for those wondering why Alex turned evil between 1 and 2, there is a comic explaining it, divided into 3 tales: Mercer's tale, Survivors Tale, and Heller's Tale. in Mercer's Tale, he tried to find a reason to stay human, traveling around the world, taking out bad men but also seeing how bad people can be. he almost found a reason with a nice grandfather and his granddaughter in Alaska, even trying to protect them from a kingpin... but when he found out they were working with the kingpin and tortured a lot of people, he gave up and turned into the villain.
I thought Mercer died and the virus was just mimicking what Mercer was like, later the virus realized what was happening and Mercer became evil because the virus wanted a host that is better. Which heller became that new host.
Its tragic, mercer virus want to give a world without disease or suffering, but mercer virus essentially doing what normal virus would, "infecting" everyone and you basically undo everything in the first game, the good mercer virus believe it have humanity but it ultimately only doomed more people. In the first game alex is just confused anti hero who want to find his identity, but the second game is essentially mercer virus want to spread the virus that "justifies the mean". Hes the Big Boss in this universe.
_NØ NλϺΣ_ true to every word, mercer rose and became evil, he infected heller perhaps to give his good side a fighting chance since hes gone full mad, heller might do the same as mercer, letting the virus grow and control him
Maybe Mercer wants heller to consume him so he can eat Heller from the inside and become heller himself since HE is the VIRUS itself. You think the ViRUS itself who evolve it so stronger would just lose to someone with "resilient dna" And mercer is a lateral thinker he has plans
If you ever find yourself in a helicopter crash, simply assume the standard impact safety position (Commonly known as a T-pose) and remain completely still. An explosion's vision is based on movement, so you should be fine. 54:23
Hello, Everyone missed the point . Have a look at 5:19 which clearly shows that heller is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and that he does not care for his own life. Also if you go back a few seconds back you will it clearly says heller himself requested to be posted to red zone.
I feel like this game was underrated but I loved it! The freedom of being powerful and doing what most video game characters can’t was a breath of fresh air
The tone of this game was amazing. Regardless of where you stand on the story, something about the military/zombie/superhero fusion just made you feel like such a badass. I’ve been waiting on prototype 3 since I was a kid... here’s to hoping 2021 🙏
prototype 1: mercers story (the virus really, not merer, mercers died and the virus took his form) prototype 2: hellers story prototype 3: pariahs story? come on, they made him sound so badass and ominous in prototype 1
To be honest i didn't know Colonel Rooks was a father what i heard him while he was talking on the phone and said something like "how's my little girl" i was like"Colonel Rooks has a daughter?" You know what? I don't know about y'all but I'm glad James let Rooks live because if he killed Rooks, his wife and daughter would be devastated
agreed 👍 only played Prototype 1 and watched Prototype 2 trailer and find out that Alex is no longer the protagonist so nope, I had second thoughts on playing the 2nd game. but I'm eager to watch this vid 'cause I know Alex is here..
I forgot my name nah mercer didnt seem bored he was like that because he had no memory of his past also the story is shit in p2 because u never expect mercer to make evolved and infect the city like what he did to penn station and plotholes like how the fuck does heller beat mercer when he is beyond the virus
The writing in the second game is so bad. There's quite a few ways they could have made the story work without Mercer doing a 180 and becoming a flat generic villain
I get why they changed the protagonist from Alex Mercer to heller because the more you think about it Alex Mercer did technically become a villain by the end of the first game but that’s just me
I wasn't mad at P2 for making Alex the villain or killing him off or changing his voice actor (which was cast perfectly for P1) or for any other reason. My only beef was, lack of character development. The whole Elizabeth Greene & Pariah angle (well built up) was completely dropped and we got a random angsty soldier as the protagonist who just randomly ended up with the Mercer virus and ended up killing him. Could be just me but it felt that P2 was rushed and the writers simply made up the story as they went along. P1 was original, new, refreshing but P2 was just a mash-up of every Hollywood stereotype for a typical action movie.
@Sub To Me Cust U Can The comics still makes a pretty shitty excuse as to why Mercer suddenly decided to say "Fuck you humanity" and decided to infect everyone
100% agree. He could have just accidentally infected people, or was trying to improve people who wanted to become infected, and then they spiral out of control.
In my opinion,if they havent killed Mercer in this game,like a whole different storyline would be better,but still,the game storyline is still amazing.
These 2 games were amazing, stealing helicopter flying low in the city watching people turn and street by street the virus spread, panic in the street, people running chased by infected. Running up skyscrapers, flying, throwing tanks. these games were amazing and I miss them
Not many characters can be both a good hero and a good villain, but Alex Mercer fits both roles. Very underrated character if you ask me. I'd love to see these games remastered.
That's not happening any time soon because at the end James consumed everyone and everything that had the virus so that means no more virus and with no more virus means no more black watch and with no black watch means you won't be fighting anyone and also activision probably isn't interested in publishing another prototype
C: Heller is gathering up Whitelight and he's bringing it to the incinerator? I don't know what this means! H: Means I'm better at your job than you are. Sad truth about any NPC ever.
1:47:05- *anytime he's sent on a mission that has a high chance of him dying, because those missions are mostly from people who want to see him dead* Heller: "I can't wait." 1:50:49- "Well he just did."
Alex Mercer was moved for the twisted goal of helping humanity to evolve James Heller was moved for his only goal. To protect his daughter. Emotions will always have a way to beat cold logic because thats what humanity is about. If we change that, we are no longer human.
And the excuse the comics gave was complete shit. I don't care that Mercer was a villain(let's be honest, a guy who treats innocent civilians as health potions isn't exactly hero material), but the Real issue is that they made him a 1-dimensional, mustache-twirling cartoon. His plan/motives are garbage and he monologues like he just captured batman.
