Prototype 2 opinions?

[Aarowbeatsdragon]

so ive been thinking of getting a game (im on the xbox) and i really want a game where i can just mess around in free roam and so of course prototype 2 looks interesting to me. What are all your opinions on it? and if you dont think i should get it then recomend a free roam game where i can just mess around (not an rpg cause chances are ive played it)

 

[hazabaza1]

It seems pretty similar to the first from what I've seen, and the first wasn't great.
If you want free-roam go get Arkham City. NOW.

 

[redrefugee]

It's good for a couple of hours, but then you get fed up really quickly fighting the same enemies in similar locations over and over again. I wouldn't bother unless it was cheap.

 

[Aarowbeatsdragon]

If you want free-roam go get Arkham City. NOW.

Bought arkham city the day it came out, such a fantastic game.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Eh...

It's really good and bad

It's fun, but eventually you get so overpowered you get totally fucking bored.

The story kinda sucks too, it's all hyped about Heller being emotional and shit about his family, but all he does is say FUCK a whole FUCKING lot all the FUCKing time

Oh and the end is really anticlimactic. I hope you like QTEs.

 

[LtFerret]

Prototype 1 is much cheaper at this point, get that one instead

Red Faction: Guerrilla is also pretty fun and should be cheap these days

 

[omega 616]

It seems pretty similar to the first from what I've seen, and the first wasn't great.
If you want free-roam go get Arkham City. NOW.

I just started playing AC and it's far from as good as people say, the combat is "press y when you see the prompt to not die" or if the guards have guns it turns into hit and run tactics 'cos there armed with guns and you have a moral compass.

I don't know much of the story yet but it seems pretty ok.

I think people like it so much 'cos it's "*squee* batman!" and I am not batties biggest fan so I am not caught up in the name ... I feel like I am playing infamous with less electricity and worse combat.

Prototype 1 was 1 of my fav games, massacre thousands of people, sprint up walls, fling yourself off buildings without the fear of death, mutate your limbs to different weapons ... everything I ever wanted out of a game.

You know how you see in movies, some being get faced with 20 odd tanks and about a hundred men suited and booted to fill you full of lead and the baddie flattens them with a mere flick of the wrist? Ever wonder how that baddie felt at that time, knowing he was unstoppable? Well this is the only game I know of you can do that (even in infamous you felt a bit feeble).

If 2 is more of the same as 1, I would say go for it.

 

[Netrigan]

Saints Row 2. That's probably the most fun I've had in free roam ever. You can not only do whatever you like, but the game gives you stars for how well you do it. Go car surfing, pop wheelies, put out fires. I've never managed to do it all and I've tried many times.

Prototype 2 is really kind of a god game. You're insanely powerful at the start of the game and only get stronger. It's fun, but without any real challenge, you'll get bored pretty quickly... just like the first game.

 

[The_Lost_King]

It seems pretty similar to the first from what I've seen, and the first wasn't great.
If you want free-roam go get Arkham City. NOW.

I just started playing AC and it's far from as good as people say, the combat is "press y when you see the prompt to not die" or if the guards have guns it turns into hit and run tactics 'cos there armed with guns and you have a moral compass.

I don't know much of the story yet but it seems pretty ok.

I think people like it so much 'cos it's "*squee* batman!" and I am not batties biggest fan so I am not caught up in the name ... I feel like I am playing infamous with less electricity and worse combat.

Prototype 1 was 1 of my fav games, massacre thousands of people, sprint up walls, fling yourself off buildings without the fear of death, mutate your limbs to different weapons ... everything I ever wanted out of a game.

You know how you see in movies, some being get faced with 20 odd tanks and about a hundred men suited and booted to fill you full of lead and the baddie flattens them with a mere flick of the wrist? Ever wonder how that baddie felt at that time, knowing he was unstoppable? Well this is the only game I know of you can do that (even in infamous you felt a bit feeble).

