[4CR] Review - Prototype
By Shaun Hatton - July 14th, 2009
Prototype is the most enjoyable superhero game that I’ve ever played. While most are built around certain existing characters in a comic book canon, Prototype instead has its own super powered anti-hero. Alex Mercer isn’t just the protagonist – he is you – and like you, he learns more about himself and his world as the story unfolds.
The game begins on the eighteenth day of a viral outbreak that has torn New York City apart. Mercer has more powers than the player knows what to do with, and there’s no explanation given for any of them. Instead, we very clumsily fight, run, and survive as Mercer only to flash back before it all began to let the story unfold from his recently recovered memory.
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