He even absorbs people the same way as Alex. Alex changed Heller to be like him. The Mercer virus is an insatiable, unstoppable Force of nature. It's fucking awesome 😄
I always was disappointed by Mercer’s motivations in this game. Something that would have been better could have been this: Instead of Mercer suddenly subscribing to a belief of “survival of the fittest” and randomly infecting Heller for no real reason, it could be revealed at Prototype 2’s end that the virus within Mercer became too powerful to control. See, with enough biomass stored within the infected host, the primary strain within Mercer reached the stage of its existence where it wanted to spread and reproduce within a new host. He MIGHT have believed that he could just discharge biomass in what he thought was an empty train station to better contain it within himself, but the resulting explosion was far more devastating than he’d predicted, and he unwittingly causes a second outbreak. Completely horrified from what he’d done, he suddenly breaks contact from everyone he loves and drives himself to the brink of insanity from his overwhelming guilt. That’s when he realizes that the only one who can stop him is someone LIKE him; and so he reluctantly takes charge of the Blacklight virus hordes, allowing them to spread but, in reality, also guiding them with the Evolved in such a way as to keep the virus from becoming too devastating. All the while, he is looking for a man worthy of getting infected with his primary strain, and comes across Heller, who already has an undying hatred of him. He infects Heller and continues tormenting him all throughout the game, becoming the absolute worst version of himself in order to show Heller exactly the kinds of horrors a being like himself can do with the primary strain when left unchecked. He makes Heller despise him because he wants to make ABSOLUTELY SURE that Heller never BECOMES him. To make sure that with his death, Weller doesn’t just wait and bottle up the virus in fear until it forces its way back out. After this revelation, Mercer finally tells Heller that if he consumes him, then the two primary strains will internally clash, one trying to consume the other resulting in both eventually nullifying themselves and becoming inert, bringing the Blacklight virus to an end once and for all. This would be the good ending. On the other hand, Heller could be changed for the worse by Mercer’s tormenting and can simply consume Mercer’s biomass for himself, bestowing unimaginable power into Heller and ensuring the Blacklight life cycle continues without end. In the end, you are the one who decides the future of the virus. You are the one who chooses to “kill your maker;” be it either to save the world, or to one day, eventually rule it.
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I personally prefer 2's story to 1's. I think the writing is fine, and the final boss, in my opinion, was definitely worth it due to the impact it leaves. (Also, I just think Mercer as a villain is cool) Also, I'd argue that calling Mercer a hero or anti-hero in the first game is pushing the envelop of that definition.
Played Prototype 1 a year ago and I still like Alex Mercer. Since I find out there's a Prototype 2, I went excited but after watching the trailer, I find out there's a new protagonist. Still, that doesn't change the fact that Alex is better whether it be a protagonist or the antagonist. I always thought he's still alive 'til now since the Mercer virus came from him, that means he still have the means to control it. Thanks for uploading this high quality game scenes. Alex Mercer will return.
Alex Mercer is a codename/nickname, if anything Mercer is a it and is nothing but a walking virus with many identities only thing is Alex Mercer as an identity was literally lazer printed onto its brain. But Mercer or Heller, both are good in their own terms, Mercer is doing what it can to survive and turn the entire virus around, whether its to start a new world, or kill it all at once. Heller understands the power but his humanity keeps him walking, if the Mercer virus had 2 sides, Mercer and Heller are the sides.
2:17:55 This cutscene proved something for me, Heller is better than Mercer. Now before you go ahead and start hating on the replies because i disagreed with you, hear me out, i too used to love Mercer. I still do, just not more than Heller anymore. Mercer is cool, yes, but he is boring. He had no character especially in Prototype 1. Of course he had cool moments, but as in character, he was poor. He had no valid reason to kill thousands and infect a city but he still did. Sure you could argue that the reason why he released the virus was because Blackwatch were trying to remove every person that worked and knew about the virus, but he still did release it. Alex Mercer was selfish. He relased the virus at Penn Station because he was cornered and was about to die so he decided he will take others with him. The virus is also selfish. He killed thousands just to learn his past. And he infected the city once and planned on doing it twice with whitelight. Heller lost his daughter (or atleast he thought he did at the beginning) and his wife. Someone in the comment section said that he was stupid to go after mercer with a knife but thats the thing, he had nothing to lose. He went after him for a slight chance of murdering him. Now back to the cutscene i was talking about. Heller showed humanity in that cutscene. He decided not to kill Rooks because he heard that he had a daughter and he showed empathy, something that Mercer never made in both games. This was my personal opinion, and it was not an attack towards anyone.
Alex had the virus as insurance, so they just wouldn't kill him outright. But, Blackwatch didn't care, and was going to kill him anyway, so as already dying man he figured he'd throw down the vial. Turned out that saved him. At the end of Prototype, Alex regrets him initially releasing the virus both times, as well as all the people he killed. And, he goes out of his way to ensure NYC doesn't get nuked, even at the chance of him dying.
@@T4nkcommander mercer only destroyed the nuke to save himself, the virus as godlike as it is would not of been able to save him otherwise, it needs some sort of life form to recuperate itself, and a nuked city would of killed all lifeforms, thus killing mercer.
@@dveronica8591 except the ending makes no sense in that case, because he could have easily survived the city nuking given he survived it in the helo disposing of it. Why risk sacrificing himself to save the city when he could just go underground and survive the nuke? Clearly he wanted to help as he worked with Cross...you are ignoring all of the late game cutscenes.
Okay now that I am rewatching this I noticed something very interesting that no one has before. After heller escapes from Koenigs experiment in the beginning and when he meets mercer for second time then Mercer say 'I did not kill your wife and daughter'. Now how did Mercer know that ? Again when he leaves he says 'put some clothes on' and clothes magically appear on heller. Mercer might be controlling heller from the very moment he first did that thing to him. This is something no one noticed. This whole Mercer-Blacklight story is bigger then we thought.
