Trivia / [PROTOTYPE]

• Banned in China: The game was banned in Germany, though it could be imported.
• Creator-Driven Successor: For Radical Entertainment's own The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, from which it retained a lot of mechanics and further refined the formula.
• Dueling Games: This and inFamous, which also features a man with superpowers in a New York-like city with Le Parkour, and which came out a few weeks earlier. Do not mention one on a forum for the other.
• He Also Did: Dennis Detwiller, the head writer for the game (but not the comics or sequel), also wrote material for Delta Green; in some regards it almost feels like a Perspective Flip of the Delta Green series; the shady governmental body operating above the law are the antagonists and the horrific abomination is the protagonist. Mercer himself shares some similarities with the Ghouls in Delta Green; from the shapeshifting and relative invulnerability to firearms, to gaining memories from consuming the brains of people.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The original [PROTOTYPE] was originally planned to be a sequel to Spider-Man: Web of Shadows where the player would control Venom as he slaughtered and ate his way to a symbiote-infested Spider-Man.
  • There was going to be co-op play, but it was dropped.
  • Early in the game's development, the official website had some story details that were later removed. For instance, Alex's mother would have been a central character as the CEO of GenTek. Another (heavily censored) document talks about the great influenza epidemic that broke in 1918 in the U.S.; it is hinted that influenza was just a cover story, and the outbreak was something else entirely, possibly a natural outbreak of the original Redlight virus. None of this is mentioned in either game.
  • During the game's beta, the main character's name was going to be Alex Trolliver; he rocked a white hoodie and grey vest, and his Claws power only had three fingers and no protruding spikes.
  • Various pieces of concept art show that Alex's armored form could've had Xenomorph tail-like tentacles for "hair". Concept art for possible abilities that never made it into the game shows him turning one hand into a group of mouth-tipped tentacles. Another scrapped ability was for Alex to form a spike-shooting Backpack Cannon with up to three "turrets".
  • Mercer's original stealth ability would have simply been turning invisible before they went with the shapeshifting method. He also had a defensive ability that would have reflected a portion of taken damage back at the attacker.
  • There is radio chatter (mostly unused) in the game for a few more human enemies like S.W.A.T. teams, jets (the chatter suggests they would have sprayed Bloodtox) and MLRS trucks. In the end product jets only appear to make a couple scripted runs on the final boss, and the MLRS model was modified into the Bloodtox pump.

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