Prototype 2

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Summary

Prototype 2 is an open-world action game published by Activision and developed by Radical Entertainment. It's a direct sequel to Prototype and was announced at the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards.

The events of Prototype 2 takes place in New York City, now known as New York Zero (NYZ), following Sgt. James Heller on his quest to destroy Alex Mercer, after having lost everything and everyone he loved to the Blacklight virus.

Storyline

Two years after the events of the original game, Sergeant James Heller, after returning from touring in Iraq, discovers his wife and daughter to be declared dead, causing him to rejoin the military in the fight for NYZ against the Blacklight virus. Heller is briefed on the previous outbreaks in Idaho in the '60s and in NYZ in the events of the first game. He later finds Mercer and begins chasing him.

Pursuing Mercer for vengeance, Heller is infected by Mercer with a strain that imbues him with similar superhuman abilities. After blacking out, Heller awakens in a Yellow Zone lab where Gentek scientist Dr. Anton Koenig and Blackwatch Col. Douglas Rooks are experimenting on him. Heller escapes from the Gentek base, when Mercer confronts him and claims Gentek and Blackwatch are responsible for recreating and cultivating the Blacklight virus, making them responsible for the second infection and the deaths of Heller's family. Revealing his plans to take down Gentek and Blackwatch, Mercer offers a truce to Heller. Unsure of Mercer's intentions Heller goes to his local pastor, Father Luis Guerra, for advice and help.

Using information supplied by Guerra, Heller hacks into Blacknet Terminals to find out about and sabotage a number of their operations. Gradually consuming his way through Blackwatch, Heller eventually finds and confronts Koenig, who claims to be on his side and reveals Blackwatch's super-soldier program, codenamed "Orion". Heller prevents Project: Orion's progress by killing a super-soldier who was injected with his DNA. After consuming one of the head scientists, Heller discovers that Koenig was observing him in order to find his weaknesses. Enraged at Koenig's betrayal, Heller tracks him down only to discover that he has powers similar to he and Mercer, and is one of several "Evolved" agents planted in Gentek and Blackwatch by Mercer. After defeating and consuming the doctor, Mercer reveals to Heller that he intends to recruit him in an attempt to control NYZ. His doubts growing, Guerra then shows Heller a video tape of Mercer releasing the virus for the second time in Penn Station, the same place Mercer originally released and contracted the virus.

Enraged at Mercer's deception, Heller sets off to the Green Zone to hunt down Mercer's henchmen, including an Evolved agent in Gentek named Sabrina Galloway; upon confronting Galloway, however, Heller reluctantly teams up with her when she reveals she can help him take down Mercer. With Galloway's help, Heller soon finds that Mercer plans to infect the entire world through "Whitelight", a contaminated vaccine released by Gentek that actually serves to accelerate infection and evolution rather than prevent it.

Frustrated with Heller sabotaging his plans, Mercer kills Father Guerra; upon finding his corpse, however, a grieving Heller uses Guerra's phone to reach Athena, Guerra's contact who is revealed to be Dana Mercer. Dana explains that Heller's daughter, Maya, is still alive, prompting Heller to head for the Red Zone to take down Mercer and save Maya. After preventing Blackwatch's second attempt to level Manhattan Island, Rooks helps Heller reach his daughter, only for Galloway to betray him and take Maya to Mercer. Upon confronting Mercer, he reveals that he plans to solve international conflicts and world problems by infecting the entire human race, effectively creating a Superorganism with Maya at the center. After Mercer absorbs Galloway and the remaining Evolved, the two engage in a bloody duel, only for James to emerge victorious and to kill and consume Mercer.

Subsequently, Heller wipes out the infected in NYZ along with most of the Blacklight Virus; then using Mercer's absorbed memories, Heller locates and frees Maya and Dana from a vault. The story then ends with the three overlooking New York before Dana questions what to do next.


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Prototype 2 Reviews & Ratings

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Review by SteamedHams [user]
November 1, 2021

Tons of fun and action-packed carnage, made all the better by NG+ playthroughs on higher difficulties once all abilities are unlocked. It'sTons of fun and action-packed carnage, made all the better by NG+ playthroughs on higher difficulties once all abilities are unlocked. It's never particularly challenging but the spectacle and scale of brutality is never a disappointment. It's such a pity the company was closed down and we won't see another instalment.

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Review by Last_hope [user]
January 11, 2020

Good optimization on the PC. The plot has become more interesting than in the first Prototype, but if you have not delved into the plot of the previous game, you may get confused, but the game tries to explain everything to you as you progress. Something bad can not be said about the fighting, as it was emphasized in both parts, a pleasant innovation in the form of a combination of weapons with which you can turn beautiful and fast combos. We still have claws, a blade, hands hammers and a whip, just as our main character has acquired new weapons and capabilities. They are a bio bomb and tentacles, but we were deprived of the opportunity to build armor and muscles, they also took two types of vision, the infected person’s vision and infrared vision, but they weren’t used by anyone, but in exchange they made it possible to call for help not a large flock of infected screamers. The characters have become more interesting and memorable.There are more enemies than in the first part, namely, we got juggernauts and goliaths, and the developed ones who sometimes act as Mercer's minions and are like mini bosses. The graphics became more beautiful and the city felt more vibrant. What can I say about technology, now we have the ability to quickly finish off and the ability to tear rockets from a helicopter or a machine gun from a tank. For me personally, the minus in the game is that we are now playing not for Alex Mercer but for James Heller. We can play for Mercer, but only have a skin no more. For me, this is a big minus of prototype 2, because with the charismatic and cold creator of the virus we were given the chance to play as a sergeant’s boring and obsessed revenge. I advise you to buy the game in Steam for the full amount along with the DLS, since you definitely will not want to spend money.

50
Review by Daemorth3 [user]
July 4, 2014

Same as the first game, HORRIBLE PC port. Playing with mouse and keyboard is really hard and tiring. But not only the controls, the fps jumpsSame as the first game, HORRIBLE PC port. Playing with mouse and keyboard is really hard and tiring. But not only the controls, the fps jumps around from 20 fps back up to it's original place A LOT, and crashes do happen from time to time. Get yourself a controller to play with and the controls will be just fine though.Apart from the negatives, this game is very entertaining. If I would rate it on the console I'd give it a solid 7 for it's (not so well written but) interesting story, mind-blowing non-stop slaughter action and it's very efficient way of letting you roam the streets and rooftops of New York . I'd say this is the evil version of Spider Man.

70
Review by ChrisLight [user]
December 3, 2013

Pro of Prototype 2-Much much better graphic-Storyline is better-The ending is epic-It is very fun to messing around in green zonePro of Prototype 2-Much much better graphic-Storyline is better-The ending is epic-It is very fun to messing around in green zoneCons of Prototype 2-Prototype 2's mission focused on sneaking to consume some your target sneaky,Prototype 1 focused using the special ability on most of mission-Heller run slower than Alex-Alex's power is better than Heller's power-Shield too OP,it is possible to complete a mission by deflecting bullet and rockets-After you complete everything,Prototype 2 is getting very boring-Why do they make Alex became very evil person?

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Review by Absolute Games
August 30, 2012

By blindly copying the first game, Radical killed most of its originalideas and made a lot of mistakes. Prototype 2 is a derivative tale ofa stupid superhuman who walks in a city made of shoeboxes.

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Game Information
Release Date April 24, 2012
Publisher Activision, Radical Entertainment
Content Rated M (Mature)
Game Modes Single player
Player Perspectives Third person
Genres Platform, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Themes Action, Science fiction, Horror, Survival, Sandbox, Open world
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Xbox One