What's The Plot? - Prototype 

Man they could've had something special in the sequel. Having a literal virus grow a conscious and have faith in humanity despite being well a *virus* and seeing the worse of humanity would've made the story of the sequel something special. Instead they decided to make him evil despite the plot of the first game being him learning how to be human. Wasted potential right there.

I will say one theory I came up with for why he had clothes on during the autopsy was because he's not actually wearing clothes, he is biomass and that is his skin. They couldn't take it off even if they wanted to.

One thing about the autopsy I'm not sure if at that point it was even possible to take off what Alex was wearing because they're literally his flesh at that point I'm pretty sure. That's why his clothing doesn't affect his abilities at all

One thing i liked to do after finishing the game, was to disguise myself as a marine and join some random squad near the redzones. They actually do patrols and clear the streets of infected.

Your point about the gas masks and the bloodtox gas. During WW1 the germans were trying new chemicals which were able to pass through British and French gas mask filters.

I can rationalize the coroners leaving Alex's clothes on if they were aware of the fact that he's one giant mass of virus and that the clothes are actually a part of him. Maybe prior to what we are shown they tried to unbutton his shirt and found that it was all one solid piece?

prototype has one of the most fun movement systems ever honestly, and its genuinely on the level with what spiderman wall running/running up walls should be

Alex Mercer made himself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.....but in a EDGY way.

Hey, I know the creator probably will never see this comment, but if they do, hi! I really like how you do content warnings! I tend not to need them, but they're really well executed, and very detailed. Thanks!

For me this game makes me think of a resident evil simulator, but you are playing as the bio weapon😂

I remember taking on the appearance of some soldier and playing soldier, killing mutants with them as one of them, which was more fun than being a tentacle monster.

19:17 Mercer expresses *really strong* Anakin Skywalker vibes. I;m talking about Revenge of the Sith, losing his sanity Anakin Skywalker. Becoming Darth Vader (before the Obi-wan fight) Anakin Skywalker.

Gas masks don't 100% block out all particulates/toxins. It depends on the type/grade. They could have intentionally engineered the gas masks to allow certain stuff through.

I remember having so much fun with this game back in the day, always happy to see it getting some detailed analyses.

I enjoyed both Infamous and Prototype but I ended up loving Prototype more. The angle they took at the end was neat, incredibly positive and beautifully human despite the game making no efforts to add any real morality system. I appreciated what it did, even if it somehow felt as if it was more on a dime to dime budget than Infamous. I remember having high hopes for the series after that banger of an end note. I was startled and confused by the direction of the second. The ending even more, as it felt as if one could never kill Mercer even if they absorbed him. Why make such a thing into a villain when it learned to be so much more? A tragic turn of events. The comics were awful.

love the unserious music in the background as u explain the grim world of this game. really sets up the mood lmao

I will absolutely use the term Science Juice from now on

We need a new Prototype game. Or one that evokes the same feeling of powerful destructive (and moral) freedom. And hopefully, with all the advancements in tech, they'll make the mechanics even better, rather than just a shinier realistic coat of paint.

is it technically cannibalism if he's no longer human and is just pure viral biomass with the only reason he looks human being that was his general shape to start and the main thing he eats throughout the game?

Quick explanation of Black light(A.K.A Mercer virus) as I understand it. It’s a super cellular biological entity/organism. That means everycell functions similar to stem cells, just that instead of stem cells with poly potent capacity (the possibility to turn into any specialized cell that they’re programmed to) these super cells are like fully actualized stem cells, meaning they CAN do ANY TASK as they are right now. Each cell has memories from the host encoded into it, and anyone that is consumed after. The thing is, once a host is infected by the virus, the virus rapidly begins to consume all of the host’s cells, meaning that what’s actually happening is the virus essentially consumes the host and takes on the host’s identity physically and psychologically, the result is a copy of the host who believes they are the same person as before just super powered, because when the virus infects a host as compatible as Mercer, there are only the host’s memories to pull from. However upon consuming more and more individuals and packing all of their memories into the super cells, it becomes harder and harder for the host to distinguish what they think are their memories and their personalities, from those of others that they consumed. In reality, the super cells of the virus are amalgamating all of they data from the people consumed into the collective mind of this viral colony. With no way to distinguish the original host’s memories and the following consumed memories, it’s inevitable the colony no longer has a personality resembling the original host’s, just remnants. This leads to the colony realizing it’s true nature, and no longer convincing itself that it is remotely human, at least that’s what happens with Mercer I think All of these factors contribute to why Mercer begins to act the way he does leading up to and during the events of the second game. *EDIT* : I made this comment before hearing he basically explains shit nearly the exact same way as I did 😂 mine just has more nerd psychology background info in there.