Prototype and Prototype 2 aren't better or worse than the other. Just different. Can't a story be different with the complexity of this one? Remember, the virus isn't these two men. They're dead. Only the virus lives and does whatever it pleases.
Mercer’s such a charismatic, badass protagonist of the entire Prototype series. Heller, on the other hand, he’s a sarcastic one, but I can’t say that he’s much powerful than Mercer.
I almost wish that Heller joined Mercer. Imagine what they'd do together. I'm not saying it would be good, but... It came to mind. What if he wasn't shown the footage that Mercer started the outbreak and had told him from the beginning that there were others like him. Heller doesn't strike me as a hero and even he said that he's no hero.
Heller is a beast. He would also call you a "bitch" and his red negan scarf is dope too. As a black dude I dont have too many games with black main protagonists so I throughly enjoyed that too. I love Alex but James is better. Yall gonna put some respeck on Heller's name!
Game woulda been a million times better if they just kept him as a human, and gave him experimental weaponry to fight blacklight. Like..LOOK AT THE OPENING CUTSCENES OF HIM, HE’S RUNNIN’ N’ GUNNIN’ WITH A BOWIE KNIFE.
Everyone keeps saying mercer's gonna regenerate inside heller, but think about it, Alex was the virus, the one thing it didn't have was a host of it's own, someone to sustain it's life functions while it can do whatever it wants instead of putting all that effort into keeping itself alive, so basically I think mercer was making heller his apprentice, and in turn evolving to a new level because he, (the virus), now has a stronger host
So pretty much I'm guessing that Alex planned his defeat he is the brains in this entire game, every thing he did or wanted to do came out perfectly so I'm guessing that Alex let Heller "consume" him for so.e unknown reason, I'm guessing that sense Alex is the one who mixed the virus into Hellers genes he wanted to be consumed so that he can take over what's left of Hellers human genes and then take form once again, I'm just guessing so don't kill me with a bunch of comments.
I have always found it interesting how your perception of the world changes when Heller becomes evolved. When you're human, it's an apocalyptic warzone, a brawler seems like an undefeatable demon ripping everything to shreds. The whole intro section in the red zone feels like a horror movie, there's death at every corner. But after Heller gets turned into evolved, he gains so much power, the world becomes your playground. Tanks, helicopters, brawlers and other bigger monsters become just minor annoyances and free biomass. You don't even notice it that you kill a couple dozen civilians by accident as collateral damage when shooting RPGs at blackwatch, or dropping hammerfists from a rooftop on a military squad in a populated street. You can kinda feel the level of power at your disposal when Heller is able to rip off a tank's head and smack the bottom of the tank with it. That thing weights like a couple of tons at least. And when the evolved are fighting each other, just imagine the power of each strike. It would be very interesting to see the Prototype world just through the eyes of a regular blackwatch soldier or a civilian.
It’s now been over a decade since this game released, and it holds up surprisingly well. There’s a lot still to speculate about Alex Mercer’s motives in particular. He said he wanted to bring all life into one body and one mind to end all conflict and suffering and yet the first thing James Heller does after defeating and absorbing Alex Mercer into himself is immediately absorb all the infected into himself as well. It makes me wonder if Mercer let himself lose because the outcome of the fight hardly changed his plan. James Heller and Alex both died at the beginning of their stories so all that really happens in the end is all the biomass and memories accumulate back into one body and mind under the same virus. In that sense they both won, and that in the end there’s no longer even a specific distinction between the two. There is however one difference however being that at the end of Prototype 1 Alex distanced himself from humanity but at least James has his daughter. It’s a shame there’s almost zero chance this story will get a follow up, and with Activision being how it is nowadays I honestly wouldn’t want them to. It wasn’t the greatest game but at the very least it wasn’t call of duty number 27.
Is there anyone here besides me that thinks that if they made a Live Action Prototype movie, it would be a MAJOR hit? I mean, we got CGI tech like crazy, we got some great actors still. I say they should put some real effort into it
It's likely part of his plan for what'll happen in Prototype 3. I mean, come on: pieces of Mercer all over the place leaving room for him to return, and him being cool as a cucumber upon his "demise". He's known for his "lateral thinking", after all, and while he's not exactly evil, he's known for being the type to go to extremes to get his job done.
+Irid Magrein I read the comics. Every single chapter, and let me tell you: it is absolute blatant bullshit. Nothing more than a shitty excuse to make Alex a villain because the new writer thought he was "too much of an asshole" and that a dark plot such as Prototype needed a fucking hero to save the day. Even then, Heller still failed to fulfill that role. No, Prototype 2 makes no fucking sense. The game and the comics are nothing more than a massive asspull, probably made to attract the younger audience. As a matter of fact, even the original writer hated it and stated that they missed the point. There's no excuse to defend this garbage.
Funny how people in these comment say Alex was a better protag because of his charisma.... He had no personalty. Heller is motivated by his anger/hate which is just as generic as ALex's and his "who am i" complex. Prototype 2>>>1 Angry black buy....the nigga lost everything Wife, kid friends all to Alex. then when he finds his kid Alex plays keep away with her.
He absorbed a scientist and still wasn't able to properly use a computer, which is stupid. Just a cheap way to wiggle in a cheap computer joke. Good game though, just lazy writing at times
O.L.Y Animationz actually it used to bird for flesh mass, if it didnt get the bird it could have saved the virus and mercers dna and wait for someone else to finish, from what i saw mercer still had to consume more people to fully heal.
Imagine prototype 3, codename: Pariah was inlove with Amaya Heller during the mid life. James Heller unleashed his ultra powered strength with fury. Yow.
Alex mercer reforms yes he got consumed by heller but i heard that he didn't use his hammer fists or what ever. any piece of blood or virus not consumed by heller could find a dead animal and that dead animal would have enough matter to reform alex from his blood or virus left over
if those lame ass theories were true. Elizabet Greene would've "emerged" from Alex body or some shit like that, besides Heller only killed the infected from Manhattan. The other 2 Islands are still dealing with blackwatch and infected.
