[PROTOTYPE]
Written: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Submitted by: YuHadMeAtHal0

Story: 8/10
For the most part, the story is blatant, but to get the WHOLE plot, you must consume certain people in order to steal their memory. Whenever you consume someone, a short cut scene plays and you get a little bit more back-story of what happened in the game. So if you want the full story, consume all 131 Web of Intrigue targets, like I did.

Graphics: 7/10
Looks aren’t all that matter in a game, but then again, it’s a plus when a game has some good graphics. When you enter into an infected zone, an orange-ish haze develops and the entire street is littered with blood and gore. After a while, the disguises will seem familiar as there is not a whole lot of different NPC skins.

Music: 8/10
There’s nothing more intense than walking by an infected water tower and trying to get away before it bursts and then it’s too late. The hunter inside hatches and runs at you full on. The music adds on to the intensity as you either try to take it down or run away and hope it forgets about you and takes interest in another unsuspecting person.

Sound: 7/10
The sound of limbs being dismembered and guts falling just makes my day. o.O In Prototype, the dismemberment is a great feature. Also when changing forms, it has a pretty cool sound.

Gameplay: 9/10
The game has great playtime. It took me about 10 hours to beat all the missions and it’s taken me twice that to get all the collectibles, WOI targets, and a few achievements. The bosses were fun except a couple seemed repeated. The Mother was my favorite boss, probably because I kept dying and couldn’t figure out how to take her down. I finally figured out to just hide out in a street consuming infected until my Critical Mass was available then I just used devastators on her. The abilities have a fun variety, you can use the Whipfist to grab things from afar and bring them to you or you can elbow slam someone with the Hammerfists. A fun thing I like to do is equip the shield biomass and just mow down crowds of people. :D

Difficulty: 6/10
I’m not too much into sandbox games, but this game seems pretty good all-around. The only thing I saw worth noting was the crappy health system. You must kill to get health. I never really liked that kind of style. If I have a Strike Team after me and helicopters are everywhere, they can take you down really fast. Also, if you try to hijack a vehicle and a missile hits you, it’ll interrupt your hijack and you’ll probably be dead before you even land back on your feet.

Enjoyment: 10/10
This game is great if you love zombie games. You can hop in a tank and just annihilate anything in your path or you can go to the highest building in the game and jump off it and be perfectly fine (and shred anything near you when you land). Oh and you can surf on people!

Replay Value: 9/10
After you beat the game on any difficulty, you unlock the New Game+. This is where you start the game with all your upgrades and abilities and can pwn anyone instantly. Also, there is Free-Roam mode where you can go collect stuff or just straight-up go on a killing spree! There are two different types of collectibles and WOI targets to consume.

Overall: 8/10
This game is really great if you like sandbox games mixed with zombies mixed with great parkour mixed with gore galore mixed with shape-shifting mixed with PWNAGE. Go buy it!