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[umiman]

The civilians are too busy being slaughtered by everyone.

[Cthulhu]

That's true, they really have no luck.  If I had a dollar for every time a civilian web target was blown out of my hands by a rocket, I'd have at least five dollars.

EDIT:  Can I ever win?  I finally fixed the overheating, and now it's getting a disk unreadable error every time

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I start the mission where you have to activate the bloodtox pumping device in Times Square.  As soon as the guy says that there's seismic activity it crashes

[Tilla]

[Yanlin]

The ability to use a helicopter as a tomato.

[Cthulhu]

My biggest complaint with the game is the abundance of abilities that seem cool, but in practice quickly prove their uselessness.  I'm talking about air combo, powerbomb, and the multitude of other unarmed combat moves.  The only things I know of that can take a punch from Mercer without dying, and are also susceptible to these moves are evolved infected, and there are way more effective means of dealing with them.  I got most of those abilities in anticipation of supersoldiers, but found that they don't work on them.  You can't uppercut a supersoldier in the air, and you can't grab one without bodyslamming him.  In a game where 90% of the enemies fly apart every time you hit the X button, fancy melee combos seem like a waste of EP.

[Keiseth]

No hard mode?

[Cthulhu]

I can't finish the game on medium because my XBox can't read the disk during a mission.  I have one possible fix, if that doesn't work I'm gonna have to send the XBox in.  I have one of the early ones with the bad disk drive, methinks.

UPDATE:  Just beat the game, and I'm confused.

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What was the deal with the boss at the end?  Was it PARIAH?  Also, did anyone else think of the Iron Giant when he was flying away with the bomb?

[Smitehappy]

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What was the deal with the boss at the end?  Was it PARIAH?  Also, did anyone else think of the Iron Giant when he was flying away with the bomb?

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The last boss you defeated was the supreme hunter that was spawned when you tried to kill Elizabeth with the cells Alex's body produced in response to the virus. Technically it's Alex and Elizabeth's child, since it's the offspring of their cells combining.
It consumed The Specialist earlier in the game, which was hinted at during a cutscene. It used it's position and knowledge as the specialist to get you and Elizabeth killed so it could spread the infection without the government's noticed since they'd assume that the threat was contained with Alex and Elizabeth's death. I thought it was strange that the Specialist just up and decided to help you considering his mantra on how to deal with those infected(Or just the literal body of the infection IE:Alex Mercy) but I just assumed bad writing. 

[chaoticag]

I got the game yesterday, for my birthday. Is it me or does every game with "infected" these days have a nod to dead risings zombie genocider achievement?

[Virtz]

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The last boss you defeated was the supreme hunter that was spawned when you tried to kill Elizabeth with the cells Alex's body produced in response to the virus. Technically it's Alex and Elizabeth's child, since it's the offspring of their cells combining.
It consumed The Specialist earlier in the game, which was hinted at during a cutscene. It used it's position and knowledge as the specialist to get you and Elizabeth killed so it could spread the infection without the government's noticed since they'd assume that the threat was contained with Alex and Elizabeth's death. I thought it was strange that the Specialist just up and decided to help you considering his mantra on how to deal with those infected(Or just the literal body of the infection IE:Alex Mercy) but I just assumed bad writing. 

Actually, I think:

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That was Elizabeth Greene's child, born before the game started. Earlier in the game, they said the Specialist had killed a runner before. But as it apparently turned out, he wasn't the one who killed the runner, the runner consumed him and assumed his identity while somehow not revealing itself to the detectors. And I assume that runner was Elizabeth's child, because it was mentioned in some flashback that she had a child after the first outbreak.

[Ivefan]

Actually, I think:

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That was Elizabeth Greene's child, born before the game started. Earlier in the game, they said the Specialist had killed a runner before. But as it apparently turned out, he wasn't the one who killed the runner, the runner consumed him and assumed his identity while somehow not revealing itself to the detectors. And I assume that runner was Elizabeth's child, because it was mentioned in some flashback that she had a child after the first outbreak.

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She did have a child, But consider that was 40-50 years before and theres also the posibility that one-armed-general-dude-whats-his-name killed the child in one of the cutscenes just after the birth.

Anyway. considering all the plotholes, the discontinued storylines(sister,doctor,GF etc). I would say that there's no point discussing a plot that has been tied together with straws of grass.

[Micro102]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/789-Prototype

YAY FOR ZERO PUNCTUATION!!!

[Virtz]

I actually thought it was put together pretty well, I thought it simply didn't spoon-feed us everything. Just that the final plot twist felt unnecessary.

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The Specialist seemed much more kick ass as a human who could beat up the infected rather than just another infected (even if Greene's child) who could beat up other infected.

I also don't buy the "could've killed it" story. If they wanted to, they could've done so before it was born. They wouldn't be keeping Greene around if they didn't want these sorts of things alive, as well. And the "previous runner" story is never clearly explored beyond it being mentioned that the Specialist supposedly killed it.

Also, I did once see the game fuck up when:

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I had a random web of intrigue guy reveal that my "girlfriend" was a scam right before the mission where she set me up. I couldn't do a thing to prevent it even though I knew she was fake.

Also, it wasn't really discontinued, she was just pulled out of the city after setting up Mercer. The Sister and Doctor, though, those were sort of dropped. But someone suggested it was because Mercer figured out he's just a delusional virus and doesn't actually care, so I'd go with that.

[umiman]

Yeah see. The story is really good. Just that developers had no clue how to actually present it in a way we could coherently understand.

Then again, I'd rather spend hours killing stuff than hours listening to people ramble on and on.

[Sergius]

I got this game yesterday and spent the whole day playing. This game is a riot...

Just getting in a base, doing a "tendril devastator" dab in the middle and then mowing down everyone left with a heavy machine gun while still in your commander disguise is loads of fun. Street Sweeper works wonders against marines.

And whoever asked: the game has an Easy, Medium and Hard difficulty. I'm playing on Easy the first time.