PROTOTYPE 2 (Zero Punctuation)
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This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Prototype 2.
Fast-talking Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw reviews a new game each week in this animated series that combines informed critique with cutting humor. Watch the next episode of Zero Punctuation a week early, only on The Escapist.
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YAHTZEE, YOU BROUGHT THE SANDBOX PLAGUE UPON US WITH THE REQUEST "THIS SHOULD BE THE THING TRIPPLE A DEVELOPERS MAKE ALL THE TIME"! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS YOU MONSTER!?
Theo Duckett hey would you rather have more grey, bloom infused, linear AAA fps games with set pieces or games that you can fuck around in those set pieces?
Paul Westfall Probably at this point in time, the first cause at least now it's something different! We're busy people, don't have enough hours in the day to fuck arohnd in the 50+ AAA sandbox titles that seem to come out every year. That's why the new Doom was such a bresth of fresh air
Remember when he said assassin's creed was original thoughtful and creative
@@memebot6490 yes I would take a carefully crafted campaing with pacing over these endless bland grindathons we have today.
It's not Yhatzee's fault, I place that blame solely at the feet of Ubisoft and EA, both flogging every penny out of whatever genre they touch until there isn't even a corpse left of that poor horse, the adding the NEW spicy word, MICROTRANSACTIONS! Err, right, 'Alternatively financed time wasters'
"Things like this and Skyrim and Just Cause 2 really are the sort of thing triple A development should be making all the time."
Wish granted, for better or worse.
They still make a decent amount of beautifully rendered looking at stuff simulators, and now battle royals games
And the monkey's paw curls another finger.
I was disappointed that we didn't get a Prototype First Father
Ha
I indeed saw what you did there.
Father Guerra would be an interesting protagonist
I saw what you did there. It would have been fucking hilarious if they did that... Especially since the MC of this game was a father...
"Prototype Third Uncle"
"Games like this, Skyrim, and Just Cause 2 are the sort of thing triple A developers should be making all the time"
THE CONTRACT IS SEALED
If only people bought something else for once
I've never heard Joseph Stalin and Bath toys in the same sentence until i started to watch Yahtzee.
He has some good stalin jokes. Check out the division zero punctuation
Apparently even I can't take a bath in privacy.
Anonymous has recorded your opinion.
+Josef Stalin Privacy is often contrary to the public good, Comerade.
+No Google I will not share my name ???: ? well some people need a change of...heart👻💓👻
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Tovarish Comrade Stalin, why do you spell your name wrong?
秋葉 紅 レッドヴァミリオン Cuz i not know how speak English.
2:59 "fuck aroundy makey super murder!" still cracks me up every time
The funny thing about eating the innocent civilians in Prototype and 2 was that I ate a lot of bloody innocent civilians in prototype. but then in prototype 2 I have not eaten a single civilian, only the blokes from the military
Phoenix Oroboros They actually changed how much health you get from eating people and made civvies almost worthless as a mid battle pick-me-up or after workout snack.
Penningtontj Gottta love how these games make us so casually speak of them as "workout snacks"
MrATN800 If they didn't want us to, then they probably should have thought of that before they allowed us to eat them.
Penningtontj No, but they certainly should have thought of that before they rewarded us with health and experience points FOR eating them.
+Marko Ouroboros when i first played prototype 1 i was probably one of the few people that earned the nice guy trophy in which you gotta consume less than 10 civilians
I live not too far from Liverpool and was born there so when he said 'possibly from Liverpool?' I immediately said "HEY!!!" Then calmed down, realised I was an idiot for thinking more than half the people in Liverpool are nice and then agreed.
That's sad
the liver pool statement is 100% true. I watched somebody get stabbed at a mini golf coarse on the pier
Ferry Cross the Mersey...
Were a nice lot over here
Yahtzee, 2012: AAA should just make sandboxes all the time!
Yahtzee, 2018: FOR FUCKS SAKE could AAA make something other than a sandbox for once?!
Be careful what you wish for, folks!
I think he means Good stuff that aren't overly blant that we get today where even moving from A to B is fucking hassle in the butt and boring than watching a toddler move from one tile to another.
I pissed myself at "To the gulag" with Stalin
"Let's infect a whole bunch of innocent civilians for a LARFF."
Love that line. Had me almost snorting my water out of my nose. XD
Second verse, same as the first, now put me on a plane, so I can't put 'em in a hearse.
Like discount, pisce.
+Austin Sumpter "what's in the box, what is the value of the box... Storage wars" the general
lol. "black and latino co-workers...race wars."
