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Something I detest in zombie series is that humanity, or the soldiers fighting the outbreak, just stare blankly ahead, without improving their zombie-fighting skills. It's always the same phrases: "There were too many of them," "The enemy is invincible," "We can't do anything against them," "What are they doing, are they mutating?", or the scene where the survivors arrive at a military base and find the corpses of soldiers killed by zombies, which the survivors or the protagonist (the ridiculous tough guy) then kill.

In contrast, the military in Prototype, wow!, seems to understand what the infected have and adapt:

Prototype 1

• The police and marines are useless; instead, we have soldiers with night vision and built-in missile launchers, and a sadistic impulse to kill any infected person without fear.
• Hunters are appearing and devouring these sadistic soldiers, so we're bringing in these sadistic soldiers mounted on tanks and supported by artillery.
• Zeus is disguising himself to infiltrate military bases, so we now have viral detectors to stop him and locate other infected.
• Zeus hacks our viral detectors, so now they'll be airborne and invulnerable to hacking, and will also be accompanied by helicopters.
• The sadistic soldiers mounted on tanks aren't enough to stop the new infected hunter leader. It's a terrible situation. I think it's time to bring out our new tank-destroying super soldiers and deploy them in large numbers.
• Elizabeth Greene is hiding in a hive heavily protected against everything we have, except the thermobaric tank we just deployed in the city.
• We've been working for days to release two new antivirals, available by air or injection, for the infected and Zeus.
• Elizabeth hid underground in Times Square because we adapted Hematox as a truck for underground use.
• The infected seem to be holding up better, thankfully we have a nuclear order ready and waiting to destroy them all.

Prototype 2

• Those sadistic soldiers who were previously poorly equipped now have larger, futuristic armor to better withstand attacks from the infected.
• Our armored personnel carriers (APCs) are now better equipped and launch four guided missiles that impact in multiple directions.
• Our tanks, with improved armor, now destroy zombies simply by running them over.
• We have entered phase two of the super-soldier program, with the goal of implementing it in all of them.
• Our ground virus detector can no longer be hacked.

One of the things I like about both games is that the military thinks about finding the virus's weaknesses, how to attack them, how to modify vehicles, instead of having soldiers with machine guns mounted on Humvees where the only thing you hear are the soldiers' screams in the abandoned area; it's ridiculous.

I've been playing the Crysis trilogy on Xbox Series S and decided to take a break, leaving all three games closed. When I decided to play them again, the first two games worked fine, but mysteriously, my progress in the third was erased, as if I had never played it. However, my achievements in Crysis 3 (including collectibles) are preserved as if I had played it.

Honestly, I don't know what to do. I'm worried that when I play again, all my progress will be erased again

This phase would begin with a special type of infected, progressing through the classic Hunter, Leader Hunter, a fourth phase, and ending with the fifth, which would be the Supreme Hunter. However, both the first and fourth phases were ultimately discarded, and the fifth was remade into the Supreme Hunter (the parasite) in the game.

A clash between two creatures classified by Blackwatch as walking disasters, immune to conventional weaponry. For this battle, both Elizabeth and the Goliaths have their infected units at their disposal, including the Hunter, Hunter Leader, Hydra, Juggernaut, and Brawler, with the exception of Alex Mercer and his evolved allies.

It's something that has always bothered me a lot about the franchise.

- Want to know Nomad's (the protagonist and most important character) fate? Read a comic.

- Want to know why the Ceph changed their appearance? Read the novel.

- Want to know what happened to Alcatraz (the protagonist)? Read another novel.

- Want to know what happened to the island? Read a novel (they don't even explain it in the novel).

I don't disagree with there being more material to expand the franchise, but Crysis was born as a video game. The main aspects and what drives the story (the protagonist Nomad and Alcatraz, the island, the Ceph, Cell, secondary characters like Chino, Barclay, Gould, Tara) should begin and end in the games.

And I forgot to add that Helena, the scientist you have to rescue and who drives the whole game and is the reason you're sent to the island, also dies in a comic.

• Injecting yourself with stuff like you were a drug addict.
• Giving birth with a guard present.
• Mutated babies.
• Red eyes and spots on their arms.

I wonder what Blackwatch did when a family wanted to visit a relative outside of Hope.

Crosssss, I need your help. Prototype 2 Alex is controlling my mind in Prototype 1.

After reading the novel Crysis Legion, I'd like to summarize the battle in the "Terminus" mission of Crysis 2.

In both the game mission and the novel, Alcatraz meets with Gould and Barclay inside the station. Gould tries to convince Barclay to launch an attack on Hargreave's headquarters, but Barclay refuses and asks Chino to take Gould away. At that moment, he calls Alcatraz to the elevator, and they enter the room where the soldiers are located. Just then, the earthquake strikes, and Barclay calls Alcatraz to buy time. This is where the battle's development differs from the game.

According to the novel, when Alcatraz arrives at the lobby, he sees several Stalkers, including Heavy, massacring Barclay's soldiers like wheat. He witnesses the Stalkers leaping and dismembering soldiers, hurling limbs into the air, and the Heavys advancing, crushing the corpses of civilians and soldiers alike. The few survivors take refuge behind military columns and sandbags. Alcatraz even mocks them, as they practically kiss the ground because the Ceph bullets are so powerful they can pierce the columns and make them "disappear," implying that the soldiers explode, scattering their organs across the floor.

Alcatraz regroups with a group of survivors, since even he cannot fight effectively due to the overwhelming number of Ceph bullets. They dig in to prevent the Ceph from destroying the evacuation, holding their position for a time. Barclay joins them, announcing the success of the evacuation and informing them that a train is about to depart. However, an explosion destroys the train's entrance (perhaps caused by Ceph artillery or the Heavy), and Barclay orders the train to leave without them.

After a while, Alcatraz states that only eight or nine soldiers remain. He holds the weapon of a soldier who had "disappeared" after being hit by a Ceph bullet. This soldier is the last person Alcatraz sees before he dies. One of the nine remembers a couple of jeeps parked nearby that they could use to escape the station. Barclay then joins the driver as he requests a helicopter evacuation.

Suddenly, an explosion occurs, and the Pinger appears, accompanied by a Ceph ship that begins firing from the roof at the soldiers. Alcatraz has to take cover and engage both of them with the JAW.

The novel focuses on the thoughts of a future Alcatraz, who claims not to want to reveal the details of what happened at the station. For example, he doesn't mention what a dying soldier told him before Alcatraz killed him to spare him suffering, nor what his comrade, a witness to the event, told him: to pray to his "imaginary friends" that he wouldn't find out. He only mentions that he managed to destroy both the Pinger and the ship, which crashes into the Meatlife building, causing it to collapse. Just in time, Barclay and a soldier manage to start the jeep and escape before the building collapses. As they head to Times Square for the evacuation, Alcatraz suffers a kind of traumatic breakdown: he starts smiling and mentally shouting that they've made it, until he realizes that only he, Barclay, and the driver have survived.

ouse, I found this PC game I used to play when I was little. I remember there was a mission where I played as a nanosuit and the rest as a regular soldier, but I never knew what it was.

Something like one where a soldier or character can summon a C-130, a Super Soldier, an F-35, a hematox cloud, a bunker buster, a thermobaric explosion, or a radar that allows the military to detect you faster.

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.