If 2 is more of the same as 1, I would say go for it.

Well I bloody well hope that I would have to play stealthily in a fucking batman game. The combat system is better than a lot of games because it has flow. It looks and feels better than god of war(but I hated that) and Assassin's creed 2(loved that but combat really was press square/x not to die). I am not a batman fan by any means. I just got around to watching the dark knight last night. I do like him though. He is awesome but he is not the only thing good in this game. Stealth was good, fun, and challenging. Combat worked really good and the story was stellar. I much preferred it to prototype which has a terrible story a forgettable world and a meh main character. Sure it is fun running around as god but I can do that in other games. In no other game can I be batman.

for free roamy city terrorizing goodness I would have to suggest saints row 2 and 3. not 1 because 2 is better in every respect and I say get 2 because the story is good and 3 is not at all like 1 or 2. You can't have a saints row game without Johnny Gatt. It is impossible. He is just to funny of a character. Oh and the Saints Row 2 saint was better. Fun blood thirsty and awesome. Now the saint is just meh, I mean he lets a guy that helped take him down live that is not gangster behavior.

Spoiler

I mean she/he shoots Julius for blowing up the boat the saint was on. Julius took the saint of the street and gave him a life.

 

[King of Asgaard]

I've heard Prototype 2's meh levels are over 9000.
There are far better sandboxes on the market, such as Saints Row 2 and 3, Batman Arkham Asylum and City, and Red Dead Redemption. Get those, they're well worth it.

 

[Rack]

I just started playing AC and it's far from as good as people say, the combat is "press y when you see the prompt to not die" or if the guards have guns it turns into hit and run tactics 'cos there armed with guns and you have a moral compass.

The combat has a lot more to it than just countering, you can get through the game that way but it's not the most effective way and it gets a lot harder as the game progresses. There's a slew of combo moves and gadgets you can use that will make combat faster, more rewarding and more fun. I don't think you should come across guns in combat situations at this stage in the game, certainly not in the kind of numbers that make hit and run a viable tactic. That should be entirely about stealth and I think when it comes to stealth Arkham City is second to none. I don't know if the game introduces itself that wll so you may find it more fun if you played Arkham Asylum first.

As for free-roam, pretty much everything has been pointed out, Prototype 2 is okay but I was turned off by the unlikeable main character (Prototype 1 had almost exactly the same problem albeit with a touch less hypocrisy) and the awful stealth sections. Just Cause 2, Saints Row 2 and 3 and The Ballad of Gay Tony all do that kind of thing way better.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

I think the game is amazing. The story is crap but I havent played many single player games that can rival the gameplay for this one.

The sheer chaos that erupts in combat is amazing, and they managed to nail this amazing feeling of empowerment while still presenting a challenge. Moving around the world is so much fun, and silently consuming enemies until you have emptied an entire base is entertaining.

I have played through the game three times now, I must have played through the first prototype ten times.

Oh and if you dont like the story? Skip the cutscenes and get the infected Heller skin, it turns his voice outside of cutscenes into a groaning zombie who is unintelligable.Its pretty hilarious, you become like R2D2, everyone in the game understands you but the audience cant.

 

[hazabaza1]

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What difficulty are you on? The combat is still a bit easy even on hard mode, but once some more advanced enemies come along and you learn some of the cooler tricks, like beat downs and special moves it gets more interesting. Plus, it flows so well, it looks fucking AWESOME.
Stealth gets more interesting too. All the gadgets and shit lets you plan tactics that are really just there to fuck with dudes.

I'm not the biggest Batman fan either but I just love it for what it is. Different strokes for different folks I guess, but if I start talking about how cool it is I doubt I'll stop any time soon.

 

[omega 616]

I just started playing AC and it's far from as good as people say, the combat is "press y when you see the prompt to not die" or if the guards have guns it turns into hit and run tactics 'cos there armed with guns and you have a moral compass.

