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Better than I expected.

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2012

I purchased and downloaded this game on 25th Of Nov 2012. Not only does it run smoothly (with no issues what so ever) but the game itself is really good in my opinion. The story line is not bad at all. Many prototype fans didn't like the idea of not being Alex Mercer again. I was not very enthusiastic for the idea as well, but I didn't mind. I was curious. And it turned out better than I expected. Further, I have read and seen the PC game was widely criticized for being a bad port. I do not see that. My Desktop PC is not the latest in its specifications; A 2.6 Quad core intel processor, 8GB DDR2 RAM, 260 GTX Gigabyte Nvidia graphic card. I do recall that the game automatically downloaded something like a patch once it was installed. I also made sure all my drivers were updated. Anyway I think they did a well-done job in this sequel.

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TheEnthusiast

A superficial, flawed copy

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2016

On the surface, it has everything Prototype 1 had: revenge plot, body horror, military intrigue.

The simplified RPG elements are clearly targeted towards a younger audience, despite the M rating. The gameplay dynamic just goes strait out the window, instead of leveraging hard-earned powers to respond to overwhelming force, you are basically unstoppable now. You can turn any random soldier into a "biobomb", which will clear most encounters instantly. You press just one key to insta-kill vehicles. You can summon heavy infantry on command.

Gone are the subplots and the careful writing, instead of an amnesiac scientist uncovering an old conspiracy, you are now an ordinary soldier with a vaguely defined revenge plot. Instead of dialogue/quests with generals, special ops, and biotech scientists; you will be better acquainted with the local pastor from the "hood" Heller grew up in. In the original, characters would have important details carefully presented up until the last minute. Now, the antagonist basically just wants to make everyone on earth a monster. You stop him, and he explodes, killing all monsters everywhere.

Prepare to have your intelligence insulted.

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Breezy-leejunfan

Better than I expected.

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2012

Platform For Display: PC DownloadEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

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ScottChi in NC

Enjoyable, Playable, Problematic!

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2014

Platform For Display: PCEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

I have played several first person shooters. This is the first game I've played in years that is "second person" - you follow the avatar from behind and/or slightly above. As a result I find that it is very easy to get into a situation where the "camera" position is not tracking where the Heller model is facing. I've had situations where Heller lands facing a wall and when I execute a turn, the view rotates but he does not. It's frustrating, especially if he is taking damage from behind. I have a GTX660 card so I don't think that this is due to lag. But this occurs only a small percent of the time. I find the game play to be enjoyable and moderately addictive overall.

If you have anything that vaguely resembles a conscience, this game is SERIOUSLY TROUBLING. In many shooters, some pretext is made for the fact that your character has to commit vast amounts of bloody murder, such as "the bad guys are all evil" or "the bad guys are already dead" or both. In this game you have some of that, but the outdoor areas of the entire game are filled with people who look like desperate and abused refugees. The game situation requires you to commit a huge amount of carnage amongst these helpless bystanders, who occasionally take to flight and run. Even when you are actively trying not to kill them, the lack of fine control that you have over Heller means that many, many of these people will become splotches of gore on a frequent basis. Would it have been so hard to make this a little less morally ambiguous? A good example of this is the tank levels. You have to drive this enormous piece of armor around on heavily populated streets. People barely even notice that heavy machinery is bearing down on them.

Games do not have to be designed to numb our minds to needless murder and destruction of innocents in order to be fun. I think that this says a lot about how game designers think. I'm not asking for them to be sanitized or stupid. It just takes a little more care and intelligence to come up with a compelling plot.

Lastly, I hit a serious bug early in the game that left my character stuck in the very first mission. Heller needed to kill some blackwatch soldiers, but even after killing them the game would not acknowledge it. It turns out that this problem has been around, but left unfixed for years! I had to go into the Windows 7 settings for the program executable and change the processor core affinity to one core for all threads (instead of any). If you're having this problem, this should give you enough keywords to find the solution. I think it's rather crappy that this bug was never fixed, it wasted a lot of my time (and no doubt several other players).

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TheEnthusiast

A superficial, flawed copy

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2016

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Brandon

THe game is great but the lag is massive

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2014

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YOu need a really good computer to play this confounded game but it is neat. Game overall is ok but eh.

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anthony brashear

it crashes. then i read online of others having ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2016

Platform For Display: PC DownloadEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

it crashes. then i read online of others having the issue, its a download from steam. the other guy borrowed a friends disk copy and poof it worked. so i doubt id ever download from steam again.

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B. F. G.

A differnt game style

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2012

Platform For Display: PCEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

This was a good twist from just another F.P.S., the graphics were very well put forth, the action was a challenge, the bonuses were grand, and the
quick challenges nice to give one a comparison to other players, normally I do not get to see others abilities as I never play co-op or online for
many reasons. It was fun to develope the different weapon skills of the main character. Wonderful play field layouts also! Only complaint on this game would be: MAKE IT A LONGER game overall!!! Good price, prompt delivery as promised by seller. One of this year's BEST games in my humble opinion for the PC format. Happy whipping!!

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Pablo Solano

Absolutely loved it!

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2014

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It's a great game! I don't really get why people say it's too short. They probably didn't even look at the challenge quests and just played the main plot.
The graphics are stunning. The story line is great. The end could have been better, though, but I still liked it.
If you loved playing Prototype I, Prototype 2 is a must have! Recommend it 100%.

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John Yonker

Was a very cool game.

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2013

Platform For Display: PC DownloadEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

In many ways, better than the first. Much more detail in the graphics. took a while to get use to the different controls and interfaces, but overall was a blast to play. I'm glad I didn't get the DLC. Like others said, it was included in the first game and it really isn't needed to play or complete the game. At $10 it seams a bit much. For what the cost of the game was it should have been included like it was in the first game.

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Nightmare Jester

Video Game

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2014

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The poor doctor has been captured, killed and infected with a virus. He must get revenge against those that murdered him and kidnapped his family. A great game for those who love survival horror games. To start the game if you have a quad core CPU or higher you have to set it for dual core. As you enter the game you can set the affinity back to use all cores and you should get a stable frame rate.

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bLoWsMokE

Very fun, very replayable!

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2019

Platform For Display: PC DownloadEdition: StandardVerified Purchase

A good a very fun game. Prototype 1 is better IMO. This is better in it's own ways.

I bought a new computer to play this game when it came out xD Worth it!!!

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