Prototype is a single player open-world action game where players take control of shape-shifter alex mercer. In this gameworld you literally are a genetic prototype hiding in human form. You step out onto the streets of new york with no memory but limitless potential power. As a terrifying viral epidemic sweeps across manhattan top-secret blackwatch special forces move in transforming it into a war zone. Delve into the mysteries of your origin the true nature of your power and your part in a conspiracy 40 years in the making. story alex mercer was once a scientist for the prominent medical research corporation gentek but one day he wakes up to find himself a shape-shifter with absolute mastery over his genetic structure but no memory of how this came to be. Taking to the streets of new york city in search of answers he quickly encounters a web of lies and vows to rip the truth from those who have hidden it from him and the world. a few other things that alex also learns quickly is that he is not alone in possessing amazing abilities that there is a secret war brewing in new york city and he is on its front lines. A deadly infection has spilled out of control and the government has seized the media to stop the spread of information and has placed new york under quarantine as martial law is instated; igniting a firestorm of combat carnage and death. As he roams the city he faces an ever growing army of infected creatures warped and changed by the virus. As it spreads the virus overwrites the genetics of those it infects warping and changing their form into something else something that seems to have been planned. The answers he seeks appear to be tied to the virus so he rushes to discover the truth behind it but standing against him and his goal is project blackwatch. An elite army specialist force they are tasked with halting the spread of the virus at any cost and are eager to bring alex in dead or alive to determine his connection to it. It would seem that they ...