Prototype Review

Where to begin? Before I start let me get one thing straight, I like this game, the challenging difficulty (on hard mode), and the multitude of unique abilities you can upgrade make this a playable game. But having said that, this game needs some work. You start off the game as Alex Mercer, an albeit superhuman who wakes up in the morgue and has no idea what befell him before. You make your way out and get the first snapshot of Manhattan as it is now, ripping itself apart. All you remember, aside from your name, is your sister, Dana. After a few "orientation" quests the game begins, and you are underway. It is a pretty simple sandbox game, kill a number of these, or follow this guy until he gets to the base. But in that is not where the game lies. During the game, before the first boss you can upgrade almost everything with the character, be it new ways to manipulate the virus type organism inside you into new weapons and armor, or the movement and jumping abilities. Than there are the enemies. Most of the enemies will go down in one hit, unless you are unlucky enough to run into a set of hunters early into the game. most of the time you spend fighting them will either be running away or cursing the sloppy controls of the game to not let you target a hunter with a car, but an enemy 3 miles west of Greenland. The controls and overall simple look of the city hurt the game, but not as much as the bossfights. AGGRAVATING. Take for example the boss 25 missions into the game should get your vocal chords hoarse enough to simulate strep throat. It will NEVER stop attacking you, your only hope is to run around enough hitting it with whipfist enough times to have it die of old age. Before I get to my biggest problem with the game I wanted to point out how bad the game is at expressing your power. For a good 5-6 missions I had to go through the game without some of my powers, sounds a little cliche, but this character NEEDS every powerup he can get. The immasculating abilities nearly every enemy exhumes makes your powerups feel almost useless. Now, my biggest problem with the game is the game itself. I know it seems stupid to say that but it needed to be said. The game is playable, to a certain frustrating level, but the power of the main character isn't really what a one man army should have. I give Prototype, sorry [Prototype] a 7.75/10.