{"id":12157,"date":"2011-06-06T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"prototype-2-will-be-completely-different-to-infamous-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12157-prototype-2-will-be-completely-different-to-infamous-2","title":{"rendered":"Prototype 2 will be \u201ccompletely different\u201d to InFamous 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&rsquo;s just because the two games were released around about the same time back in 2009, but it seemed Prototype and InFamous were constantly compared to one another, even precipitating a bit of an Xbox versus PS3 war despite Prototype being a multiplatform launch.<\/p>\n<p>Next time around, it&rsquo;s going to be different. Even &ldquo;completely different&rdquo;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-06-06-prototype-2-dev-dismisses-infamous-rivalry\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to Prototype dev, Radical Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The first InFamous was really cool and the second one seems to be shaping up really well,&rdquo; the project&rsquo;s design director Matt Armstrong tells Eurogamer.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But we offer something completely different and there&rsquo;s space in the market for both games.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The things reviewers saw were the same things we saw,&rdquo; he explains, citing the game&rsquo;s rather spotty plot as an example.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We had a main character in Alex Mercer who wasn&rsquo;t always as aligned with his powers as we&rsquo;d hoped. We had a story that was very involved and convoluted and difficult to follow.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s something very special about this game and this time around we&rsquo;re coming out with something that&rsquo;s a big expansion of all the things that were good about the first game, while simultaneously addressing all the things we were never really happy about.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Prototype 2 is due out sometime in 2012, so they&rsquo;ve got plenty of time to work that out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14365-Prototype-2-won-t-be-anything-like-Infamous-2?p=449425#post449425\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Prototype 2<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere\u2019s space in the market for both games,\u201d says dev<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}