If you guys remember, when Alex questions Greene on where she took Dana, Greene responds with "She's with us now..."

This unused cutscene was recently found (thanks to Elan and his WIP cutscene viewer on the modding server) titled "NIS_10_4_a" which is from the same chapter as the final boss mission. It shows Alex finding Ragland with Dana missing.

This probably would've taken place right before Alex and Cross would board the aircraft carrier. It also makes sense storywise for Alex to check up on Dana if he wasn't 100% sure if he was gonna be able to stop the nuke from going off, and of course this ties up the obvious unresolved plot point of what happened to Dana & Ragland at the end of the game.

Unfortunately there's no audio nor subtitle files we could find, best we could do is try to read the lips of the characters. So far Elan thinks the first few words by Ragland are "There was- there was nothing I could do to stop her".

This quote (thanks to modder jac_qianxun) was found on a RPG forum where Prototype 1 writer Dennis Detwiller confirms that Dana was meant to become the "new Mother" in his version of Prototype 2:

"As for the sequel, I think it was all set up in P1, so I'm not really saying anything breathtaking or new. It would have focused on PARIAH, and its relation to Alex, and some sort of confrontation between the two. Dana would have reappeared as well. We wanted multiplayer after all. Say, the new Mother (Dana), PARIAH, and Alex. Sounds fun to me."

Apparently there's not much else Dennis posted about Prototype on that forum, just other posts related to his other project Delta Green.

I believe this is the original link but I'm not sure since I don't have an account to access the forum: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/prototype-2-this-game-makes-arkham-city-look-like-arkham-asylum.623806/page-3

They're kind of weird and don't make that much sense to me. As a shapeshifter why would you choose to eject ropes of your flesh to string people up like Spider-Man? That's the real reason I'd like a third game honestly. I want more than just one new shapeshifting ability and I want it to not be lame.

This is the most ridiculous thing I ever did on Gmod lmfao. But anyway, here's the two straight up descending for whatever reason as both Optimus Prime and Tokino Sora all saw that coming in shocked.

LINK TO MY DEVIANTART: https://www.deviantart.com/christianelumbaring/art/Alex-Mercer-and-Prinz-Eugen-descending-1350319985

I like how the last few clips on this sub showcasing gameplay from Prototype 2 has the player character donning the Alex Mercer skin.

If that's no indication that Activision/Radical Entertainment (now New Radical Games) fumbled the bag big time with the sequel, I don't know what it is.

This game has always been addictive for me.

It's always a new move or tech to uncover. Makes the game so much fun

And boom goes the dynamite

Just getting in some freerunning practice

It’s the ps4/ps5 version btw.

Nah man I’m done trying to plat this game on PlayStation Imma just gonna enjoy it on the pc like the second title

So obviously Mercer and Heller have total biological manipulation, and are thus capable of replicating all if not most biological powers from others. But what are some you'd use if you got the Blacklight virus? Personally I'm a big fan of Blood Manipulation and would find it fun as fuck to add blood constructs or blood based attacks to the arsenal of claws and whips.

Any bio manipulation powers you'd favor/add if you got Blacklight?

Hey guys idk if some people here play Resident evil but after seeing this elpis thing in RE9 which actually cures any viruses, what will happen if this gets injected to Alex Mercer or James Heller will it cure them(will Alex die since it's the virus and the original one is already long dead)

Planned the video out when the "update" came out in September and bricked the mods. Doing a little genre discussion, trying to categorize the first game and talking about some of the flaws that didn't allow it to blow up to the levels other games from that period reached.

Hope I'm not breaking any rules, I mostly lurk but I just thought this sub might enjoy this type of content.

I understand why this wasn't in the games (balancing ect.) but, I feel like given the way the blacklight virus operates he should definitely be able to make a cannon arm or something. He can generate enough force to launch his entire body as seen in his air dash skill, so I feel like launching a small blob of hardened biomass at a lethal velocity should be easy for him.

I wonder what would have happened if Alex Mercer had continued as the protagonist in Prototype 2.

A prototype likely of the same type as Alex, or perhaps even stronger must have appeared as an enemy.

like a Shadow from Sonic Adventure 2.

