Prototype Review
Joe is Alex Mercer.
The Short Version: No other game in recent memory makes you feel as powerful as Prototype does. Alex Mercer is the perfect killing machine. You’re sure to have alot of fun with this one despite its few drawbacks.
The Review: Prototype puts you in control of Alex Mercer – who has woken up in a laboratory, and now has mysterious dark superpowers. As Alex Searches the city for the people responsible for changing him into a monster, a very deadly virus is spreading in the streets. The Virus turns anyone it comes into contact with into zombie-like super creatures. All of this makes for an interesting storyline placed in an open-world game. But does this title deliver an experience as fun as the best sandbox titles that came before? Let’s find out in Joe’s Video Review:
• Excellent Combat System thats gruesomely violent.
• Consuming people to steal their Identities and Memories is beyond cool.
• The massive amount of unlockable moves and abilities upgrading Alex.
• Storyline was laid out in an interesting way.
• Come on this guy has to be modeled after Angry Joe: Dark, Bad Ass Leather Jack with White Stripes, Anti-hero. I read ya Radical, thanks for the homage! *wink*
What you’ll Hate:
• No Multiplayer at all.
• Towards the game the difficulty can become frustrating.
• The City could use more Life – and (excluding a few) side missions were a bore.
Final Verdict:
8/10
Buy It.
Excellent (8s are excellent games that are well worth your time and cash. While the game may have a few drawbacks, they aren’t anything that would hold you back recommending this one to friends.)
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Alex T.
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this is the best gore game of all time the second is so a fucking cool i will get this game joe do a report about prototyp2 plz
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aa the monitor always makes me crak up
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One of my favorite reviews
the taking a dump scene? HAHAHAHAHAHA
WTF ALEX!
Joe u make the fuckin funniest faces rofl
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Dude you need to play Bayonetta. perfect combat and i mean PERFECT. and insane creativity.
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joe play infamous and infamous 2 for the ps3 nav
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What i do not realize is actually how you’re not really much more well-liked than you may be right now. You are very intelligent. You realize therefore significantly relating to this subject, produced me personally consider it from numerous varied angles. Its like women and men aren’t fascinated unless it is one thing to do with Lady gaga! Your own stuffs great. Always maintain it up!
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dont worry joe they promised us a multiplayer in the sequel
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joe prototype is a great 8. but infamous and batman arkham asylum are solid 9′es
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OH NO!!!! CHUCK NORRIS WATCH OUT!!!!!
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When you talk about Morality System, there is a game like this : Infamous. they are pretty much the same, exept one is blasting bolt and the other cosumes.
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No….. he doesnt look like hes taking a dump……
thats the last thing i woulda ever thought of and even you saying it i see absolutly nothing suggesting it.
hes unleashing demonic like tentacles and devouring someone.
dont know where you got that retarded shit from.
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BULLSHIT JOE, THIS GAME IS A CARBON COPY OF WEB OF SHADOWS, I CANT BELIEVE ACTIVISION EVEN LET SHIT LIKE THIS HAPPEN!! PROTOTYPE DESERVES A 1/10!!
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There are other games of the same genre that would kick it’s ass into the water like Assassin’s Creed II or GTAIV and even Red Dead!
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no theres not.
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the GOOD (moral) side missions would rip off spider man 2
how would you rate incredible hulk
how can you say that prototype is the best sandbox game around in the time you did this video when incredible hulk was and is almost exactly the same
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The way this guy can climb walls reminds me of Assassins Creed. Now THAT is a bad ass game. This was a fun review. Keep it up.
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Lol tha game made crack up laughing XD anyways my freind has it tryed it in his hous (PS3 version) and its pretty cool after I get Smackdwon! vs RAW 2009 I will buy this.
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I HAVE AND LOVE THIS GAME SO GOOD JOB JOE! RUNNING UP BUILDINGS AND THE UPGRADES ARE WORTH THE GAMEPLAY (THO REPETATIVE AT TIMES)….. I HAVE YET TO BEAT IT BUT THIS IS A TITLE YOU MUST MOS DEF CHECK OUT….. AND INFAMOUS!!!