You’ve clearly never been to New York City before, people climb up building walls all the time. How else do you think they get across town during rush hour?? Sheesh, must be a tourist…

23:15 I always assumed Greene deliberately decided not to infect her, to keep her as leverage for Blacklight.

I love the Prototype series, I just wish it was good

Itd be cool if you played as a character with nanomachine T-1000 style powers in the sequel.

19:11 I can pin down what (I think) is off about this interaction It feels like the dialogue was written for a completely different scene I think the dialogue you got and the dialogue they animated for are completely different and Im dead curious to know what was that scenes original dialogue cause what we got blatantly doesnt fit

Soldier Sangria Marine Mimosa How do you come up with these? LOL Brilliant sense of humour

I had completely forgotten about this game, even though it represented a very formative gaming experience for me and was a mainstay of an equally formative period in my life! Thanks for the trip down memory lane

I don't know why I feel like mentioning this here but this game builds upon a Open World Hulk Game for the Xbox "Hulk: Ultimate Destruction". Prototype feels very much like the Hulk game with way more too it.

this game is a secret sequel to Shadow the Hedgehog’s brand of mid 00s black and red edgy and you can’t convince me otherwise. even the enemy designs are the same.

Ahhh I'm so glad you did this, what a throw back and honestly it pains me that they created such a good potential antihero character only to throw it away for shallow "hur dur humanity bad."

5:27 believe it or not, alex mercer's clothes in apart of his body for some reason, so he's basically naked But I mean buildings can give birth to infecteds and brawlers so this should be weirder

Your take on this game is one of my favorites. And I wholeheartedly agree. The lore and wider story of this world is very interesting and has a lot of promise and makes me want more. But what they gave in terms of the story is a little lackluster and teetering on the edge of interesting. Fun to play, has a special place in my heart, but I always wish it was done with a better budget and storyboard to flesh it out more.

Can you even call it cannibalism if you're not really human?

Would have been nice if 2 addressed pariah at all

As much as I hate what second game had done to Alex(the one we played, their portrayal of original one that died before the events of the game was kind of on point, it's as if writer of second plot forgot which one it is), it's kind of understandable that they decided not to go into more logical direction as that would be "biopunk grand strategy". The market demanded an action game and action game genre demanded depowered protagonist and final boss ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I also want to point out how gullible Alex is in the first game. I don't recall any other protagonist that gets backstabbed, blindsided, ambushed and slapped around more then him in a single game. Solid Snake needed several games to being even close to that and unlike Alex he's much better at predicting those and turning tables. Alex meanwhile just showcases his toughness by taking all the slaps directly 😅 P.S.: Karen was "killed" not in elevator after finding all web of intrigue fragments as first game was sane enough to leave her fate ambiguous because 1)the game needed at least some characters to return; 2)Alex had no point in killing her and you don't get even a single point of XP, sorry, EP, not to mention memory fragment out of it. Nope. She officially died on twitter account of second game where a poster was shown that said that she died by Alex's hand. Not even in the game. I'm really tired of all those "social media specific lore revelations" and "tie in comics/novels" in movie and game franchises I try to like and follow. P.P.S.: Dana IS infected. Greene openly says something along the lines "she's one of us/she's with us". She's just infected in the same manner as Greene, not as a zombie on the street. And once again, Dana not being infected is a retcon of second game. Who needed more recurring characters. And killed Karen. And forgot about Ragland.

I thought the twist was really good. You could guess it early on but probably didn't because it is a video game, often times they build up to the big bad final bad guy so you have someone to fight and feel good about defeating so I do think it used the medium well. And was fun to play something similar to Spiderman's venom however I never played prototype 2. Mainly because I heard "you essentially became carnage" and the story didn't sound as interesting to me from the bits I heard. The whole carnage thing is venom started as a villain but they did more with the character and turned him into a hero who has his own beliefs and you can understand why he does the things he does even if it might make prime heroes like Spiderman uncomfortable. Carnage is just a killing machine that they threw all 90s edgeyness into. He just likes murder and will do horrible things while smiling. It has it's place but way less interesting main character

as much as i agree about the autopsy scene from a technical pov, the reason they dont take his clothes off or hell even the hood off is because they cant, thats not leather anymore, just human flesh that looks like a snazzy leather jacket meaning the only thing they can do is a internal examination ofc after noting where the flesh ends and the "clothes" begin

I agree the writing to.this is bad. But i would always state wanting the powers of Alex Mercer. Used to have edgy teenager dreams of beating up people and like super jump gliding away

*Me:* "Hm... this person has detailed knowledge of the order of operations of autopsies. I am going to be very nice to this person for safety." ;D

Honestly, I'm kind of glad Prototype petered out fairly quickly. Though there's enough nuggets of good that a decent reboot could be possible.

