Prototype is without a doubt one of the coolest super-hero games ever made, but has it aged well? Let's find out in this review. / syntheticman #Prototype #Infamous #Syntheticman
@@danialyousaf6456 not really, most triple A games these days come out broken, unfinished or just lacking content. But the indie area of games Is doing pretty good tro.
@@badreedinedjellali1328 very true but part one had better movement system that you could control and it had better moves with the tendril i could hop from helicopter to helicopter pretty awesome stuff but overall part 2 looked better felt kinda better even tho we had less to do then the first and the story was better in my opinion
3:13, He glides by ejecting highly preasurized blood from his pours that give him momentum and force, this is how he glides and why you see red streaks coming off his limbs, it's his super dense blood that de-preauzires and gives him power to move and stay fairly air-borne. This is also how he air-dashes, by releasing short bursts of this same blood to propel himself in the air to stay upwards.
@@NexusWarior211 the prototypes are biologically immortal. as in, they can't die of old age, only being killed, or starvation. they are, almsot identical, to the symbiotes, like venom, but the differences are very important.
I remember a phrase that became so popular that they actually used it to advertise the game: "In [PROTOTYPE] you can karate kick a helicopter out of the sky". This is one of those games that you played not because you wanted a deep story, an experience that changes you or something like that; you played it to have pure fun. I remember starting the game not thinking about my progress or achievements, but just thinking about provoking some chaos and feeling like the badass of the neighborhood. And the main reason I progressed in the story was to unlock more powers.
Yes, what type of game lets you to beat the ____ out of the US army? A little quantity, mostly, these are COD missions where you're from the ''bad guys'' But prototype its different, you can kill american soldiers when you want.
@@davidludwig7501 the fact that cyberpunk should have had wall running but the software couldn't handle it yet prototype a game made years earlier does have it
@@davidludwig7501 wall running Was a feature that was cut from CP but i agree these games have nothing to do with each other, they are way to different to compare them in any reasonable way.
It was, and it still is the best sandbox power fantasy game made so far. Padded story? Shoddy voice acting? Don't worry, get to post game and enjoy the infinite carnage
@@NayrAnur Prototype 2 has significantly Better Dialogue and characters overall with the exception of Alex Mercer, not necessarily good Plot but the dialogue in it is pretty hilarious... but the downside of it is the neutered combat system and small ass sand box.
@@yokiryuchan7655 i agree they should be like 20 max tax included but i still got em bcuz its still worth it. i mean shapeshifting powers & a zombie game, no brainer for me haha
Short answer: yes. Long answer: I dare say that it is the best game I have ever played and no other game has come even close to matching its realism in terms of both story and game world, and it’s simple yet addicting gameplay that gives just the right amount of challenge even when you have all of your abilities.
@@CaseSet236 Well we have a real world pandemic and ppl that are not infected act as if nothing happens, so i‘d say the first game was ahead of its time
Bro same here why wasting time with new uninspired games why we have such glorious gems from the past? Not that all new games are bad obviously but the AAA titles lack passion nowadays
I played through both Prototype games thanks to a used copy of the PS4 rerelease. I enjoyed both, but I do think the 1st was better than the 2nd one. Shame poor sales killed this franchise. Imagine if they'd been given the rights to make an M rated Venom or Caranage video game. They did a decent job with that 1 Incredible Hulk game too. Miss games like this. Pretty much gotta go indie or AAA to find fun games like Prototype today.
I liked 2 as well but I agree 1 has the better gameplay and etc, but I still liked 2 for what It was as I still had fun with it. And yeah the gaming industry sucks these days sadly.
@Liam Martin, I actually 100% Prototype 2. I liked it too, but I liked the 1st game better and didn't like the story direction 2 went in. Felt like a retcon rather than a seque.
It was definitely ahead of its time. I'd love to see a sequel, hell, what I wouldn't do for a remaster. Imagine mowing though hordes of infected with GOW 2018 graphics, it'd be simply amazing. Especially the first Prototype was just such a treat. I spent countless hours running through NY mowing down infected The only thing that can fuck right off are the platinum medals for the events, but since they aren't a must to enjoy the game, it's a minor annoyance. Long story short, it's an underrated masterpiece
One of my favorite things about Prototype is how unapologetically edgy it is. Everything just screams 2000's edgelord vibes but because of that you get to really have fun destroying everything and it does feel like youre a living apocalypse
I don't know if anyone already said this, but the way Alex manages to glide is because he shoots some chunks blood out of his limbs when he is the air, and that keeps him going for whatever time he manages to. (you can see red stuff coming out when you glide) Same about Dashes in the air
Imagine prototype coming out today. The prototype and infamous series is some of the most underrated franchises out there I highly recommend them. They really added to the superpower genre and gave us a break from the typical Spider-Man and Batman superhero formula.
I'd move to have this remastered in some way, PS5 maybe. I loved how callous this character was. Even before the accident and becoming Zeus, not a nice guy. And we rooted for Alex to get through everyone at Blackwatch
Holy shit, this was only 6 days ago. It went on a huge discount and my lil' bro gifted it to me (yeah he's an awesome bro) I really hope they take notice that we REALLY want *more Prototype.*
This game needed to flesh out the mechanics of the first game instead of streamlining and ultimately dooming the series with the sequel. This game is one of the reason I loved owning a ps3!
@showbizonastick I can agree with certain aspects, that being the enemy designs being so generic and the stealth only being surface level gameplay, aggro or no aggro. But the special powers and the armor suit you can get later on saved that game for me. Nothing captures the level of movement and freedom imho
I mean Infamous 2 streamlined a few things from the 1st game and most people prefer the 2nd game... I prefer the 1st but streamlining isn't necessarily bad if you add new things to replace it or substance in other areas.
@@logiclunacy606 I found a lot of the combos you learn in the first game to be redundant. Especially since most enemies die too quickly or can be cheesed by constantly throwing stuff at them.
@@trevinsingh9390 Ah I haven't personally played prototype 2, I've been replaying the 1st game and later down the line I'll play 2 since I have the biohazard bundle. I was only referring to streamlining in a general sense, it can either make the product worse or make it better.
Just found your channel, and your old game suggestion videos are awesome. Keep it up. I almost forgot about prototype, but I remember running around pretending to be a cop for hours in that game as a kid
Ok, so I somehow managed to mod the game into working on my ultrawide on PC. Admittedly I am the kind of person that is comfortable spending weeks modding non-stop for that ideal experience - but let me just state, that once I got over that hill Prototype on PC is totally worth it. One of my favourite games, definitely flawed and without a doubt lots of fun.