The combat has a lot more to it than just countering, you can get through the game that way but it's not the most effective way and it gets a lot harder as the game progresses. There's a slew of combo moves and gadgets you can use that will make combat faster, more rewarding and more fun. I don't think you should come across guns in combat situations at this stage in the game, certainly not in the kind of numbers that make hit and run a viable tactic. That should be entirely about stealth and I think when it comes to stealth Arkham City is second to none. I don't know if the game introduces itself that wll so you may find it more fun if you played Arkham Asylum first.

"Mr freeze has been captured by penguin in police department" section, there about 10 guards each with guns. You have a an electro-gun thing, smoke pellets, the batclaw thing (but I didn't have the disarm move yet) and melee. The only tactic I could come up with was glide down from a statue and glide kick a fool, hold a trigger and press Y to knock him out, then smoke pellet and rappel back up to a statue ... 10 times.

That section is about 3 missions into the game!

Well I bloody well hope that I would have to play stealthily in a fucking batman game. The combat system is better than a lot of games because it has flow. It looks and feels better than god of war(but I hated that) and Assassin's creed 2(loved that but combat really was press square/x not to die). I am not a batman fan by any means. I just got around to watching the dark knight last night. I do like him though. He is awesome but he is not the only thing good in this game. Stealth was good, fun, and challenging. Combat worked really good and the story was stellar. I much preferred it to prototype which has a terrible story a forgettable world and a meh main character. Sure it is fun running around as god but I can do that in other games. In no other game can I be batman.

The combat is good 'cos it has flow? I can easily get a 40 or 50 combo in DMC/GOW, I am struggling to get past 5 in AC ... unless by flow you mean bouncing round like tigger (from pooh) on speed.

I am not saying the stealthing isn't good it's just with Batman and his "thou shall not kill" philosophy, as soon as you go to do something about Mr. baddie the entire building knows your there 'cos you have wail on the bloke so it soon becomes less Batman and more GOW on kangaroo juice ... MGS did it better.

If you want to stealth you get a tranc gun, you knocked out a guard and nobody knew. In AC the closest thing you have is the shock gun, which just makes them have a little twitch, then alerts the whole room.

What other game can you be god on a level similar to prototype? Sure you can play Hulk, which is pretty much the same game but cleaner and less awesome abilities (lets see the Hulk extend his arm or absorb somebody), infamous has that terrible moral choice and you're far too fragile to be a god ... no Black and white 1 or 2 doesn't count and neither does From dust.

 

[crazyrabbits]

I honestly don't remember much about the game other than the ending. The whole story felt lazy and rushed.

I had picked the game up and started going through it, but got bored fairly quickly. Without the quirks of the previous game (like the aforementioned "patsy" move where you trick guards into shooting their colleagues...hilarious), it felt too 'same-y' and repetitive. Heller was a decent character, but after the ending of PT1, where Mercer had gone through the wringer and was basically at peace with himself, having him do a 180 and assume this generic villain role was quite underwhelming.

Heller was quite nondescript and bland - I cared more about what Dana (Mercer's sister, returning from the last game) was up to than anything Heller did.

(SPOILERS FOLLOW)

I didn't like how they handled Mercer's death, and the resulting cutscene. The fight was pretty good, but then he gets this insipid one-liner and is anticlimactically consumed? And then Heller magically shoots out tentacles across the city that purge the infection instantly?

(SPOILERS END)

On the upside, the free-roaming was still good, I liked the collectible black boxes, and the Lairs did have a bit more variety to them than last time.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Its very fun, story is dull, the graphics are mediocre but in terms of just being fun as hell to play I'd recommend it.

If you want to sprint up a building, glide through the air then throw a car at a helicopter, its the game for you.

 

[The_Lost_King]

I just started playing AC and it's far from as good as people say, the combat is "press y when you see the prompt to not die" or if the guards have guns it turns into hit and run tactics 'cos there armed with guns and you have a moral compass.