Infamous: better story and graphics Prototype: better gameplay and rampage

19:16 The closest I can get to pin down what turns it weird is the choises of camera angle when she backs up against the table and how . Weirdly close he gets to her following that framing It doesn't feel like a way for us to see she's starting to get scared of him (which . Like you said she logically should've been for a BIT) and though it, on paper, is further showing of how uncanny Mercer was becoming, it feels like something you'd see in a shitty romance movie with a "bad boy" character instead of "oh shit my brother might actually be some eldritch creature that might just fucking kill me rn" This has been another "I think way too much about framing and my brain can't stop recognizing patterns" studios production

The autopsy with Alex Mercers clothing makes sense in this game universe as to what the adeptive virus with the cloaking and shape shifting eventually does as of 5:45. They do the autopsy on him because they are aware of his condition as he is patient zero in this case.

Subbed for the autopsy rant

I never really realized the depth this game had. I played it as a teen and the plot points were so jumbled that nothing really made sense to me. But I was also mostly interested in the gameplay. It was fucking awesome to get a game where you are just a biological terror. I finished the web of intrigue on what I think was my third playthrough and still didn't get it. I'm not sure if I'm just mentally obtuse or if the story just is that poorly presented, but it feels like there is SO much going on, and cutscenes consist of at most a few sentences exchanged, and because of the web of intrigue and it being fairly jumbled, it's hard to connect the two and the nuances. Then again my brain is currently scrambled eggs so.. Thank you for elucidating the nuances and sharing them in this video. Prototype is one of my top 10 favorite games.

The real irony of this game to me is that I have plenty of ideas on how to turn it into into an RTS or RTS/FPS Hybrid like C&C Renegade. Humans vs Infected. It's simple, but a good imagination can do wonders with it.

God i love protoype 1, i wish we had more fanfic of it

So this is that one game that appeared in an "It Has Begun" MV I watched all those years ago :O

Man I loved this game. Would love to have remakr or something similar. With actual story/characters

@24:20 To answer your Question mercers made up of biomass so even imitating any said thing does not mean it works like the real thing, he got exposed to the Gas there and reacted how he would have.

I still want a new Prototype game. inFamous really fell off after a while.

Gameplay traversal mechanics for the OG Prototype? Top Tier. Story being unique and told in a great way? Awesome. Combat? Total slog with weird Invincible frames, attacks you can't dodge, and weird shooting mechanics that worked for the challenge/trials, but were otherwise un-useable for you. Stilll, best traversal mechanic in an open world...which was why Saints Row 4 stole it and it still worked.

On the subject of Bloodtox, here is my guess. They also put it into their gasmasks of sort. Maybe to help combat the infection in other ways to keep their men healthy, or just as a just in case kind of thing? I dunno, its my best guess.

Gotta love the jaunty tune in the background while the video, for the most part, is all but.

The content warning followed by the music was hilarious 😂 2:16

1:52 so I can excuse that as if I remember right this is one of them games that starts at the end and then goes “”but let me tell you how this all began”” it was all the rage back when prototype came out and I don’t mind it so much apart from you get all hyped about been ungodly powerful then your back to be an ant that can die if a bad guy looks at you too hard.

It’s so fascinating, hearing about this. I remember, back in the day, watching some rando walkthrough of it on RU-vid and thinking, in my infinite teenage wisdom, “god this is just edgy and white-guy angst” and never thinking about this game again. Good to know at least the macro plot of the first game is actually interesting and not what I’d remembered!

Great video, I had a lot of fun rampaging around in this back in the day

Oh God, that music at the start brings me back

Personally, I love this game, and while its story can be a mess, It's a sort of lovable mess in my eyes. The characters can have the depth of cardboard cutouts, but when it's tied to an Umbrella Corporation-esque villain and extremely visceral gameplay, that stilted story ends up coming across as kinda charming. Plus, I just really like Alex Mercer. He's a deviantart era, emo edgelord, but he's so unapologetically edgy that he comes back around to being really likable.