@@cdmanjak because Platinum Games specializes in the character action genre. And unlike niche gamers, the casual majority does NOT want to git gud at coordinated finger dancing all over the controller
I'm watching more of your retrospectives since you said that it's what you created your channel for, but saw your rants got more views. I wanna support the content you like making, I played this game, but I never finished it. Hopefully the superhero genre can make a comeback one day
The prototype games are insanely fun. They can be a bit clunky, but slicing everyone and everything up and jumping around at great distances and heights is so fun.
I recently played Prototype and I gotta say it's one of the most fun games I've ever played. It's so over the top and bonkers with your powers. It's legit power fantasy at it's peak and that's hella refreshing. Games these days try to be more like movies that are grounded in reality with drama etc. I mean that's fine and all but sometimes I just wanna be an overpowered God who pretty much wrecks everything in my path. Prototype is exactly that.
There's a short comic line leading up to prototype 2 despite many people disliking his change in character the comic kinda went into detail why and made sense of it
Hey man, I was just wondering if you could do a dying light 1 retrospective since the 2nd one is set to release soon. That’s if you’ve played the first dying light. Great vid btw 👍
To play it on pc you have to activate only 4 cores, 8 threads of your cpu. I used to have that crashing issue as well on my i8700 but changed the boot number of cores and it was fixed ;)
Years ago when I was a teenager I played Prototype and I remember enjoying it but hitting a roadblock fighting Elizabeth Greene in Times Square and I gave up. Now I'm 21 and I got Prototype again and just blew through it and finally beat Greene and it felt liberating. Elbow dropped that bitch so much I thought I was in the WWE but I feel like from Greene's death onwards the game just gets frustrating difficulty-wise. I thought Greene's battle was the peak of frustration but I was wrong, the tank escort mission was tedious and the chopper and tendril mission was ball-bustlingly annoying. Fun game though until the military completely jumped on my ass like I was the second coming of Osama.
I've beaten prototype 2 so many times and have prototype 1, I never really played it and after seeing your video on gaming is dead and this video of course. When you said play old games you've convinced me thanks mate keep up the good work.
My usual elevator pitch when telling people about Prototype is "It's as much fun as receiving a beej from an angel of the Lord." The stealth, though... Despite how rudimentary it is, it's powerful enough to basically snap the enemy AI over your knee whenever you like. Listen for the sound cue to let you know when to disguise yourself, and it's possible to blend between stealth and open combat with ease. Except the super-soldiers; breaking line-of-sight with them is a bitch. Thermal vision is genuinely useful when undercover and trying to pick out soldiers from a crowd of regular civilians; the shooty bois will glow more brightly. It also completely removes smoke effects, which really helps during one particular later lategame helo-piloting mission. Against bosses, Critical Pain is generally the ideal Devastator attack. Yes, I know that particular button press is weird. It bothered me that the only visually interesting thing in the game was Alex himself. I always try to get the Speed Bumps achievement while I have a passenger in the tank. Side note: Dunno if you'd count it as "Superhero Genre," given that it goes by linear levels instead of an open world, but I think you'd enjoy the Otogi games on the OG Xbox. It's very different from Prototype, but they have in common a similar sense of the player being unnaturally, terrifyingly powerful and selling that sensation through the animation and sound design. Edit: Wait, what about that Insomniac-developed Spider-Man game?
what a underrated game; ultra-fun game, always playing more for more perks and havok and destruction, the opposite of today games. On the other hand prototype 2 was dissapointing.
@@noneoftheabove5816 The story was awful. It butchered Alex's character and did absolutely nothing with Pariah, the obvious sequel-hook from the first game. Gameplay wise, there were less moves and attacks, character progression was dumbed down, missions became overly linear and didn't allow for much experimentation, movement lost the exhilarating momentum it had before. In short, it removed or neutered the aspects that made the first game so enjoyable.
I once dreamed of a prototype 3 trailer and it was so real that for the longest time I though was real. Up play as child of Elizabeth Green. And I wish I could put in to text what I dreamed. It would have been an amazing 3 game
probably my #1 favorite game tbh. where i used to live you either played counter strike or dota so i was never interested in single player games until i played this. i was using my dad’s laptop and i saw this cool looking icon with a red face that says prototype and i checked it out and i was instantly hooked. i remember i spent so many hours just running around parkouring, fighting, and eating stuff in this game it took me like a little over a week to finish it despite playing it every day because i was always messing around in free roam
We just Had Deatroy All Humans make a massive comeback with a Remake. The second remake just came out yesterday so I hope we get to so more games where you just have these crazy powers and just destroy stuff come back because they're so good.
This game was just mental, mindless fun! Elbow drop on a tank from the top of a tall building 😂 Makes me want to play it again...my backlog of older games is gonna get as out of control as my newer ones! Just as Project Wingman drops 52%...damn it! 😂
A thing i always do is going to a zone were Red and Blue zones overlaps, just go to a high building and watch the Mayhem caused by the US Military fighting the Infected, there are Soldiers, Tanks, Helicopters, Infected, Hunters, people running, everything exploding... pure chaos and i love it, havent seen other game doing that without player interference.
17:15 i remember this part, i exited the vehicle, ran away, became armored, came back and fought that shit, ran away and disguised my self back and it was steady sailing for me. I was on like, the first version of the game too.
A ridiculously underrated masterpiece, awesome fluid gameplay, and the powers..Dear God they are so satisfying, Mercer is just so badass. I highly recommend it to everyone I know who never played it, they are missing a lot!
This game was my childhood. I always watched my sister play. I'm currently playing it and good lord.. I LOVE it. Child me would be so happy. Everything about this game brings me pure joy
This is my all time favorite game. I also loved hulk ultimate destruction. I finished it 6 times. I played infamous second son and spiderman ps4. But none of those games reach the quality of prototype.
