Prototype 2

The game is great, alot of fun and and perfect if you want to feel like a god jumping over building, demolishing entire streets and generally being the apex predator.

BUT! compared to the original prototype, its not great. it feels like they have given you less.

Examples:

protype 1

Melee combat you can do all these awesome fast combos involving lots of different animations just by pressing either kick or punch.

you can uppercut someone into the air, land a few punches then downward spike them back into the concrete.

you can turn yourself into a cannonball. Stomp on someones face. pick someone up, take them to the highest building, jump and repeatedly power bomb them off every level till you hit the ground [...]

you can you can do area of effect moves like Groundshatter, Knuckle Shockwave and the other one.

Protoype 2

you can punch slowly or do a big kick...

prototype 1 had so much more. granted prototype 2 has bio bombs, weaponise, finishers and the amazing TENDRILLS which is single handedly the greatest most fun abilty in the game if you like decorating streets with gorey bloody torn up humans and cars all caught up in this web of biomass!

but still. its a downgrade from the original. just like all video games these days...

I've really enjoyed playing this game, and I find some features hilarious. And I would have to recommend the game.

In my opinion computer games are designed to be fun. Perhaps someone should have reminded Rockstar of this fact when designing `GTA 4'. Here is a game that tries to stop you having fun by constantly having you bombarded by police and then restarting the mission. The likes of `Prototype 2' are blatant rip offs of the genre that the `GTA' series helped to create, but it is a lot more fun to play.

Taking place soon after the first game, `Prototype 2' sees you step into the shoes of angry James Heller whose wife and child are dead from the virus that has morphed you into a superhuman. You seek revenge on the army that let your family die and the man responsible for the plague - Alex Mercer. This revenge takes the basic form of running around an open world, taking part in 3rd person combat and killing everything you see without the aid of a moral compass. `Prototype 2's story is not particularly relevant and is a little long winded at times. Instead treat the game like an awesome sandbox in which to use Heller's powers.

The game is a touch on the easy side as Heller dominates everyone in the city. Personally I like this as I don't play games to restart over and over again. The main story missions shake things up slightly, but the bulk of the game is fetch quests (kill that, destroy there). Thankfully, doing this is great fun. The combat is excellent and although the camera sometimes twitches and becomes lost, the game is out and out fun. Graphically, things are reasonable, without being spectacular. This allows for more things to be on the screen - but slowdown does occur.

Despite the slowdown, bland missions and obnoxious language, `Prototype 2' is a fun game that does not outstay its welcome. Clocking in at around 16 hours I was able to complete the main missions and still enjoyed collecting the various items around the three islands on offer. When the history of gaming is written, `Prototype 2' is not a game that will even make it into the index, but I for one thought it was great.