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I haven't uploaded any deleted content in a while, and this is all I found so far.

I've seen a lot of comments since joining the Prototype franchise, and I was curious to know what people were saying about Karen Parker. Some portrayed her as cold, malicious, and a bad person simply for betraying Alex Mercer and participating in the development of the parasite to hand it over to Blackwatch. But what I've noticed is that some people are unaware of the context of her actions, and that's why I believe she's another victim of Dr. Alex Mercer (the real one).

On the intrigue website, it's said that Karen Parker was Dr. Alex Mercer's ex-girlfriend, a person with a psychological diagnosis that included "narcissism, lack of empathy, and a total indifference to life." These symptoms could have caused their breakup. We also know that they both worked together at Gentek, but Karen was a lower-ranking virologist and was unaware of the Blacklight virus and Alex's work.

One night, she receives a call from her ex-boyfriend, who claims that he stole something (the virus) and demands to know where it came from. This could be a symptom of paranoia, since even Alex Mercer didn't know Elizabeth Greene existed, which makes it questionable to ask someone several levels below him. In the flashback, Karen is seen frightened, asking him what he had taken.

That same night, news reports indicate that her ex-boyfriend carried out an attack with an unknown weapon at Penn Station, killing thousands (Karen is known to be unaware of the virus). Also that night, several Blackwatch agents break into her house and kidnap her, taking her to Gentek, where they torture her to find out what happened that night and if she had any information about Dr. Alex Mercer's plans.

In the following days, they put her in a negotiating position with their boss, McMullen, accompanied by a soldier with a machine gun in the room. They then show her a video of her ex-boyfriend (she doesn't know that Zeus is no longer Alex Mercer), supposedly dead, who has been resurrected and is killing, absorbing people, and destroying the city. They ask for her help, the officer still holding his gun, leaving her with two options:

1. Betray her narcissistic, sociopathic ex-boyfriend, who killed thousands in an attack she believes was driven by paranoia, and who has been resurrected as some kind of monster that kills and consumes people.

2. Not betray him and hope that an organization that burns down buildings full of people and kills babies doesn't cause an "accident" that leaves her with a Hunter mysteriously with broken legs.

Unfortunately, both options meant a gruesome death for her. Later, when Zeus found her, he killed her in the elevator.

In the Crysis 2 game, civilians infected by the virus barely appear. In the novel, there are many scenes of Alcatraz going through various events and descriptions that both he and the book make of the infected.

The first time he encounters them in "Second Chance," Alcatraz finds a man cut in half with a huge amount of biomass covering his lungs and head. He then observes a group of infected walking clumsily, one of them walking on all fours, another with a mangled foot, and another with his eyes and part of his head being devoured by the virus. Alcatraz mentions that even with these difficulties, they didn't seem to experience pain and moved in a specific direction. As he walks, some infected murmur phrases like "this isn't me," others like "God take me," and a phrase from a light. What he does notice is that almost all of them are smiling in a grotesque and static way, even the infected who have already died or are in body bags. He even notices that Even the dead, now melted into biomass, still show traces of life.

The book then shifts to a report created by FEMA researchers explaining that the virus, called the "God Bug," "Spore," or "RAPCer," is a minuscule robotic virus that disperses through the air and has a maximum range of 50 meters, becoming inert and unable to spread beyond Manhattan.

Among the physical mutations in civilians, there is also a mental one that causes those affected to develop a "passion for travel." This leads to heightened religious impulses in the infected, accompanied by hallucinations and screams that seem to come from nowhere, leading them to believe that the aliens are angels sent by God. They congregate at Charybdis (the needles that appear in Crysis 2). It was also observed that these infected individuals self-mutilate or dismember each other so that the spore can have greater access to the body, as it proliferates much more effectively in open wounds. Suicides can also occur, as seen when Alcatraz travels on the "Seat of Power" mission, where he observes a manta ray falling and crashing into the... I usually imply that it's a baby and the mother crashes next to the baby.

I'd say the novel took a lot of liberties, to be honest, because it's even darker.

In the sequences and flashbacks, Dr. Alex Mercer proceeds with the theft of the virus sample to escape Gentek, heading to Penn Station. On the way, he makes several calls: one to Karen Parker demanding to know where the sample came from, and another to McMullen demanding the same before hanging up and entering the station. Thanks to these calls, Blackwatch manages to locate the doctor and corner him at the station, causing him to break the vial, releasing the virus. And I have a question: are the people at Blackwatch stupid?

1. Are you seriously telling me that Mercer, dressed suspiciously and wearing a hood, entered a facility of a top-secret government project—even more secret and powerful than the president himself—and stole a virus sample that the scientists themselves declared in red letters would annihilate all life on Earth if released, and walked away scot-free? They only located him because he started calling everyone?