“What do we do now?”
We wait for [PROTOTYPE 3], obviously.
Zoom II sad it’s not happening :(
Have faith
@@troybarangan9767 we just need more money
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The enemies in this game are so polite. As soon as you get a phone call they just stand down and let you take it. How courteous of them...
Andrew Ace maybe they are canadian
@@mcthrull7417 lol nah still american
Professional have standards
@@ds-1374 lol
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for those wondering why Alex turned evil between 1 and 2, there is a comic explaining it, divided into 3 tales: Mercer's tale, Survivors Tale, and Heller's Tale. in Mercer's Tale, he tried to find a reason to stay human, traveling around the world, taking out bad men but also seeing how bad people can be. he almost found a reason with a nice grandfather and his granddaughter in Alaska, even trying to protect them from a kingpin... but when he found out they were working with the kingpin and tortured a lot of people, he gave up and turned into the villain.
Thank you, that helped a lot!
They should've made a game about it imo
I heard form somewhere that. Alex was killed in the first place it was the virus itself in the from of Alex
I thought Mercer died and the virus was just mimicking what Mercer was like, later the virus realized what was happening and Mercer became evil because the virus wanted a host that is better. Which heller became that new host.
Its tragic, mercer virus want to give a world without disease or suffering, but mercer virus essentially doing what normal virus would, "infecting" everyone and you basically undo everything in the first game, the good mercer virus believe it have humanity but it ultimately only doomed more people.
In the first game alex is just confused anti hero who want to find his identity, but the second game is essentially mercer virus want to spread the virus that "justifies the mean". Hes the Big Boss in this universe.
"Huh, welcome to the top of the food chain"
Mercer's last word
_NØ NλϺΣ_ true to every word, mercer rose and became evil, he infected heller perhaps to give his good side a fighting chance since hes gone full mad, heller might do the same as mercer, letting the virus grow and control him
Stephen Rosal Heller has a resilient DNA so he wont be like Mercer
@@leovitoo mercer had the same dna but he died and the virus rebuild him
Rick Rawson he was remade by consuming a bird to transform into Him unless that was the ending while Red Crown announces the Prologue
Maybe Mercer wants heller to consume him so he can eat Heller from the inside and become heller himself since HE is the VIRUS itself.
You think the ViRUS itself who evolve it so stronger would just lose to someone with "resilient dna"
And mercer is a lateral thinker he has plans
If you ever find yourself in a helicopter crash, simply assume the standard impact safety position (Commonly known as a T-pose) and remain completely still. An explosion's vision is based on movement, so you should be fine. 54:23
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"Huh. Scary."
- Alex Mercer
(2009 - 2012)
LOL Why is this not the top comment
Dmitriy Anonymous does he say that in Prototype 1?
you spell mercer wrong
@@TheBigHaus no he said that to James in the final mission of prototype 2
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James:"oh that guy just kicked a helicopter of the sky? i totally can kill him with this knife!"
he killed a fucking brawler with knives, even tank are struggling fighting one brawler.
@@adiutrixpiafidelis Fuck the tank, YOUR GODDAMN CLAWS AND BLADES CANT KILL THAT BITCH IN 5 HITS.
Hello, Everyone missed the point . Have a look at 5:19 which clearly shows that heller is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and that he does not care for his own life. Also if you go back a few seconds back you will it clearly says heller himself requested to be posted to red zone.
James:"oh that didn't work? lemme upgrade my powers within a few days and fight an overpowered Mercer"
Rage can be a deadly drive when faced with the unknown.
I feel like this game was underrated but I loved it! The freedom of being powerful and doing what most video game characters can’t was a breath of fresh air
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9:56 you can see the Goliath coming towards Heller in the background, behind the rubble
Mercer wanted James to win. He basically encourages him to beat him
that’s exactly what i was thinking
And now there’s a Mercer in Heller since he consumed him.
The Virus(Alex Mercer) let James Heller win on Purpose.
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The tone of this game was amazing. Regardless of where you stand on the story, something about the military/zombie/superhero fusion just made you feel like such a badass. I’ve been waiting on prototype 3 since I was a kid... here’s to hoping 2021 🙏
make that 2022
@@SheLxvesDre I'm ducking done 😆 🤣 😂
It's gonna have to be 2023
Let’s hope it happens in 2024. 🤞
Still not yet!!!
Mercer: "And for God's sake , man, put some fucking clothes on."
prototype 1: mercers story (the virus really, not merer, mercers died and the virus took his form)
prototype 2: hellers story
prototype 3: pariahs story? come on, they made him sound so badass and ominous in prototype 1
And We play as Elizabeth greene during Hope, Idaho in 1960s ( DLC )
Who's Pariah? I don't recall that name from the 1st one..
@@MrSlowestD16 Another virus like Alex
@@MrSlowestD16 Elizabeth's child.
MrSlowestD16 However, he’s a natural mutation of the virus with Alex and Heller bring an artificial process.
2:22:53 .. the part when we all felt this ain't a soldier to a soldier talk....
this was Father to Father
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Rooks' white privilege vs Heller's N word pass.
*Mike Stephano* lol damn
To be honest i didn't know Colonel Rooks was a father what i heard him while he was talking on the phone and said something like "how's my little girl" i was like"Colonel Rooks has a daughter?" You know what? I don't know about y'all but I'm glad James let Rooks live because if he killed Rooks, his wife and daughter would be devastated
36:21 Me as a kid trying to use a computer for the first time.
Same
I wish the cutscenes were in color, but it really sets the mood pretty well.
Also a genius way to save the budget
I always thought it was really cool. Really sells the grimdark world that is Prototype. Kinda want to see more games do that.
Prototype and Bioshock Series are my favourite games, with good story and good action and good gameplay.