Then you go home and everyone complain online... Flame wars
"(sniff sniff).........something's burning."
I always felt that the main characters in this game completely cheated when playing a good round of toddler shot put. A normal person can only throw toddlers half the distance these super strong mutants can!
Hello I'm from the future
I find it ironic that saw an Infamous Second Son ad on this.
Fuck aroundy super murder needs to be my text alert.
I'm sorry but the Joseph Stalin "to the Gulag" just got me. XD
Andrew Heard I forgive you
"As unrestrained as Joseph Stalin playing with his bath toys." I know it's not that funny, but I laughed so hard. It pretty much sums up my and every gamer I know's attitude to every open-world game ever.
I first saw this review after I'd played the game (the first being one of my favourites I got the second as quickly as I could) and realised, with some shock, that I hadn't actually killed a single civilian in my playthrough, whereas in the first I killed everything all the time.
Prototype 2 is the only game I have 100% achievements in. It is a pretty good game, especially doing new game plus with all your powers unlocked.
Fuck yes
Xaxton Revolution Yeah if you do a new game plus on hard.
You dont go outside much do you?
Shame there wasn't a third one
In case anyone is wondering, the text at 1:38 says, "Drink, sausage children".
It says "Drink the sausage, children".
***** Considering there's no punctuation (Zero Punctuation! Get it!?), there's several different ways to interpret that line.
However, considering he's pouring out Vodka onto the remains of a child going through a sausage maker, "Drink, sausage children" seems a lot more applicable in this context.
Tell me more about my native language.
You don't really need punctuation to establish the word relationship, it's done through cases.
Drinking sausage children would need literally different words (пейте колбасНЫХ детЕЙ), as it is it can only be understood as "drink the sausage, children."
So it's either horribly wrong former variant, or perfectly fine latter, albeit punctuation.
And neither of those make much sense anyway, at least latter variant is right.
***** Tell me more about MY native language.
Yahtzee is definitely no Ruskie so you shouldn't put it past him to make grammar mistakes.
Once again, "Drink, sausage children" makes more sense in this context and is likely what Yahtzee intended it to be translated as.
I understand that it's grammatically incorrect, although it could still be more nearly translated as "Drink, children OF THE sausage".
I was wondering - thanks!
probably the best and fairest review for this super fun game
i freaking love it
He forgot to mention how you can MAKE YOURSELF EXPLODE AND DESTROY EVERYTHING AROUND YOU LIKE A SUPER-GRENADE THAT SHOOTS OUT TENTACLES!!
*****
I know, and I would know, I have the limited Blackwatch collecters edition.
2:59 made me spray my coke everywhere, well played Yahtzee
LOLed at the funny bits, especially with Alex cutting imps in half and eating the bottom half of one of them. And the F***y Aroundy Makey Super Murder and the "doing silly verb stuff" parts, they sure are funny! XD
I think it'd be kinda fun to have a prototype game (or similar) that doesn't pretend that the main character is a hero. One in which there is still the government and such trying to stop you, should you decide to invest in toddler slaughter as your main method of food, but that doesn't try to make you out to be the good guy, just the bad guy that you happen to play
His... Uh... Analogies... Yeah, that's right, analogies... Are... Uh... Widespread, to say the, uh, least.
Yeah anyway I'm a subscriber now.
i love his humour .agreeing or not on review,i watch even old vids just for laugh
I just really began watching these and they are all hilarious. I don't really care that he's bashing on the games that I enjoy because that's his opinion and he's right on many flaws.
I find his colorful analogies contrast nicely with his dark cynicism .
Oswalius couldn't have said it better myself
If you like this stuff you should read his books if you have not already
Lost my shit at the popped collar part
I definitely think that this game took some good steps in the direction of taking themselves less seriously, for example, "brah guy" and "fuck computers." However, they just didn't commit to it enough.
"Leaping 100ft into the air, banking around, kicking off buildings and landing on a dime on somebody's baby." XD Probably the most morbidly funniest way of putting it.
OI! I'm from Liverpool.... (thought u r probably right)
Crona Gorgon ohh sorry lad
***** Ah come on mate, it's bad enough he lives is Scouseland, don't rub it in
+Barraco Barner My mantra is don't kick them while there down lest they strap a bomb to their chest and come to ya kids school and blow everything up...or at least they bite off ya foot.
***** Now, they may not, but their friends, their family, hell the guy they shared a drink with once will. They may not even go after just you.
My belief is that you do not stop just the person, you stop everything behind them. You break, first physically, and if you don't want to kill them and theirs, mentally and spiritually.
