1. Prototype
Luke Duncan
Game Review CIS 487 Fall 2009

2. Prototype: Summary
Video

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. Prototype: Game Summary
Story
Alex Mercer

7. 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

8. Prototype: Game Summary
Game Play

9. Prototype: Game Summary
Game Play

10. Prototype: Game Summary
Game Play

11. 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

12. 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

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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

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

15. 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

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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

17. 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

18. 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

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