By Jim Rossignol on June 4th, 2011 at 8:12 am.
Prototype 2 is a game about some dude is made of tentacles or something like that. You can check out the general use of tentacles in the trailer below. Tentacle Boy DOES NOT like helicopters, no sir. Also he’s going to have a fight with the protagonist from the previous game for some reason.
Whatever, I still want a decent Hulk game. (And yes, Radical’s Ultimate Destruction was the last good one, but imagine what destruction tech could do now.)
04/06/2011 at 08:18 razgon says:
While this looks interesting (loved the first one), I find this new obsession games have with obscene amounts of blood rather off-putting.
While I’m not squeamish, I’d actually be embarrassed to play a game like this while my SO or anyone else was around.
04/06/2011 at 08:44 mrfb says:
Prototype is Infamous with copious amounts of blood instead of copious amounts of electricity, and vice versa.
04/06/2011 at 09:21 lurkalisk says:
The amount of blood in the human body isn’t exactly trivial though. While I’ve no experience cleaving a man in twain with a single strike of some sort of massive bio-sword, I assume a substantial amount of blood would leave his body in the process.
Besides, you could tell your significant otter you simply have Renfield’s, and the issue would never come up again!
04/06/2011 at 10:18 groghog says:
Significant otter. Amazing
04/06/2011 at 10:29 Renfield says:
@ lurkalisk
Your last sentence momentarily had me rather puzzled indeed.
(And not because of the well-spotted otter.)
Re: the blood, it’s the strange quasi-stylised mistiness of it that I find more off-putting. Puffs of blood (sic) feel out of place amidst visceral ultraviolence. Except when you’re pulverising someone with a hammer, or making them evaporate with a shotgun blast, a la F.E.A.R. Valuable lessons from gaming.
That said, I liked Prototype. Not sure I want another one, but I liked it.
04/06/2011 at 11:22 lurkalisk says:
I assume the screen name comes from the same Renfield of Bram Stoker’s design?
Anyway, neither of these games are at all realistic, but I would imagine puffs of blood to be somewhat less egregious than tentacle powered anti-air weapons. Of those games witch have a ludicrous amounts of blood, prototype is probably the worst offender I can think of, but in the face of the other bizarre things the game exhibits, I have a hard time taking issue with it.
04/06/2011 at 11:50 Renfield says:
It’s the aesthetics of the blood puff that I take issue with. The tentacles are made-up anyway, but the blood is (ostensibly) intended to evoke real blood.
And the screen name is indeed from the syndrome’s namesake. :)
04/06/2011 at 12:44 lurkalisk says:
Well that’s what I mean, I guess. It is indeed a failure to mimic real blood, it’s just that a game so ridiculous is a game I wouldn’t take much issue with in any respect, at least as realism is concerned.
But yes, the blood is quite strange.
04/06/2011 at 12:59 FLBR says:
@razgon; That’s not an obscene amount of blood. The Brutal DOOM mod, now that’s an obscene amount of blood! It had an update recently. It was called The Sadist Update! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHHZt3bbcCg
04/06/2011 at 14:12 DeathHamsterDude says:
Significant Otter. My new favourite phrase.
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/3/17/d30007e0-9a58-4f61-a033-82af9b8d2384.jpg
Oh, and the game. Yes. Enjoyed feeling like a god in Prototype. May not have loved certain aspects of the game, but they definitely got the sense of power and movement down right. I can’t say that I’m anxiously waiting at my computer to click on Steam the second it’s released, but I will buy it at some point.
05/06/2011 at 03:10 Conor says:
DeathHamsterDude, I think I love you for that image.
04/06/2011 at 08:20 Kayden says:
By the title of the article I was wondering if this was a Hentai preview or something….
04/06/2011 at 08:26 Spider Jerusalem says:
The notable absence of the words ‘Nazi’ and ‘rape’ should’ve clued you in.
