GDC: Prototype gameplay and interview

BlimBlim
Friday, February 22, 2008 | 8:23 PM
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Snoopers and Bryan were also invited at a presentation of Prototype yesterday, where between 2 drinks they managed to film some very nice gameplay footage. Please note that the build shown here is six months old.
Update: Second part is up.
Update 2: Video interview of Tim Bennison, Executive Producer of the game, online.

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Commented on 2008-02-22 19:41:10 In reply to KORNdog

Posted by Sneaky_Castro

Did he just punch his fist through a guys chest? I always wanted to do that!

ME TOO!

Posted by KORNdog

lol, the pop-up is worse then GTA on ps2...game as a whole looks awesome tho. very fast paced. very interesting. i just hope it falls more along the lines of hulk ultimate destruction and crackdown then it does spiderman. from looking at this however its anybody's guess.

lol i dont mind pop in, not when the game is this awesome ... i can forgive pop in if the games got ever frigging cool think i can ask for and is fast paced... i mean dear god ...

you can transform, run up walls of buildings jump to helicopters and kill their pilot, punch through guys chests... i mean thats just wicked!

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Drunkenshaolin

Commented on 2008-02-22 19:58:59

better than i thought it be..

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Mech_Master

Commented on 2008-02-22 20:02:26

Surprisingly fun looking. The only thing I'm concerned about so far is the draw distance when he got in the helicopter. Things no more than 20 feet away were popping in and out of view.

And hopefully there's enough to do in this game to keep it interesting. I know a lot of games like Spider-man, Hulk, Crackdown, etc. have these really cool gameplay elements but the developers can't keep the game fresh throughout which makes their novelties grow boring.

Definitely one to keep an eye out for though.

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Snoopers

Commented on 2008-02-22 20:15:14 In reply to Doom_Bringer

Posted by Doom_Bringer

must have been running on PC right?? Looks amazing though

360 version.

By the way, the build is SIX MONTHS OLD.

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yutaro

Commented on 2008-02-22 21:02:19

No point in discussing any technical problems in this video.
What I'm afraid might make it into the final build though, is the excessive amount of blood. It seems to me like they're striving for a very realistic looking world, both the art direction and the physics would suggest that. It just didn't seem very fitting to see a fountain of blood gush out of that tank for example.

Other than that, it's looking very impressive. Glad to see the team kept their words from the dev diaries.

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JediMasterMalik

Commented on 2008-02-22 21:28:25 In reply to Jigen

Posted by Jigen

From the creators of :

Crash of the Titans
Scarface: The World is Yours
Crash Tag Team Racing
Dark Angel
Tetris Worlds
Dark Summit
Jackie Chan Stuntmaster
Independence Day
The Divide: Enemies Within

Not very confidence inspiring is it? It does look cool, but then loads of games look cool at first and then end up as big failures as full games. Hope it's good though, the powers look fun.

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Snoopers

Commented on 2008-02-22 21:41:15 In reply to JediMasterMalik

Posted by JediMasterMalik

Not very confidence inspiring is it? It does look cool, but then loads of games look cool at first and then end up as big failures as full games. Hope it's good though, the powers look fun.

He forgot the better one: Hulk Ultimate Destruction. That was a pretty good game, and Prototype seems like its logic evolution gameplay-wise.

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justmarbz

Commented on 2008-02-22 21:49:36

there is plenty of time to give this game some spit and shine. looks great so far

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NeoNemesis

Commented on 2008-02-22 22:54:26

Looks hot.

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Doom_Bringer

Commented on 2008-02-22 22:57:58 In reply to Snoopers

Posted by Snoopers

360 version.

By the way, the build is SIX MONTHS OLD.

wow

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Axl21

Commented on 2008-02-22 23:20:34

Gee, this video would be so much more awesome if it had SOUND.

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Snoopers

Commented on 2008-02-23 01:01:01 In reply to Axl21

Posted by Axl21

Gee, this video would be so much more awesome if it had SOUND.

Not sure you'd want me to leave the kind of sound it had.

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mustacio

Commented on 2008-02-23 01:05:55

gameplay looks amazing. i'm not so sure about these graphics though, cant tell much from this video. wen is the release? :D

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Jato

Commented on 2008-02-23 14:16:42

The graphics are pretty good actually. On ground level it looks quite the part I must say, though when getting higher the pop-in is horrible. That needs to be adressed for sure.

The gameplay is pretty cool as well, some awesome stuff in there and the animations of the main character are excellent, sans some of the transitions.

The main problem I have with this game is that it feels more like a playground than a city. It doesn't feel like all this is happening in a living, breathing city, but in a closed off playground so to speak. Having so many vehicles and characters in there doesn't make a city feel alive, there's a lot more to it. GTA IV seems to catch that atmosphere very well, Prototype (so far) not so much...

