And while that's rad, it kind of points out one the problem with Prototype 2. This is awesome and led to me spending an hour knocking out side missions as soon as I stepped foot on each island. Although you'll need to find these locales, the general areas are marked on your map. There are infected lairs to clear, teams to kill and blackboxes to find. New York City is broken into three zones, and each section has a slew of side tasks to knock out. On top of that, developer Radical Entertainment nails what work works in open world games - collectables. Brutes that used to be the bane of your existence eventually become your pets and the first helicopter you KO with an uppercut will leave you feeling like the apex predator of New York City. With each mission, you feel Heller getting stronger and stronger. Absorbing specially marked characters upgrades your abilities so you can pounce on victims from farther away and increase the range of your Whipfist. Completing tasks levels you up so you can move faster, fly farther and become invulnerable to gunfire. Prototype 2 excels at making you feel like a badass. Sneaking around a base disguised as a solider and absorbing unaware enemies is cool. Leaping into the air, targeting a foe and swooping in for a claw attack that beheads the bad guy is fun. He's also packing the ability to turn people into bio-bombs. See, Heller's powers - given to him in a WTF moment by Mercer - allow him to create these tools of destruction, leap tall buildings in a single bound, and ingest people so he can steal their memories and shapeshift into their forms. Prototype 2 gives you five weapons to morph Heller's hands into, and you assign two of them to the face buttons. The setup is repetitive, but the action is entertaining. You'll partner up with shady characters throughout the journey, and they'll feed you missions that usually end with Heller beating the hell out of a bunch of soldiers or mutants. The story doesn't get much deeper than that.

Heller blames Mercer for the death of his family, and through a 14 or so-hour game (if you do all the side quests), it's our job to rain vengeance. About 14 months after the events of the first game, New York City is once again in the grips of a viral outbreak - supposedly at the hands of Alex Mercer, the antihero of the original title. Prototype 2 Video Review If you skipped the original Prototype, you won't have an issue jumping into the sequel.

Prototype 1 or 2