FIGMENT
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HEY JOE! i love your reviews, theyre awesome and they are hilarious. the sweeping thing in Risen… i watched it like 7 times. lold so hard. but heres a few games i want you to take a look at, feel free to say no. and if you have im sorry but i didnt see em.
Assassins creed 2
Dead Rising 2
Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion (i know youve played it, not so sure about review but it should be quick for you)
i cant think of anymore for now, i know there are more but i cant think. Just try em, i think youll have fun with Assassins creed 2, at least at the start. i personally, if i was going to rate it hard on facts and not how i enjoyed it (personally on my experience it gets 9/10) but probably a 8.5/10
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hey joe u should really get a PS3 but on my opinion i think their both great consoles i hav both of em
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Um… Angry Joe, I was wondering if you could review Motor-Storm Pacific Rift. You’ll chizz your pants when you play it!
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i kneew you were going to bring up hulk
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anybody notice that mercers jacket looks like joes
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To be honest, I don’t think the game would differ with online multi-player, infact, I couldn’t see how it’d be played really.
I mean, the multi-player in general would be pointless and if added for a bonus would see strange, like what would you do, go around killing other players with abilities you unlocked in story mode.
If you could explain how the multi-player would be played that would be great.
Nonetheless, great review.
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You need to play inFAMOUS trust me on this you will love it Great review by the way
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First off, stop using the word “Like.” You sound like a fucking idiot with the way that you talk. Second, learn how to spell and use punctuation. While reading the written parts of the review, half of what you have written actually makes no sense what so ever. In conclusion, you suck and your reviews are bullshit.
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i give it an eight (8) – eight and a half (8.5) out of ten (10). The graphic can be MORE, there’s minor flawed but could easily overlook. This is the only game i’m currently playing and yes it can be impossible at time. Maybe this a wishful thinking, how about Prototype 2 without the flaws and better visual. Online Multiplayer? i can live without it. Just improves all aspect of the first one, add a couple of twists and there’s you have it. I’ll buy it.
Bioshock is still one of my favorite game thus far.
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8/10 is too much.
6/10 is max
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This game kicked so much ass. I rented it at the same time as the Wolverine Origin and I thought that was cool. When I popped in Prototype, the part of my brain that registers an item’s pure Badass-ness shorted out completely. I hated trying to sneak around with those sensor things around, blowing them up was fun as hell. What few parts of the game that worked my nerves were far outweighed by everything else. Consuming, flying, tossing a fucking tank, Devestator attacks. The Whipfist was my fave weapon, how do you top launching a razor sharp projectile at stuff from 50+ feet away and taking off heads while doing it? Answer: KARATE KICK!!!
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man i freaking hate the tanks though i mean i guess they were trying to make it a challenge but god damn theres too many tanks
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ok i for one, love the story to this, you have to work for it by consuming everyone (which i did, all 131) and for those of you too lazy to do it ill tell you the sorta secret forshadow to a sequel, if you consume specific people, you will learn about project poriah, alex mercers oxy moron, sorta, you see they are the same but the opposite. they both are living incarnations of the virus, just he is the artificial release of it and poriah is the natural release of it. now there could be a sequel because poriah never showed up in the game beyond a few memories, this could lead up to an interesting sequal, im pretty sure its the 7th sequence of the web and a bit of the 6th. check those out.
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I thought people hated this game. Looks awesome, but I’m not a gamer.
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Awesome Review Joe.
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Yes! FINALLY someone makes the right comparison! It’s not a clone of infamous, its a clone of The Incrdible Hulk! THANK YOU Joe!
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The consuming scene is really HILARIOUS!!!
Great review as always, keep it up!
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hey, kids!
whats 1 parts GTA, 1 part HULK, and 2 part crap?
