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1. Phoenixblight
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   I have just completed the game and honestly I wasn't that impressed. Radical has made a slightly more shiney game but keeping the same amount of content, very little of the actual game mechanics has changed. Radical had added a cinematic fight that was similiar to GOW or MGS4. The cutscenes are more artistic which I had enjoyed the look of them. I also enjoyed that they had made the missions more streamlined and felt more polished.

   Heller as a character was just as one sided as Mercer only he uses more f* bombs and is a typical angry black man.

   The story was very meh but not like the original was that impressive either. Its just like watching a Jason Statham flick all eye candy and bad assery but the story is paper thin.

   I would rate the game a solid 7 out of 10 just like the original definite rent worthy. I wouldn't put 60$ down on it.

   Posted 1 year ago #

2. viralshag
   Member

   Can't really argue with that appraisal to be fair, it's pretty much on the money.

   Graphically it is cleaner but Heller, the main character, is rather boring and doesn't really add to the game or the story. I guess you could say he is just a "bad ass" but I just find him to be a bland order-following grunt.

   I haven't finished the game yet due to the GW2 beta but I have a feeling I know how it will end.

   Posted 1 year ago #

3. Phoenixblight
   Member

   Really I cant find much that was different from the original then the sequel other than the character. Alex wasn't that impressive of a character either and Heller is not any better. Its just like the episode of South park with picking between a douche bag and a shit sandwich.

   Posted 1 year ago #

4. ejams
   Member

   They were advertising the game for it's story, but everyone who played the original already knew that didn't even matter. I just beat the second one tonight, and the story was pretty much as expected, but nevertheless, it was a fun game, and the addition of the radnet challenges is a pretty decent. The only problem is that I'm almost done all the other side stuff like lairs, and after that's all done, there really won't be anything left to do other than ravage the city being the most powerful godlike being ever. I ain't complaining yet though.

   Posted 1 year ago #

5. silkvg247
   Member

   I've recently been trying to catch up on my ps3 games and blasted through Infamous 1 & 2, now started Prototype 1.

   Not sure I'm enjoying it. It's just maddening that some missions will fail if you sneeze on the target or someone else in the room farts on him whilst you're devouring him. I've attempted an "easy" side mission 6 times now, finally got it 6th time, game crashed as I left the military complex and it's now uncompleted I shit you not.

   Needless to say that shit got turned off at that point.

   To me difficulty shouldn't be trying to keep an ultra fragile target alive long enough to ingest him. That's not difficulty, it's randomness and frustration. I had no problem destroying all the military in the room afterwords, but boy am I pissed off that I've now done that 6 times.

   Then there's the fact the game expects you to be psychic. It took me more attempts than I'd care to admit to beat a main quest whereby you take a tank, blow up a hive, get the girl, then escape. It was the escape part that was maddening. At no point did the game suggest you try be stealthy (you are in a TANK ffs), only that you needed to reach a destination. Everytime I tried I got the entire army after me. I eventually realised I needed to be sneaky. In my tank. And avoid suspicion. In my tank. Sigh.

   Also the main story / quests haven't gripped me at all. Last one I did involved destroying infected water towers which was frankly boring. I don't even remembr why, something to do with picking up balls for research purposes.

   Posted 1 year ago #

6. Christopher Jack
   Member

   I actually enjoyed the original's story, bad guy trying to right the wrongs, but that's why I don't really understand this new direction they took with Mercer. Will pick it up when it hits the $30 mark though.

   Posted 1 year ago #

7. ejams
   Member

   /\ Yea actually, now that you think about it, what happened? Alex Mercer use to be all like "Why... why did this happen to me?? I'm just some random guy and now they made me a monster! THEY WILL PAY!!!" Now it's like "Hehehe I'm evil and I'm killing everything in sight and I have this huge plan to change society and I'm going to infect certain people because I think they're special".

   Posted 1 year ago #

8. Phoenixblight
   Member

   @ejams and CJ

   I never saw ALex Mercer as the good guy and never saw him righting wrongs. I just saw him as a guy who was trying to find out why he is the way he is until he realizes he is the one that let the virus out and then just went with it.

   Its also debatable that it's even the original ALex Mercer but just an entity with a collection of memories and is acting off of what the original Alex Mercers intentions were. After realizing who he was and what he had done he went with it.

   Posted 1 year ago #

9. Froseidon
   Member

   If you read the parts between the games, Alex travels the globe in search if his own "humanity", going to multiple places around the world and actually living with a family at one point. To cut a long story short, everywhere he goes, he sees humanity at its worst (selfishness) and grows to hate it, he even saw it in the person he began to love. So now he hate humanity and wants something like a "new world order" sort of thing where humans don't dominate the planet.

   The reason he infects Heller is because he likes Heller, he sees selflessness in him as he wants to find his daughter, he is not driven for his own survival.

   Posted 1 year ago #

10. ejams
    Member

    @Froseidon, and where were we suppose to learn about all of this? The comics or something? If so, that's kind of lousy. They could've just introduced that part in the prologue video thing, but I guess they assumed we all are hardcore fans and looked to external sources for the in betweens. Oh well, I still enjoyed original Alex Mercer better, if if there was very little to like in the first place.

    Posted 1 year ago #

11. YoungZer0
    Member

    I actually think Heller is even worse than Mercer. Mercer was a hollow shell, usually just talking about what's happening around him. Heller? They go for a black character this time and what do they do, hm? Make him angry of course, because you can't seem to find a non-angry black man in videogames.

    It's probably worse because i recently just played The Walking Dead.

    His constant swearing is just horribly bad. He's Kratos-mad for no fucking reason. First cutscene introduces him as a loving father and husband, after the cutscene there is nothing that even hints at him being able to love. You can't tell me that his loss destroyed everything nice in him. He's just a bad, bad character. I actually felt quite limited because i'm supposed to be the good guy in the story, and since i'm the good guy, that means i shouldn't just kill innocent civilians. We didn't have that kind of limitation with Mercer, because as i said, he was nothing but a shell.

    The game itself is kind of a disappointment, the graphics and art-direction really got a huge boost, i love everything about it, the gameplay however, didn't really change much. You have like one more power and that's it. One thing that's different. I expected at least 3 new powers, but that didn't happen.

    What i really disliked was the long handholding. That's what i liked about Prototype 1. No long handholding. You're a killing machine, you can kill stuff and here you can upgrade your skills, go.

    I also thought that the Web of Intrigue wasn't as good as in the first one. I loved the Web of Intrigue. It told a very interesting story about Hope, Idaho. Prototype 2 doesn't have that. It has only one story to tell and it's a bad one.

    I would've loved just to run around the city and look for people with Memories to catch.

    Also ...

    SPOILER for the Ending

    The whole double crossing is just annoying and goes to show how fucking stupid Heller is, filled with rage, blind to the obvious. And then, near the end, we find out that his daughter is still alive? What the fuck?!

    /SPOILER END

    Posted 1 year ago #

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