Prototype Luke Duncan Game Review CIS 487 Fall 2009

Prototype: Summary Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWsPNgcBVUk

Prototype: Basic Info Price: $59.99 Published by: Activision Developed by: Radical Entertainment Release Date: June 9, 2009 Genre: Action IGN Review: 7.5 Hardware: Play Station 3 Manual: Satisfactory

Prototype: Game Summary Setting Takes place in the near future In NYC

Prototype: Game Summary Story A private biotech company, with government contracts, developed a weapon to target races of people in the 1950's A variant of the virus is released in NYC The virus has somehow infected the main character, Alex Mercer The game reveals the conspiracy that lead to current events as you play through the game

Prototype: Game Summary Story Alex Mercer

Prototype: Game Summary Game Play Gameplay is similar to grand theft auto You can't steal cars, but you can steal military vehicles You can take the form of any individual on the street and use it as a disguise to evade the military There are two enemies, infected monsters and the military. These enemies can be played against each other

Prototype: Game Summary Game Play

Prototype: Game Summary Game Play

Prototype: Game Summary Game Play

Prototype: Game Summary Scoring You play level-by-level as defined by what's been revealed in the story As you fight enemies, you gain experience points, which are traded for new abilities

Prototype: Game Summary Artwork The graphics are stunning especially considering the number of enemies you can be fighting at any given time Occasionally, when there are an extremely large number of enemies plus a large number of pedestrians the video seems to lag

Prototype: Game Summary Sound and Music The dialogue in the cut-scenes tends to be much quiter than the explosions in the fight scenes. This can be a problem when you're crashing at your parents and your mom is sleeping upstairs

Prototype: Game Summary Bugs In one instance, I got stuck on a load scene and had to refight a boss

Prototype: Game Review What went right Fun experience NYC is very acurate, which was fun Different enemies or collections of enemies required different weapons varying gameplay Missions were organized to force you to use differing strategies Successfully used a well known interface type

Prototype: Game Review What went wrong Story is old. Everyone does post apocalyptic viral outbreak The final boss was very very hard In general, great game play post apocalyptic

Prototype: Game Review Similar Games Grand Theft Auto – complements this well, as it allows you to do everything you wanted to do in GTA once you got bored (flying) Spiderman – less cheesy. Prototype is better

Prototype: Summary Strengths and Weakness Strength – fun and engaging game play Weakness – completely unoriginal story Should I buy it? If you really like flying around NYC, yes. Otherwise NO. No multiplayer, and easily beat in a long weekend. Go rent the game

Prototype: Summary Improvements None really necessary. Great for everything it wants to be.