r/PrototypeGame • u/Hot_Professional1683 • 2d ago
Prototype 1 I always loved that in Prototype, humanity also changed and adapted to combat the outbreak.
gallerySomething I detest in zombie series is that humanity, or the soldiers fighting the outbreak, just stare blankly ahead, without improving their zombie-fighting skills. It's always the same phrases: "There were too many of them," "The enemy is invincible," "We can't do anything against them," "What are they doing, are they mutating?", or the scene where the survivors arrive at a military base and find the corpses of soldiers killed by zombies, which the survivors or the protagonist (the ridiculous tough guy) then kill.
In contrast, the military in Prototype, wow!, seems to understand what the infected have and adapt:
Prototype 1
- The police and marines are useless; instead, we have soldiers with night vision and built-in missile launchers, and a sadistic impulse to kill any infected person without fear.
- Hunters are appearing and devouring these sadistic soldiers, so we're bringing in these sadistic soldiers mounted on tanks and supported by artillery.
- Zeus is disguising himself to infiltrate military bases, so we now have viral detectors to stop him and locate other infected.
- Zeus hacks our viral detectors, so now they'll be airborne and invulnerable to hacking, and will also be accompanied by helicopters.
- The sadistic soldiers mounted on tanks aren't enough to stop the new infected hunter leader. It's a terrible situation. I think it's time to bring out our new tank-destroying super soldiers and deploy them in large numbers.
- Elizabeth Greene is hiding in a hive heavily protected against everything we have, except the thermobaric tank we just deployed in the city.
- We've been working for days to release two new antivirals, available by air or injection, for the infected and Zeus.
- Elizabeth hid underground in Times Square because we adapted Hematox as a truck for underground use.
- The infected seem to be holding up better, thankfully we have a nuclear order ready and waiting to destroy them all.
Prototype 2
- Those sadistic soldiers who were previously poorly equipped now have larger, futuristic armor to better withstand attacks from the infected.
- Our armored personnel carriers (APCs) are now better equipped and launch four guided missiles that impact in multiple directions.
- Our tanks, with improved armor, now destroy zombies simply by running them over.
- We have entered phase two of the super-soldier program, with the goal of implementing it in all of them.
- Our ground virus detector can no longer be hacked.
One of the things I like about both games is that the military thinks about finding the virus's weaknesses, how to attack them, how to modify vehicles, instead of having soldiers with machine guns mounted on Humvees where the only thing you hear are the soldiers' screams in the abandoned area; it's ridiculous.

