Repetitive, and corrupt
posted by rjcpdx (Saint Paul, MN) May 8, 2012
Member since Jan 2004
Not a bad little time-waster, for as far as it goes. In my case that was probably two or three hours. The repetitiveness, though, kills it. More to the point I missed the sense from Prototype 1 of having to clean out infected mutant areas.
Here, instead of chiefly killing mutants, you're performing a kind of human cleansing, since the goal of the game is to murder a great number of soldiers. In order to make this remotely morally palatable, the game is constantly pushing the idea of retribution for atrocity -- these soulless military scum, it says, deserve to die. They're cruel, heartless. And you should go out and...and...eat them! Stop and think about that for a moment.
The problem was put succinctly over two hundred years ago by Voltaire: "Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Thanks anyway, but I'd prefer my gaming to make me feel a bit less filthy than this tiresome mass-murder simulator.
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