Burton Poon Good STORY.....plus infamous was better
Yessss! The 2 violent games that actaully make me feel emotion😞
@SomeRandomDude shut
Mercer will always be cooler than Heller. He's got the one thing Heller will never have: charisma.
agreed 👍 only played Prototype 1 and watched Prototype 2 trailer and find out that Alex is no longer the protagonist so nope, I had second thoughts on playing the 2nd game. but I'm eager to watch this vid 'cause I know Alex is here..
johnrie18 Hellers still a badass.
Mercer is a codename doe, its a living virus, only Mercer is his normal shape imprinted into its brain.
I forgot my name
nah
mercer didnt seem bored
he was like that because he had no memory of his past
also the story is shit in p2 because u never expect mercer to make evolved and infect the city like what he did to penn station and plotholes like how the fuck does heller beat mercer when he is beyond the virus
And one emotion: pissed
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Gamer's Little Playground I wonder what it'll be about though.
I like Mercer better as a hero/anti-hero.
The writing in the second game is so bad. There's quite a few ways they could have made the story work without Mercer doing a 180 and becoming a flat generic villain
Isn't Mercer just the virus in his form in the game.
@bryan diaz varela he isn't wrong though alex released the virus 2 times in the first game
@bryan diaz varela already watch it when I was younger
Amen to that
53:17 *When you hit your toe in the base of the sofa*
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I get why they changed the protagonist from Alex Mercer to heller because the more you think about it Alex Mercer did technically become a villain by the end of the first game but that’s just me
na na you're right
I wasn't mad at P2 for making Alex the villain or killing him off or changing his voice actor (which was cast perfectly for P1) or for any other reason. My only beef was, lack of character development. The whole Elizabeth Greene & Pariah angle (well built up) was completely dropped and we got a random angsty soldier as the protagonist who just randomly ended up with the Mercer virus and ended up killing him. Could be just me but it felt that P2 was rushed and the writers simply made up the story as they went along. P1 was original, new, refreshing but P2 was just a mash-up of every Hollywood stereotype for a typical action movie.
@Sub To Me Cust U Can The comics still makes a pretty shitty excuse as to why Mercer suddenly decided to say "Fuck you humanity" and decided to infect everyone
I feel like having Mercer as a supporting character would've done the game better. They really sacrificed story so they could make a cool final boss
100% agree. He could have just accidentally infected people, or was trying to improve people who wanted to become infected, and then they spiral out of control.
Yeah the story should be the back story or what do i call umm.. how and why mercer released the virus and what happened on hope idaho
I think mercer died but the virus rebuilds him but more evil. And before you ask the source. I found it in a reply section
In my opinion,if they havent killed Mercer in this game,like a whole different storyline would be better,but still,the game storyline is still amazing.
It was a shit last boss!
"I got a fucking squiggly line key, I got a fucking key with a triangle on it! What the fuck kinda keyboard is this anyway?!"
James fucking rules xD
"And for God's sake man, put some fucking clothes on." - Alex Mercer. BEST fucking line ever.
The voice acting in this game is actually phenomenal. Especially the banter with the Blackwatch soldiers.
Are the black watch soldiers are good guys or bad guys?
@@SB-vv4muBad guys
@@Helluva_Kid oh right
These 2 games were amazing, stealing helicopter flying low in the city watching people turn and street by street the virus spread, panic in the street, people running chased by infected. Running up skyscrapers, flying, throwing tanks. these games were amazing and I miss them
Not many characters can be both a good hero and a good villain, but Alex Mercer fits both roles. Very underrated character if you ask me. I'd love to see these games remastered.
We need Prototype 3 :P
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Gamer's Little Playground I'm going to get this game tomorrow I seen it in game~ stop
That's not happening any time soon because at the end James consumed everyone and everything that had the virus so that means no more virus and with no more virus means no more black watch and with no black watch means you won't be fighting anyone and also activision probably isn't interested in publishing another prototype
DeadSilent Gaming I Agree
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*a civilian literally came flying towards you in straight position 😂😂*
C: Heller is gathering up Whitelight and he's bringing it to the incinerator? I don't know what this means!
H: Means I'm better at your job than you are.
Sad truth about any NPC ever.
36:22 The keyboard controller bit was funny as hell!
Hahahahahhahahaah
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*anytime he's sent on a mission that has a high chance of him dying, because those missions are mostly from people who want to see him dead*
Heller: "I can't wait."
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"Well he just did."
I've never heard of this game but it looks awesome.
It's pretty old
Came out 4 years ago
Play the first one it's better than this garbage
True fuck Activision
the first one was significantly better. this one was an incredibly watered down copy of the original.
i like that its not just cutscenes
"Fuck off, I hate computers."
Had me dying. Lmao
Even if I'm not a huge fan of the story shift, I'll admit the dialogue and delivery here is top notch.
49:36 Egghead taxi service! x'D I love this game so much.
Same
Alex Mercer was moved for the twisted goal of helping humanity to evolve
James Heller was moved for his only goal. To protect his daughter.
Emotions will always have a way to beat cold logic because thats what humanity is about. If we change that, we are no longer human.
*_Yall need to read the prototype 2 comic it explains the reason Mercer turned his back on humanity btw it was because of greed._*
classic, lol.
Aaaa don't geevashit
And the excuse the comics gave was complete shit. I don't care that Mercer was a villain(let's be honest, a guy who treats innocent civilians as health potions isn't exactly hero material), but the Real issue is that they made him a 1-dimensional, mustache-twirling cartoon. His plan/motives are garbage and he monologues like he just captured batman.