I love the peddlebin mouths the characters get when they open their mouths
The popped collar thing, too funny.
Ben, Prototype has one new power. Tendrils, you can string up you enemies and cut them up with blade or claws. Oh and you can upgrade your powers. Little tip.
He really doesn't like it when people call him by his first name.
epicsauceness100 He doesn't even read the comments though.
ColossalTT I know, I'm just saying.
epicsauceness100 Did Yahtzee ever reply to a comment? I'm curious.
ColossalTT I don't think so, since this isn't actually his channel. He may have replied to comments on videos on his own channel.
You know... after finishing prototype 2 and looking at the things Alex said at the end (you should know spoilers are coming now but if it's not obvious enough... SPOILER ALERT)
"Welcome on top of the food chain", "I taught you well" and also how the whole end fight is staged... I have the feeling that Alex is wanting Heller to win and consume him. Because he can't be the hero humanity needs. (He lost faith in humans through his 1 year "finding reason of life"-esc trip portrayed in the p2 comics, probably Mercers sociopathic attributes wiped off on him...) So... he plays the stereotypic bad guy because he wants to create someone who could take this place.
Another part of it could be that Alex was no longer entirely himself.
Alex, you see, was not really Alex: The virus consumed him and mimicked his appearance, and his revelation at this likely lead to him reverting to the virus's original design.
I best equate it to John Carpenters "The Thing", in which it now desires to eliminate any threat to it and therefore seeks to become dominant.
By "Upgrading" humanity to its level, it would ensure they are subject to his will, and protect him from that.
The original Alex may very well still have been in him, but it was likely drowned out by the survival instincts of the virus forcing him to do what he would never have done in his right mind.
That actually... Makes quite a lot of sense.
***** Er no, you never did play as Alex Mercer in the first game. He died. And was then consumed by the Black light virus. The virus itself (The thing you played as in the first game) thought it was Alex Mercer, because it looked like him, and had amnesiac memories of him
Sam Goodwin no it was alex just having lost his memory from the dying bit
heller was still himself after being infected because he didnt have his brains blown out
and if alex were just the virus itself he would have been part of the viral hive mind and foaming at the mouth like the rest of the city
at the end though its hard to say what he was thinking
if the game could have done well wed have likely got our answers in the thirs game
but it likely boils down to this
alex wanted to spread the virus
heller was stronger than him
so alex loses
the virus gets a stronger host to survive through
and heller goes about flinging more meat stalks around the word with those fucking awesome tendrils (one of the coolest weapons in gaming imo)
and he wins in both fronts
why did he seem to be evil?
i dont know that he was
but if the virus got out and more evolved were made genteks bioweapons would just be appetizers
maybe he wanted the whole world to be evolved
or just enough to make a police force against them
but again one can only speculate unless someone can make a prototype 3 kickstarter and get the devs on board
hell i know id support that
vVAstrAVv Alright, firstly, 'Alex' was infected with the Blacklight virus not the Redlight virus, there weren't any Evolved from p2 running around New York. And to prove that you don't play as Alex Mercer... 'Agent Cross' says, Alex, your not human. Secondly in one of the final cut scenes of p1 he narrates the final hours of Alex Mercer in the third person, saying Alex Mercer died, and the virus got into his corpse and it became the thing you play as. And finally, he freakin' says, "I am the Blacklight virus." (Not the greatest string of evidence, but it gets the point across)
hmm
maybe that nentality made him go all evil and shit
but again while his body is just a constuct that is 100 percent virus
if the virus were in control he wouldnt have even fought elizabeth
theyd both be team a
also the two viruses are just variants of the other
for a virus that can let someone change their fucking nutsack into a canonball i think it could revert to the other virus variant any time lol
To be quite honest Alex still shines in my eyes more than Heller.
I don't want to play as some bulky military guy, especially trying to kill one of the reasons I liked playing Prototype. Alex was just cooler in my opinion.
Agreed, I really didn't like Heller at all
jaderotaski1 It's because he's black isn't it
what's so likable of alex, he litteraly has no personality, the only thing i remember him to do is all the non-sence i did with him
He has more personality then Heller, for one thing Alex has a sociopathic disorder when makes it very hard for him to connect or form close relationships with people or to betray his emotions which does make him seem very emotionless, and yet he goes to hell and back in an attempt to save his sister, despite the fact 1) she's afraid of him 2) He goes to great personal risk to do so.
