Prototype Comments by Christian Donlan
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the_dudefather
21/05/09 @ 15:11
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looks great, love openworld games with lots of spectacle and destruction (crackdown, mercs1+2, saint's row, infamous...the demo at least)
This and infamous should keep me amused for a decent while :) |
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kinky_mong
21/05/09 @ 15:21
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Getting very excited about this now.
I'm pinning all my hopes of having something to play this summer on this game, don't let me down! |
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Annoyed they went with the "here are your superpowers - now lets see how you do without" bit. If you give me sandbox toys I don't like having them taken away. But sounds like they have a good character progression lined up, by which I mean gaining of powers strength speed... Arg few good games coming out simultaneously... |
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Mentalist(air)
21/05/09 @ 15:28
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I was sure this was going to be a pale shadow of Infamous, and I was going to feel the need to get myself a PS3. How quickly impressions can change, eh?
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Unclebenny
21/05/09 @ 15:36
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It looks like it plays very much like hulk ultimate destruction, even a lot of the animation looks simlar if you look at it. With the exception of being able to take over cars and choppers. Def looking forward to this, i do enjoy smashing things.....
Smash? Unclebenny Smash!!! etc... |
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muscleblade
21/05/09 @ 16:31
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@zuljin
You havent heard of GTAIV? Its a sandbox game with multiplayer. Saints Row and Saints Row 2 also have both coop and multiplayer btw.
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ChthonicEcho
21/05/09 @ 17:22
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The writer sounds extremely bored. Countless analogies serve as padding for the preview. Looks like he didn't really like the game, but had to write something at least remotely positive. I predict a 7.
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RedSparrows
21/05/09 @ 18:01
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Is it only me who finds sandbox games get dull pretty quick (except large scale open world RPGs) - I mean, there's only so many times I can 'approach a base in a variety of ways!' (stealth! or...action! from a variety of points! OMG!) in the missions and then the rest of the game is subject to collectathons and contextless side missions. Even the thrill of jumping high in Crackdown et al is diminished by the...dare I say it, boredom that arrives - I might lack imagination, but I like to think I don't - I just don't find wanton destruction that fun, because you can do it all the time.
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RESIDENT_nEVILe
21/05/09 @ 18:32
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Nice preview, wasn't too hopeful for this, but you have piqued my interest.
Now I'm as giddy as an inner-city primary school child, laid up in bed with a nasty case of the Swine Flu and a dangerously high temperature. You can add that one to your repertoire of illness related similes, Christian. ;)
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teddybearzero
21/05/09 @ 18:43
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@Rodchenko
Yep. Those are the joys of a mulitplatform owner. Or you could just buy both on the PS3 ;) |
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Godhather08
21/05/09 @ 19:18
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@Rirekon who wrote; "Admittedly no, but the review really knocked it out of it's current price range for me - If Prototype wasn't due out soon I'd still consider getting Infamous now, but at the moment I'm not forking out £30+ each for both of them."
Dude, read all the reviews on the net from IGN, 1UP, Gametrailers, etc. etc., see the metacritic score for inFAMOUS, etc.. inFAMOUS rocks hard, Eurogamer are known in the industry to be biased, the love to ride the MS dick. Make up your own mind but not based on EG reviews. Edit. 'There are 21 reviews at metacritic, all are above 8, the only review that's lower is EG with a 7/10. No big surprise there, EG are inFamous.
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sanctusmortis
21/05/09 @ 21:23
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Godhather08: you're not the nobjockey off of GAF are you?
Look, Halo got an 8, and justifiably - it does repeat levels, it doesn't mix things up enough. It's not that EG hate on Sony, it's that they use a full scale a la EDGE. An 8 or 9 should be reviewed for a game not quite a system seller, but amazing nevertheless. A 7, that's a good solid buy. It's not a bad score, it's a bloody good one. And Metacritic can suck a nut, bloated as it is with tiny blogs kissing the ass of every game they can review. |
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timberwolf
22/05/09 @ 00:06
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infamous is prototype... prototype is infamous... both are crap and i won't spend my money on them.
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@Godhather08 - Wow, that link to the Darkfall forum was very eye-opening... the reviewer spent just 2 hours and 3 minutes playing the game based on their server logs before he gave it 2/10, most of which was spent in the character creator, yet he claims he played it for 9 hours? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm... I do hope EG don't use HIM again! :O
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muscleblade
22/05/09 @ 07:25
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"This will be as meh as Infamous sadly. Both okay, but hyped beyond their means. "
Infamous did turn out to be a great game didnt it. Very positive reviews. If Prototype turns out to be as good as Infamous im happy. |
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Godhather08
22/05/09 @ 07:39
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@muscleblade
I totally agree with you @Darren That just shows that we should never swallow what these reviewers are telling us about the games they review. Try and test for ourselves is the only way to know for sure. |
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squarejawhero
22/05/09 @ 07:55
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ABSOLUTE BOLLOCKS about Darkfall. Check the forums for the real truth about it. Adventurine have so far not show ANY proof that Ed Zitron only played for two hours, and were offered a re review anyway which they then turned down. The re review is going ahead anyway with Kieron Gillen.
Anyone who uses that review as some kind of proof that you can't trust EG is an absolute fool, do some more digging about Darkfall to find out why. Also - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPwI-Kq0EVw skip to 1.55. With problems like these, of course the developer, who charges 50 Euros and 11 a month for the "privilege" of playing, is going to want to distract people away from the real issues.
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Ashen-Shugar
22/05/09 @ 08:15
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Prototype is looking like 10 different kinds of win, all rolled up into a giant fist and smashed right through a skyscraper.
The smashed skyscraper is then mixed in a gargantuan cereal bowl with LiquidWin (tm) and is served as breakfast for Zeus. Zeus gives the thumbs up. |
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Darkfall cropping up in another comments section [sigh]...I think we can quite fairly ascertain that the Darkfall lot have take this way too far, as squarejaw explains above. The other point about it all is that they demand the review to be taken down and people even considered legal action over a bad review...please for the love of something, grow a pair.
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