I love alex Mercer's ending "welcome to the top of the food chain "
He even absorbs people the same way as Alex. Alex changed Heller to be like him. The Mercer virus is an insatiable, unstoppable Force of nature. It's fucking awesome 😄
36:20 I know we all died laughing at this part
I always was disappointed by Mercer’s motivations in this game. Something that would have been better could have been this:
Instead of Mercer suddenly subscribing to a belief of “survival of the fittest” and randomly infecting Heller for no real reason, it could be revealed at Prototype 2’s end that the virus within Mercer became too powerful to control. See, with enough biomass stored within the infected host, the primary strain within Mercer reached the stage of its existence where it wanted to spread and reproduce within a new host. He MIGHT have believed that he could just discharge biomass in what he thought was an empty train station to better contain it within himself, but the resulting explosion was far more devastating than he’d predicted, and he unwittingly causes a second outbreak. Completely horrified from what he’d done, he suddenly breaks contact from everyone he loves and drives himself to the brink of insanity from his overwhelming guilt. That’s when he realizes that the only one who can stop him is someone LIKE him; and so he reluctantly takes charge of the Blacklight virus hordes, allowing them to spread but, in reality, also guiding them with the Evolved in such a way as to keep the virus from becoming too devastating. All the while, he is looking for a man worthy of getting infected with his primary strain, and comes across Heller, who already has an undying hatred of him. He infects Heller and continues tormenting him all throughout the game, becoming the absolute worst version of himself in order to show Heller exactly the kinds of horrors a being like himself can do with the primary strain when left unchecked. He makes Heller despise him because he wants to make ABSOLUTELY SURE that Heller never BECOMES him. To make sure that with his death, Weller doesn’t just wait and bottle up the virus in fear until it forces its way back out. After this revelation, Mercer finally tells Heller that if he consumes him, then the two primary strains will internally clash, one trying to consume the other resulting in both eventually nullifying themselves and becoming inert, bringing the Blacklight virus to an end once and for all. This would be the good ending. On the other hand, Heller could be changed for the worse by Mercer’s tormenting and can simply consume Mercer’s biomass for himself, bestowing unimaginable power into Heller and ensuring the Blacklight life cycle continues without end. In the end, you are the one who decides the future of the virus. You are the one who chooses to “kill your maker;” be it either to save the world, or to one day, eventually rule it.
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I personally prefer 2's story to 1's. I think the writing is fine, and the final boss, in my opinion, was definitely worth it due to the impact it leaves. (Also, I just think Mercer as a villain is cool) Also, I'd argue that calling Mercer a hero or anti-hero in the first game is pushing the envelop of that definition.
Am I the only one who'd want to have Heller and Mercer as a fucking body guard against bullies at school?
ShiftOS nope
Loving it! Thanks for the video!
The voice acting is amazing though. I come back to this just cuz of all the snappy military dialogue.
Like every single enemy in the game:YOU WANNA FIGHT!?!?
Also them:now now we are all reasonable people here
If only it was a trilogy
Fuck this was a good game why didn't more people enjoy it, it's beyond me.
+Stefen Lopez Probably because people could only compare it to the first game, which IMO was phenomenonal. I wouls have love it if this was a trilogy.
+Munchell360 *would
If there is a third game someday, I hope the playable protagonist is Pariah.
Can't agree more, there isn't enough open world games about characters with super powers.
Aite it processed to HD!
Played Prototype 1 a year ago and I still like Alex Mercer. Since I find out there's a Prototype 2, I went excited but after watching the trailer, I find out there's a new protagonist.
Still, that doesn't change the fact that Alex is better whether it be a protagonist or the antagonist.
I always thought he's still alive 'til now since the Mercer virus came from him, that means he still have the means to control it.
Thanks for uploading this high quality game scenes.
Alex Mercer will return.
There's actually a comic of Prototype 2 that takes place prior to the events in the game and tells the story of both Heller and Mercer.
Scorpion where can I find that?
Heller is better. Way more fun to play with
Alex Mercer is a codename/nickname, if anything Mercer is a it and is nothing but a walking virus with many identities only thing is Alex Mercer as an identity was literally lazer printed onto its brain. But Mercer or Heller, both are good in their own terms, Mercer is doing what it can to survive and turn the entire virus around, whether its to start a new world, or kill it all at once. Heller understands the power but his humanity keeps him walking, if the Mercer virus had 2 sides, Mercer and Heller are the sides.
@@youknowyoufuckedupright3058 Still doesn't save the cesspool of a story that is P2, tho.
It really sucks you have to read a comic to figure out how Alex goes from what he was in the first game to a guy who wants to take over the world.
Its been 9 years who's gonna wait for prototype 3 inplus who would wanna wait that long for a game that doesn't exist there is no 3rd one
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This cutscene proved something for me, Heller is better than Mercer.
Now before you go ahead and start hating on the replies because i disagreed with you, hear me out, i too used to love Mercer. I still do, just not more than Heller anymore. Mercer is cool, yes, but he is boring. He had no character especially in Prototype 1. Of course he had cool moments, but as in character, he was poor. He had no valid reason to kill thousands and infect a city but he still did. Sure you could argue that the reason why he released the virus was because Blackwatch were trying to remove every person that worked and knew about the virus, but he still did release it. Alex Mercer was selfish. He relased the virus at Penn Station because he was cornered and was about to die so he decided he will take others with him. The virus is also selfish. He killed thousands just to learn his past. And he infected the city once and planned on doing it twice with whitelight.
Heller lost his daughter (or atleast he thought he did at the beginning) and his wife. Someone in the comment section said that he was stupid to go after mercer with a knife but thats the thing, he had nothing to lose. He went after him for a slight chance of murdering him. Now back to the cutscene i was talking about. Heller showed humanity in that cutscene. He decided not to kill Rooks because he heard that he had a daughter and he showed empathy, something that Mercer never made in both games.
This was my personal opinion, and it was not an attack towards anyone.
Alex had the virus as insurance, so they just wouldn't kill him outright. But, Blackwatch didn't care, and was going to kill him anyway, so as already dying man he figured he'd throw down the vial. Turned out that saved him.