I liked the boss fights more than you did (might be tinted glasses, I need to replay the game again) but I think your criticisms of them are reasonable--especially the note on how on especially Hard they start requiring a lot of specificity in approach because of their outrageous damage and small windows of opportunity (heck, the first big fight against multiple Hunters in an enclosed space on Hard, when you have very few powers that work well against them, can instantly go frustratingly south if multiple of them go into their unstoppable berserk state attack at the same time). And it's a good point that the side-missions are really nice by essentially just giving you some structure around one of the most satisfying gameplay experiences out there. I also recall enjoying missions like Behind the Glass, The Stolen Body, and A Thousand Suns, if I am remembering the names correctly, for their sheer challenge, but I don't think I can make any claim to objectivity there. Ultimately, I remember the sheer joy in motion I felt the first time I played Prototype, back in 2009, was beyond anything I'd had in a video game before, and it's hard to think of games that have come out in the decade since to even approach it in the joy of the moment-to-moment getting around the world. (Journey is one, and I am curious when I get to them if the recent Insomniac Spiderman games are as well.) The wall-running/gliding/etc just by itself could be a game--akin to how some people talk about the old Spiderman 2 game, I think. It is not the absolute best for precision platforming, which can get exposed in some of the traversal missions (perhaps I am worse at those than you, anyway), but the power behind it is, dare I say, intoxicating. So, gameplay-wise, it's still one of the absolute best I have ever played--there are quibbles I can have with this or that, and a couple of them even got fixed in Prototype 2 (e.g. a put-someone-down button)--although some of it made the game too simple/less entertaining/too easy (e.g. dedicated dodge and parry buttons with generous windows and prompts). In terms of graphics, this was and is an absolute achievement just in how much is going on at one time--so many NPCs hostile or hapless on the streets, even if as a result their AI is hilariously unobservant. Then the soundtrack is an all-timer. And the story, I will argue, is underrated--in some ways better than Arkham or Infamous, contemporaries which are brought up much more often as having good stories. Yes, the cutscenes are janky and have some weird framing and abrupt endings--ultimately the story feels unfinished, e.g. no conclusion w/Ragland and Dana. But Alex Mercer/Blacklight/ZEUS is *the* most interesting protagonist of a video game I can recall. I mean, "virus gains sentience, and then ultimately gains a conscience via having the memories of thousands of people in its thoughts"??? That's *so* compelling, and I very much would like other stories to turn up with something similar to explore it further. Unfortunately the aforementioned jank in the presentation and writing meant this potential went somewhat unfullfilled, I will admit, and then Prototype 2 slam-dunked the whole thing into a bin, and the series with it. I think in retrospect the writers did not even fully realize what a character concept they had crafted, which is a genuine shame but still leaves what we have in Prototype one of the best twists/reveals/etc in gaming IMO (up there w/the original God of War and Horizon: Zero Dawn, to name two other greats). And I unironically liked the Web of Intrigue, as well. All of this adds up to what I see as a top-ten game of all-time-- a bit like Fallout New Vegas (and otherwise almost entirely unlike Fallout New Vegas), the incredible things about it are so incredible it rises above the jankier elements. Glad I stumbled across this video, liked seeing another perspective on it positive and negative. I need to bring out the PS3 and replay this.
Well summed up. It's interesting that I played this but was having trouble remembering what I did. I just remember 'playing it.' I contribute that to what you said about the plot. I feel like this is a game which they just got the mechanics figured out and then just ran with it. Although, lets be honest >> trying to make a story in an open world is a crazy feat
i finished both 1 and 2 like 6 or 7 years ago and it was really fun tbh and im still hoping for a 3rd one. if they're planning to create a 3rd one i hope they add more contents and new powers because some or half of the ability of the 2nd prototype are just from the 1st one but with bit effects changes. I want to play this again but idk how to install it without the cd copy lol
If they ever made a reboot, I'd love it if the glide ability made giant, disgusting calcified wings burst from your shoulders. The shield ability would just be these wings.
Gosh, I remember playing Prototype 2 and completing it.... only to realize they canceled Prototype 3. AND I REMEMBER this game so hard when I was in like Middle school to early highschool it was, like the COOLEST game ever. So fun, (watched friends play it) and cool. I... have seen only a few games since that just.... feel good to play. Instead of working a fucking Appalachian miners job of pain and drudgery to just get a nugget of fun like every 30-40 hrs, in a fucking normal release game.
Prototype is my all-time favourite game so expect an extremely fanboyish rant. The story is better than you give it credit for. It isn't just "guy wakes up with amnesia and superpowers". You aren't Mercer. Mercer is dead. You are the virus. You simply think you're Mercer because his corpse was the first thing the virus came into contact with as it was unleashed. The only thing in "Mercer's" head as he wakes up is revenge, the last thought the original Mercer had when he died. But as the story goes on, that motive start to change. It reaches the point where he takes an active nuclear warhead away from the city to save it, despite knowing that he could survive the blast no matter what. This sentient virus designed to kill people in gruesome ways eventually develops a conscience and here's the kicker, actually becomes a better person than the original Alex Mercer. The original Mercer was described as a sociopath who made the virus deadlier than it ever had been for nothing other than money. He only cared about his sister when he could use her to dig up as much dirt as possible on Gentek as Dana states that she hadn't even spoken to Alex for ten years before the events of the game. Mercer released the Blacklight virus to take down as many people as he could and doomed the people of New York. The virus that was initially in that vial ended up saving the city three weeks later. Maybe I'm just looking into it too much but it was disheartening to see all of that thrown away in Prototype 2 when they made Mercer into the main villain and didn't even explain why he had such a change of heart and personality. I genuinely think that the people who wrote P2 never even played the first game or they played it and just skipped the cutscenes. Cross isn't Greene's son. That's Pariah who doesn't directly appear in the story at all. The Cross you fight in the beginning is simply a highly skilled soldier who is trained specifically to down people like Mercer. The Supreme Hunter you fight in the middle and in the end starts out as the Parasite that Cross injects into Mercer. After Mercer gets cured, he injects it into Greene who rejects it and it morphs into the Supreme Hunter. That Supreme Hunter consumes Cross at some point and assumes his identity as he works with Mercer. I disagree with you on the Web of Intrigue. It's a brilliant way to tell the backstory without getting in the way of the main story. If you're interested in it, then you have to hunt down the truth yourself, if not, leave it be. A lot of games make the mistake of cramming too much exposition and backstory into the main storylines (Assassin's Creed 3 being the first thing that comes to mind), but the WoI system manages to avoid that. I also like it because filling out WoI the early on will foreshadow events in the main story before they happen (Bloodtox, the Parasite, etc...). Even if you don't care about the story, hunting down the individual memories is still a great way to earn EP. I also disagree on the mission design. They are simplistic, but they allow A LOT of options in how you can approach them. The mission with the Bloodtox Pump can be completed without a tank or the helicopter. You don't even need to stay hidden from the military, they can be fully aware of you. Or take the mission where you have to pick up and deploy Blackwatch troops with the transport helicopter. As long as you land it somewhere safe, you can actually leave the helicopter for the parts where you need to destroy the Hive or kill the Hydras. I just hijacked a tank for the Hydra part and killed them with that. So long as the helicopter stays intact, you won't fail the mission.
