History YMMV / PROTOTYPE

** Also, getting Platinum on the "Raid" War Event, which requires a time of 1:25:00. For every other event, getting Platinum is mostly a matter of skill. Not here. You have to use a grenade launcher, so no powers, and there's 18 Hunters out of 36 enemies kill. Moreover, the spawns are woefully screwed up. The game will sometimes withhold new targets for as long as ''15 seconds'', and just to spite you, it will do this on ''the very last enemy''. If that weren't bad enough, it is literally impossible to succeed on your own. You have to count on a tank spawning to help. Just like the enemy spawns, it is completely unreliable, and you'll be lucky if this thing even shows up until halfway through. Assuming it does, you have to hope Hunters are the only thing on-screen for it to shoot, that it doesn't get bogged down in traffic, and that the Hunters don't gank it on sight before you can get their attention. It's basically a LuckBasedMission.

* AwesomeCrazy: Almost everything you can do in this game. Kick a helicopter to death, throw a car at it, throw another helicopter you just shot down at it, throw ''people'' at it... the possibilities are endless.

* CrazyAwesome: Almost everything you can do in this game. Kick a helicopter to death, throw a car at it, throw another helicopter you just shot down at it, throw ''people'' at it... the possibilities are endless.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Alex, and the game makes sure you know it. He can be anyone, he can beat you into a literal bloody pulp bare-handed (not to mention the other implements), and the obvious fact that he routinely [[ImAHumanitarian eats his victims]]. Notable examples in cutscenes include [[spoiler:when he finds Karen Parker and when he gets back up as Taggart (with a whole piece of his head gone from a point-blank bullet).]]

* GameBreaker: The Air Slash move using the Blade. On every difficultly but Hard, it can one-shot Hunters, Supersoldiers, any kind of tank, and even helicopters if you can manage to get above them. Leader Hunters go down in two. Double those figures on Hard. It tracks almost perfectly over significant distances, too. The only down side is the recovery time, which is small but noticeable.

* FandomRivalry: There's only ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' '''OR''' ''[[{{Ptitlesb46a9nj}} inFamous]]'' -- apparently, you're NOT allowed to like both.

* GuideDangIt: The Web of Intrigue. Only about half the targets you need to consume will be easy to find. The rest only spawn in certain areas (even if the Infected have taken said areas over), and only if you've consumed the previous ones in the chain. As you fill out the Web, tracking them down becomes even harder. Worse still, they can be killed, and won't respawn for several minutes. You also have to be pretty close to ground level to get them to spawn in the first place.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: The final battle with Greene, in a way. In two prior cutscenes, Greene shows herself to be as superhumanly strong and fast as Mercer, possibly more than him in the latter category. So, when the final battle comes, it's a completely unexpected battle with [[spoiler:a giant viral mass]] instead of toe-to-toe with Greene. When you finally win, [[spoiler:it spits Greene up and you consume her as easy as anyone else]].

** [[spoiler: Hell, Blacklight!Alex, as portrayed in the Wildstorm comic might even be a type III, he goes out of his way to save 2 police officers trapped in an infected zone, and is extremely reluctant to harm an innocent, to the point where he only kills one innocent person (to get a disguise he desperately, desperately needs). General Randall even admits that Mercer "has a little hero in him."]]

* CreepySexy: Greene. She is pretty much equal parts really gross and strangely hot. One the one hand, she's certainly pretty, rather shapely and the art director did deliberately design her clothing to be evocative of fetish outfits. On the other hand, she's TheVirus, and it's visible; she oozes...''stuff'' from every facial orifice, is perpetually covered in dried blood and pus, still has a shaven head from cranial surgery of some sort, speaks with the VoiceOfTheLegion in cryptic statements and has odd, stiff movements that definitely don't look human.

* FoeYay: There's a disturbing amount of this between Mercer and Greene. Not to mention that [[spoiler: the Supreme Hunter]] is effectively created in a metaphorical birthing scene ''after'' a metaphorical sexual moment between Mercer and Greene. And given [[spoiler:the protagonist's true nature]] it could probably be seen as [[spoiler:ParentalIncest]] as well.

** In NewGamePlus mode it doesn't matter ''where'' you are - there are a couple of tanks on blow-up-Infected duty right around the corner and they ''always'' decide to turn down the street you're on. "Look dude, I was doing just fine cleaning up the Infected on this street all by myself. Why don't you try Lexington Avenue; I hear they're pretty thick over there."

* TheWoobie: Dana. She's one of the few characters in game who isn't evil or insane, her first scene in the game is a Blackwatch goon treatening to kill her, [[ItGotWorse and things get progressively worse for her from there]].

** Greene is pretty much impossible to beat unless you pick up Bullet Drop.

** Averted in NewGamePlus in that you can only hijack vehicles of either types once you've passed certain points in the storyline corresponding to that of a fresh game. Otherwise we'd get odd instances of trying to leave Manhattan right after escaping Gentek, or simply removing almost all the challenge by using an aircraft in the very early missions.

** Any blade attack in general does significant damage. A couple of normal attacks with the blade will blow up tanks, without needing the charge up time for maximum effectiveness of any of the special attacks. Put on your armor and whip out your blade and you can slice your way through just about anything.

* CreepySexy: Greene. She is pretty much equal parts really gross and strangely hot. One the one hand, she's certainly pretty, rather shapely and the art director did deliberately design her clothing to be evocative of fetish outfits. On the other hand, she's TheVirus.
** By extension, Alex also fits this trope. At least from what I hear from {{FanGirl}}s.

** Also, getting Platinum on the "Raid" War Event, which requires a time of 1:25:00. For every other event, getting Platinum is mostly a matter of skill. Not here. You have to use a grenade launcher, so no powers, and there's 18 Hunters out of 36 enemies kill. Moreover, the spawns are woefully screwed up. The game will sometimes withhold new targets for as long as ''15 seconds'', and just to spite you, it will do this on ''the very last enemy''. If that weren't bad enough, it is literally impossible to succeed on your own. You have to count on a tank spawning to help. Just like the enemy spawns, it is completely unreliable, and you'll be lucky if this thing even shows up until halfway through. Assuming it does, you have to hope Hunters are the only thing on-screen for it to shoot, that it doesn't get bogged down in traffic, and that the Hunters don't gank it on sight before you can get their attention. It's basically a LuckBasedMission.

** Even evident in the opening cinematic; blackwatch soldiers kill zombies chasing a distressed woman, before turning the gun on her for no reason.
** There's a USAF pilot who giggles about the time he had fun shooting down a civilian airliner.

** Also, getting Platinum on the "Raid" War Event, which requires a time of 1:25:00. For every other event, getting Platinum is mostly a matter of skill. Not here. You have to use a grenade launcher, so no powers, and there's 18 Hunters out of 36 enemies kill. Moreover, the spawns are woefully screwed up. The game will sometimes withhold new targets for as long as ''15 seconds'', and just to spite you, it will do this on ''the very last enemy''. If that weren't bad enough, it is literally impossible to succeed on your own. You have to count on a tank spawning to help. Just like the enemy spawns, it is completely unreliable, and you'll be lucky if this thing even shows up until halfway through. Assuming it does, you have to hope Hunters are the only thing on-screen for it to shoot, that it doesn't get bogged down in traffic, and that the Hunters don't gank it on sight before you can get their attention. It's basically a LuckBasedMission.
* YouFailBiologyForever: The examples are too numerous to count, but if some bit of information comes up in the game involving viruses or biology, you can rest assured that it is most certainly [[YouFailBiologyForever incorrect]].
** Then again, [[CatharsisFactor nobody plays it for its stunning educational value in the first place...]]