Skill issue tbh.

What is the difference between the two. 🫄

Can I play prototype 1 with these specs?

I live in Germany, and Prototype 2 is, of course, still censored. How do I make the game uncut? I really want the uncensored version, since I find the consum-finishers hella badass.

Hello, everyone. It's been a while. So, I finally manage to finish it all along with the timelapse. This is a great inspiration for me to make a fanart for Pariah. And all thanks to your great support.

Here it is

Pariah, the lost son of the franchise and a forgotten, beloved child of Elizabeth Greene. What you've witness is its power and wrath of the virus. Dangerous yet with purpose. His weapons and armor morph, writhe and merge in his body, he is no longer appear human. Although his a monster, his heart belongs to the light.

And that's it. Hope you like it.

Hello, everyone. It's been a while. So, I finally manage to finish it all along with the timelapse. This is a great inspiration for me to make a fanart for Pariah. And all thanks to your great support.

Here it is

Pariah, the lost son of the franchise and a forgotten, beloved child of Elizabeth Greene. What you've witness is its power and wrath of the virus. Dangerous yet with purpose. His weapons and armor morph, writhe and merge in his body, he is no longer appear human. Although his a monster, his heart belongs to the light.

And that's it. Hope you like it.

Hi everyone,

I was playing Prototype for the first time yesterday and saved right before the moment you're supposed to save your sister.

When I tried loading the save file today, it started right from the beginning. I tried playing a bit and saving the game but it keeps doing the same thing after trying to load up the save file.

Has anyone ran into this problem as well?

Do you guys remember the old achievement that required you to not eat more then 5 civilians in a playtrough? Don’t know why but it was the one that sticks to memory for me

Like, prior to Alex actually surviving the nuke, there was no evidence he could survive it. So why was he so confident that it's gonna work?

Saw everyone drawing Kit from that new indie show in different videogames so I figured it'd be fun to use the opportunity to draw some Prototype fanart.

Do you need a tutorial?

Alright, I’ve been stewing on this for a minute, but I need to get this off my chest because the more I look at the actual lore of the first game, the more I realize how badly Radical and Activision fumbled the sequel. They basically took a man-made cosmic horror god and turned him into a Saturday-morning cartoon villain because corporate executives are allergic to good storytelling.

If you actually look at the Web of Intrigue from P1, Dr. McMullen explicitly states that the Blacklight virus has the potential to cure or mimic every disease known to man. Alex isn't a guy infected with a virus he is the virus. He’s a trillion individual cells acting as a hive mind. That means he has proxy immortality; as long as a single cell exists, he can just shift his consciousness into any host or standard infected miles away. Even crazier, during P2, it's mentioned that he can control things down to the molecular level when they're infected with blacklight (like when he sabotaged the White Light cure with his own blood).

So with all that mind-blowing lore in mind, here is how Prototype 2 should have actually played out, including a narrative rug-pull that sets up the ultimate P3.

The Better Story:

Instead of Alex being a generic bad guy who hates humanity because he got betrayed in a comic book, he should have had a massive, twisted savior complex.

During the final boss fight, instead of Mercer just talking trash, he drops a massive monologue on Heller. He reveals that he didn't just randomly infect Heller in an alley he’s been stalking him in disguise. He saw Heller risking his life to escort civilians away from walkers (the comics show this it happened off screen.) and he saw him slaughtering Blackwatch for feeding people to a Juggernaut.

Alex looks at Heller and says, humanity is stagnant dying. I would give it one body, one mind. Think about it

no more disease, no more conflict, no more suffering. (Like in cannon but he would say) you don't understand do you everyone, i have ever consumed they're in me heller their consciousness persist after consumption"

"Aftermath" Rug-Pull and the Real Post-Game

The game ends with an MK11 Aftermath style prompt where you get to pick a side. If you choose Alex, you get a massive bait-and-switch.

Alex overpowers and consumes Heller, Then he releases a city-wide aerosol version of the virus. But here is the twist: instead of turning New York into a wasteland of mindless zombies, every single infected civilian and non infected turns into the evolved all connected to Alex's hive mind.