This game and Infamous used to be thought of as rivals by their respective fanbases and would both pop up in conversations. If one was mentioned then so would the other.
Yeah, last boss secret on a hard, it's use muscles, and don't destroy helis and rockets. When timer start, throw a rockets in boss face, and some helis, and he is dead.
This game, infamous, and forced unleashed were so freaking great, because back then it was less doing what was popular or making a game like a movie in every way and just making it as chaotic and whatever will make it stand out, and all three definitely succeeded, which is why overall the Xbox 360 and PS3 Era of games were really great, even metal gear rising vengeance was amazing, the music and gameplay that let you slice whatever you wanted (almost) was fun
The Supreme Hunter isn’t “Pariah” aka Elizabeth Greene’s son. It’s simply a monster that Greene spits out after Alex stabs her with a syringe containing the parasite (the one that takes away your powers for a few missions). We only really get to see Greene’s son in flashbacks, but the story never really follows up on that point.
Politics back then consisted of whether or not you think Alex Mercer could take Cole MacGrath in a fight.
I got Mercer/Heller over the infamous protags just to put it out there lol
This is actually very true.
@Parker Burrus there is video out there(not death battle) who compared their skills and had them fight
That’s like asking who’d win between a axe murderer and a shooter
good times
Compared to the current landscape of gaming, Prototype is a fucking masterpiece
I hope we get Prototype 3 at some stage, the games starting to get a decent sized fanbase now.
and love prototype 2 and the graphics are much better than the first game
Most games are pretty alright tbh.
@@danialyousaf6456 not really, most triple A games these days come out broken, unfinished or just lacking content. But the indie area of games Is doing pretty good tro.
@@badreedinedjellali1328 very true but part one had better movement system that you could control and it had better moves with the tendril i could hop from helicopter to helicopter pretty awesome stuff but overall part 2 looked better felt kinda better even tho we had less to do then the first and the story was better in my opinion
Back when games weren't trying to be overly clever and just had fun.
Like Spider-Man PS4
Prototype is actually a lot smarter than many give it credit for I recommend Whitelight's analysis if you're interested.
Like doom eternal
@@KaizerSozaye Spider-Man ps4 was a good game with a great story and characters.
@@alexk5907 I believe the point is that they are few & far between.
It's criminally underrated
its not underrated its old, people have moved on to newer games. When this game was released it sold like hot cakes. It was very popular.
@@maromorostar6621 it's underrated
Prototype was great, could have used more polish but the gameplay was fun as hell
@showbizonastick what the hell
@showbizonastick huh?
Yeah it definitely needed some polish, i was really hoping they let people use their engine to make mod or games back then.
@showbizonastick You are one sad individual… lol must not be getting any attention at home poor guy 😂🤣
The powers were awesome , both of the games were a ton of fun
3:13, He glides by ejecting highly preasurized blood from his pours that give him momentum and force, this is how he glides and why you see red streaks coming off his limbs, it's his super dense blood that de-preauzires and gives him power to move and stay fairly air-borne. This is also how he air-dashes, by releasing short bursts of this same blood to propel himself in the air to stay upwards.
Wait, he's shooting blood, wouldn't that make him anemic if he stopped consuming?
@@gelothegogang The Prototypes would probably die of old age(assuming age even affects anymore) before they ran out of blood and mass.
@@NexusWarior211 the prototypes are biologically immortal. as in, they can't die of old age, only being killed, or starvation. they are, almsot identical, to the symbiotes, like venom, but the differences are very important.
@@gelothegogang my above comment, and hes literally just biomass. he looks human, but underneath teh surface, there are no organs, or human systems.
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I remember a phrase that became so popular that they actually used it to advertise the game: "In [PROTOTYPE] you can karate kick a helicopter out of the sky". This is one of those games that you played not because you wanted a deep story, an experience that changes you or something like that; you played it to have pure fun. I remember starting the game not thinking about my progress or achievements, but just thinking about provoking some chaos and feeling like the badass of the neighborhood. And the main reason I progressed in the story was to unlock more powers.
Yes, what type of game lets you to beat the ____ out of the US army?
A little quantity, mostly, these are COD missions where you're from the ''bad guys''
But prototype its different, you can kill american soldiers when you want.
I don't know about you, but the story was good enough. I couldn't believe how that little point added to an already great game.
So cyberpunk couldn't handle wall running yet a game over 10+ years could...
at least climbing would have been nice...
When I heard they removed it, I was like, well shit... I ain't buying it... downloading instead :)
What does Cyberpunk have to do with Prototype? Absolutely nothing is the answer.
@@davidludwig7501 the fact that cyberpunk should have had wall running but the software couldn't handle it yet prototype a game made years earlier does have it
@@craigamills7276 why should it have had wall running? And like i said what does cyberpunk have to do with Prototype? Absolutely nothing. Facts.
@@davidludwig7501 wall running Was a feature that was cut from CP but i agree these games have nothing to do with each other, they are way to different to compare them in any reasonable way.
It was, and it still is the best sandbox power fantasy game made so far. Padded story? Shoddy voice acting? Don't worry, get to post game and enjoy the infinite carnage
I’m practically a god in my city lol. 5th playthrough, here I come. 👹
@@christhefiend it’s an addicting game
The story is decent and the voice acting was acceptable not complete garbage.
Cough* megaton rainfall
the story isnt decent or padded, it's great.
I love this game forever, Prototype2 is really good too but this game blew my mind back in the day..
Prototype 1 is a masterpiece and 2 wasnt as good but it was still good if that makes sense
@@G3RM3X617 yeah of course that makes sense. Your saying 1 was a masterpiece and 2 was good.lol
I prefer the voice acting in the sequel, TBH.
Also, Starnes is the best character.
