Prototype Comments by Tom Bramwell

Is that US chart figures...? I think it is. Also, it's for May. When did inFamous come out...? Right at the end of May wasn't it...?

Here's my take on Prototype. In short: a flawed but fun game. In long:

http://tap-repeatedly.com/?p=3250

I have to hand it to you Count, you are a comedy genius, surpassing even the great Farticus or whatever its name is. You have that retarded fuckwit act down to a tee. Excellent, keep up the good work!

My copy of Prototype arrived yesterday nice n early from play.com and its quality!! Much more fun and varied than Infamous with slightly less pretty graphics!! However thats easy to understand as there is much more action and so many possibilities!!
Grab it I say!!

I love the way the focus of Fapula's obsession has gone from review scores to sales figures. I would piss myself laughing if Prototype quietly fell off the sales chart, if only to see how he would spin it to his own advantage.

He's just determined to see the PS3 fail, isn't he? Do you think a faulty Sony Trinitron blew up and killed his dad when he was a toddler?!

^ He's too thick for that. I think a number of faulty Trinitrons where dropped on his head when he was a baby.

I've not played Prototype that much so far, so I'm hoping someone with a bit more time under their belt can help me out with something:

Is it just me, or are the movement controls ham-fistedly obtuse and lacking in precise control in any way, shape or form?

Whoever compared it to Spiderman over the page was spot on. This game also suffers from an inability (in my short-lived experience) to control the character in any meaningful way that isn't a slow, meandering crawl. It's either baby-steps or careening about any maybe you'll somehow end up where you want to go maybe.

Maybe I'm missing something, but, while his running, jumping and stomping about looks impressive (and maybe feels fun if you don't particularly care about how you get somewhere), any actual delicate motions are impossible.

I suppose, on the other hand, this could just be a subtle example of Alex Mercer's uncontrollable nature; he is incapable of accurate, controlled movement. If so, it's a stupid idea, and Sucker Punch did it a lot, lot better.

Do you think a faulty Sony Trinitron blew up and killed his dad when he was a toddler?!

No he lives with his mom in a single parent family... unfortunately his mom doesnt work and claims social and so he cannot afford a PS3, thats why he is so angry (PS3 Envy).

lol yes, thats it. You spend a lot of money on a shovelware product with NO good games to prove to yourself how rich you are.
That's really , really smart hahaha. '''OMG I'VE GOT MONIES SO I WILL BUY A SHITTY CONSOLE EVEN THOUGH IT HAS NO GOOD GAMES AND JUST CHEAP KNOCK OFFS OF OTHER GAMES'' Hahaha.

I've never understood the argument that someone is too poor to buy a ps3. It's not that expensive, I payed four hundred for my launch 360. It's about the ps3 having no decent games worth buying the console for. Heavy Rain and God of War 3 look good, but not console buying good. No thanks, you keep your tomb raider, crackdown and force unleashed knock offs, I like good games :)

Infamous flopped, get over it. And as I've said, those aren't great figures for a week one release at all. Killzone barely dented the charts and that had better numbers.

Diving head-first into this stupid argument, the PS3 is by far and away the best console. Hi-def whatnots, Blu Ray: from a hardware standpoint it pisses all over the Wii and the explode-y prone 360.

That says nothing about the quality of the games for each platform, however, nor about the actual or perceived place in the market.

Saying "It's about the ps3 having no decent games worth buying the console for." is fine. That's an opinion and it stops you buying the console. Great. Saying "'OMG I'VE GOT MONIES SO I WILL BUY A SHITTY CONSOLE" is just wrong, though. The PS3 is an incredibly impressive piece of hardware.

someone works for sony hahah.

No one smart thinks the ps3 is the better console, just retards.

Blu-ray was actually technically inferior to HD-DVDs in many ways, needed many patches just to get some discs working, and was generally inferior. And yet, people chose blu ray. Why? People are stupid. That's your lesson for the day.

Oh hoh hoh ho!

You couldn't be more wrong, my dear Count. In actual fact (to go some way to prove non-bias) I'm currently playing Prototype on my 360. My Wii is still boxed up (post-house-move). My PS2 is sitting nearby. My PS3, PSP and DS all have places on my desk.

So, you see, I have actually experienced all of the consoles, first-hand and for extended periods of time. My 360 has died once already, and is sounding deathly ill once again. My PS3 has worked flawlessly since I bought it. I mean, you can't actually say that a console that the manufacturers had to put aside one billion dollars to ensure their constant working is better than the PS3? I mean, really? Honestly?

Hardware-wise, the PS3 is superior. That is cold hard fact. As far as game line-ups go, I'd probably give the edge to the 360's catalogue. But from a purely hardware standpoint it's second place.

As for your 'work for Sony' comment, I've never worked for anyone affiliated with any side in the good ol' Console War, until I got my current job. Which ain't working for Sony.

That karma system can't come soon enough, can it?

@Grogmonkey dont worry about the "Worked for Sony" comment, he always pulls that one out when hes been riled... most of us have apparently, because we dont agree with his fundamentalist views. Hes still mad at the PS3 version of Prototype/Infamous being scored better than the Xbox version, which he said would never happen ;)

I should know better than to comment, but you, Mr Fapula, are an irrational twat of the very, very highest order. Congratulations.

Do you want a medal? How about a punch in the face?

count your possibly the biggest little bell end ive ever come across, you make me feel ashamed for having a 360.

Tomb raider and force unleashed knock offs? They were 3rd party games you fuckin cretin

And utter shit i might add

And as much as i cant stand the ps3, its a fuckin top piece of kit, i haven't met anyone to have any problems at all with theirs, and ive met about 20 who have had fuck ups with a 360.
Plus im sure sonys cell processor hasn't even been half used yet.
Plus the ps3 line up next year wanks over the 360 it sickens me to say, heavy, rain god of war 3, Rockstar Norths Agent, Uncharted 2. The 360 has Halo 3 odst......................id rather hang my self and flog off my dad than play a fucking halo game.