The combat has a lot more to it than just countering, you can get through the game that way but it's not the most effective way and it gets a lot harder as the game progresses. There's a slew of combo moves and gadgets you can use that will make combat faster, more rewarding and more fun. I don't think you should come across guns in combat situations at this stage in the game, certainly not in the kind of numbers that make hit and run a viable tactic. That should be entirely about stealth and I think when it comes to stealth Arkham City is second to none. I don't know if the game introduces itself that wll so you may find it more fun if you played Arkham Asylum first.

"Mr freeze has been captured by penguin in police department" section, there about 10 guards each with guns. You have a an electro-gun thing, smoke pellets, the batclaw thing (but I didn't have the disarm move yet) and melee. The only tactic I could come up with was glide down from a statue and glide kick a fool, hold a trigger and press Y to knock him out, then smoke pellet and rappel back up to a statue ... 10 times.

That section is about 3 missions into the game!

Well I bloody well hope that I would have to play stealthily in a fucking batman game. The combat system is better than a lot of games because it has flow. It looks and feels better than god of war(but I hated that) and Assassin's creed 2(loved that but combat really was press square/x not to die). I am not a batman fan by any means. I just got around to watching the dark knight last night. I do like him though. He is awesome but he is not the only thing good in this game. Stealth was good, fun, and challenging. Combat worked really good and the story was stellar. I much preferred it to prototype which has a terrible story a forgettable world and a meh main character. Sure it is fun running around as god but I can do that in other games. In no other game can I be batman.

The combat is good 'cos it has flow? I can easily get a 40 or 50 combo in DMC/GOW, I am struggling to get past 5 in AC ... unless by flow you mean bouncing round like tigger (from pooh) on speed.

I am not saying the stealthing isn't good it's just with Batman and his "thou shall not kill" philosophy, as soon as you go to do something about Mr. baddie the entire building knows your there 'cos you have wail on the bloke so it soon becomes less Batman and more GOW on kangaroo juice ... MGS did it better.

If you want to stealth you get a tranc gun, you knocked out a guard and nobody knew. In AC the closest thing you have is the shock gun, which just makes them have a little twitch, then alerts the whole room.

What other game can you be god on a level similar to prototype? Sure you can play Hulk, which is pretty much the same game but cleaner and less awesome abilities (lets see the Hulk extend his arm or absorb somebody), infamous has that terrible moral choice and you're far too fragile to be a god ... no Black and white 1 or 2 doesn't count and neither does From dust.

Do you not know about the stealth take down? If you hold the either rb or rt or r2 you crouch and then sneak up behind someone and press Y or triangle. Then Batman silently takes him out. If you are really good(I'm not) You could probably take out a whole building without alerting anyone. You would have to be fast though so the guards don't see a body.

I never said the combat was perfect I just said it was good. You obviously aren't all that good at it if you are struggling to get 5 hits with out being hit. I am mediocre and I can get 5 hits in no problem. There are games that have combat done better sure, I can't think of any right now but I am not really trying.

 

[omega 616]

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Oh, I know about the stealth take town, where you crouch and walk up behind people but if you get caught it's the same situation. My way leaves less room for error.

You have me all wrong, I can go 5 or 6 different groups before taking a single punch. What I am saying is while I am mid bouncing session I watch my combo number drop off ... like I went too long without hitting anything but I am hitting about 1 person a second, which with all the acrobatics is ok to me.

 

[El Pwnz]

I very much enjoyed Prototype 2, but don't play it for the story or the challenge. If you want to feel like an all-powerful monster that can leap over buildings, dive-bomb tanks, or try to beat your friends' record at pedestrian shotput, by all means give it a try.

Another fantastic free-roamer that's light on story but amazing for fun, and was briefly mentioned above, is Just Cause 2. Grappling hooks, parachutes, car-surfing, mail-order jet planes, and an island that would take hours to walk across.