You can also employ a “Black Hole” attack which literally crushes your target by raining down nearby objects and even people on them. Heller has some inventive new powers like the “Biobomb” which turns your target into a walking explosive. Summoning up empathy for Heller and his quest to avenge his poor family is a bit hard when you are running around wolfing down people to regain health. Your fight is against Blackwatch soldiers, infected creatures and Alex Mercer’s “evolved” creations but there are also plenty of innocent civilians milling about. Unfortunately for everyone involved, apart from being able to turn his hands into hammers, Heller can use employ claws, blades, flails and tendrils with some predictably messy results. Heller isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed but he’s got a temper to match his new powers and as the saying goes, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like nails. Alex Mercer also has his own agenda and along the way Heller is assisted by a cast of characters who point him in the right direction or more often than not, simply use him for their own goals. The story in Prototype 2 is rather shallow and once again involves Gentek scientists who are up to no good, Blackwatch soldiers causing havoc and the infected running rampant. What follows is more of the same that made the original such a hit, but with a slightly less likeable protagonist. Of course, he is no match for Mercer when the two finally meet, but in a twist, instead of being killed, he is infected by Mercer and given the same super powers. After his family is killed by the Blacklight virus, Heller heads to New York in order to exact revenge on Mercer. The action got a little repetitive and the protagonist, Alex Mercer, so powerful that dying was a rare occurrence, but the game was so much fun that this hardly mattered.įor this sequel, Alex Mercer switches to the role of antagonist as we are introduced to Sergeant James Heller. Soaring through the air, running up the sides of large buildings, eating civilians to regain health and causing widespread destruction with a variety of over the top powers meant that there was never a dull moment. The original Prototype was a game that almost felt like Grand Theft Auto with over the top cheat codes permanently enabled.
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