@@NayrAnur Prototype 2 has significantly Better Dialogue and characters overall with the exception of Alex Mercer, not necessarily good Plot but the dialogue in it is pretty hilarious... but the downside of it is the neutered combat system and small ass sand box.
@@G3RM3X617 2 is better
Spiderman's all we got right now. I'd buy remakes of both Prototypes in a heartbeat.
get the remastered for ps4 or pc if u can bruv.
@@steezygaming1726 They are overpriced though, I am not paying 30 bucks for old 360 games. and they look and play no different
@@yokiryuchan7655 i agree they should be like 20 max tax included but i still got em bcuz its still worth it. i mean shapeshifting powers & a zombie game, no brainer for me haha
@@yokiryuchan7655 I got both of them for sale on the PS store. 16$ I think. Both were 8.
@@xthewhitewolf So did I lol. I'm glad they went on sale because there was no way in hell I was paying full price
Short answer: yes. Long answer: I dare say that it is the best game I have ever played and no other game has come even close to matching its realism in terms of both story and game world, and it’s simple yet addicting gameplay that gives just the right amount of challenge even when you have all of your abilities.
But you have to admit that in the first game all the civilians that aren't in a infected area act like nothing is wrong. That's dumb
@@CaseSet236 Well we have a real world pandemic and ppl that are not infected act as if nothing happens, so i‘d say the first game was ahead of its time
Urgh... You're that kind of people...
@@killer_wasmad5721 ugh, you're one of those people...
@@xthewhitewolf ugh balls
The boss fights in this game were so painful. I miss games being this hard
Yea especially the big monster i forgot its name but that was a hard one and i loved it
@@hawke1297 Supreme Hunter?
@@DeathCrow- Elizabeth greene and that i suppose
@@DeathCrow- i actually had to watch gameplay for that one
this is literally the era of every game trying to be dark souls lol there's plenty of hard games
Man dude this game brings back memories 😎
Ive been collecting old consoles and old games from the past lately and its the best thing ive done so far
Prototype 2 was just like the first one
Bro same here why wasting time with new uninspired games why we have such glorious gems from the past? Not that all new games are bad obviously but the AAA titles lack passion nowadays
I played through both Prototype games thanks to a used copy of the PS4 rerelease. I enjoyed both, but I do think the 1st was better than the 2nd one. Shame poor sales killed this franchise.
Imagine if they'd been given the rights to make an M rated Venom or Caranage video game. They did a decent job with that 1 Incredible Hulk game too.
Miss games like this. Pretty much gotta go indie or AAA to find fun games like Prototype today.
I liked 2 as well but I agree 1 has the better gameplay and etc, but I still liked 2 for what It was as I still had fun with it. And yeah the gaming industry sucks these days sadly.
@Liam Martin, I actually 100% Prototype 2. I liked it too, but I liked the 1st game better and didn't like the story direction 2 went in. Felt like a retcon rather than a seque.
@@Gruntvc 1 sold very well tho
It's a massively underrated game
We need somebody a petition to bring the game back
This is a good comfort game. Not tryna win any awards or raise the bar but just focuses on being fun.
It was definitely ahead of its time. I'd love to see a sequel, hell, what I wouldn't do for a remaster.
Imagine mowing though hordes of infected with GOW 2018 graphics, it'd be simply amazing. Especially the first Prototype was just such a treat. I spent countless hours running through NY mowing down infected
The only thing that can fuck right off are the platinum medals for the events, but since they aren't a must to enjoy the game, it's a minor annoyance.
Long story short, it's an underrated masterpiece
One of my favorite things about Prototype is how unapologetically edgy it is. Everything just screams 2000's edgelord vibes but because of that you get to really have fun destroying everything and it does feel like youre a living apocalypse
To think, 2021, people still thinks fondly of this game... We need something to bring this franchise back, convince Activision somehow
"We'll give you more money than all your micro transactions combined for Prototype 3"
It's better than Starfield lmfao.
I don't know if anyone already said this, but the way Alex manages to glide is because he shoots some chunks blood out of his limbs when he is the air, and that keeps him going for whatever time he manages to. (you can see red stuff coming out when you glide)
Same about Dashes in the air
Imagine prototype coming out today. The prototype and infamous series is some of the most underrated franchises out there I highly recommend them. They really added to the superpower genre and gave us a break from the typical Spider-Man and Batman superhero formula.
Him : it took me literally 30 minutes in hard mode to beat Elizabeth Greene
Me who took 2 hours in normal mode :
I'd move to have this remastered in some way, PS5 maybe. I loved how callous this character was. Even before the accident and becoming Zeus, not a nice guy.
And we rooted for Alex to get through everyone at Blackwatch
Holy shit, this was only 6 days ago. It went on a huge discount and my lil' bro gifted it to me (yeah he's an awesome bro)
I really hope they take notice that we REALLY want *more Prototype.*
Long live prototype
This game needed to flesh out the mechanics of the first game instead of streamlining and ultimately dooming the series with the sequel. This game is one of the reason I loved owning a ps3!
@showbizonastick I can agree with certain aspects, that being the enemy designs being so generic and the stealth only being surface level gameplay, aggro or no aggro. But the special powers and the armor suit you can get later on saved that game for me. Nothing captures the level of movement and freedom imho
I mean Infamous 2 streamlined a few things from the 1st game and most people prefer the 2nd game... I prefer the 1st but streamlining isn't necessarily bad if you add new things to replace it or substance in other areas.
@@logiclunacy606 I found a lot of the combos you learn in the first game to be redundant. Especially since most enemies die too quickly or can be cheesed by constantly throwing stuff at them.
@@trevinsingh9390 Ah I haven't personally played prototype 2, I've been replaying the 1st game and later down the line I'll play 2 since I have the biohazard bundle. I was only referring to streamlining in a general sense, it can either make the product worse or make it better.
@@trevinsingh9390 cheesed by throwing stuff at them, wow what a way to play prototype
Not perfect, flawed in many ways, but really fun game to play. :)
flaws in my ass plus what a description for a game
Just found your channel, and your old game suggestion videos are awesome. Keep it up. I almost forgot about prototype, but I remember running around pretending to be a cop for hours in that game as a kid
Ok, so I somehow managed to mod the game into working on my ultrawide on PC. Admittedly I am the kind of person that is comfortable spending weeks modding non-stop for that ideal experience - but let me just state, that once I got over that hill Prototype on PC is totally worth it. One of my favourite games, definitely flawed and without a doubt lots of fun.