2. What would have happened if Mercer had contacted foreign powers like Russia or China and, while fleeing, handed the sample to an undercover agent who then escaped while Blackwatch pursued him? Or what if Mercer had released Greene right there, thrown the sample to those same people, or discarded it somewhere else, and continued running toward Penn Station?

If I were the head of Blackwatch, I would order Randall's execution for such stupidity.

A battle between two characters who should have died from a single blow by Mercer.

For this fight, it will be human Heller with his knife against Cross without his grenade launcher but with his electric device.

The case of the virus appearing in Manhattan is confusing and inconsistent. Sometimes it says she's infected with the Blacklight Virus, other times with DX-1118, and other times they say they don't know exactly which strain it is. Furthermore, it's never referred to as the Redlight Virus.

The name Redlight comes from three sources:

Randall calling it Operation Redlight

Cross saying the name Project Redlight

And a memory mentioning the Redline

While reading the novel Crysis Legion, I found the appearance of and confrontation with the Ceph Pinger to be considerably darker and more violent. In the narrative, after the Pinger smashes through flooded windows during the mission "Corporate Collapse," Chino contacts Alcatraz to request assistance from Delta Six, which is under attack by the Pinger. Unlike the video game, where you simply traverse ducts and ramps before encountering soldiers fighting the Pinger, in the book, Alcatraz becomes separated from his unit and must run through several streets to rejoin them. However, his GPS, integrated into his suit, malfunctions due to the sheer number of collapsed buildings, causing Alcatraz to become disoriented for a time. As he runs, he notices the ground beginning to shake and vibrate, comparing the sound to that of a submarine. As he explores and gets closer, he encounters numerous civilians with red eyes and bleeding ears. Among them was a little girl running and screaming, crying blood because her eyes had exploded due to the Pinger. Alcatraz surmises that those under its influence had suffered cranial explosions that had left traces on the ground. Then he hears a Humvee driven by two soldiers firing into a dead-end alley. They try to disperse the civilians, but due to disorientation, they fail and end up crashing, running over some in the process.

Immediately afterward, the Pinger appears. Alcatraz cannot defeat it alone due to a kind of echolocation that allows it to be detected even when hidden, forcing him into a cat-and-mouse game. Several soldiers provide support by firing rockets at it. Finally, one of them detonates a suicide vest, luring the Pinger into a minefield and detonating himself to wound and destroy it.

I was surprised by the battle itself, and there are also other changes the author made to other moments in the campaign.

He can withstand two shockwaves, dodged three attacks from Mercer's Prototype 2, stabbed him four times, endured a Goliath's charge, was thrown against a wall by a brawler, killed him, and still had enough energy left to chase down and stab Mercer's arm. This would put him almost on par with Cross.

Specifically Crysis 2 and 3 on Xbox Series X, because after playing them for a while, all the data suddenly disappears, and it's as if I've never played the game.

I just finished reading the novel and playing Crysis 3, and the island only appears in a vague explanation from Gould, who says that "something" destroyed the ship, which, for an event that is practically the main plot of Crysis 1, seemed very wrong to leave the whole encounter in the dark.

They have a bunch of secret locations in the middle of nowhere all over the world, from isolated islands to inhospitable deserts, and several scientists working on them, warning that if the virus escaped it could wipe out civilization. And then they unleash it in the busiest city, with the highest concentration of infection vectors (rats, birds, people coming and going), and it's not a secret, right in plain sight.

And to top it all off, they introduce a woman so incredibly powerful that it takes heavy artillery and bunker-buster bombs to even begin to inflict any damage.

Honestly, they deserve what's happening to them for being so stupid.

While considering the various theories about Alex Mercer's potential return in a hypothetical Prototype 3, I realized that many of them lacked coherence or were based on the premise of erasing everything established in Prototype 2. Honestly, this reminds me of the situation with the Star Wars sequel trilogy.

In these sequels, J.J. Abrams made modifications to his film "The Rise of Skywalker" in order to completely ignore or alter what was shown in Rian Johnson's "The Last Jedi." This, unfortunately, caused confusion, as it failed to connect the two films, turning what should have been continuity into a dispute between the two directors trying to impose their own visions.

I use this example because I get the impression that the proposals for Prototype 3 don't feel like a continuation of Prototype 2. Rather, they seem like an attempt to ignore the second game and bring back Alex Mercer through theories that have already proven ineffective, such as the idea of clones.

In a narrative, there are three key elements in its development: the beginning, the middle, and the end. These three parts are interconnected; if you remove one, you compromise the others. Therefore, as in the example mentioned, it no longer seems like a coherent story is being told, but rather a reboot or a deletion born of frustration rather than artistry. It would be like making a third Lord of the Rings film and forgetting the previous ones.

In my opinion, if a Prototype game is ever created, it should be a remake and a second game that includes both Alex Mercer and James Heller. This would satisfy both Mercer's and Heller's fans where both characters can be protagonists and position Pariah as a threat that will grow in power with each game.