At the end of Prototype, Alex regrets him initially releasing the virus both times, as well as all the people he killed. And, he goes out of his way to ensure NYC doesn't get nuked, even at the chance of him dying.
@@T4nkcommander mercer only destroyed the nuke to save himself, the virus as godlike as it is would not of been able to save him otherwise, it needs some sort of life form to recuperate itself, and a nuked city would of killed all lifeforms, thus killing mercer.
@@dveronica8591 except the ending makes no sense in that case, because he could have easily survived the city nuking given he survived it in the helo disposing of it.
Why risk sacrificing himself to save the city when he could just go underground and survive the nuke? Clearly he wanted to help as he worked with Cross...you are ignoring all of the late game cutscenes.
I like Mercer and Heller, they are both OP badass
Facts
@@jamichealruiz8640 Mercer and Heller versus venom and carnage and the entire Symbiote family
Considering that James was a soldier once, I thought he'd be more sympathetic towards them and less cruel.
54:24 i am dead XD XD XD
Aditya Sonar the true lord of “The T Pose”😂😂
oww fuck man, i haven't had a good laugh in weeks xD
@@cnj96 s ame
@@racelkatyusha403 Fck Hahahahaha
Mans said: Wheee
Okay now that I am rewatching this I noticed something very interesting that no one has before. After heller escapes from Koenigs experiment in the beginning and when he meets mercer for second time then Mercer say 'I did not kill your wife and daughter'. Now how did Mercer know that ? Again when he leaves he says 'put some clothes on' and clothes magically appear on heller. Mercer might be controlling heller from the very moment he first did that thing to him. This is something no one noticed. This whole Mercer-Blacklight story is bigger then we thought.
You mean Mercer is going to continue living on through Heller?
@@deionthurman7266 That sounds like a possibility.
Thay said Mercer wanted james to win because he wants hime to get stronger to live on inside him this is very interesting
I know this was from a year ago but he probably just knew from when he infected him with the Mercer virus a bit ago
I think everyone forgot that James isn’t the loud swearing man from Beginning to end I think the prologue proved it
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Not even a single soul:
Not even a cricket during the night:
Commander: Shut the f*** up, Starnes.
Prototype and Prototype 2 aren't better or worse than the other. Just different. Can't a story be different with the complexity of this one? Remember, the virus isn't these two men. They're dead. Only the virus lives and does whatever it pleases.
Heller is the same Guy before the infection mentally
He just gained the virus and its powers
@@isauldron4337 it was Alex Mercer, who gave him the virus
Mercer’s such a charismatic, badass protagonist of the entire Prototype series. Heller, on the other hand, he’s a sarcastic one, but I can’t say that he’s much powerful than Mercer.
I prefer Alex Mercer too, and for those who heard the story of what happened to him in the comic, he had good reasons to hate humanity.
@@paulryan9818fuck mercer dry ass lol heller all day
I almost wish that Heller joined Mercer. Imagine what they'd do together. I'm not saying it would be good, but... It came to mind. What if he wasn't shown the footage that Mercer started the outbreak and had told him from the beginning that there were others like him. Heller doesn't strike me as a hero and even he said that he's no hero.
James Heller is a good guy protype two and Alex Mercer as a super villain
I just love how they go "Oh Shit" on the radio when they hear Heller say "Alex Mercer.
Same! XD
Heller is a beast. He would also call you a "bitch" and his red negan scarf is dope too. As a black dude I dont have too many games with black main protagonists so I throughly enjoyed that too. I love Alex but James is better. Yall gonna put some respeck on Heller's name!
Ichigo Kurosaki ong
Game woulda been a million times better if they just kept him as a human, and gave him experimental weaponry to fight blacklight. Like..LOOK AT THE OPENING CUTSCENES OF HIM, HE’S RUNNIN’ N’ GUNNIN’ WITH A BOWIE KNIFE.
We need a Prototype 3
We need a damn seris
@@kamerinbrooks2024 on the movie or TV or
Everyone keeps saying mercer's gonna regenerate inside heller, but think about it, Alex was the virus, the one thing it didn't have was a host of it's own, someone to sustain it's life functions while it can do whatever it wants instead of putting all that effort into keeping itself alive, so basically I think mercer was making heller his apprentice, and in turn evolving to a new level because he, (the virus), now has a stronger host
man plays prototype like its cod
+Gamer's Little Playground thanks for making this video. How long did you actually make this video. (The editing, game footage, uploading) everything.
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When your parents aren't as tech savvy as you are
Man just went flying out of the helicopter T posing XD 54:24
36:19 Prototype 2 in a nutshell.
I want prototype three to come out
The most suitable place for a corona joke and I have not seen a single one. I’m not angry, just disappointed.
So pretty much I'm guessing that Alex planned his defeat he is the brains in this entire game, every thing he did or wanted to do came out perfectly so I'm guessing that Alex let Heller "consume" him for so.e unknown reason, I'm guessing that sense Alex is the one who mixed the virus into Hellers genes he wanted to be consumed so that he can take over what's left of Hellers human genes and then take form once again, I'm just guessing so don't kill me with a bunch of comments.
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Had to come back to this video considering that we’re in a pandemic....
In Prototype 3, most people believe Amaya Heller might become like her father but stronger and agile than her father and Alex Mercer.
Do you really think Alex Mercer willreturn in prototype three? After his fight with Heller.
@@SB-vv4mu Might be, but the writings what made number 3 are different.
I have always found it interesting how your perception of the world changes when Heller becomes evolved. When you're human, it's an apocalyptic warzone, a brawler seems like an undefeatable demon ripping everything to shreds. The whole intro section in the red zone feels like a horror movie, there's death at every corner. But after Heller gets turned into evolved, he gains so much power, the world becomes your playground. Tanks, helicopters, brawlers and other bigger monsters become just minor annoyances and free biomass. You don't even notice it that you kill a couple dozen civilians by accident as collateral damage when shooting RPGs at blackwatch, or dropping hammerfists from a rooftop on a military squad in a populated street. You can kinda feel the level of power at your disposal when Heller is able to rip off a tank's head and smack the bottom of the tank with it. That thing weights like a couple of tons at least. And when the evolved are fighting each other, just imagine the power of each strike. It would be very interesting to see the Prototype world just through the eyes of a regular blackwatch soldier or a civilian.
