Prototype 2.
Well, if you guys saw my last post about Prototype 1 and I gave it a 7, the sequel is literally, a 5.5.
The gameplay is signifcantly better, pretty much every problem that existed in the first game vanished, but they gave us less powers to work with, Tendrils (Which are useless), claws (Still useless after you get the blade), Blade (Not nearly as strong as in the first game, still really strong), whipfist (still as fun as ever) and hammerfist(Which is actually useful now that the blade was thumbed down), you also have your shields (Which, unlike the first game, are useful), but no armor, no vision types and not nearly as many upgrades.
They changed the EP system, instead of it being the usual "get EP, buy upgrades" thing, it's now "Get EP, LEVEL UP, get levels in stuff." Which really just destroyed half of the gameplay, plus you're forced to do EVERY. SINGLE. SIDEQUEST. and you'd need a freaking internet map to find all of these "sidequests" (AKA collectibles) to be able to use heller to hs full potential, as you now have to get the game's equivalents of perks.
Also, I don't live in the US, but apparently Manhattan is now divided in three islands, funny since it wasn't like that AT ALL in the first game. >_>
Though you being able to quadra glide and triple dash is a welcome change from the first game, and generally speaking I stil lswear you couldn't jump that high in the first game... You pretty much only have two devastators, a nameless "devastator" which looks just like Tendril barrage, just much less awesome, and another called Brawler Pack, which summons underlings, which aren't even useful unless you make it a 5v1 situation, which just doesn't happen.
Aside from
there are no bosses in the game, just the Goaliaths which are actually more annoying than genuinely dangerous, you get to fight three of them, THREE, and the only one that makes your heart pound is the first one, because not only is the atmosphere really awesome (You and the millitary banding together to fight one giant monster and stop it from destroying a tank, which is pretty much on a timer? AWESOME.) problem is, after that it just gets repetitive, first game had gargantuan and awesome battles like
but the only thing remotely close to awesome in boss battles in this game is the first Goliath fight,
Finally, Heller is just overall an uninteresting character. He swear every other sentence to the point of it being ridiculous, he's constantly angry and that just makes him seem silly, and in short, he just doesn't get to the level of Mercer,
, Heller is a Kratos Wannabe that fails miserably,
Spoiler:
They do tell you what happened to Dana Mercer, fortunately, and she is on the ending, and actually says the last line of the game, unfortunately, such line is "What do we do now?" and the credits just ROLL, the ending is literally like 30 seconds long. If that. Also, right before that scene, Heller DESTROYS THE VIRUS BY USING A DEVASTATOR-SQUEE MOVE OUT OF ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE AFTER CONSUMING MERCER AND CONSUMING EVERY PARTICLE OF THE VIRUS THAT EXISTS. Should I also mention that Mercer, the absolute badass's dying words are "Welcome to the top of the food chain"? Ultimate happy ending with no reason whatsoever, I preferred the first game's ending, it didn't leave me with a bitter taste in my mouth, even if it wasn't as accomplishing as it should.
And Heller lacks any sort of memorable lines. He doesn't have a "NOTHING CAN PROTECT YOU FROM ME! NOT MAN! NOT WEAPON! NOT ARMOR!"-esque line nor does he have a "So many voices, all converging together... They're all talking, all dying..."-esque line, nope, nothing, just pure second class Kratos stuff.
Unless you want this game for the pointless violence which actually gets really boring really quick, don't buy it, there's better stuff out there.
