One of many gnarliest video games ever printed by a AAA studio is offered at a steep low cost on Steam. That’s nice information… if you may get previous the game-breaking bugs.
When Activision printed Prototype 2 in 2012, the big-budget online game scene was caught in a artistic rut. You would have no matter you wished, as long as it starred a bald dude with an unquenchable thirst for violence. Hitman. Spec Ops. Max Payne. The quilt of Name of Obligation was only a silhouette of a bald man with a gun. Even Mass Impact 2 (beloved, I do know!) fell uncomfortably into the identical bucket.
Prototype 2 is particular in that, with hindsight, it’s unclear if the sport is the furthest this development would go or a realizing parody. My guess? Each.
You play as former U.S. Marine Sergeant James Heller, and your overarching objective is to kill the protagonist of the unique Prototype. Due to mutant powers, you may run up skyscrapers, leap total metropolis blocks, and glide by way of avenues — think about the traversal of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 with a metropolis dipped in Vaseline.
In contrast to Spider-Man, Heller additionally has a bundle of ultra-violent supervillain abilities. You may eat folks in a single chunk after which rework into them. His forearms morph into mutated claws that will humble Wolverine. Even a easy punch has sufficient energy to juice a civilian; each enemy accommodates sufficient blood to fill a swimming pool.
Sadly, the sport is a product of its time in probably the most literal sense: the PC port, launched a number of months after the console model, is a catastrophe. You wouldn’t comprehend it from most evaluations on the time, as a result of simply getting a console sport on PC felt like a present. Publishers had been nonetheless petrified of piracy and barely invested within the platform. It’s a far cry from right this moment, when PC is quickly reducing into markets and publishers like Sq. Enix are rethinking their total enterprise fashions round it.
Now mix that 2012 drawback with a 2025 one: the trade’s common indifference (if not outright disdain) towards online game preservation, particularly for sequence that not promise massive earnings. The result’s Prototype 2 on Steam — a great sport failed by the trade twice, nonetheless bought regardless of many gamers struggling to even get it to launch, counting on YouTube guides and previous discussion board threads.
I like to recommend you play Prototype 2! However you would possibly need to dig your Xbox 360 out of storage and discover a disc. Bear in mind these issues? They had been nice.
