vandalvideo
Banned
JRW said:
Grab a helicopta, bail out above the needle, and hit the glide buttunz.
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The Official Prototype Thread
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Grab a helicopta, bail out above the needle, and hit the glide buttunz.
Chiggs
Gold Member
Played it for a few hours last night...somewhat cool and somewhat "meh." The controls can be a sloppy mess in certain cituations, and other times they work just fine. The graphics are nearly that of an orginal Xbox game, but a little more beefed up; however, the story does seem sort of interesting and the violence and profanity have been set to 11.
I'll give it a few more hours before deciding on whether to trade it in or not. Have to admit, I enjoyed Infamous and Red Faction: Guerilla far more.
I'll give it a few more hours before deciding on whether to trade it in or not. Have to admit, I enjoyed Infamous and Red Faction: Guerilla far more.
Maybe if I hadn't just played and beaten inFamous a few weeks ago I would like this game much more. I'm not that far in but to this point the way the story just isn't interesting. The controls are fucking god awful...nothing is smooth. The draw distance is utter shit to. What is the point of collecting orbs when I can only see them on my screen within 10-15 feet or so and not to mention the beautiful skyline of grey when down upon the city.
So far not impressed at all.
So far not impressed at all.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Well I must say peoples opinion on this game are up and down. I think that reflects on the scores the game has been getting as well.
I feel this game is just something people will either have a tremendous ammount of fun with or simply look at it as medicore to average and remove it from their memory banks shortly after.
I def fall into the tremendous ammout of fun catergory!
I feel this game is just something people will either have a tremendous ammount of fun with or simply look at it as medicore to average and remove it from their memory banks shortly after.
I def fall into the tremendous ammout of fun catergory!
Coin Return
Loose Slot
Once you get "infected vision", orbs become much easier to see and obtain. As for the controls, you've really have to upgrade air dash, sprint speed and jump power to really get a knack for them, I think. Prototype easily has the best way of traversing the city in any open world game I've played.SanjuroTsubaki said:
I'm 4 hours in and I'm totally in love with it. The only reason I stopped playing was because it was almost 6 AM. 
I'm just 4 hours in and I can't believe how powerful I feel when playing this game. I've done only 10 story missions and a crap load of side missions and the amount of destruction I can cause with one move makes anything I've seen or played in a game like Crachdown or inFamous look tame. 10 missions in and I'm jumping from rooftop to rooftop taking down giant fucking monsters and helicopters while completely eviscerating [/i the random citizens or police that get in my way. And I'm not exaggerating when I talk about just how violent you become with some of your moves. I don't even feel bad for all the little people I end up killing when they get in the way, cause they die so fast.
I'm just 4 hours in and I can't believe how powerful I feel when playing this game. I've done only 10 story missions and a crap load of side missions and the amount of destruction I can cause with one move makes anything I've seen or played in a game like Crachdown or inFamous look tame. 10 missions in and I'm jumping from rooftop to rooftop taking down giant fucking monsters and helicopters while completely eviscerating [/i the random citizens or police that get in my way. And I'm not exaggerating when I talk about just how violent you become with some of your moves. I don't even feel bad for all the little people I end up killing when they get in the way, cause they die so fast.
wayward archer
Member
I bought the PC version on Steam last night.. My laptop has a 2.5Ghz dual core, 4 GB ram, nvidia 8600 GT, and the game defaulted me to 1280x720, low graphics settings.
It runs pretty smooth except for some stuttering every now and then, nothing that interferes with gameplay. I know people had said the engine was kind of janky but I turned the settings up to see and it looks a LOT better than what the default was but is unplayable. At settings where it's playable it looks pretty good... not as good as the 360 or ps3 vids i've seen. I'm going to play around with my settings tonight and try disabling human interface devices to see if I can't get the settings up a bit or remove the stuttering altogether.
I will say it's fun as hell, and I stayed up till 2:30 last night playing it before I realized what time it was. Running up the side of buildings, jumping off, gliding around feels good. As someone said earlier, the sense of falling in this game is great.
It runs pretty smooth except for some stuttering every now and then, nothing that interferes with gameplay. I know people had said the engine was kind of janky but I turned the settings up to see and it looks a LOT better than what the default was but is unplayable. At settings where it's playable it looks pretty good... not as good as the 360 or ps3 vids i've seen. I'm going to play around with my settings tonight and try disabling human interface devices to see if I can't get the settings up a bit or remove the stuttering altogether.
