8.5 out of 10

Prototype

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User Score (70)

7.9
Expert Score (45)

7.7
Value for money (6)

8.4
Features (3)

10
Sound quality (3)

8.1
Gameplay (15)

9.2
Graphics (17)

8.3
Sound (11)

8.9
Storyline (3)

8.8
Control (3)

9.2
Lifespan (2)

7.8
Overall quality (2)

8.8
Game depth (2)

8.2
Lastability (2)

6.3

Freak Rank

180 of 6788 in PC Games

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Pros & Cons

graphics, gameplay, intriguing story, good sound, good camera

fiddly controls

Score Distribution

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7-8		(30)
5-6		(8)
3-4		(0)
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Expert Reviews

maximum pc

8.0/10

2 October 2009
An open-world brawler with lots of guts Read more
- Spectacular, bloody combat with plenty of room for replay. Beautifully animated parkour moves.
- Uninspired missions and post-game challenges. The story is literally scattered all over the place.
Softpedia

8.0/10

19 June 2009
Overall, Prototype sways between a pretty interesting open world super hero game and a mediocre adventure, one that is a bit too challenging at first and filled with cliché missions like escort ones or chase sequences. Read more
- Wide variety of powers, Big open world
- A bit challenging at first, Subpar graphics
avclub.com

16 July 2009
Grittier and more gratuitously violent than InFamous , Prototype is a mature, science-fiction superhero fantasy that somehow makes players feel simultaneously powerful and vulnerable. Read more
- Traversing New York through a series of leaps, bounds, air dashes, and glides is exhilarating.
- Some mission objectives are more obscure than they need to be.
Aeropause

5.0/10

7 April 2010
Putting together an open world game can be a complex challenge for a development team. The stakes are raised several fold when you decide to use a real city for your open world environment, as … Read more
Gamebosh

7.8/10

3 May 2011
With open-worlds being a common aspect of games these days, it's only natural that gimmicks are required to make a game stand out from the tough competition. Read more
- Intriguing story, Plenty of cool super powers, The crowded street chaos is brilliantly done, It's fun to jump and glide across the roof tops, There's plenty of life in this open-world
- Unforgivably frustrating at times, Repetitive and dull missions, Lacks in the side fun department, Bland environment outside of the infected zones, Fiddly controls
GameShark

7.3/10

16 July 2009
Jump-kicking helicopters and elbow-dropping tanks never really gets old. Read more
- Truly encompasses the feeling of being overpowered yet still vulnerable, the huge freedom of motion
- Difficulty curve is an unpredictably jagged mess; AI has selective vision in detecting you as a threat
ActionTrip

8.5/10

2 November 2007
Prototype easily stomps over numerous boring movie-based action games we've seen lately and effectively covers all the necessary themes to engulf gamers in a relatively interesting horror/sci-fi story. Read more
- Decent story, enjoyable free-roam action game with plenty of challenges, great gameplay, a wide choice of supernatural powers and vehicles to toy around with, dashing through the city and across rooftops is fun;
- Perhaps they should've incorporated a multiplayer mode, some character abilities feel redundant, battles tend to get a bit overwhelming, little replay value.
Unigamesity

3 November 2010
From the start you should know one thing: Prototype is not a game, it’s not a sandbox game, nor an action game, nor anything else: it is a huge explosion. A blast. The biggest nuke in the world, detonated on the screen. Read more
Cheat Code Central

9.8/10

16 July 2009
All in all, Prototype is one of the best games to release this generation and is definitely the best game to drop in 2009 (so far). Read more
Cheat Happens

6.0/10

16 June 2009
Remember when just being open-world was enough to make a game unique? My how times have changed huh? Now-a-days it seems like every other game on the shelf has its own sprawling world to explore. Read more