04/06/2011 at 08:26 Lewie Procter says:
http://inception.davepedu.com/
04/06/2011 at 10:19 Jharakn says:
Whilst I’ve no idea what that has to do with prototype you get a gold star as I’ve been pressing the button and laughing to myself for that last hour almost.
04/06/2011 at 10:32 Lewie Procter says:
The sound at the end of the trailer reminded me of it.
04/06/2011 at 10:55 James says:
I have that near the top of my bookmarks, for some reason. I hit it once to twice a week at minimum.
It’s the simple things…
04/06/2011 at 08:54 Cirdain says:
PC?
04/06/2011 at 09:07 Jim Rossignol says:
Why do people ask this? RPS is a PC site.
“PROTOTYPE 2 is currently in development for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and the Games for Windows®.”
04/06/2011 at 10:22 Napalm Sushi says:
As far as I’m aware, Prototype 2′s protagonist is not a Police Constable, though members of such office are likely to serve as NPCs, complete with the suitably overpressurised circulatory systems shown in the footage above. We hope this aids in your purchasing decision.
04/06/2011 at 11:29 slick_101 says:
Nor is this game politically Correct. you have a Dude with a sword for an arm cleaving people in half spraying blood everywhere.
04/06/2011 at 11:52 westyfield says:
Though the chap in the trailer with the tentacles and sword-arm is indeed the Player Character.
04/06/2011 at 16:16 magnus says:
Plastic Carrot
Pointless Custard
Physical Concept
Psychic Convention
Purple Cucumber
Pacyderm Compote?
04/06/2011 at 22:58 Dances to Podcasts says:
Penile Contraption?
05/06/2011 at 01:32 Koozer says:
Particular Chaffinch.
04/06/2011 at 08:54 Thants says:
You’ve broken your trailer naming convention! I don’t even know what to believe anymore.
04/06/2011 at 09:06 Jim Rossignol says:
There was a naming convention?
04/06/2011 at 10:03 Colonel J says:
Sexy new trailer gets commas, no conjunctions.
I like this, reminds me of headlines in The Onion.
04/06/2011 at 21:37 Starky says:
Jim it’s
[Game Name] Trailer is [something] [something], [something]
Well not really, but the last like 5 trailers have been and you broke the flow.
04/06/2011 at 09:04 Olivaw says:
Prototype is basically Hulk 2 anyway. I loved the hell out of it, and I’ll love the hell out of this.
Nothing better than elbow dropping a poor old lady from seventy stories up.
04/06/2011 at 09:24 Stick says:
Well, since our RPS overlords wouldn’t pick up the perfectly obvious joke lying around…
“Prototype 2″? Isn’t that “Open Beta” or possibly “Release Version In Dire Need Of Patching”?
04/06/2011 at 09:47 Tei says:
The video is not good. You could make a way better video from random raw footage from Prototype 1 (yes, is that type of game that looks epic every inch of it).
So, what? is maybe that the devs want to create hype in crescendo, or Prototype 2 is somewhat flaccid?
?:-)
04/06/2011 at 09:49 Zogtee says:
The dude is moving really slowly. It’s going to ages to finish this bloody game.
04/06/2011 at 10:16 Vandelay says:
I thought the first was awesome fun, but this looks to be more of the same. Not sure how well it will hold up a second time round.
04/06/2011 at 10:47 Longrat says:
excessive usage of slow mo, panning cameras and loud sound effects make trailers very off putting.
04/06/2011 at 11:23 lurkalisk says:
I assume you’re put off by most game and movie trailers then?
04/06/2011 at 11:00 Scioptic says:
0:27 mark…. we get to use proton packs in this? :P
04/06/2011 at 11:15 Spakkenkhrist says:
I loved the first one, it was just incredibly fun so I’m looking forward to this.
04/06/2011 at 11:21 Christian O. says:
You killed my wife. And my daughter. And possibly my dog. And my third-cousin-removed.
That is terrible.
04/06/2011 at 13:03 Longrat says:
What a shame.
