[PROTOTYPE]

So I just finished my 11 hour game streak of playing [Prototype] and I have to say it was pretty good. I had no idea what to expect going in and it turned out to raise my expectations for good sandbox games.

[Prototype] is a game that centers around Alex Mercer, a person who has strange powers and amnesia. He lives in New York City where a virus is beginning to take over and the military has come to put a stop to it. The plot is really good at times and it could be a fairly interesting movie if done correctly. Alas, it's not without retarded errors, but I'll leave criticizing plots to movie reviews.

The gameplay is really fluent and everything flows together. You could be flipping off of a building and start gliding and it'll seem really realistic. The superpowers this dude has reminds me of The Thing mixed with Venom from the spider man comics and the T-1000 from Terminator 2. It's a very tasty mix if I do say so myself. His voice is pretty strange though. At times he sounds like George Clooney and then switches to Hayden Christensen. It's really weird. It's like, he sounds cool, then he sounds like a faggot who likes to destroy franchises though he can be fairly good like in that Jumper movie which I enjoyed despite the negative reviews it has gotten.

By the way, don't read too much into the Wikipedia article, like the character biographies, because it gives a lot away. Seems as though they don't use the spoilers ahead warning anymore.

I recommend this game to you if you're into that sandbox type superhero game. If you seem to stray away from those kind of games I can safely say that it's a lot better than that Superman Returns sandbox superhero game, so don't worry.

A weird thing about this game though is that I didn't really care for the Sandbox part. I never did anything other than do the main missions, and I still got to unlock all of the upgrades with the points from them. I like the choice, but I never chose to dick around. I usually do though with GTA and Spiderman 2. I guess I didn't with this game because whenever you try to kill people, you're going to get shot at so much and be annoyed by those APCs and strike teams.

I really liked it though, you should check it out.

Taken

Since Taken is coming out on DVD in the USA... sometime (I saw it in a commercial) I suppose I'll give you my review.

Taken stars Liam Nelson Neeson, that dude who talked for your father in Fallout 3. To be fair, Liam Neeson is a pretty good actor. I liked him as Henry Ducard in Batman Begins and he was good in Schindler's List. In Taken, I thought he was pretty good as a neurotic father.

So to sum up what I'm going to say, Taken is pretty good. See it if and when you can. Okay, on to the review. Spoilers ahead too.

Taken is a good action movie. It has a dark vibe to it, and it has a pretty simplistic storyline. I don't think it's anything new, though. Some dude takes your daughter and you have to go retrieve her. Sweet! The less there is of a story, the more time there is for action!

While Taken is a good movie, it still has flaws. One thing that is very prominent is the misogynistic script and characters. The women in this movie are idiots. They're always being retarded. The wife is being way too nonchalant about her daughter going to Europe to follow a band around with a few cousins and her horny blonde friend. Yeah, nothing can go wrong. I guess you're not supposed to like the characters, but damn, I was happy in ways when I saw the blonde chick dead that one should talk to their therapist about. The blonde chick was way too stupid to be living anyway. Yes, have sex with the French stranger that you just met at the taxi.

Benzaie probably liked this movie.

The plot is definitely shattered beyond repair. I didn't know half of the supporting characters from the movie or care to pay attention to who they were. Even after I watched it a second time, things still didn't clear up for me. I never did figure out who that one dude who Liam used to work with was or how he got evil.

Meh.

Watchmen Game

So I got the Watchmen: The End is Nigh the other day and I've been playing it a bit.

The game is based on the comic and movie Watchmen. For the record, I liked the movie. I haven't read all of the comic, but from what I've read they seemed to have stayed fairly loyal to the comic. I can't say for sure, but I did enjoy the movie. I was never really a comic reading kind of person, but I like looking at the details of a lot of comic superhero's lives. The movie was good, and looks as though they didn't leave out anything totally integral to getting the feel of the comic. Ahh, but you're reading this for the game review, not the movie review.

The Watchmen game details the events leading up to the movie and comic with our heroes Rorschach and Niteowl. The game is better than some of the movie tie-in games I've played. That's not saying much though, believe me, it's really boring. It's your basic beat 'em up game with a storyline. The game's foundation parts are mostly fine though. The controls are fine, the camera is a bit awkward at times, the combos are neat, but the Prince of Persia fighting system flaw is found in the game. They try to implement special little combo cutaway things. You know like when you do a successful attack thing in Assassin's Creed and it does that camera change and shows blood going everywhere, every time? Yeah, that's basically it. The game is okay to say the least. If you have some money to blow on a game that you'll play for like an hour and a half to 2 hours, go for it. I just got bored after playing with it for 30 minutes.