Comments on: Whee! Prototype For Summer ’09

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:12:36 +0000

Re. Stealth. The one stealth bit in Ultimate Destruction was hilarious though.

Re. Infamous. Weird that it seems on the surface to be similar to Infamous, yet looking a bit more it’s pretty clear that It’s just Hulk: Ultimate Destruction and Sly Cooper 2/3 underneath each game respectivly, just with a too similar visual look on top.

Re. Violence. God, I hope there’s an option to tone down or switch off the blood in this game. Or replace all the civilians with zombies or something like that. And maybe a mod to replace the main character model with something a bit more fun. As is, it looks a bit too much like Millar’s Wanted. Not the film, but the comic. The one with the ‘this is my face’ page.

By: thefanciestofpants

thefanciestofpants — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:45:42 +0000

Have they brought Co-op back to it yet? :<

By: Rei Onryou

Rei Onryou — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:45:18 +0000

How exactly did he jump on the helicopter without being sliced to pieces by the blade?

PS: Awesome trailer. Hope it can live up to the hype. And that the PC version isn’t a port.

By: Aubrey

Aubrey — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:44:24 +0000

Looks like a lot of things are being pulled over from Hulk: UD. That game feels pretty underrated. The combat in Prototype looks like it’s very much a spiritual successor, improving in the right places.

The scene framing when you go toe to toe in the air is pretty excellent.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:47:29 +0000

What really surprised me about Hulk: UD was that the travel could be almost as much (though not AS much, for me) as Spider-Man 2 with the running up buildings and big jumps, etc.

For me in these big-area games I don’t mind so much if the combat is only passable if getting places is enjoyable.

By: phil

phil — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:40:51 +0000

Hopefully they’ll remember the fun contextual stuff from Hulk: UD – Nothing was quite so empowering as picking up people, holding them in the air, having a change of heart, then putting them gentley back down and patting them paternally on the head.

By: Tei

Tei — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:20:14 +0000

All this stuff looks amazing. Is the game anything like this video?

By: DBeaver

DBeaver — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:54:29 +0000

I think I can help him: “Dude. You’re Bizarro Altair. And it is Bizarro Al-Mualim who deserves your wrath.”

By: Vandelay

Vandelay — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:44:35 +0000

Gaming really needs a good super hero game (particularly pc gaming – why, oh why did they shit on us with Spiderman 2?), and maybe this could be it. Not heard much on it in a long time, but I remember it looking interesting before. Will hold out for some reviews/demo till I decide whether to give it a go.

If it turns out to be a dud, all our hopes are going to have to lie on the new Batman game, the films have pushed the bar high for super hero films so maybe the game could do the same.

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:38:40 +0000

PS I miss the edit feature to fix my grammatical flubs.

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:38:02 +0000

Oh also, for the record I am absolutely certain this game will be dreadful. I think it will be crippled by a too rabid attempt to create cool attacks, and by open world design which will leave the game feeling empty and repetitive. Feel free to quote me if/when I turn out to be wrong, but this will definitely not be one among my ’09 purchases

By: Bhazor

Bhazor — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:14:57 +0000

Looked great apart from the controllable vehicles. It’s just become so common that it’s almost expected and in my experience just watering down the whole game. I want the team to focus on the absurd melee and acrobatics that made HULK:UD one of the best games on the X-Box and not on QTE jacking sequences.

Reply to Dominic White

That’s a lot of maybes, ifs and uncredited sources you got going there. I don’t not believe you but this is how Internet rumours start.