It’s now been over a decade since this game released, and it holds up surprisingly well.
There’s a lot still to speculate about Alex Mercer’s motives in particular. He said he wanted to bring all life into one body and one mind to end all conflict and suffering and yet the first thing James Heller does after defeating and absorbing Alex Mercer into himself is immediately absorb all the infected into himself as well. It makes me wonder if Mercer let himself lose because the outcome of the fight hardly changed his plan. James Heller and Alex both died at the beginning of their stories so all that really happens in the end is all the biomass and memories accumulate back into one body and mind under the same virus. In that sense they both won, and that in the end there’s no longer even a specific distinction between the two. There is however one difference however being that at the end of Prototype 1 Alex distanced himself from humanity but at least James has his daughter.
It’s a shame there’s almost zero chance this story will get a follow up, and with Activision being how it is nowadays I honestly wouldn’t want them to. It wasn’t the greatest game but at the very least it wasn’t call of duty number 27.
2019 prototype loyal fan
36:19 Lol, he has problems with a PC.
"Commander, don't you DARE let him consume you!"
Is there anyone here besides me that thinks that if they made a Live Action Prototype movie, it would be a MAJOR hit? I mean, we got CGI tech like crazy, we got some great actors still. I say they should put some real effort into it
Great actors, sure, bit can you imagine if Amazon or Netflix got the rights? It would be a disaster.
10:50 Subtitles: (gasping, swearing)
Me: If its good sex, it should sound like that.
WTF IS THIS DUDE'S INTRO SONG it's so beautiful 😍😍😍😍
"That bitch is crazy. Can't trust her." The developers guessed the future
i like Prototype 2 better, i thought Prototype 1 was kinda boring, in my opinion.
me too I agree with you
P1 had too much fluff just like the first assassins Creed
@@robertstrickland9161 agreed it’s an awesome game
@@rasundesilva6088 and in famous
James Heller’s main trait: loves jackets with collars higher than my intelligence.
And wears hoodies underneat that he doesn't even put on the hood
Man this game's plot was awful and Mercer turning villain made no sense
to begin with that was the virus which consumed Alex Mercer's dead body and his memories- so it was never him, just a god-like duplicate
Either way he never had this Messiah complex
It's likely part of his plan for what'll happen in Prototype 3. I mean, come on: pieces of Mercer all over the place leaving room for him to return, and him being cool as a cucumber upon his "demise". He's known for his "lateral thinking", after all, and while he's not exactly evil, he's known for being the type to go to extremes to get his job done.
You clearly didn't read official comic books of both chapters. There thing get explained a little why Mercer turned on humanity.
+Irid Magrein
I read the comics. Every single chapter, and let me tell you: it is absolute blatant bullshit.
Nothing more than a shitty excuse to make Alex a villain because the new writer thought he was "too much of an asshole" and that a dark plot such as Prototype needed a fucking hero to save the day. Even then, Heller still failed to fulfill that role.
No, Prototype 2 makes no fucking sense. The game and the comics are nothing more than a massive asspull, probably made to attract the younger audience.
As a matter of fact, even the original writer hated it and stated that they missed the point. There's no excuse to defend this garbage.
GLP, keep it going, Buddy!
2:11:43 "AHHHhhh"
Croat Code lol😂😂
Funny how people in these comment say Alex was a better protag because of his charisma.... He had no personalty. Heller is motivated by his anger/hate which is just as generic as ALex's and his "who am i" complex. Prototype 2>>>1
Angry black buy....the nigga lost everything Wife, kid friends all to Alex. then when he finds his kid Alex plays keep away with her.
Heller beats Alex any day in my opinion " welcome to the top of the food chain "
Alex let him win, pretty obvious during that whole fight.
Ngl, but all the voice acting in the computer scene really crack me up
He absorbed a scientist and still wasn't able to properly use a computer, which is stupid. Just a cheap way to wiggle in a cheap computer joke. Good game though, just lazy writing at times
how do you know the scientist knew how to use the computer? 🤔😋
All of the writing in this game was terrible - was obvious as soon as they made Alex the big bad.
Watches Mercer kick a helicopter out of the sky ~ "ok, you done runnin?", lmao ya you got this Heller
Without the bird at prototype 1 that Alex consumed he would've not appeared in prototype 2 and replaced him with another evolved human.
O.L.Y Animationz actually it used to bird for flesh mass, if it didnt get the bird it could have saved the virus and mercers dna and wait for someone else to finish, from what i saw mercer still had to consume more people to fully heal.
Imagine prototype 3, codename: Pariah was inlove with Amaya Heller during the mid life.
James Heller unleashed his ultra powered strength with fury.
Yow.
Why prot 3 ? Virus is dead, the only one that remains is heller. What would be prot 3 ? We play back as alex to kill our killer ? :D
Pariah as new protag
Alex mercer reforms yes he got consumed by heller but i heard that he didn't use his hammer fists or what ever. any piece of blood or virus not consumed by heller could find a dead animal and that dead animal would have enough matter to reform alex from his blood or virus left over
if those lame ass theories were true. Elizabet Greene would've "emerged" from Alex body or some shit like that, besides Heller only killed the infected from Manhattan. The other 2 Islands are still dealing with blackwatch and infected.
Actually It makes more sense to say that at the end of the game Mercer consumed Heller. Mercer built a new host for him.
mercer was a smartass
James heller is Ultra Power Full and Defending the World
i knew alex mercer kill his Wife