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Prototype-Super Powers, Stealth, and Combat

We haven't heard much lately about the Game Prototype. But today Gamespot has a preview of the upcoming game. You are an amnesia patient who wakes up to discover you have very powerful powers. One of the powers you get is you can change to any person you want, but in order to do that, you must kill that person. Prototype is a sandbox game that sets in New York.
It has been only a couple of months since we last saw Prototype, but Radical Entertainment's take on the sprawling open-world gameplay genre has made leaps and bounds forward, continuing to impress us at every development milestone.

Set in current-day New York, the game places you in the role of comic-book-style antihero Alex Mercer, a guy who wakes up suffering from amnesia and, unsurprisingly, has no idea what's going on. Your job is to use the many physical forms and abilities at Mercer's disposal to find your way through the world in search of answers. This much we know thus far: Alex was--or perhaps still is--involved in some kind of government conspiracy regarding top-secret biological research. It looks like someone put more than a spoonful of anger in the recipe, and now Alex is out to pay it back in spades.

Our hands-off demo of the game at Sierra's recent press event in San Francisco joins the story a little way into the action, and showcases many of the abilities that you'll unlock throughout Prototype's story.

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    IAMJOB56 | April 25, 2008
    When is this coming out!?
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      tallteen86 | April 25, 2008
      3rd Quarter 2008. I believe that is Late Summer and Fall (So probably somewhere around early August, to the end of October. Most likely they'll release it later on in the fiscal quarter, even if they don't push it back.

      BTW: All I know about the timeline of Fiscal Quarters is that they're evenly divided, and that the 4th quarter actually ends early in the subsequent year.
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    tallteen86 | April 25, 2008
    I REALLY hope this game lives up to what they're saying it'll do >_>

    It'll be one of the games I want to get as soon as it comes out....Unless previews give it like a 6 or something -_- Previews/Reviews aren't everything, but they're a general gauge of quality...
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    Lord_80 | April 25, 2008
    I don't care about Previews! This is one game that I've been dying to get since I first heard about it. No matter what the reviews say, it's as good as mine.
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    Final Blade | April 25, 2008
    Hmm sounds interesting i'll wait for more info.
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    kik36 | April 25, 2008
    Looks like it will be a blast!! Can't wait to see it develop more!

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