They're both open-world action titles with super-powered protagonists – but Radical Entertainment insists Prototype 2 is "completely different" to Sucker Punch's InFamous 2, which launches this week.
Speaking to Eurogamer at a recent E3 preview event, design director Matt Armstrong said: "The first InFamous was really cool and the second one seems to be shaping up really well, but we offer something completely different and there's space in the market for both games".
In an industry that grows increasingly reliant on remasters, few were worth complaining about, making the original versions preferable in most respects.
Not sure what happened with FFCC. They really bungled it big time. It's a shame too.
I really wanted to play that one too, but after the demo I was disinterested in buying it.
Glad Square really likes putting out demos. It can help you dodge a bullet. Lol
To this day, the Crystal Chronicles remaster still left me with a sour taste. I really wondered how Square reacted to the feedback.
I thought the Prototype games had terrible graphics even when they first came out. Pretty crazy that the remasters essentially got nothing in the way of visual upgrades. A resolution bump. Yay.
Let alone Activision kept those prices at release price for a year before they even thought to reduce them in a sale.
To me, this topic is pretty easy to answer as I recall laughing at loud when Bethesda announced that PPL on consoles (Xbox1 and Ps4) would need to buy Skyrim Special edition and it would be free for existing pc Owner because it was basically the same game at max setting.
I often gave this answers to numerous ppl who where happy about paying 40$ for cheap remaster that would have been free on PC by saying everybody wins PC players gets the upgrade for free because they never paid in the past for quick fix that a mod of graphics card could do and Consoles players get to pay because they love paying and defend the practice of paying (like the numerous I have a VHS tape of the movie why don't they give me a free DVD version).
So for me, any crappy Remasters that deserve to be on this list are the ones that only give a frame boost and resolution boost for a full-price experience from the previous generation. Now ill exclude compilations like Batman, Uncharted Trilogy, Bioshock Trilogy, etc. because they were actually giving you more than 1 game so I'll count them as a collection instead of remasters Nor should I included games that have complete remade graphics or add new playable elements (Metro 2033 Redux, Quake, Gears of War Ultimate)
Since there are too many games ill give some example that comes to mind: Heavy Rain Remaster, The Last of US remaster, God of War 3 remasters, Burnout Paradise city Remaster, Tomb Raider Definitive Edition. Baja: Edge of Control HD, etc.
Again my main complaint here (has it was last gen) is that these kinds of remastering are now free (called performance patches now) but were sold at a premium price despite having almost no work to put in.
Andrea Gennaro has released a HD Texture Pack for Prototype 2 that improves the textures of all the three zones (Red, Green and Yellow) of the game.
I can’t get it to work, I got the two HD packs and when I tried to run that Tex.exe nothing happens.
It's not rare for the hero to become the villain in video games. Luke Lube looks at five of the best good guys gone bad from Big Boss to Jill Valentine.
Of course both games are different, everyone knew that, but the comparison back in 2009 was bound to exist as they were both releasing at the same time (a 2 week difference if I remember correctly).
Since they featured a main character (with powers) roaming freely in an open world with a lot of (secondary) missions available, most people had to make a choice.
That's why the debate of "inFamous or Prototype? Which one is better?" existed, even if inFamous was a PS3 exclusive.
Now it's been 2 years, inFamous 2 is about to be unleashed but Prototype 2 has a 2012 release date, so this time around there isn't any debate.
People can get both games, should they like them.
In the end, the only thing that matters is that both inFamous 2 and Prototype 2 appear to be incredibly fun games that look much better than their 2009 counterparts.
Well now that's confirmed for inFamous 2. Radical Entertainment still has a few months to show how much they've listened to their players' feedback.
Edit: But anyway, even with all their similarities, it is true they offer completely different experiences. In inFamous, you feel like you're a very powerful superhero/villain. In Prototype, you're an almost invincible god. Both games feature different parkour/combat mechanics. I mean, really, running on buildings and flying around: "whoa".
Second Edit: Laughed when I got an inFamous 2 ad right after clicking on the article's video.
I though we settled this over which protagonist looked better in women's lingerie??
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The biggest difference is that prototype makes you feel like you can overcome the world while infamous makes you feel like a part of it without overcoming it. I like both games for both reasons. When I want to have crazy overpowered fun play prototype and when i want to have some toned down lightning fun i play infamous.
*nods*
Well said. None of that mud-slinging, we all usually see.
Was I the only person that bought both of them???