Proto Hype

I was eagerly anticipating Prototype, especially since the 360 didn't get Infamous.

My favorite part of the game was the story, or rather the back story told through the web of intrigue events. The story told through the cut scenes was kind of meh leading up to a "sort of" interesting twist.

I liked the varied abilities in the game although I rarely used anything other than whipfist and blade for combat. Patsy is one of the coolest powers I've seen in a video game. While disguised as military you can can convince other military that any human target is "you" in disguise and they will shoot it. The power takes time to recharge but if you have patience you can kill all but one person in a base without getting caught.

I had problems with some of the controls. The air dash is not too accurate. When just traversing the city it's not too much of a problem but when doing movement events it can really screw you up. Also glide doesn't seem fast enough to get around the city and running is even slower. Think Crackdown without cars to travel long distances.

Collectibles AGAIN! There are three kinds of collectibles in this game.

-Hints: Orbs that give you the same hints given throughout the game and on the loading screen anyways. And there are 50 Hint Orbs but not 50 hints so the hints you get repeat.

-Landmarks: These seem like they would be kind of cool. I was hoping they would show you the cool places around the city, buildings and the like. Well New York, must have some famous trash because 75% of these things are between two dumpsters.

-Consumes: These are interesting. They fill up your Web of Intrigue and unlock the backstory of the game. And as I suggested in one of my previous rants about collectibles they have unique names because they're people. But they are almost as bad as the stunt rings in crackdown. They don't always spawn. Since they're normal people running around they can be randomly killed. Even before you get to them. They don't always respawn.

I didn't finish all of the achievements for this game.

-Revenge Revisited would require me to play the game on hard which I have no intention of doing.

-Hard To Kill would require me to play the game a third time on easy. Who does multiple playthroughs of a sandbox game?

-Pt would require me to get Platinum in all events. I got Au (Gold in all events) just to prove I could. It took me a couple days. Out of 50 events I have Platinum in 15, so...no. Don't get me started on Radical

-Trail Of Corpses would require me to kill 53596 infected. I currently have 8964 infected killed on an entire playthrough of the game.

36/40 a 790/1000g
I did break 30000 gamerscore with this game.