04/06/2011 at 11:42 LTK says:
I sure hope there is something more interesting to the plot than just Revenge. Sure, the first Prototype also had Revenge as a motivation, but in the end it turned out to be a more convoluted question of morality versus self-preservation. Alex Mercer murdering wives and children, mutating people and commandeering monsters seems firmly on the side of Evil. Deceptively so. It better be deceptively so.
04/06/2011 at 11:56 Renfield says:
Well, to be fair to the game’s established plot, Mercer’s mutation is also cognitive. It’s established pretty early on that the virus makes people sociopathic, as well as making them grow tentacles.
An in-canon explanation for the player’s uncaring mass-murder was something I enjoyed discovering in Prototype’s otherwise rather stale narrative.
04/06/2011 at 14:59 Grot_Punter says:
Something that irks me about this sequel is, if I recall about the end of the first is that Mercer left NYC. So how the hell can he be there making all these mutant-virus-baby-monsters and being mutant-virus-baby-monster-tyrant?
04/06/2011 at 11:45 Iskariot says:
I am looking very much forward to this game. I enjoyed the first one and I am a sucker for open world city themed games.
I hope they address the way enemy npc soldiers react to you. If you jump of a 20 story building they should at least expect something to be wrong and react accordingly.
Also the opposition should be a bit more balanced, especially the boss parts. The way the game jumped from easy to extremely hard was ridiculous.
And the respawning of hive buildings was ‘somewhat’ unrealistic. Although I admit ‘unrealistic’ gets a different flavor in the context of a game like this.
04/06/2011 at 12:14 slick_101 says:
I crammed in hours and hours on the first one when I was a console gamer and loved every minute of it. So its going to be interesting to see how the controls fit because using a game pad on games like this seem to work really well,
That said, I think I am really looking forward to this, it’s been a while since there has been a free roam with plenty of mindless gore to cram into those evenings after those tiresome days.
04/06/2011 at 14:53 Urthman says:
Whatever, I still want a decent Hulk game.
Yes, me too. Prototype looked like fun, but the character and setting were just too off-putting for me to try it. This one too. Bleah.
04/06/2011 at 15:17 MeestaNob says:
You’d think they start sending something a bit faster than a helicopter at these guys, they must be running out of them by now. surely.
04/06/2011 at 16:07 ProfessorDazzle says:
Sounds like my ex wife.
04/06/2011 at 17:55 Matt-R says:
Shame that I have no real desire to kill Mercer so making that the objective seems kinda blah to me, also fairly sure that the first one sort of pegs him as being invincible… but alas.
I’ll just remove my memories of the first and enjoy blowing stuff up and the like, fun times.
04/06/2011 at 19:37 Chizu says:
But why is that first picture of a gnome walking away from an explosion (and not looking at it).
05/06/2011 at 12:45 crusty1 says:
Pulpy trailer is pulpy.
i’ll stick to GTA, WAY better.
05/06/2011 at 16:17 Italia says:
Looks like they graphics have barely been upgraded since the first one, which itself was extremely boring for such an open world. I like blood too, I don’t like crappy red pixels flying around the screen. Big difference.
Character looks like he’s from a PS2 game playing on a N64 map.
05/06/2011 at 16:30 Urthman says:
Character looks like he’s from a PS2 game playing on a N64 map.
That description is literally 100% true for the PC Incredible Hulk game that was a tie in to the most recent movie. Destroying buildings in that game looks like something out of Blast Corps.
06/06/2011 at 08:35 Catastrophe says:
I’m waiting for Marvel or DC to buy the Prototype idea and make it into an awesome comic and a hopefully good film.
I can’t think of any comic book hero(?) with powers like Mercer. And the fact he was a normal guy slowly turning into a sociopath would make for an interesting film story.
06/06/2011 at 21:19 Iokanaan says:
so the developers actually based the story of the second game in the series on the revenge of the relative of one of the thousands of people the player killed in the first game? I expect this to be a long running series.