How???? I have been trying to run it on my rig for years and it won't work. Please help man.
@@mamory3791 I'll help after work
@@ionafangow7050 How can i contact you?
Simpsons hit and run hulk ultimate destruction and Prototype best games by Radical
Man Hulk Ultimate Destruction was the shit! Smashing 2 cars together to make metal boxing gloves never got old!
Stays true to the hulk character not just a Mcu goof
Back when Simpsons was fine and before Disney bought Marvel. Good times.
@@Challerz so badly want a current gen Hulk game
Prototype looks interesting. I'll probably get the game at some point since I really like the first 2 Infamous games, especially Infamous 2.
We need a part 3 developed by Platinum Games
You could have Platinum Games work on a high profile superhero IP and people still wouldn’t know what Platinum Games even is
@@notproductiveproductions3504 uh they made a transformers game and turtles and avatar wtf you talking about
@@cdmanjak because Platinum Games specializes in the character action genre. And unlike niche gamers, the casual majority does NOT want to git gud at coordinated finger dancing all over the controller
I'm watching more of your retrospectives since you said that it's what you created your channel for, but saw your rants got more views. I wanna support the content you like making, I played this game, but I never finished it. Hopefully the superhero genre can make a comeback one day
The prototype games are insanely fun. They can be a bit clunky, but slicing everyone and everything up and jumping around at great distances and heights is so fun.
You are very knowledgeable on this and nicely presented 👍
I recently played Prototype and I gotta say it's one of the most fun games I've ever played. It's so over the top and bonkers with your powers. It's legit power fantasy at it's peak and that's hella refreshing. Games these days try to be more like movies that are grounded in reality with drama etc. I mean that's fine and all but sometimes I just wanna be an overpowered God who pretty much wrecks everything in my path. Prototype is exactly that.
Alex Mercer character was not properly used. Developers killed the series in part 2.
He wasn't Alex Mercer he was the virus itself
@@cdmanjak ok they kiled the virus in part 2
There's a short comic line leading up to prototype 2 despite many people disliking his change in character the comic kinda went into detail why and made sense of it
Hey man, I was just wondering if you could do a dying light 1 retrospective since the 2nd one is set to release soon. That’s if you’ve played the first dying light. Great vid btw 👍
14:16 "uhhhhhh.... Freaky..... Succulent" 😩
😂
To play it on pc you have to activate only 4 cores, 8 threads of your cpu. I used to have that crashing issue as well on my i8700 but changed the boot number of cores and it was fixed ;)
Years ago when I was a teenager I played Prototype and I remember enjoying it but hitting a roadblock fighting Elizabeth Greene in Times Square and I gave up. Now I'm 21 and I got Prototype again and just blew through it and finally beat Greene and it felt liberating. Elbow dropped that bitch so much I thought I was in the WWE but I feel like from Greene's death onwards the game just gets frustrating difficulty-wise. I thought Greene's battle was the peak of frustration but I was wrong, the tank escort mission was tedious and the chopper and tendril mission was ball-bustlingly annoying. Fun game though until the military completely jumped on my ass like I was the second coming of Osama.
"Watch out here he comes! Alex Mercer from the top ropes!! An elbow directly onto Elizabeth Greene outta nowhere!! My god how is she gonna manage?!"
I've been watching your videos lately. Your takes are based af, keep on making videos!
I've beaten prototype 2 so many times and have prototype 1, I never really played it and after seeing your video on gaming is dead and this video of course. When you said play old games you've convinced me thanks mate keep up the good work.
My usual elevator pitch when telling people about Prototype is "It's as much fun as receiving a beej from an angel of the Lord."
The stealth, though... Despite how rudimentary it is, it's powerful enough to basically snap the enemy AI over your knee whenever you like. Listen for the sound cue to let you know when to disguise yourself, and it's possible to blend between stealth and open combat with ease. Except the super-soldiers; breaking line-of-sight with them is a bitch.
Thermal vision is genuinely useful when undercover and trying to pick out soldiers from a crowd of regular civilians; the shooty bois will glow more brightly. It also completely removes smoke effects, which really helps during one particular later lategame helo-piloting mission.
Against bosses, Critical Pain is generally the ideal Devastator attack. Yes, I know that particular button press is weird.
It bothered me that the only visually interesting thing in the game was Alex himself.
I always try to get the Speed Bumps achievement while I have a passenger in the tank.
Side note: Dunno if you'd count it as "Superhero Genre," given that it goes by linear levels instead of an open world, but I think you'd enjoy the Otogi games on the OG Xbox. It's very different from Prototype, but they have in common a similar sense of the player being unnaturally, terrifyingly powerful and selling that sensation through the animation and sound design.
Edit: Wait, what about that Insomniac-developed Spider-Man game?
This game needs a part 3 but sadly we won't have another one ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
Man I loved prototype
Never knew this game existed but thanks to you i can finally play it. Thanks man
what a underrated game; ultra-fun game, always playing more for more perks and havok and destruction, the opposite of today games. On the other hand prototype 2 was dissapointing.
what was wrong with prototype 2?
I loved it
@@noneoftheabove5816 story was shit
@@noneoftheabove5816 Removed nice moves(cannonballs, uppercut, air combo, etc.), less parkour details and too damn easy.
The graphics is nice though.
@@noneoftheabove5816 The story was awful. It butchered Alex's character and did absolutely nothing with Pariah, the obvious sequel-hook from the first game.
Gameplay wise, there were less moves and attacks, character progression was dumbed down, missions became overly linear and didn't allow for much experimentation, movement lost the exhilarating momentum it had before.
In short, it removed or neutered the aspects that made the first game so enjoyable.
The voice acting was way better, though. But I don't think it matters much in the grand scheme of things.
Interesting video as always 💪🏾
I once dreamed of a prototype 3 trailer and it was so real that for the longest time I though was real. Up play as child of Elizabeth Green. And I wish I could put in to text what I dreamed. It would have been an amazing 3 game
What was it like?