The reason why scientists did not get the clothes off from Alex is because there is no clothes on him. He is a biomass in a form of a man, even the attire is made of that biomass, which is how you are able to perfectly shape shift into other People with no need to carry a wardrobe with you.

Game isn't very good, yes, but why everyone are comparing it with entirely different game? While Prototype is a slasher, Infamous is a lightning shooter, which kind of reminds Uncharted, with Assassin's Creed parkour. That's like comparing potato with Eminem

I agree with you on what the sequel should have been and when the story or comics for what happens after the first game.comes up... I feel like banging my head against the wall. The only theory I heard that made sense... Is that when the bomb went off and we got Mercer eating a crow to grow back... This left other bits that were less developed to also be flung about allowing the original Mercer to be brought back to life as the 2nd game foe. Crazy theory, but makes more sense than the second game story plot progression and idea.

one of my favourite games. remember playing this when I was young. nice seeing more people cover it even now.

*Prototype could have been a lot better and i mean both games now but the main point of the game is the gameplay and in that right it is near perfect, i often replay the game to enjoy it.*

How do you not have more subscribers?

3:04 she killed her because she was already gonna be infected soon, so they put her out

As i watch this i had no idea that cross wasnt paria till now. I thought the same as you. Now im really sad that they were never elaborated on.

The plot is a mess, but the Web of Intrigue system was cool and had a lot of potential. The game play was a lot of fun, but I actually think Hulk: Ultimate Destruction did it better. Really want a sequel to that even more than a third Prototype.

I loved this video. The jokes were great, the story explanation and commentary top tier. I'm excited to see more of your stuff :3

I love your personality XD you're really funny, Khanlusa! Awesome video!

18:30, I really wanna what they were thinking with this cutscene??

3:05 The woman was showed to be infected.

Prototype… my beloved, Oh how I wish we had more… :(

Good game

LOVE THE PROTOTYPE VIDS!!!

I played this and 2 I don't remember anything about them other than big claw hands

I completely forgot this game existed and I remembered basically nothing from the story. The latter I understand, as my English wasn't good and the story is a mess, but I sunk countless hours into this game :D Awesome video, just like the Crysis one! Your style of content and story telling/recapping is really good, well done!

I like your video but I have one critique. Mercer is probably pariah. Towards the start of the video Elizabeth literally tells Mercer that she is his mother plus Mercer is the only one we've seen with any degree of tolerance for the virus. It stands to reason that Mercer is Pariah.

Alex is just mimicing the look of a gas mask, just how he mimics the clothes, so it may seem like he has a gas mask but he doesnt the mask is simly just part of his body

11:44 *reads caption* wdym? This is typical behavior of a black watch soldier

this was the last thing I threw a tantrum for and by god I sunk so much time into it. Zero regrets and I fully remember grinding for all the clips and remember the story.

Great video, guess they ruined a great storyline before it could take off.

Haha. i really didn't pay any attention back in the day. Karens "Betrayal" came as a surprise to me :D Hell there are plenty of other things I completely missed. Geezuz.

welp I’ve found a new RU-vid channel i will watch.i know not who you are but you remind me of my friends and seem rather fun and intelligent two things that are becoming rare.also i like edgy videos if you also like edgy stuff may i recommend twisted metal. 6:09

Yeah i would prefer the latter when it came to the sexond because him tracking down the son and being a heronmkaes more since

5:20 your whole speach is mute Alex doesn't have any clothes that's his skin

I agree on the sequel, I hated how they made the virus such a cool anti anti-god conscience only to butcher him for the sequel to introduce the generic, "Why is the white guy always the hero, lets racially diversify!"

Can't believe that there was pronouns discourse in my 2009 video game 😤 /j

Pandemic in new york. You like it or something?

All this game needs to do, is run better. Not asking for much here.

I remember taking one look at it's cover and immediately deciding - no. Looks like it was the right decision. "I wish I had tentacles - the game."

11:55 funilly enough, Saboteur, which came in the same year implemented that mechanic with ease

I liked this game when it came out, the physics were so much fun and really game breaking for the day and enjoyed lore hunting in the world and turning into random civilians and terrorizing the public

A friend of mine, one said, putting Mercer fray’s villain arc explanation in the comics was what killed his character but I think personally the way they handled it was kind of messy quite honestly.🫀🩸