Prototype 2 Wreck Havoc this April 24th

The excitement is really fueling up as we're closing in to the debut of the bad ass shape-shifting, open-world action game Prototype's sequel. Prototype 2 arrives in your Playstation 3/Xbox 360/PC Computer this April 24, 2012 and it's not coming quietly as developer Radical Entertainment has in stored lots of new stuff like new characters and the best part, a really promising story.

The main character of Prototype 2 is Sergeant James Heller, a man who blames the deaths of his family on Alex Mercer. After surviving a suicide mission and being transformed into the virus by Alex Mercer, Heller is looking to kill Mercer, who acts as the game's main antagonist. Mercer's motives are unclear, but unlike the first game he is not committed to stopping the virus, but seems to be spreading it.

After the events of the first game, Manhattan recovered from the initial outbreak and everyone thought that the now named Mercer Virus was eradicaded. 14 months after Prototype, Manhattan has been quarantined again, due to a second outbreak, one far worse than the first one, and blocked off from the other boroughs of New York City, which has been renamed New York Zero (NYZ). The boroughs of New York have been divided into three zones, the Red, Yellow, and Green Zone. Each region stands for how affected New York City is by the Blacklight virus. Most boroughs of New York Zero have been infected. The Red Zone is Manhattan, home of Alex Mercer; in it the Blacklight virus grows unhindered. The Yellow Zone is a triage area full of shanty towns and the poor, it is very crowded and while the virus grows there, it is at a minimum and Blackwatch is using the Yellow Zone as a petri dish. The Green Zone is non-infected New York City, except there is a heavy Blackwatch presence. James Heller will have missions in each zone and each mission's difficulty will depend on which zone it takes place in. Blackwatch is credited as occupying and controlling NYZ, but they are said to know that New York actually belongs to Alex Mercer even though the latter is only seen rarely.

Blackwatch is the organization that is responsible for the creation of the virus and are in charge of eradicating it from New York City. Heller's main adversary in Blackwatch is Colonel Rooks. Rooks is more human than other Blackwatch members due to his family, though his commitment to the concept of family is his interpretation of Blackwatch's mission. Upon hearing the negative happenings in Blackwatch's mission, Rooks has a short temper, but can be thrilled if Blackwatch's mission is successful. Accompanying Rooks is Dr. Koening, the main virologist at Gentek. Koening oversees every major Gentek operation.

It was announced by Radical Entertainment that like the original Prototype, Prototype 2 would have a comic counterpart. The three part series takes place before the video game, acting as a bridge between the two games. To be published by Dark Horse Comics, the first comic, called the Anchor, focuses on Alex Mercer's transformation from fighting the virus to embracing it. The second comic, dubbed the Survivors focuses on a small group of people trying to escape New York Zero and the third comic, called the Labyrinth, introduces Heller.

Taken from Wikipedia.org

You can pre-order a copy now at the developer's official prototype 2 website and, if you want to see a little preview of what you're getting with this game, then I suggest you check the videos below:

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