Yo when you have time can you do a infamous one i really like your videos
Fun fact the red streaks that you can see as he glides is just his blood being used as a propellant.
probably my #1 favorite game tbh. where i used to live you either played counter strike or dota so i was never interested in single player games until i played this. i was using my dad’s laptop and i saw this cool looking icon with a red face that says prototype and i checked it out and i was instantly hooked. i remember i spent so many hours just running around parkouring, fighting, and eating stuff in this game it took me like a little over a week to finish it despite playing it every day because i was always messing around in free roam
Bro... this just unlocked so many memories
this and gears of war were my jam back in the good old 360 days :)
this was the first game i chose to pop into my ps3 back in the day. wasn’t disappointed.
Another instance in which a decent gameplay loop makes a game memorable despite mediocre story and level design, and it's still a good deal.
We just Had Deatroy All Humans make a massive comeback with a Remake. The second remake just came out yesterday so I hope we get to so more games where you just have these crazy powers and just destroy stuff come back because they're so good.
This game was just mental, mindless fun! Elbow drop on a tank from the top of a tall building 😂
Makes me want to play it again...my backlog of older games is gonna get as out of control as my newer ones! Just as Project Wingman drops 52%...damn it! 😂
A thing i always do is going to a zone were Red and Blue zones overlaps, just go to a high building and watch the Mayhem caused by the US Military fighting the Infected, there are Soldiers, Tanks, Helicopters, Infected, Hunters, people running, everything exploding... pure chaos and i love it, havent seen other game doing that without player interference.
Isn't Spider-Man PS4 the most recent "Guy with superpowers in a city" game, and a really good one?
Yea
Good honest review
I remember playing this on Xbox 360, it was definitely fun , never got to finish the game but definitely fun
Dude the story is so good, and they do explain a good amount!
THANK YOU SYNTHETIC MAN!
17:15 i remember this part, i exited the vehicle, ran away, became armored, came back and fought that shit, ran away and disguised my self back and it was steady sailing for me. I was on like, the first version of the game too.
If a Prototype 3 comes out i want to play as Alex Mercer again.
I feel alot of the missions didnt match the movement . It's all in a small area with ground enemy's but over all one of the best games ever made .
wrong
Prototype is literally a AAA stress reliever game. You just kill without a care in the world.
My favorite thing in this game is ,entering the army base and "consume" all of them . So satisfying
A ridiculously underrated masterpiece, awesome fluid gameplay, and the powers..Dear God they are so satisfying, Mercer is just so badass.
I highly recommend it to everyone I know who never played it, they are missing a lot!
The gameplay îs clunky, story îs awful and mercer îs an emo edge lord with cringe dialogue. Underrated masterpiece? Nostalgia blinded much?
This game was my childhood. I always watched my sister play. I'm currently playing it and good lord.. I LOVE it. Child me would be so happy. Everything about this game brings me pure joy
Hi man thank for doing it prototype is my favorite game
This is my all time favorite game. I also loved hulk ultimate destruction.
I finished it 6 times.
I played infamous second son and spiderman ps4. But none of those games reach the quality of prototype.
my favorite game of all, we need a PROTOTYPE 3 or a Remake of the first, thanks for talk of this game.
For the algorithm
Edit : Good vid btw i forgot about this game for the last few years
I honestly want to have Pariah as the protagonist in the third game if it ever comes up.
SYNTHETIC MAN THE LEGEND!!!!!!!
Man I’ve wanted to play this game forever. I plan on playing dragons dogma first though
play it, there´s so much fun and addiction in this game
I'd reccomend this one first, it's just soooooooo goood!
Prototype is the closest thing we're ever going to get to an R rated Spiderman game where Peter Parker is fused with Venom.
Time to play this again!
Yoooooo when I first played I definitely made a hulk game reference and I had no idea! I feel so cool right now lol
I liked the boss fights more than you did (might be tinted glasses, I need to replay the game again) but I think your criticisms of them are reasonable--especially the note on how on especially Hard they start requiring a lot of specificity in approach because of their outrageous damage and small windows of opportunity (heck, the first big fight against multiple Hunters in an enclosed space on Hard, when you have very few powers that work well against them, can instantly go frustratingly south if multiple of them go into their unstoppable berserk state attack at the same time). And it's a good point that the side-missions are really nice by essentially just giving you some structure around one of the most satisfying gameplay experiences out there.
I also recall enjoying missions like Behind the Glass, The Stolen Body, and A Thousand Suns, if I am remembering the names correctly, for their sheer challenge, but I don't think I can make any claim to objectivity there.
Ultimately, I remember the sheer joy in motion I felt the first time I played Prototype, back in 2009, was beyond anything I'd had in a video game before, and it's hard to think of games that have come out in the decade since to even approach it in the joy of the moment-to-moment getting around the world. (Journey is one, and I am curious when I get to them if the recent Insomniac Spiderman games are as well.) The wall-running/gliding/etc just by itself could be a game--akin to how some people talk about the old Spiderman 2 game, I think. It is not the absolute best for precision platforming, which can get exposed in some of the traversal missions (perhaps I am worse at those than you, anyway), but the power behind it is, dare I say, intoxicating.
So, gameplay-wise, it's still one of the absolute best I have ever played--there are quibbles I can have with this or that, and a couple of them even got fixed in Prototype 2 (e.g. a put-someone-down button)--although some of it made the game too simple/less entertaining/too easy (e.g. dedicated dodge and parry buttons with generous windows and prompts). In terms of graphics, this was and is an absolute achievement just in how much is going on at one time--so many NPCs hostile or hapless on the streets, even if as a result their AI is hilariously unobservant. Then the soundtrack is an all-timer.
And the story, I will argue, is underrated--in some ways better than Arkham or Infamous, contemporaries which are brought up much more often as having good stories. Yes, the cutscenes are janky and have some weird framing and abrupt endings--ultimately the story feels unfinished, e.g. no conclusion w/Ragland and Dana. But Alex Mercer/Blacklight/ZEUS is *the* most interesting protagonist of a video game I can recall. I mean, "virus gains sentience, and then ultimately gains a conscience via having the memories of thousands of people in its thoughts"??? That's *so* compelling, and I very much would like other stories to turn up with something similar to explore it further. Unfortunately the aforementioned jank in the presentation and writing meant this potential went somewhat unfullfilled, I will admit, and then Prototype 2 slam-dunked the whole thing into a bin, and the series with it. I think in retrospect the writers did not even fully realize what a character concept they had crafted, which is a genuine shame but still leaves what we have in Prototype one of the best twists/reveals/etc in gaming IMO (up there w/the original God of War and Horizon: Zero Dawn, to name two other greats). And I unironically liked the Web of Intrigue, as well.
