Games Review: Prototype

PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Activision, £34.99-£49.99

Rebecca Armstrong
Friday 10 July 2009 00:00 BST
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For a few brief minutes at the start of Prototype, players have a taste of ultimate, city-crushing power, and then it’s all snatched away. The rest of the game is a journey to get it back, andwoe betide anyone who gets in protagonist AlexMercer’s way as he tries to find out why he justwoke up in a morgue. Mercer is hardly the good guy in all this and the murderous rampages that accompany every mission begin to grate after the zillionthweeping bystander has been reduced to a puddle of gore. The problem with all of this carnage is that it becomes repetitive and even depressing after a couple of hours of play.

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