Not only that if you've bothered to unlock all the nodes you;d know Alex worked on black light and when he found out that all the scientists on the project were being assassinated, he took a sample of the virus to try and bargain for his life, when that didn't work he smashed the sample in the subway causing the outbreak as he was peppered with bullets.
Alex isn't a perfect person and's he;s done a lot of bad shit, but considering the circumstances he STILL saved his sisters he STILL killed Greene and he STILL saved new York from being a radiation infested crater.
All Heller ever did was bitch about his wife and daughter, tell Alex he was going to skull fuck him (So hetro) for no real reason and then 'kill' Alex.
Even then the ending Prototype 2 is bullshit, its canon from the first game that if you leave a shred of Alex unabsorbed that he's just gonna come back; Heller ripped of..how many pairs of arms and threw then across new york?
I rest my fucking case -__-
Dudu Nikolaishvili Alex's story was portrayed better in my opinion. The whole deal where he loses his memories after being killed by Blacklight and has to go around super murder eating people to figure out what they hell is going on is more fun for me than go get revenge of the dude that caused the death of your wife and child among the other thousands of people he chopped in half and then ate.
"пейте дети колбасу"
I had to take a break to calm down and wipe tears from laughter after the Stalin bit
Probably been translated a dozen times in the comments, but for anyone wondering the Russian writing at 1:38 says "Drink Sausage, Kids"
Finally figured out how all youtube replies will work from now on!
If the comment is before the latest update then you cannot reply to it no matter what you try.
EVERYONE ON RUclips, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO RESTART THAT 32 REPLY ARGUMENT!
WFT.
Pretty much yeah, just wait for all video's to get new comments and then you can reply all you want.
love the John Defoe reference.
thought I would try this as I saw it in the marketplace for about £4.99
Have to say, that Prototype 2 was in many ways exactly what Yahzee said of Fallout New Vegas: that first game was good, now here's more it, just without enough difference to make the new one worth buying.
Sandbox games are really the only thing Triple A devs seem to still have a monopoly on.
I loved this game, but I do agree at times the Blackwatch would almost be cartoonishly evil if it wasn't so fucking dark. There's an audio log where a soldier shoots a kid not answering questions even after the kid's mom reveals the kid is autistic.
There's a mission wherein you go undercover with Blackwatch to escort some scientists and one blackwatch soldier mentions a psych-profile to get in after another makes a joke about infected women.
What kind of fucking psych profile are we talking here? The one where it's totally cool to murder kids, but making an off-color sex joke is grounds for discharge?
What is this, Full Metal Jacket?
well. they didnt want us to sympathize with them.
the story is entertaining enough, and heller is actually quite funny at times.
but i never saw heller as anything more than "angry shapeshifting black man."
though if you look at his consumption animation, marines and civilians are quickly absorbed while blackwatch and infected are where the gruesom stuff lie.
Man, I wish Yahtzee had the tools at his disposal to make his own triple A game. Guaranteed best seller.
I love how the post-credits bit about visiting North Carolina is plonked in AFTER September. o.O
I LOVED prototype 2! In my opinion it improved the game in all ways
How? by removing 70% of the abilities from the first game?
I have a cop shot put record (in the first prototype game) . Lobbed one across Times Square, he smashed off a tank, hit a passing helicopter and ended up in little Italy.
I wonder if Yahtzee ever comes back and groans about how he wished for more open world games.
My thoughts exactly.
The same game in which I can turn some hobo into a bomb and punt him down the street should not be the same game in which the protagonist has a high concern for human life.
1:45 "Second verse, same as the first" took me 4 years to get the reference
Suggests AAA should stick with open workd games... 8 years later, every single AAA game is "open world, sandbox"
"Fuck aroundy makey super murder" Genius.
Ironically enough, there is a poll on the prototype wiki asking which character visitors to the site prefer; and out of: Mercer, Heller, Both, I don't know, and who are they; Mercer has 60% of the vote (to 2 significant figures).
'The Sandbox game should be what AAA devs make all the time'
Oh Yahtzee you predicted the future and now its a generic beaten horse of a genre that is rarely fun anymore
Random Documents and Audio Logs;
We find them stuck to notice boards, we find them under dogs;
We're going to put them in a file and give it a review;
And we're bored of all the gameplay, but we've nothing else to do.
To answer your question about where they find the psychopaths at Blackwatch, I think most of them are prison convicts.
I just found pressing the down button on the d pad whilst holding someone puts them down. At least in prototype 2.
Surprisingly, I had all 3 episodes open in another tab just to rewatch them, tabbing through Zero Punctuations to kill time, when I saw this thread.
