Prototype as the name suggest is a unique game (as per the reviews over the trailer). Prototype is an upcoming game of genre sandbox-style action game. It is developed by Radical Entertainment and based on an original IP developed in house. A timer counted down to January 8^th 2009, when it hit 0 the real website will opened with a new trailer and features of the game. The production company has not yet revealed the release date but it is expected to be launched somewhere in summers of 2009. Prototype will be launched on three major platforms of gaming world as PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox 360. The concept of Disguise and destroy is what everybody is waiting for. This one concept of the game makes it superior to the other upcoming games. Main protagonist Alex is tied to the feature of disguise and destroys. He can consume the bodies of those he has beaten and killed and can change shape. Once he kills an enemy, he can access to their experiences, memories, their biomass and their physical forms. Alex can also shapeshift into other specialized forms to attack, defense or sensory enhancement. Thus, the player gets multiple ways to complete the missions.

Alex Mercer is the main character of the game. He is shown as a mutated shape-shifter with no memory of his past. He is mad and try fiercely to regain his memory and find out what had happened in the past. Game starts when Alex breaks out of the morgue and exploring the streets of New-York. He is obstructed because of a strange virus spreading throughout the City. Infected citizens have been mutated to strange monster like creatures and military has been sent in to handle the situation. Alongwith military Project Blackwatch, an elite branch of military that deals with biological outbreaks, is also posted in the City areas. Alex has to fight both as he feels that Project Blackwatch is behind the virus and his state. It was explained by the developers that Alex doesn’t kills soldiers or monsters to save New York, however because he wants uncover the secret of his past.

You have to play with the superhuman qualities of Alex. He has superhuman speed, strength, agility, durability, and healing as well. And he can consume his fallen enemies and after shifting his shape according to the need he can easily moves in the city. Most of his powers are superhuman to say the least. He can run at a very high speed, throw car with no special effort, and sustain falls from great heights. But the most special ability of Alex is consuming biomass and as mention above when he does this, he gains victims memory, knowledge, and can change into their images whenever he chooses. Alex attacks enemies with standard kicks and punches that can be charged with more power and linked Together for combos. He can also perform advanced techniques like air combat and execution moves which are used to consume people. Given there are 750 combos he can perform. He can also achieve the body a non human. This includes forming blade like arms, clawed hands, hammer-like appendages and sending his claws underground to cause spikes to burst out and destroy the enemies’ vehicles. Abilities of Alex depends on the energy meter, when his meter is full he can cause a large combo, like large amount of spikes to shoot out the ground or cause sharp tendrils to shoot from his body in all directions.

Multiplayer was included originally but due to constraints it was later removed from the game. Due to delay in the release people started to believe that multiplayer will also be launched but Chris Ansell, the developer of the game cleared an interview that there will not be any multiplayer.

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