Each new Prototype trailer has us giggling like children at the gorish ludicrosity of it all. Running up the sides of buildings, caving in heads on the sides of buildings, throwing cars at helicopters, morphing into a giant fisted madman. These are just some of the things we do when we’ve watched them. A little joke for you there. Below is the latest trailer, which gives you a top 10 reasons why you should want to play it. And frankly, they had us with “Projectile Dysfunction”.
Kieron had a little play of it last month, and you’d do well to read his impressions here. Looking at the footage, it’s hard to imagine how this Hulk-meets-Rampage open city madness could be anything other than fun, and Kieron had a great time with it. It’s still a few months away, but is due to arrive in June – the perfect timing for a summer blockbuster nonsense-fest.
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Oh, wow.
The whole trailer was pretty badass, but they had a sale early on I think, when he grabbed the special forces guy and surfed down the street on his corpse.
Is… is it wrong for a human being to love a game in “that way”?
Some things look impressive, I can see why it was delayed. Most of the animations still looked…off. I hope they actually do something with the “I’m a pissed off jerk and don’t care if I kill innocents” angle…
Actually it was when they brought out the giant robots that I mostly got bored of Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, which is a shame because it was almost as much fun to just move around the city as Spider-Man 2. The big robots just didn’t feel enough like you were hitting them. They were more like a giant block with a health bar, even when you were tossing cars and stuff at them.
@MA6200
What sold it for me was after surfing the guy he kicked him into a tank causing the tank to explode. Using people as deadly projectiles looks very fun and stupid in the best way.
*THIS* is my new definition of awesome.
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Best to avoid most of the comments threads on Kotaku, if you want to retain a little glimmer of faith in humanity.
Hur Hur they said pwn and a word that sounds like erectile. I am so glad that they did market research on how to appeal to the 18-24 year old male demographic. I feel like they’re talking right to me!
Blowing up helicopters by using people as projectiles? WIN!
Using people as skateboards? WIN!
Assuming this actually gets good reviews on release, I’m sold.
Wow this looks like what you get if you pumped Crackdown full of drugs and then soaked it in the blood of an unholy sacrifice, and I want it.
When Crackdown goes bad. Really bad. Bad like a honey badger on a narky bender.
That might actually be so much fun that there will be no fun left for anything else. Like the end of Akira, but with joy.
I am so utterly confused after watching that trailer.
What on earth is there to be confused about? It’s a game with spectacular running about and smashing.
Guess there’s something wrong with me. Because after watching the trailer, I was not amused.
Ditto. I can see why people are excited about it — it looks like a ton of fun, frankly. The fluid running and jumping looks sweet. The “Patsy” part was ridiculously awesome. But I just can’t get past the “let’s kill lots of people, soldiers and civilians alike, in increasingly cruel and gory fashions” thing.
I’ve tried, really. A friend of mine is a programmer on the game, so I’m trying hard to like it each time a new trailer comes out, but they all seem to be glorifying gratuitous bloody violence on a massive scale, which I just can’t get past. Sigh.
Fuckin’ wow. Finally a game not made by Valve that I can get excited about.
Wow. You guy serious!? I’m… I’m… pumped! It’s amazing and beautiful.
@Testicular Torsion: Just imagine each person you kill as your boss, or someone you hate… you can do so many things. Oh gosh I can’t wait.
I LOVE PROTOTYPE!
I admit I have problems with the indiscriminate nature of the violence. I’m not a huge fan of civilian slaughter. Still… it does look like a lot of fun, and enthusiasm can overcome some of my distaste. But I think that’s a good reason to be put off.
They don’t do a very good job of showing it, but a large number of the civilians are infected and hostile to the player. Early on it is just total slaughter, but if you’re careful you can avoid hitting anyone but your enemies.
Which makes a bit of sense really, since given that the main character doesn’t really have any level of fine control over his powers he’d have a hard time not hitting people by accident.
it’s good to see a game that doesn’t care about realism these days, i miss the old days where a machine gun shot would launch an enemy 20 meters in the air, and 3 shots would allow his carcass to reach escape velocity and maybe get to the moon in 5 minutes :D
“I’m not a huge fan of civilian slaughter. Still… it does look like a lot of fun, and enthusiasm can overcome some of my distaste.”
That could so easily be attributed to any of the warlords of history, or perhaps to Bomber Harris
I know this is blasphemy but… is anyone else considering getting it on their Xbox360?