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Jato

Commented on 2008-02-23 14:35:48 In reply to Snoopers

Posted by Snoopers

Not sure you'd want me to leave the kind of sound it had.

Anything's better than no sound at all imo, even if it's just background ambiance/chatter.

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Phaethon360

Commented on 2008-02-23 16:13:29 In reply to Jato

If they were serving chilli and tacos in the cafeteria that day, are you sure you still would want to hear the audio?

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m2l

Commented on 2008-02-23 18:06:09

Is this spiderman on exctasy...?? Sorry, sorry too many pop ups and the camera has a great problem!!

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Gamefan1980

Commented on 2008-02-23 18:06:42

Pretty awesome, especially since it's a 6 month old build of the game.

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lb003g0676

Commented on 2008-02-23 19:18:20

I am no Jack Thompson, and usually have no problem with stuff like this, Didn't even mind SoF Double Helix, but this murdering women on the street actually kills me.

i felt so sorry for atleast 5 of them, they are so scared, and I will nto buy this game, it's just grotesque. I actually hope someone does do soemthgin about it, it's pretty much horrifying. Fine... tear enemies in half, but that woman was just walkign along, and everyone aroudn her, is goign to have to hire a consellour when he rips her head off in front of everyone.

Everyone has limits, and this for me, just crossed it. Atleast in GTA, you can try your best to avoid them. And believe me, I will. Euphoria makes them look so pained.

Am I a wuss, or is this getting too much... maybe it's the realism coming into games now?

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mustacio

Commented on 2008-02-23 22:02:42 In reply to Jato

Posted by Jato

Anything's better than no sound at all imo, even if it's just background ambiance/chatter.

mhmm, and we could even turn are speakers off if we didn't like it too. but yeah its cool that snoopahs thought about it.

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newbielives

Commented on 2008-02-23 22:07:06 In reply to lb003g0676

I am so insenstive to game violence but I didn't like the idea of killing bystanders to power up either.

Posted by lb003g0676

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phalanges

Commented on 2008-02-23 22:42:46

Never knew NYC had so many white trucks.

Hope the gameplay doesn't get repetitive, cause it looks like it will be.

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phalanges

Commented on 2008-02-23 22:44:30 In reply to newbielives

Posted by newbielives

I am so insenstive to game violence but I didn't like the idea of killing bystanders to power up either.

But as a player, you don't have to kill them. The guy playing the game decided he wanted to. You don't have to. I'm guessing there's other ways to power up/regain health? (hopefully)

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Ronsauce

Commented on 2008-02-24 02:33:32 In reply to lb003g0676

Posted by lb003g0676

Am I a wuss

Yup!

The game needs a bit of polish. Moving through the city looks cool but not as tight as it should. For example, bounding off cars is awesome, but sometimes it looks like he's overshooting the cars but still causing damage to them. If it gets tweaked so that it actually looks like he's landing on them, then great!

I dig the backwards facing camera. Since you don't get run over by cars or anything, it just ends up looking awesome and not frustrating like it could. The three monsters definitely looked awesome as they fucked shit up. Crackdown NEEDED some kind of super-powered enemies. There was no excuse to just be fighting guys with guns when there could have been other dudes jumping around throwing cars. This at least looks more varied.

Unfortunately, I don't see it being THAT varied. Crackdown was fun thanks to the sweet-ass jumping, but I find pretty much all sandbox games boring as hell. I haven't enjoyed a single GTA game since there was a 5-minute long demo for the first one on PC, and its novelty and short play time kept it fun. My fingers are crossed that this'll be different!

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[quote=lb003g0676]Am I a wuss[/quote]

Yup!

The game needs a bit of polish.  Moving through the city looks cool but not as tight as it should.  For example, bounding off cars is awesome, but sometimes it looks like he's overshooting the cars but still causing damage to them.  If it gets tweaked so that it actually looks like he's landing on them, then great!

I dig the backwards facing camera.  Since you don't get run over by cars or anything, it just ends up looking awesome and not frustrating like it could.  The three monsters definitely looked awesome as they fucked shit up.  Crackdown NEEDED some kind of super-powered enemies.  There was no excuse to just be fighting guys with guns when there could have been other dudes jumping around throwing cars.  This at least looks more varied.

Unfortunately, I don't see it being THAT varied.  Crackdown was fun thanks to the sweet-ass jumping, but I find pretty much all sandbox games boring as hell.  I haven't enjoyed a single GTA game since there was a 5-minute long demo for the first one on PC, and its novelty and short play time kept it fun.  My fingers are crossed that this'll be different!

mt_sabao

Commented on 2008-02-24 15:07:59

OMG! o.O CRACKDOWN on acid!!! Do want!

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