Prototype is an open world, 3rd person action-adventure where you play as Alex Mercer, a man who is amnesic and finds himself hunted in a city where the blacklight virus outbreak is transforming people into monsters. Alex is armed with amazing abilities to change his body and absorb the genetic traits and memories of people and monsters he kills around him.

The games plays a lot like an open world GTA 3 or Saints Row 2, with superpowers instead of health pickups. Combat is satisfying as you destroy enemies (infected and military personnel), learn new abilities and hunt down memories from key targets to try and stop the infection spreading. Your Devastator abilities are fun to unleash, and can drastically turn a giant fight in your favor. High jacking helicopters and tanks is also good fun.

While the plot is explained in the game fairly well, it’s annoying when you miss a few of the key personnel walking around the city, as some of the finer plot points will be unknown until you find them (and they aren’t necessary to continue the main plot of the game). That said, it was still well done, and contained quite a few twists and kept dropping them all the way to the end of the game.

I thought the portrayal of key players in the game was very well done-the alpha hunter was a good concept, something very much like the creature from The Thing hunting you, and you don’t know where it is for majority of the game. I pitied the main antagonist (Elizabeth Greene), unlike most games she was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and didn’t deserve anything of which happened to her (you could argue the same for Alma in the F.E.A.R series). It’s good to see that Alex isn’t trying to be a hero (the ends justify the means in stopping the virus), and as you play it’s easy to forget about the innocents that you consume in your quest to stop it. Consuming a bystander and then going into disguise mode was also good, though very easy to break out of. (and almost unused by the end of the game).

Prototype is an open world, 3rd person action-adventure where you play as Alex Mercer, a man who is amnesic and finds himself hunted in a city where the blacklight virus outbreak is transforming people into monsters. Alex is armed with amazing abilities to change his body and absorb the genetic traits and memories of people and monsters he kills around him. The games plays a lot like an open world GTA 3 or Saints Row 2, with superpowers instead of health pickups. Combat is satisfying as you destroy enemies (infected and military personnel), learn new abilities and hunt down memories from key targets to try and stop the infection spreading. Your Devastator abilities are fun to unleash, and can drastically turn a giant fight in your favor. High jacking helicopters and tanks is also good fun. While the plot is explained in the game fairly well, it’s annoying when you miss a few of the key personnel walking around the city, as some of the finer plot points will be unknown until you find them (and they aren’t necessary to continue the main plot of the game). That said, it was still well done, and contained quite a few twists and kept dropping them all the way to the end of the game. I thought the portrayal of key players in the game was very well done-the alpha hunter was a good concept, something very much like the creature from The Thing hunting you, and you don’t know where it is for majority of the game. I pitied the main antagonist (Elizabeth Greene), unlike most games she was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and didn’t deserve anything of which happened to her (you could argue the same for Alma in the F.E.A.R series). It’s good to see that Alex isn’t trying to be a hero (the ends justify the means in stopping the virus), and as you play it’s easy to forget about the innocents that you consume in your quest to stop it. Consuming a bystander and then going into disguise mode was also good, though very easy to break out of. (and almost unused by the end of the game).