: Graphics wise, the game is not that appealing, it seems to use a similar engine as spiderman and superman, which lack graphics for games of this generation, which is quite sad for a game of this calibre. The game is an open world game, meaning much of the world is rendered pretty decently, there is no loading times and surprisingly loading time from the main menu to the game itself is very short compared to games like GTA.

Sound: The sound and music makes up preety much of the bulk of the game. The voice overs are done very well to provide the right emotions and emmersion into the game.

Conclusion: The game is a fantastic mix of all the DC universe characters out there, probably if the graphics was better it would have been a far more enjoyable experience.