Prototype 2 arrives next year, and here is the game's debut trailer from the Spike Video Game Awards
Really liked the first [Prototype]...the shown trailer really looks like more of the same though. Hopefully there's more to this than re-hash.
Prototype 2 details arrive in OXM
"A smoother, more considerate game," says mag
The first proper Prototype 2 details have arrived, via the latest issue of Official Xbox Magazine UK.
Published by Activision, the new game once again takes place in a mutant-infested New York City, with the player taking the role of new protagonist Sergeant James Heller, a "grizzled military veteran" who has lost his family to the plague.
The first game's Alex Mercer returns as your nemesis, which should certainly spice the story up a bit.
"Heller is an infinitely cooler character than his (and your) new arch-rival," OXM reports. "He's a resourceful, at times subordinate, combat specialist who soon learns to revel in the awesome physical capabilities the Blacklight virus bestows upon him".
While the basics of the game remain the same (big urban environments, oozy mutant powers and big explosions), Prototype 2 apparently borrows some inspiration from Batman: Arkham Asylum.
"It isn't a case of dumbing down the action," OXM explains, "It's a case of Radical finding a way to accommodate the same level of on-screen chaos as seen in Prototype 1, without replicating the occasional feeling of helplessness that marred that game".
Apparently Radical has "put some real thought into how a city would actually react to a catastrophic virulent outbreak", dividing the locales up into different socio-economic zones.
All in all, expect "a smoother, more considerate game world that allows you to properly feel like you're the strongest, smartest, slickest kid in the playground," the mag concludes.
Look for OXM - which also includes an exclusive Crysis 2 review (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/292287/news/crysis-2-review-9/10-in-oxm/) - on shelves this Thursday, March 10.
Heller vs. Mercer Trailer:
First things, first- visually, this is looking waaay better than the first (even if it's pre-alpha footage), not sure if it plays just the same though.
word from the game shop? Loads of people have heard and are pysched about this already!
I know the first one wasn't that good but we have to remember it was only a prototype.
:D
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Quote from: DFUSIONITE on April 22, 2011, 02:39:44 PM
I know the first one wasn't that good but we have to remember it was only a prototype.
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Quote from: DFUSIONITE on April 22, 2011, 02:39:44 PM
I know the first one wasn't that good but we have to remember it was only a prototype.
:D
I actually enjoyed [Prototype], was a bit repetitive but the chaos and destruction was pretty well handled, being hunted by the military through New York while tearing up anything in your way had its moments. Plus the Absorbing and Web of Intrigue stuff added some variety. And any game that lets you hurl cars at choppers, is a score in my book! ;)
I'm just hoping [Prototype 2] doesn't just rehash the formula.
Quote from: zerosum on April 22, 2011, 04:32:21 PM
Quote from: DFUSIONITE on April 22, 2011, 02:39:44 PM
I know the first one wasn't that good but we have to remember it was only a prototype.
:D
I actually enjoyed [Prototype], was a bit repetitive but the chaos and destruction was pretty well handled, being hunted by the military through New York while tearing up anything in your way had its moments. Plus the Absorbing and Web of Intrigue stuff added some variety. And any game that lets you hurl cars at choppers, is a score in my book! ;)
I'm just hoping [Prototype 2] doesn't just rehash the formula.
Way to piss all over my joke, ;) I have actually never even played it.
Activision's new Prototype 2 trailer should get you right up to speed with the history of the Blacklight crisis, the key names and faces involved and the current state of New York. It should also scratch your itch if you like to punch helicopters. Have a look.
http://www.oxm.co.uk/32618/news/prototype-2-debrief-trailer-is-a-newcomers-viral-paradise/ (http://www.oxm.co.uk/32618/news/prototype-2-debrief-trailer-is-a-newcomers-viral-paradise/)
In spite of the fact I loved the first one, I'm finding it hard to get excited about this - there doesn't seem anything particularly compelling about the story or the new lead character, Mercer seemed way cooler. Hopefully it's not just the same game and they've made some advancements that keep it interesting, since it'll have lost that initial factor of offering you something different.
CVG Preview (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/337501/previews/prototype-2-uncontrolled-open-world-carnage/)
Achievements (http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/prototype-2/achievements/)