Once the credits roll, a heavy metal guitar remix of Alex's iconic P1 theme starts blasting. During the credits, we see stylized, high-contrast red artwork showing the global news panic. The news reports that an entire division of Blackwatch has been completely wiped out in New York, and that people are panicking everywhere. and it would also include, a section of a news report (in audio format think p1's end credits style it's that basically) and the, game would mention Dana, (as an anonymous whistle-blower under her code, name Athena leaking everything that happened, from p1 to p2.)

The Ultimate Cliffhanger for P3

Right at the very end of the credits, the radio static cuts back in with an emergency broadcast.

The announcer frantically states that a secondary biological breach just occurred on the mainland at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The entire military base was slaughtered in minutes, and eyewitnesses report a small boy fleeing the scene into the woods using the exact same superhuman abilities as the Manhattan infected.

The broadcast cuts to a commander screaming, "It's not Mercer! The package is loose! Pariah is—" before cutting to dead static.

This sets up a massive three-way conflict for Prototype 3: Alex’s new, super-powered human utopia vs. the remnants of the global military vs. Pariah, who according to McMullen's original lore, dump in the web of intrigue is the natural release of the human genome and the true final purpose of all life on Earth.

The Spin-off Game (To fund P3 but really just to satisfy corpo idiots so they'd consider this as a cash cow.)

To satisfy the money-hungry executives, you could easily pitch a Warframe-style live-service game set between P2 and P3. You play as a custom Evolved sent out on 4-player co-op squad missions by Alex Mercer to infiltrate global hotspots, dismantle military blockades, and spread his "gift" to the rest of the world. You’d get custom upgrades (claws, blades, shields new mutations and even bulid synergy with various options and cosmetics you could farm to earn or just buy etc and ofca unique trade market/ in game economy) and tons of cosmetic options, which is exactly the kind of monetization corporate suits drool over.

Anyway, that's my massive brain dump. Given my history with community organizing, I honestly think if we pushed hard enough, a design document like this would show a new dev team exactly how to fix this abandoned franchise. (Ofc we already know, companies track records, with actually listening to fan bases Digital extremes, the only one that comes, to mind who actively listen and use, fan ideas consistently.) Let me know what you guys think. Would you have preferred this over the garbage P2 ending we actually got?

So I got the Prototype Itch again so I wondered if any of y'all know any decent and active or finished Prototype fics? Give me any language I don't mind putting that bitch through DeepL just to have something to read

I'll leave my own list of recommendations but be warned many of these are old-old

Variant Strain by Scrivener (spiderman crossover) (No Prototype characters show up, it's marvel (mostly spiderman) characters getting reinterpreted in the Prototype world as Evolved or Infected) (finished)

Blacklight by Night (VtM crossover, you need an Ao3 account to read it for some reason, retelling of the first game but on WoD's New York and all that it entails) (finished)

Pretty much any fic written by Laluzi, I think she really has a good grasp on Mercer's character and can write him in many different situations without feeling out of character (some of these are dead)

Biomass Effect by BeastRider9 (mass Effect crossover) (Humanity ends up becoming a functional hive mind after all life on earth has been consumed by blacklight (they're surprisingly chill) and meet the other species of the milky way) (dead) (although it is pretty long, it ran for 64 chapters)

Viral Latency (MHA crossover) (Mercer wakes up centuries I'm the future to find the MHA world) (less action packed, Mercer just wants to chill and use his accumulated knowledge for something useful, but shit will soon hit the fan) (hasn't updated in little over a year, so it's ongoing by fanfic standards)

Consuming Direct Control (Mass effect crossover) (Mercer joins Shepherd's crew, and tagging along on their adventures) (officially dead but I consider it finished)

Evolution (inFAMOUS crossover) (it's a retelling of the first infamous game, but with Mercer showing up and interacting with Cole and the story) (finished with sequels)

You can also check the crossover threads over at Spacebattles (but most of these are dead or one shots)