Prototype
Prototype is a PC action game developed by Radical Entertainment. It centers on platform movement and landing judgment, enemy and hazard responses, and stage objectives, with controls and information arranged around keyboard and mouse, with a controller where the game supports one.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.8 / 10
About this game
Prototype is a PC action game centered on platform movement and landing judgment, enemy and hazard responses, and stage objectives. Stages build pressure through routes, enemy patterns, and changing objectives, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Animation, hits, camera behavior, and readable hazards determine whether feedback remains dependable, while resolution, graphics settings, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio, text scaling, and hardware performance need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera behavior, collision rules, input mapping, and repeated ground after failure can raise the entry barrier. Platform conditions also include OS and hardware requirements, installation media, patches, drivers, DRM and launchers, key binding and controller support, save locations, mod compatibility, servers, and era-specific OS compatibility affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Prototype is an open-world action series about shapeshifters in a virus-stricken New York. You race across the city with superhuman agility, turn your body into weapons and consume people to take their identities, mixing destructive combat with disguise.
PROTOTYPE 2
2012
- Xbox 3602012 · 7.5 / 10
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Exhilarating powers with repetitive tasks and crowded controls
Prototype is most enjoyable when the city becomes a space for continuous movement. Wall running, gliding, hijacking vehicles and changing attack forms connect into flexible action. A target can be approached through disguise or direct chaos, and new abilities keep adding things to try. Missions do not always make enough use of those possibilities. Repeated killing, racing and absorption objectives increasingly offer progression points instead of fresh situations. Fragmented memories and aggressive sound establish a sense of lost identity and disorder, while the city itself is less distinctive. PC offers remappable keys and controller support, but camera and targeting problems remain during crowded battles. It suits players who value powerful movement and can accept graphic violence alongside uneven execution.
Strengths
- Traversal and powers combine freely.
- Disguises and vehicles enable varied approaches.
Weaknesses
- Repeated side objectives and rewards.
- Camera and targeting struggle in busy encounters.
Who it is for: Players drawn to superpowered open-world action.
Play notes: Original 2009 PC scope; graphic violence and untested modern compatibility.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Unlocks sustain motivation, though repeated tasks underuse the arsenal. | Reviewed | 7.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Powerful traversal and combat create freedom with less precision in crowded fights. | Reviewed | 8.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Violent powers have identity, with weaker city detail and narrative clarity. | Reviewed | 7.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Configurable input does not eliminate camera and targeting friction. | Reviewed | 7.3 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Radical
- Publisher
- Activision
- Release date
- 2009
- Platforms
- Windows PC
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Action · Primary genreAdventure
- Tags
- Fast-pacedReplayable3D GraphicsDodgeLinear LevelsMain Story Under 10 HoursReal-time CombatPlatformingSolo-friendlyThird Person
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2009
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