Prototype 2 - Total empowerment!

Catching your flight...literally

But of course stealth is never forced upon you, except for maybe a handful of missions. The rest of the time you’re given complete freedom of choice while tackling both the main as well as the side quests. If you get a bit bored of slaughtering folks with your gigantic claws, you can boot up Radnet, the game’s online hub and indulge in a bunch of fun mini games. Complete a certain amount of challenges and you’ll be rewarded with extras like a behind the scenes video, a player skin or even bonus mutations that can be used in-game. While connected, Radnet also tracks the mayhem you’ve been causing so you can compare stats with friends and see who the most insensitive one really is.

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Unlike most open world games, Prototype 2 is not terribly long. Stick to the campaign and you could probably run through it in around ten hours. However if you pace yourself and tackle all the extra content, the game throws at you, you’re looking at a good twenty plus hours of complete mayhem. The wanton mayhem unfortunately takes a toll on the game’s frame rate that constantly dips during some of the more intense segments. The game itself is not great looking and some of Hellar’s animations feel quite stiff and outdated. It also isn’t the deepest game on the block nor is it authentic by any stretch of imagination but it is without a doubt the most amount of fun I’ve had in an open world game all year. A must buy for action gamers.