I wouldn’t be doing you guys justice if I didn’t mention something about Prototype.

Everyone who has seen a glimpse of it wants to at least try it but they never know if it’s worth the purchase. It’s a fair assumption as the game only delivers a single player experience but I do have to recommend it based off the sheer fun factor you’ll end up having. Prototype was built over the past 4 years by Radical in Vancouver. They had created the last Incredible Hulk and are working on a new Spiderman so they know their way around a superhero sandbox. So this sandbox gives us three key features to enjoy. Movement, combat and stealth. These features combined with plenty of enemies leads to plenty of fun.

The story takes place in New York where a virus has broken out and the infected begin to take over the city. You play Alex Mercer and the virus treats you differently, mutating you into a very powerful beast. The military is attempting to control the virus and will stop at nothing to wipe them all out. Alex will learn about how it all went down and stop both sides if he wants. How does he do that? With a number of powers the mutation has given him. Wolverine claws, giant fists, deadly tendrils, different visions and armors and the best one of them all, the enormous blade. Combined with inhuman speed and agility and moving throughout the city is a breeze and being able to fight a zombie or a helicopter is just as easy to do as you’d think. You’ll fight tanks, helicopters and plenty of army men while also having to fend off the horde of zombies and their much more powerful Hunter brethren. The stealth portion allows you to consume anyone and steal their health, their memories and even their identity. You can use stealth to get into military bases and consume for new abilities and can use their identities to get yourself out of sticky situations.

So is it any good? The answer is yes. The game starts out easy enough and gives you plenty of points to spend on upgrades. As you improve your speed and jumping you quickly find that just moving around the city is as fun as anything you’ve done in a game. Once you start learning the combat you’ll be even more impressed as you find out that you truly are powerful and can take on legions of enemies at once without batting an eyelash. But then the difficulty ramps up and you are forced to learn how to handle multiple helicopters and hundreds of infected all bumrushing you. You’ll use stealth abilities to be able to survive these encounters. If there’s one knock on the game it’s that there’s only one mission arc going at all times with tons of side missions that only earn you more points to upgrade and don’t tie into the story much at all. But the side missions are good and fun and do break up the monotony of doing multi-stringed missions that can take some time. Using tanks and helicopters you jack to wreak havoc is an always fun endeavour however so there’s always carnage to do. All in all this is one of the most hostile games ever made so I have to recommend it.