It was developed by Canadian studio Radical Entertainment and is the sequel to 2009's Prototype.
The game was published by Radical Entertainment's owner, Activision.
The game features a new protagonist, James Heller, as he goes on a quest to destroy the Blacklight virus.
The story is also one of revenge, as Heller wants to kill Alex Mercer, protagonist of the original Prototype,
after his family was killed in the outbreak of the Blacklight virus.
The game was announced at the 2010 Spike VGA Awards with the tagline "Murder your Maker."
Prototype 2 system requirements (minimum)
CPU: 2.3 GHz dual-core Intel or AMD processor
RAM: 1 GB system memory
Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible card with 512 MB RAM, Nvidia 200-series or Radeon 3000-series or better.
Operating system: Windows XP Service Pack 2
DirectX compatible sound card
12 GB of free hard disk space
Prototype 2 system requirements (recommended)
CPU: 2.4 GHz Quad Core Intel or AMD processor
RAM: 2GB system memory
Graphics: DirectX 10 compatible 1 GB graphics card, Nvidia 400 series or AMD 5000 series or better.
Operating system: Windows 7
DirectX compatible sound card
12 GB of free hard disk space
It was announced by Radical Entertainment that like the original Prototype, Prototype 2 would have a comic counterpart. The three part series takes place before the second video game, acting as a bridge between the two games. To be published by Dark Horse Comics, the first comic was called the Anchor. After eradicating the virus in Africa, Mexico and Russia, Alex travels around the world, wondering about if the virus has made him a human, humanity's killer or its savior. Alex slowly begins to decide that he is the earth's savior and will usher it into a new age of prosperity after he wipes out humanity, however, this changes when he falls for a woman. When the woman betrays him, he decides that he will wipe out humanity and so he returns to New York City and makes it NYZ.
The second comic, dubbed the Survivors focused on a former police officer, Conrad who would join up with Ami Levin, a religiously tolerant person and Marcie, an art student. The three would run afoul of Lieutenant Riley, he would, however, agree to let Conrad see his wife, so long he agrees to work for Gentek. Unbeknownst to Riley, his wife was dead and that he ended up in a project called Orion. The third comic, entitled the Labyrinth introduced Heller and Mike Marcos.
Setting and characters:
The main character of Prototype 2 is James Heller, a man who blames the deaths of his family on Alex Mercer.
After surviving a suicide mission and being transformed by the virus released by Alex Mercer,
Heller is looking to kill Mercer, who acts as the game's main antagonist.
Mercer's motives are unclear, but unlike the first game he is not committed to stopping the virus, but seems to be spreading it.
After the events of the first game, Manhattan recovered from the initial outbreak and
everyone thought that the "Mercer Virus" was eradicated. 14 months after Prototype,
Manhattan has been quarantined again, due to a second outbreak, one far worse than the first one,
and blocked off from the other boroughs of New York City,
which has been renamed New York Zero (NYZ). The boroughs of New York have been divided into three zones,
the Red, Yellow, and Green Zone. Each region stands for how affected New York City is by the Blacklight virus.
Most boroughs of New York Zero have been infected. The Red Zone is Manhattan, home of Alex Mercer;
in it the Blacklight virus grows unhindered. The Yellow Zone is a triage area full of shanty towns and the poor,
it is very crowded and while the virus grows there, it is at a minimum and Blackwatch is using the Yellow Zone as a petri dish.
The Green Zone is non-infected New York City, except there is a heavy Blackwatch presence.
James Heller will have missions in each zone and each mission's difficulty will depend on which zone it takes place in.
Blackwatch is credited as occupying and controlling NYZ, but they are said to know that New York actually belongs to Alex Mercer even though the latter is only seen rarely.
Blackwatch is the organization that is responsible for the creation of the virus and are in charge of eradicating it from New York City.
Heller's main adversary in Blackwatch is Colonel Rooks. Rooks is more human than other Blackwatch members due to his family,
though his commitment to the concept of family is his interpretation of Blackwatch's mission.
Upon hearing the negative happenings in Blackwatch's missions, Rooks has a short temper,
but can be thrilled if Blackwatch's missions are successful. Accompanying Rooks is Dr. Koening,
the main virologist at Gentek. Koening oversees every major Gentek operation.
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