Prototype 2

Prototype 2

Released Jul 2012

Become the ultimate shape-shifting weapon!

76% positive · 16K reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Prototype 2 launched on July 24, 2012 as a fully self-contained action game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Activision. The game shipped with one piece of DLC — the RADNET Access Pack — which has been released. There are no unreleased DLC items listed on the store. The store description makes no mention of future content, ongoing updates, or post-launch plans, and is written entirely in the language of a finished product ("the ultimate showdown 'event' videogame of 2012"). No developer communications indicate any post-launch content was ever planned beyond what has already shipped. The studio, Radical Entertainment, was effectively shut down by Activision shortly after the game's release in 2012, making further development impossible. The game launched and was completed as a packaged single-player experience with no post-launch content cycle.
Evidence
The only DLC — the RADNET Access Pack — has been released. No unreleased DLC items exist in the store listing.
dlc listing source content shipped
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Store description presents the game as a complete, self-contained single-player experience with no mention of post-launch content, seasons, or ongoing updates.
store metadata · Jul 24, 2012 source development ending
medium

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

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Details

Publisher
Activision
Achievements
43
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Welcome to New York Zero.

The sequel to Radical Entertainment’s best-selling open-world action game of 2009, Prototype® 2 takes the unsurpassed carnage of the original Prototype and continues the experience of becoming the ultimate shape-shifting weapon. You are Sgt James Heller, husband to a deceased wife and child and a soldier left simply to die.

As the game’s all-new infected protagonist, players will experience Sgt James Heller cutting a bloody swathe through the wastelands of post-viral New York Zero. Equipped with unparalleled new shapeshifting powers,players will gradually build a vast genetic arsenal of deadly new biological weapons and abilities as they hunt, kill and consume their way toward the ultimate goal – to kill…Alex…Mercer!

Are you ready to murder your maker?

Key Features:

  • The Power of Tendrils: Prepare to unleash the ultimate form of shape-shifting devastation. Sgt James Heller’s incredible new Tendril power lets you lift and tear apart cars and military vehicles, ensnare powerful infected beasts and even rip large groups of enemies to shreds. Get ready to unleash hell!
  • Customize Your Killer: Prototype 2 delivers the raw power of character customization back into your hands, allowing players to creatively mix-n-match a devastating range of new Mutation perks into their ultimate Prototype. Faster and bigger locomotion abilities, sharper claws or even enhanced disguise abilities – the choice is yours!
  • Hunt – Kill – Become: Imagine having the power to track down any enemy by unleashing a powerful sonar-pulse from your body! Sgt James Heller brings an all-new dimension to the Prototype experience by letting you Hunt, Kill and Become anyone standing in your way. Disguise yourself as a soldier, scientist or anyone at all whilst absorbing their memories and acquiring new abilities. It doesn’t get any better than this!
  • Bring Down the Devil: Gamers will experience the epic story of Sgt James Heller attempting to take down the devil himself… Alex Mercer. Unraveled against the explosive backdrop of New York Zero and it’s vicious factions warring for control over the infection, Prototype 2 sets the stage for the ultimate showdown “event” videogame of 2012.
  • Size Does Matter: Utilizing the unparalleled technology of Radical’s proprietary ‘Titanium 2.0’ engine, Prototype 2 will redefine gamer’s expectations of over-the-top open world action. Witness building-sized Infected behemoths bullrushing entire city streets, whilst gliding and parkouring across swarms of highly trained Blackwatch soldiers. Prototype 2 = Bigger, Badder, Better!
  • New York Zero: An All New Open-World Hunting Ground! The New York that humanity has come to know and love over the years no longer exists…it is now New York Zero, or more simply, NYZ.
PROTOTYPE 2’s NYZ open-world sandbox is broken up into three completely distinct zones. From the heavily militarized “Green Zone”, to the overcrowded refugee shanty town camps of the quarantined “Yellow Zone”, all the way to the war-ravaged nightmare known as the “Red Zone” – this is a city unlike anything gamer’s have experienced before. The home of Alex Mercer, the Red Zone portrays a nightmarish vision where the Blacklight virus has completely overrun the city’s shattered skyscrapers and population, with infection and the risk of death at every corner.
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