Prototype 2 opinions?

[Rack]

"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!

Someone else has mentioned the stealth takedown but there are still a variety of ways you can take enemies down without alerting them. This video is kind of an extreme example of what you can do, but it should give an idea of some of the different ways you can take people down without alerting them or using equipment you haven't got.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP13rE62v_0

Again, maybe you'd slip into this easier if you'd played AA first. As for the combat it isn't about countering, and the challenge vidoes are a great way of showing how well it can work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=223A_lKn870

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.

On those terms Prototype is the only game that really attempts that level of power, but Just Cause 2, Saints Row the Third and Crackdown all give you amazing abilities to take down large quantities of enemies.

 

[Dandark]

Prototype(The first one) was a very fun free roam game, it had some really small challenge and made you feel like a God, it is still one of my all time favorite games.

Prototype 2 is a bit more meh. The combat is still really fun but it's even easier than the first game. They did add some cool abilities but you also lost some fun things such as weapon transformation sequences and the patsy(Tricked the enemy troops into shooting each other out of paranoia, so much fun).
The story is horrible and should be ignored as much as possible. I would recommend it if your just looking for gameplay as the gameplay is very fun, I spend most of my time messing around in free roam.

However I would recommend the first game as although the second game is pretty fun as they added several fun new abilities(Tendrils and finishers) the free roam is meh, it's split into free areas instead of one big one and the enemies are really sparse outside of missions. The first one also had this problem but had more enemies in free roam, mainly at infected hives where the infected and military spawn infinitely to fight each other.

The first one has a lot of stuff you can do to mess around with, such as taking a military form and then just following a unit around an infected zone as they try to clear it out, join a tank squad and purge the city streets or help them fight the infected at a hive before getting bored, standing on top of a tank and shooting tentacles out in every direction so that you kill everything in sight.

 

[gwilym101]

If all you want is free roaming and fighting giant monsters get it. The gameplay is much improved on the first one. If you want decent intresting characters and story, get the first one, much more intresting.

 

[OldDirtyCrusty]

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.

Seconded -i just can`t stop to express myself on how good this game is. The city alone is so varied with different types of people and so much to discover and see. Reaching the 100% completed is really a task with all the little side diversions and the best thing is that you get little rewards all the time.