pdenton on 8/6/2009 at 23:19
I've been following this game for a while. I find it strange however that on the eve of its release there's only one review I can find online, and even that is just a blurb from a magazine.
I think my Walmart is going to have it on shelves at midnight (still not confirmed, only rumored by their day staff) and I really want to get it. It doesn't look like a terribly deep game, but the gameplay seems exhilarating (running through Central Park, flipping over cars, throwing cars into helicopters).
Is anyone else interested? Anyone else find any pre-release buzz? I really don't want to spend 60 bucks on a shitty game, but I also really want it now. :confused:
ZylonBane on 9/6/2009 at 15:12
The entire game world looks like it's covered in axle grease. Bleah.
mothra on 9/6/2009 at 15:23
I'm interested. nothing more....no preorder, no fanboyish enthusiasmn.
could be awesome, could be OK or could be a total stinker.
bodyslam into civilians, using them as meat-skateboards to glide along sure does make me interested. but I fear the whole "conspiracy" thing will be a sidenote and the missions written by the AssassinsCreed school of repetition and boredome.
Fragony on 9/6/2009 at 15:53
Could be fun. Not really my kind of thing, the setting looks interesting though, I want to enjoy a sandbox-game and it looks more grim and mature than Imfamous.
vurt on 9/6/2009 at 17:48
Read a bit about people playing the 360 version, most of them doesnt seem to pleased with it. If you enjoy games like The Hulk, Spiderman, Bionic Commando or Crackdown you might like it, i find them a bit too repeative (havent tried Bionic Commando though).
I'm really looking forward to Just Cause 2, looks incredible compared to any of the above (same genre).
pdenton on 10/6/2009 at 02:00
Well, I just picked it up today so let me confirm a few things:
1) It does not look very good. Player models are completely acceptable but building textures are nasty. I turned the brightness down all the way and on my HD TV it looks pretty good now.
2) The story, at least as told via the missions is garbage. I usually like Barry Pepper but he's pretty dreadful in this. The writing is also partly the blame. HOWEVER, the flashbacks you have as you consume people and essentially eat their memories are very well done and intriguing (I'm not too far into the game).
3) ITS FUN! Lots and lots of fun. Upgrading is quick and easy. It's a lot like playing a Spiderman or Hulk game if it were rated M.
4) Oh, and I've reached the part with zombies. It's flippin sweet. :thumb:
heretic on 10/6/2009 at 03:08
I'm waiting for a demo. Most sandbox games grow stale too quick for me to pick them up until a price drop.
Ladron De La Noche on 10/6/2009 at 03:26
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http://www.bigdownload.com/games/prototype/pc/) Prototype - Bigdownload.com
Judge for yourselves, plenty of trailers and gameplay vids (HD). Looks like a lot of mindless fun, can't beat running up a tall building then elbow smashing a tank below. :)
warcrow on 10/6/2009 at 17:08
First impressions!
This is game kind of strange in the way it's designed.
It starts you off with every power unlocked for tutorial purposes, and then throws way too many informational dialog boxes up at you. It makes you not want to care! Meanwhile you'll basically experienceing sensory overload from the craziness of the extreme jumping, tank throwing, the jumping infestation of bloody mutants and crashing helicopters.
Suddenly everything gets taken away from you and they begin to develop the character while...teaching you more stuff!
I feel like they should have completely removed the into tutorial level and just let the player slowly learn abilities as they unlock them like most games in this genre (which, to be fair, the also do)--but just choose the latter.
About an hour into the game the difficulty ramps up to extreme difficultly (at least for me it was) and out of nowhere. I died 8 times during this specific sequence involving several of the most generic bloody-skinless-Silent-Hill-monster-thingys you've ever seen. It was pointless, boring and left me wanting it to end so I could just get back to the city, runnning and jumping--which, right now, is the only fun thing to do in the game.
Since the comparison will be inevitable with inFAMOUS--I'll go there. These games really are nothing alike. Yes, they're both open-world games with super-powered protagonists, but when you sit down with both games and play them, they feel so different in gameplay, asthetic and atmosphere! Overall I think Cole is a more interesting charcter (even though he's really not that interesting) and the world he travels around in is incredibily more exciting and detailed to play in. Hell, inFAMOUS even has a story that is, at the very least, slightly intruiging too.
But hey, who knows right? Perhaps Prototype will take a drastic turn somewhere and will change my mind. I hope it does because I want to play a good video game.
Oh, and the game's graphics are about as dull as can be. :(