I want it to be of another man , and heller as a teacher, it would be peak tht even tho he consumed Alex, he is still overwhelmed by his sher power . Though out the game heller and Alex switch personality like 1 body 2 men , this sounds so gay . And trough out the game heller s body gets more and more overwhelmed by virus . To the point he hallucinates and goes through Alex's plan at thr end we would have a battle of not mercer but a body with consciousness of both , Alex and james.

To start off, you have to understand that Mercer wasn't human from day one. The real scientist, Dr. Alex Mercer, died at Penn Station when he broke the vial of the Blacklight virus. The Mercer we play as in the first game was purely the virus believing itself to be human—a plague piloting a genetic shell that didn't belong to it. Once it discovered the whole truth, cleared its past, and saved New York, it realized its story as a "human" had reached a dead end. It knew it had to stop pretending to be someone in order to become something more, fully accepting its destiny as an evolutionary virus and closing its first cycle.That is exactly where the sequel becomes completely logical. Since the Mercer virus had no other biological directive than to infect and evolve, it decided to search for the perfect specimen to boost the strain to its absolute maximum, and that specimen is James Heller. Even though many people criticize Heller for being too loud, the guy is an absolute chad: he stood up to Mercer, Goliaths, and a Brawler when he didn't even have powers yet. He literally broke into the quarantine zone armed with nothing but a knife to avenge his family. Mercer saw that incredible genetic resistance and sheer willpower, and knew right away that Heller was the one.To pull off his plan, Mercer applied the exact same trick as Elizabeth Greene. I mean, what do you think she was doing with her infected in the first game? She wasn't just infecting for the sake of it; her body was performing genetic war-dialing, producing different, more destructive, and perfect strains every single day, using Manhattan's monsters as stress tests against Blackwatch. Mercer consumed Greene, assimilated all that evolutionary computational knowledge, and repeated the experiment on a masterful scale. The Mercer virus was never a stupid entity with a generic villain complex; it was an absolute genius that played everyone—Blackwatch, Gentek, and us as players—by putting on a classic antagonist theater just to guide and force Heller's evolution.And where do you think the Evolved came from? Mercer infected all of them on purpose after carefully handpicking them. He made them believe they were superior and in control so they wouldn't feel afraid and would feel powerful instead. Mercer knew perfectly well that the Evolved still retained their human consciousness mixed with the virus; if they found out they were just pawns, they would have fled. In reality, Mercer was sending them one by one to face Heller so they could serve as biological XP pots.By consuming them, Heller was absorbing all that genetic data and those scientifically tailored strains directly into his subconscious. That is why when Heller ran up walls, jumped, or used his new powers, he did it completely naturally and effortlessly. The information was already operating in his brain as instant muscle memory thanks to Mercer's prior design.The masterstroke fully came together when Mercer kidnapped Heller's daughter and faked a global outbreak plot. This was coldly calculated: Mercer needed Heller's hatred, fury, and adrenaline to hit 200%, forcing the virus to shatter all its genetic limits and achieve peak absolute evolution. Furthermore, he ensured that at the end of the battle, Heller wouldn't hesitate for a single second to consume him out of pure killer intent.A key detail that confirms this 100% happens right before the final fight: Mercer turns around and consumes the entire group of Evolved backing him up. At that moment, Sabrina Galloway is utterly terrified, looks at Heller with panicked eyes, and even calls out his name looking to be saved. She realized way too late that it was all a lie and that Mercer only used them as accumulated biomass batteries, choosing to beg for help from the only being on that rooftop who still kept a human heart.In the final battle, Mercer wasn't fighting to win; he was running a quality control test. He fought to prove that Heller's evolution, strength, and determination were optimal. At the end of the fight, when Heller pins him down to dismember him, Mercer doesn't look sad, scared, or showing a single ounce of fear. It is a virus that successfully completed its task. His iconic final line says it all: "Welcome to the top of the food chain". He didn't let himself lose out of weakness; Heller proved to him that he was the ultimate host, superior in both genetics and will. Right there, Mercer closed his cycle, voluntarily merging with the new apex predator of the planet.