So count shut ya cheap little face and get a valid point you turdish cunt

I knew it was going to be average even before I read the review, blurrrrrgggher what a let down!

Lolz Fapula you has been reported on the grounds being a massive as Xbot! You have the right to remain silent, but obviously that's a lot to ask...Congrats and hope you have fun removing a complimentary copy of inFamous, (along with your own head) from your colon!!!

I adore it when people say the PS3 has got no good games, because it either means you're in denial or haven't played one.

Fapula, I suspect, falls under both.

The problem I found with Infamous - by the time you been about 1/4 plus in, you seen a large portion of the game. The city is fairly samey from there.

"Diving head-first into this stupid argument, the PS3 is by far and away the best console. Hi-def whatnots, Blu Ray: from a hardware standpoint it pisses all over the Wii and the explode-y prone 360.
"

it really isn't in my view.

360 is equal to it as a games console, both are good. each are better in certain ways, 360 for online and PS3 for media due to BRD.

Fapula is being rather silly though. To say PS3 has no good games is as bad as the SDF claiming the 360 has none.

Both do. Own both and nobody needs to be a fanboy.

@makeamazing

Your arguments are false and stupid just as Countfapulas.

The reason Prototype has a better metacritic average score for PS3 has nothing to do with the PS3 version being better. Just different reviewers and less compettition on the PS3. And the old idiotic argument about one cant afford a PS3 is just lame.

@muscleblade You obviously havent been following this conversation, I was just winding him up, I dont give a rats ass about Metacritic scores tbh (as I had already said numerous times before). I know there are lots of posts, but do keep up :D

@makeamazing

Okay then. I dont bother reading all of Countfapulas posts obviously. They dont make any sense.

No worries, It can take too long to read all of these posts... he basically harped on about how Prototype would score more (and he keeps saying all PS3 users are idiots etc etc), as soon as EG rated it the same, he then went on to how it would score more on Metacritic.. then he started waffling on about sales when the Metacritic scores went south.

I guess CountFapula picked the wrong game. Prototype isnt anything special from what ive seen. Looks and plays much like SP:Web of shadows. And the achievements suck. Its like the developers give all completionists the finger by forcing multiple playthroughs. Even a playthrough without dying and all platinum medals. You have to get gold on all events to unlock platinum btw.

http://www.destructoid.com/how-prototype...

hehe Les, yes the fences are a little bit of a pain, but most of that article seems to have been written very badly (calling the Hero in infamous a pussy and saying how badly the name is spelt isnt what i would call good reasons to hate a game).

"hehe Les, yes the fences are a little bit of a pain, but most of that article seems to have been written very badly"

It definitely is. But I kind of have a small hunch that that was intentional. Especially the FF XIII section is hilarious IMHO. Great fanboy parody. :)

Just picked this up in exchange for Dead Space and some money, been playing it for a couple of hours. Having fun so far. The graphics engine isn't as pretty as some, but rendering so much utter carnage with nary a drop in framerate is still pretty impressive.

Maybe Prototype doesn't advance video gaming in any meaningful way, but from what I've played it's a bloody good laugh.

Literally, a bloody good laugh.

after skimming through this review I thought the score must be something around 4 or maybe 5....

Prototype is down to 77% on metacritic now. Just as i predicted.

can someone release a good game please

the only decent new game i've played in the last few months (and perhaps in the last six months on ps3) is imported and not even sceduled for release in Europe :(

I'd just like to send a nice big FUCK YOU to any developers that happen to be reading these comments. Why this outburst of seemingly immature negativity? Oh it's justified, I promise you.

Times Square boss: I have never, ever, in my life, come across such a fucking atrocious piece of game design. This has to be a poster child for All The Wrong Things To Do When Making A Boss. Unavoidable, homing green blobs. Unavoidable (when you're trying to hit the bloody thing) rocks thrown precisely in your direction from a long-distance jump. No tanks or 'copters nearby to give you options, no, you have to hope you brought one from the last checkpoint.

Oh and that's another thing, an energy bar the technical equivalent of a football pitch in size, taking about half an hour to destroy. That's a guess, I never managed it.

There are so many things that irritated me about this game, the parkour initially made up for it. But over time the unwieldy controls, the occasional "dick move" of disparately placed checkpoints (on a PC? Quick save or go away, please), and a truly unlikeable cast of characters, with little character development outside an utterly generic genetic-mutations-changing-humans plot (hell, haven't seen that one before, of course not!), combine to make this an above average game that has hints of greatness. But like Stalker Clear Sky, bone-headed design decisions make for critical, hardly forgiveable flaws.

Forget the ending, I'm selling my copy ASAP.

7 out of 10? With all the fun I'm having with this game, it's definitely an 8 for me. This is the second critic talking about draw distance and the orbs. This is not Crackdown or Prince of Persia. You actually have to be in the area of the orb for it to appear. You can't just hop on a chopper and see them all because than that would be too easy. Imagine if you could see all the web of intrigue targets at once? Common now. Sure the graphics aren't as pretty as Infamous but the game play and gore makes up for it. Yes this game can be punishing IF YOU HAVEN'T UPGRADED but after getting the AIR SLICE upgrade, you can kill SUPREME Hunters with one hit. Also the Thermobaric Tank can take out a HIVE or Military Base with ONE SHOT. Yes you can kill civilians like they are ants but there is a consequence! You won't get the "Nice Guy" achievement for only killing 10 or less throughout the game. And in this game, that is one tough achievement to actually do. BTW the sales for Protoype are through the roof :)