I will say it's fun as hell, and I stayed up till 2:30 last night playing it before I realized what time it was. Running up the side of buildings, jumping off, gliding around feels good. As someone said earlier, the sense of falling in this game is great.
indigo-cyclops
Member
JRW said:
I've got a bunch of stuff under my HID device list in Device Manager; do you know if these things have to be plugged in to affect the gameplay? Or should I just disable them all?
Sysgen said:
Me neither, I want to hijack an helicopter
Well, I'm like 8 missions in, I could be very far ahead in the game, but I have to buy every upgrade available and play every event before going in to the next mission, so I'm maxed out right now, I'm loving this game SO MUCH, the level of destruction you can make is just awesome and fun.
The game is GREAT fun.
Fixed.SanjuroTsubaki said:
And of course, 'Wait here while there's a huge pulsating monster building across the street while I go pick us up a ride. We'll chill at my pad. Before I get back outside, tell me, do I have enough collars popped?'
Really, the game is hilarious. I can't help but enjoy it.
plagiarize
Banned
well, if you disable them all your mouse and keyboard will stop working, so no, don't do that. disable a few, give it a try, rinse repeat.INDIGO_CYCLOPS said:
indigo-cyclops
Member
plagiarize said:
Right, there's stuff like WACOM digitizer, etc...so I'm going to give that a shot. I also updated my chipset and sound drivers as I read last night that it could be a driver issue.
Baker said:
You can trow like 6 cars to the hive/base, you can order an attack, grab a tank, attack it with rocket launchers o make like 6 special attacks 'HOLD Y+B' and it will go down, as far a I'm in to the game, that is, I hope I can hijack helicopters later on, so that woul be another way to take them down.
backflip10019
Member
Just picked up my copy a few minutes ago. I'm going to start playing now and I'll write up some impressions later.
K' Dash said:
Yeah I'm wondering this as well. This is on the 360 version... I select DTS through the options menu, but my receiver still says "Dolby Digital 5.1".
I didn't think the 360 could output DTS in the first place... how do you get this option to work correctly?
(My receiver handles DTS just fine coming through my optical from my PS3. My 360 is connected to it through optical as well)
vandalvideo
Banned
Sysgen said:
You get the ability to jack helis later on. I just experimented with orb collection, and you can collect orbs while controlling a heli. So for those that are complaining about controls. Either grab a heli or stop holding down RT.
K' Dash said:
Helos make hives so easy to defeat. I mean, your helo has the ability to track infected water towers and hives. So you can latch on from the other side of the map and go straight there.
Played it for a bit yesterday and for now I have to echo what most say. The graphics are ok, they work very well for what you're going to be doing most of the time. The controls have a bit of getting used to and I already feel the game certainly gets better the more you unlock. The combat is average mostly but it's actually deeper than what I expected (at least when you first face those creatures, I just passed that). I like orbs, I like random missions.
The plot is... there. It's point A to point B and it makes me lol sometimes. Just don't go play looking for something with substance. Oh, and don't play this if you feel remorse from killing virtual civilians but that should be obvious by now.
It's overall a pretty fun game. As I said earlier I didn't play neither Hulk UD or Web of Shadows so this also probably makes a difference. Game is great to go crazy and play around, it's so easy to lose yourself in the city doing random things. Sandbox indeed. I'll go play some more right now.
The plot is... there. It's point A to point B and it makes me lol sometimes. Just don't go play looking for something with substance. Oh, and don't play this if you feel remorse from killing virtual civilians but that should be obvious by now.
It's overall a pretty fun game. As I said earlier I didn't play neither Hulk UD or Web of Shadows so this also probably makes a difference. Game is great to go crazy and play around, it's so easy to lose yourself in the city doing random things. Sandbox indeed. I'll go play some more right now.
vandalvideo
Banned
Fuu said:
After about 30% into the web of intrigue, the plot makes a lot more sense and is actualy quite compelling.
guggnichso
Banned
This game is fucking awesome!
Played 5 hours and I'm having so much fun... what this game lacks in the technical aspect, it makes more than up for in pure hilarous anarchy - dress up like granny and throw cars at helicopters
Played 5 hours and I'm having so much fun... what this game lacks in the technical aspect, it makes more than up for in pure hilarous anarchy - dress up like granny and throw cars at helicopters
vandalvideo
Banned
Darklord said:
It looks quite a bit better than that. I tried capturing an image, but there was far too much bloodshed going on in my game. Not sure if you can tell;
