As the title says, just finished this "overhyped" game(Since there are places where people are calling it shit for its graphics, etc), and Christ. CHRIST. I never thought a venture in video game sado-masochism outside of Final Fantasy XI was even -remotely- possible.

The game's difficulty on Normal can be described thusly. Think of a long narrow mountain path that seems to go in one lateral direction, then suddenly the mountain itself appears in front of you guarded by a gigantic spider ready to tear you limb from limb, Psychonauts style. But the good thing is, if you've played games like The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, you should feel right at home in the hollowed-out carapace of many a Manhattan resident.

Good story, decent enough graphics for a sandbox game, and enough difficulty to make you rage at some points in the game(Such as a 30-45 minute boss fight near end-game). Also, there happens to be a fucking Tyrant who somehow was able to escape Umbrella Corp's custody.

Play it now. You wankers.

I'M TORRENTIN' HER AS FAST AS I CAN, CAP'N!
GIVE HER MORE.

The story shit itself out at the very end, which made me sad.

Then I went back to eating people.

I have 28 WoI targets left or so, which probably explain the ending.

But Christ, I think reviewers need to remember what fun is. Story wasn't the main thing of this game, nor were graphics. It was fucking gameplay, and this game nailed it so hard it had triplets.

I am going to be playing this game for ages, possibly even doing story mode a couple times, because it does work to chug the game along, but I mostly disregard it and pay attention to the WoI instead.

Nobody can deny the fun in having Mercer shift several hundred pounds of biomass into his forearms, giving him the ability to cause humans to EXPLODE when his fists impact with them.

The only thing I absolutely hated about Prototype were the MOTHERFUCKING AIR STRIKE SQUADS. Seemed like every ten seconds some random goit on the ground would go "I NEED AN AIR TEAM HERE, PRONTO", and several cannonball attacks later, one would be a little more weary about keeping anything moving alive.

Web of Intrigue targets are all fine-and-dandy, but you have to admit to this McLovin, it'd help if the bloody consume events dealing with the marked targets would actually... y'know, have you GAIN more info instead of them going "Target Consumed - No New Information".

This. A thousand times this. There is so much about Protoype that makes me happy (Usually starting with a Hammer or Whip, and ending in Fist).

Yeah, that shit confused me with eating people that didn't help you. I'm guessing that it just gives you a few of the people in those area, and you might've already ate them before the event took place?

Also, I love air strikes. They are fun as hell.

-Kicking helicopters out of the sky is fucking manly.

They're fun in the short run, but having to do one every ten seconds makes them ANNOYING. But then again, that's what we have stuff like MUSCLEMASS for, to take out the RAGE on the ZOMBIES BY MAKING THEM EXPLODE WITH FISTS.

As for them not giving you anything new, they probably knew of the same event/had the same cutscene for the WoI. It is good though that no matter what, the ones in Free Roam always give up the info when you consume them.

Also cried some very manly tears at the end when the final enemy died and the you-know-what was about one tick between winning the game and horribly losing it.

Gotta love Musclemass maxed out+Armor form.

So, my total kill count is around 15,000, how about you?

Kills

Helicopter - 609

Tank - 2168

APC - 571

Thermobaric Tank - 81

Speed Bumps - 766

Dismemberments - 918

Pedestrians Killed - 1321

You are making me REALLY hate the fact I have to wait until after July to get this.

Prototype defines what "fun" really is.

The only thing that would make this even better if it had multiplayer.

-Seriously, look for 'fun', Prototype would be there.

Technically, the multiplayer code is there, the guy who made it is just being a fag about it.


So multiplayer is a possible update, or DLC, later on.

Jesus, man. Just torrent it.

God damnit, ten more Web of Intrigue targets.

Ten more.

*Still has 45+ more targets to go*

Hate you McLovin. SO MUCH.

Also, discovered how utterly useless Hammerfist is after attempting the "Flight of the Hammerfist" from the trailer set to The Flight of the Conchords. Giant elbow smash my ass, Hammertoss.

Hammerfist, in my experience, is only good for brofisting the city.

-also down to six.

Hammerfisting is probably my least liked ability, next to lol claws outside of being random with city destroying shenanigans.

Also, playing Gustav Holst's "Mars, The Bringer of War" while assaulting NYC with Mercer has brought on a sexual arousal of some kind.

Damn you classical music, damn you to HELL

You have some decent taste in gaming music my friend. You should give Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" a try the next time you play Assassin's Creed. Loads of fun with that song.

Isn't Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" normally used for cartoons such as Looney Tunes to denote some form of mischief due to its upbeat little tempo?

Usually they use Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" or Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" for silly stuff. I don't recall them ever using "In the Hall of the Mountain King" in Looney Tunes. Maybe Grieg's "Morning Mood", which is a part of the same Suite.

"In the Hall of the Mountain King" has more of a sneaking feel to it.

Fairly sure there was an episode with Bugs Bunny sneaking around to "In The Hall of The Mountain King", which is where the whole notion of mischief came from due to the character's personality and other known activities.

It really does deliver a feeling of sneaking about, though.

That and I do remember Bugs Bunny and Fudd being in a cartoon using Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" from Die Walkure, so wouldn't put it past the creators to use him in another form of classical music theatrics.

Am sort of looking forward to messing around in Dante's Inferno using Mussorgsky's A Night On Bald Mountain for certain areas of the game; Probably Cocytus with Satan replacing Czernabog.

GUUUUUUYS QUIT MAKING ME FEEL UN-CLASSY

But you are un-classy good sir, so why should it bother you? This of course doesn't mean that I am, in any way.

Because, in my fan-fiction, all men are daring rogues that listen to classical music and read beowulf while pleasuring themselves to tasteful statues in their reading rooms.

...but, back to the point, I'm almost done acquiring/pirating the fuck out of prototype. I shall compile an actual report of it when I'm done, heads-up.

I'm doing New Game+, enjoying carnage.

26 hours of gameplay so far.

Total kill count is about 30,556.

That's about 1175 kills per hour.

-Does this make me a monster?

Also.

Prototype: The Ground is Made of Lava

Easy mode: All powers.
Medium: No gliding.
Hard: No gliding, no airdash.
Extreme: No gliding, no airdash, no charging your jump.

Man, fuck your shit >:

Pussy, it's not actually that hard.

GUYS, IT'S EASY. I KILL THAT MANY LIONS FOR BREAKFAST, DON'T BE SUCH PUSSIES.

but it's hard, streea! we have cancer and are blind and can't hear or even move our legs!

DON'T BE SUCH A PUSSY, PUSSY.

but streeeeeeea~!

PUSSY.

PUSSY.PUSSY.PUSSY.PUSSY.PUSSY.PUSSY.PUSSY.PUSSY.PUSSY.PUSSY.

PUSSY.

ONE YEAR LATER.

Kill count: 63,770, 1771 kills per hour.

I'm still playing this game a year later, so, I'm counting it as a success personally.