Prototype game announced for Xbox 360, think Scarface with superpowers

Scarface: The World Is Yours for Nintendo WiiAn all new “sandbox” GTA style free-roaming game has been revealed by the UK Official Xbox Magazine. The game is called Prototype, and it’s coming from Radical Entertainment, the developers of Scarface: The World Is Yours, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, The Simpsons Hit & Run and the upcoming Crash of the Titans. Prototype is set for release in winter 2008.

The game puts you in the role of Alex Mercer, a genetically engineered dude (in a hood no less) with various powers, which include running up the walls of skyscrapers and slicing bad dudes in half. Naturally for anyone with “running up walls” powers, the game sets you in a bustling New York City. The environments literally have dozens of NPCs on-screen walking around at once, in a “living breathing environment” according to the developers. Whether that’ll be completely reflected in-game is yet to be seen.

Prototype Game Informer Magazine CoverThe storyline sees a human-eating virus spreading throughout the city, and this leads directly to a battle between mutants and the military. It all feels very similar to Crackdown but with the powers of something like The Darkness layed out on top. Pretty cool stuff.

Powers include superhuman strength, the ability to cover yourself in scale-like shields and the ability to shot matter through the ground, thus impaling any poor soul who gets in the way on giant spikes. You can also shape-shift into the identity of any of your victims, which can also give you the ability to say call in an air strike as an army officer. Via CVG