A lazy game, for lazy gamers!
COME JOIN THE FUN!!!
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Dude, this game is AWESOME. What are you talking about? If you don’t like the game then WHY DID YOU CHECK OUT THE REVIEW!?!??!
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I got this game about 3 days ago and I love it.Theres things wrong with it,but nothings perfect right? I like the combat except for that mission where you kill that giant mutant crotch AKA Elizabeth Green and its really hard to not get hit by the giant green,lightning ball things and they can even hit when you get in close.
I dont think a morality system would work since theyre trying to pass Alex off as a badass anti-hero.My fav weapon is the blade! Whats cooler than running around a military base with a giant blade for an arm and wearing a cool,venom-esq armored suit.
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I had almost lost hope due to of all the PROTOTYPE haters out there, but finaly, Mr. Angry does the game justice with a “GOOD” review. I think that the haters are either casual gamers or INFAMOUS FANBOYS! PROTOTYPE is definatly one of my favorite games to date! Great review Joe!!!
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dude joe i want you to review or atleast check out the game coming out warhammer 40k space marine check out the trailer in youtube and please please please please do a vid about it. thanks.
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Great review Joe, that’s probably exactly how I feel about the game.
It’s still an incredible game, and I love how they decided that, after giving you so many badass powers, they’ll just give you some fun, dicking around moves that have no point other than pure fun, like the body surf.
Loved that game!
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Exactly! Who doesn’t like to surf on the bodies of their foes?
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Did you know you can do Body Surfing in MID-AIR? It’s really hard to pull off but it is AWESOME. Check out Youtube if you want to learn how to do it.
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I need to say , that was fucking awesome review
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I have not read IGN’s review but I understand why they would take points away for to much chaos. Its just hard to connect and care for the story and the characters when you are just basically blowing up everything you find, it just turns into mindless killing. I’m not saying mindless killing and explosions are bad, but to much of it disconnects you from the story in the game.
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reminds you of just cause 2 dont it? hahaha
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I think that no multiplayer isn’t that big of a problem, they halted multiplayer because they have major problems developing it, you can’t say Radical tried. A noticable problem is that the military is retarded (no offence to people that actually are), you can glide right above them and jump from a 50 ft building and they wouldn’t suspect that you are the person they were looking for XD. I agree that this is the perfect score for this game. I read IGN’s review for this game and it was BS. They took of 3 points for too much chaos, collection issues, and (only legitimate problem) boring side missions. The guy playing the game was terrible at it.
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did you just eatmy freiend who just whached this vid?
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I got this game when it came and i thought it was littlebit weird like were is the story wtf is happening why em i killing these people (it sure was fun thou) and after that beginning that i think was just stypid fun really started… as you might see i didint know shit about this game when i got it but it still was fun. Btw the beginning was badass. Alex:”were is your commanding officer” Soldier:”Time square should i call transport?” Alex stabs soldier Alex:”that wont be necessary”.
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nice review Joe, the game looks great. If you liked this game you should try Infamous, its a great game already beat it twice.
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Dont have a PS3. =(
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I do. The PS3 version has better graphics, less bugs, and it even has a secret minigame
! At least I think it is. Well I have a PS3 XBOX and a Wii… I regret the Wii… O_o
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I hugely recommend picking one up as well as your XBox dude! There aren’t many exclusives these days for either console frankly but there are a few that are flat out AWESOME. inFamous as mentioned is a fantastic game (and better than prototype for my money (though Prototype IS awesome)
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Awesome review, as allways!
I’m gonna buy Prototype as soon as I can get my discplayer runnin’ >_>
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Kick ass Joe!
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No thank YOU for your Donation bro! Really helps me get off my ass and get to work to do the best job I can, knowing I want to put it to good use!
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Review was good and game looks awesome. But if you gotta use French words in your dictionary, “de ja vu” is spelled “deja vu” and “homage” is spelled “hommage”. You did little research on those.
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