My day got a +5 awesomeness.
4:25 Actually, a lot of the Blackbox audiologs suggest that many of the Blackwatch soldiers AREN'T psychotic thugs, but that the leaders, such as Col. Rooks definitely are.
3:54 I can't tell if this sentence aged well or poorly.
Super-"villain" -murder sandbox - a new games' sub-genre theme?
So, will we be seeing an exclusively Wesker as the protagonist Resident Evil game any time soon??
And no, I'm not counting the first or second Resident Evil games as such
The Escapist is going crazy with the re-uploads O_o
Well the part when Heller is trying to operate a computer and is screwing up a lot was pretty humorous.
prototype is probably the only game where you can make a random soldier create tentacles, have them stick to a helicopter and squash the soldier with the same helicopter
I didn't even know that there were specific dates based events!
i lost it at the one massive popped collar
"LETS INFECT A BUNCH OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS FOR A LARF" X'DDDDDD
How lovely, I am now learning how to reply to comments in the new comment section!
Dammit youtube.
Anyone notice when he was showing murders with jason there was one with a welding mask? I believe it is a reference to yahtzee's point and click game series X days a Something
I almost got offended at the Liverpool joke, then I realised how fucking true it is
I'm watching this again in the middle of a Pandemic. In 2021
Oh it's out at Escapist.
Everytime the ending music starts I almost punch my screen in suprise.
1:38
"Children Sausage Drink"
I'm from Liverpool and I approve his comment
I've always been curious about the whole gliding thing in Prototype. Do they actually shoot blood out of their hands?
I hate how this game removed the Armor form. That looked badass and it made infiltrating military bases less annoying because of the reduced damage.
Plus they're now DLC skins. It's not great but it's better than nothing.
A) I'm not Christian, nor am I religious in any way.
B) My point was that despite trying to portray Alex as a sympathetic character, the devs still introduced a mechanic that allowed you to get health boosts if you ate people, thus creating a sense of ludonarrative dissonance.
No need to be so rude and judgemental.
after you beat it, you can just walk the streets like a boss and anyone who gives you crap, pull out your powers and watch em run i love doing that.
“Prototype 2, Skyrim, and just cause 2 are really the things triple A developers should be making.”
He asked for it.
"Surfing orphans across broken glass slip-n-slides."
1:38 "Пейте дети колбасу" ("Drink salami, children")
Whaaaaa....
You wrote "Kids, drink sausage" in Russian. I'm dying !
4:34 ...John DeFoe ? 'S that you?
glad to know I'm not the only one trying to beat my own Toddler Shot Put Toss record lol
The developers that make the mainstream franchises.
TO THE GULAG!
Best moment in the whole video.
was that john defoe and jason vorhees? man the john defoe quadrilogy was amazing
"Quadrilogy" is the nonsensical result of that damned 'Alien' box-set. It's "tetralogy"! The "quad" prefix is Latin, so it's like saying "one, two, trois, four" in casual conversation. Grumble grumble.
I'm not usually so pedantic, but this is just one thing that sucks. :-/
i cant think of anything i care less about
Paul Kerrigan Except that English is already the bastard child of French and Anglo-Saxon (German/Latin), so if mixing roots from two languages is some sort of sin or flaw (which is IS NOT), we might as well start speaking Sanskrit.
Here's a cool idea for RUclips comments - a one-minute time limit to post a comment! I'd just love to see people's answers to stuff with it. Mine included.
You have to start making this in HD
So I've just finished a 2,000 word paper.
What's the first thing I think of to celebrate this momentous occasion?
Zero Punctuation spree, of course. c:
Lol, funny seeing him back then asking for AAA developers to only make sandbox games and seeing him now hating on the over-saturation of sandbox titles on the AAA market
give heller SOME credit.
when not stealth-consuming his animations are faster and less gruesome on civilians and marines (often a neck twist or somesuch.) compared to when he consumes blackwatch and the infected (ripping them in half, smashing them with hammerfists that absorb them and generally a lot crueler)
yeah it isnt much, but at LEAST hellers consumption is relatively quick and clean for civilians and marines.
i just noticed the 5das reference
Actually, the completely direct translation is "drink children sausage". Considering they were grinding children into sausage...
Prototype needs to take a page out of Saints Row's book.
Wait...
Saints Row IV.
Nevermind.
+PhoenixFireZero In my oppinion Saints Row 4 was the best one, Either that or Saints Row 2
Alex Mercer seems to be made of color-inverted beef jerky