Prototype (stylized as [PROTOTYPE]) is an action-adventure open world video game developed
by Radical Entertainment and published byActivision. The game was
released in North America on June 9, 2009, and in southwestern parts of
North America as well as Oceania on June 10, and was released in Europe
on June 12.
The game is set in New York City,
where a virulent plague known as Blacklight is spreading
through Manhattan. Those infected are mutated into hideous monsters of
varying form, with an uncontrollable rage to kill all uninfected
life-forms and a military black operations force called Blackwatch has
been deployed to keep the infection from spreading. At the center of it
is the protagonist, Alex Mercer, an incredibly powerfulshapeshifter with
no memory of his past. Parallel to the game’s storyline is the ability
to play the game as a sandbox-style video game giving the player freedom to roam Manhattan
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