All of this adds up to what I see as a top-ten game of all-time-- a bit like Fallout New Vegas (and otherwise almost entirely unlike Fallout New Vegas), the incredible things about it are so incredible it rises above the jankier elements. Glad I stumbled across this video, liked seeing another perspective on it positive and negative. I need to bring out the PS3 and replay this.
Well summed up. It's interesting that I played this but was having trouble remembering what I did. I just remember 'playing it.' I contribute that to what you said about the plot. I feel like this is a game which they just got the mechanics figured out and then just ran with it. Although, lets be honest >> trying to make a story in an open world is a crazy feat
I could swear sintetic man used the music from xcom enemy unknown in this video
i finished both 1 and 2 like 6 or 7 years ago and it was really fun tbh and im still hoping for a 3rd one. if they're planning to create a 3rd one i hope they add more contents and new powers because some or half of the ability of the 2nd prototype are just from the 1st one but with bit effects changes. I want to play this again but idk how to install it without the cd copy lol
Who is better ? 1 or 2 ?
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, the fact there isn’t a prototype 3 is a crime
Fr, just imagine how today it would look with today graphics and engines and all cool powers and weapons, it is actually a crime.
I replayed this at the beginning of the pandemic at the start of quarantine after I got laid off. The timing felt right lol.
If they ever made a reboot, I'd love it if the glide ability made giant, disgusting calcified wings burst from your shoulders. The shield ability would just be these wings.
Gosh, I remember playing Prototype 2 and completing it.... only to realize they canceled Prototype 3. AND I REMEMBER this game so hard when I was in like Middle school to early highschool it was, like the COOLEST game ever. So fun, (watched friends play it) and cool. I... have seen only a few games since that just.... feel good to play. Instead of working a fucking Appalachian miners job of pain and drudgery to just get a nugget of fun like every 30-40 hrs, in a fucking normal release game.
Prototype is my all-time favourite game so expect an extremely fanboyish rant.
The story is better than you give it credit for. It isn't just "guy wakes up with amnesia and superpowers".
You aren't Mercer. Mercer is dead. You are the virus. You simply think you're Mercer because his corpse was the first thing the virus came into contact with as it was unleashed. The only thing in "Mercer's" head as he wakes up is revenge, the last thought the original Mercer had when he died.
But as the story goes on, that motive start to change. It reaches the point where he takes an active nuclear warhead away from the city to save it, despite knowing that he could survive the blast no matter what.
This sentient virus designed to kill people in gruesome ways eventually develops a conscience and here's the kicker, actually becomes a better person than the original Alex Mercer. The original Mercer was described as a sociopath who made the virus deadlier than it ever had been for nothing other than money. He only cared about his sister when he could use her to dig up as much dirt as possible on Gentek as Dana states that she hadn't even spoken to Alex for ten years before the events of the game.
Mercer released the Blacklight virus to take down as many people as he could and doomed the people of New York. The virus that was initially in that vial ended up saving the city three weeks later.
Maybe I'm just looking into it too much but it was disheartening to see all of that thrown away in Prototype 2 when they made Mercer into the main villain and didn't even explain why he had such a change of heart and personality. I genuinely think that the people who wrote P2 never even played the first game or they played it and just skipped the cutscenes.
Cross isn't Greene's son. That's Pariah who doesn't directly appear in the story at all. The Cross you fight in the beginning is simply a highly skilled soldier who is trained specifically to down people like Mercer. The Supreme Hunter you fight in the middle and in the end starts out as the Parasite that Cross injects into Mercer. After Mercer gets cured, he injects it into Greene who rejects it and it morphs into the Supreme Hunter. That Supreme Hunter consumes Cross at some point and assumes his identity as he works with Mercer.
I disagree with you on the Web of Intrigue. It's a brilliant way to tell the backstory without getting in the way of the main story. If you're interested in it, then you have to hunt down the truth yourself, if not, leave it be. A lot of games make the mistake of cramming too much exposition and backstory into the main storylines (Assassin's Creed 3 being the first thing that comes to mind), but the WoI system manages to avoid that.
I also like it because filling out WoI the early on will foreshadow events in the main story before they happen (Bloodtox, the Parasite, etc...). Even if you don't care about the story, hunting down the individual memories is still a great way to earn EP.
I also disagree on the mission design. They are simplistic, but they allow A LOT of options in how you can approach them. The mission with the Bloodtox Pump can be completed without a tank or the helicopter. You don't even need to stay hidden from the military, they can be fully aware of you.
Or take the mission where you have to pick up and deploy Blackwatch troops with the transport helicopter. As long as you land it somewhere safe, you can actually leave the helicopter for the parts where you need to destroy the Hive or kill the Hydras. I just hijacked a tank for the Hydra part and killed them with that. So long as the helicopter stays intact, you won't fail the mission.
More than Carnage or Venom I'd say this looks like Parasite/Kiseiju.
never played this one but it reminds me of Infamous, which i loved back in the day
Oh you gonna love it because kinda plays like infamous
This game and Infamous used to be thought of as rivals by their respective fanbases and would both pop up in conversations. If one was mentioned then so would the other.
Yeah, last boss secret on a hard, it's use muscles, and don't destroy helis and rockets. When timer start, throw a rockets in boss face, and some helis, and he is dead.
Prototype had fun gameplay, but I never really liked Alex as a character. Cole in Infamous was just more likeable 👍🎮
This game, infamous, and forced unleashed were so freaking great, because back then it was less doing what was popular or making a game like a movie in every way and just making it as chaotic and whatever will make it stand out, and all three definitely succeeded, which is why overall the Xbox 360 and PS3 Era of games were really great, even metal gear rising vengeance was amazing, the music and gameplay that let you slice whatever you wanted (almost) was fun
By far the best Carnage game. Its always humorous to me when people get mad at how Alex is a villain in Prototype 2....like....are you guys serious?
They were probably just mad that we played as James in 2 and not Alex, even tro you can get a Alex skin for James.
It might not be the most complex or too hard but gosh darn it it feels amazing to absolutely BODY the military with unimaginable powers
The Supreme Hunter isn’t “Pariah” aka Elizabeth Greene’s son. It’s simply a monster that Greene spits out after Alex stabs her with a syringe containing the parasite (the one that takes away your powers for a few missions). We only really get to see Greene’s son in flashbacks, but the story never really follows up on that point.