You do know the Prototype developers took the game back to the drawing board after seeing Infamous right?
Well I am tracking someone who is working at Vivendi Games and well I'll let him sum it up for you. I believe him because he confirmed the trophy images going around were real before Sony announced them.
i work at Vivendi Games, and i used to see Prototype out on the floor EVERY DAY i came into work.
in all seriousness, that game has NOTHING on inFamous.
the city looked like it was ripped from the map of Spider-Man 3 (the PS3 and 360 versions).
the animations for the main character in Prototype aren't nearly as fluid (but i'm willing to give the animations the benefit of the doubt, since that's more of a polish thing).
the story seemed practically non-existent, and the only fun part i saw of the gameplay was running up buildings (he didn't climb them, he just kind of "skated" up them, like Spider-Man does when he's wall-running).
also, the combat was kind of weak, outside of his shapeshifting powers.
in short, i understand why they took it off the floor and back to the drawing board.
the premises of the two games are quite different also, and i don't understand the constant comparisons to Crackdown and Prototype anyway. why? because they are open world and star a character that can do things no ordinary man or woman can do? yeah, welcome to the world of VIDEO GAMES.
from what i've seen of inFamous and Prototype, and played of Crackdown (i beat the game), it's like comparing Super Mario Bros. to Ratchet and Clank; they may have similarly colorful worlds and cartoon-****characters, but the gameplay is vastly different.
another thing, is that the combat in Prototype, as well as Crackdown and the Spider-Man games, is very separate. when Spidey is swinging through the city, it's like a totally different game than when he is fighting villains, which generally takes place on the ground.
from what i've seen of inFamous, i like the way Sucker Punch have intertwined Cole's natural athletic "urban explorer" climbing/locomotion abilities, with his newly found electricity-based abilities. you can see that in the gameplay presentation from gamespot, where he's hanging from street poles and buildings, using it as cover while he blasts away at bad guys (and innocents if you're so inclined). Prototype lacked that, as do the latest Spider-Man games; the combining of Spidey's webslinging abilities with his athletic, offensive abilities is a staple of the comics, sorely missing from the games.
anyway, i think inFamous looks to have Prototype on lock down in terms of immersion, animation, most certainly graphics, and even story, and since it's coming from the Sly Cooper guys, i'm expecting the controls to be ROCK SOLID, because the Sly games have some excellently smooth controls.
so far, Sony's first and second party, established studios have really been stepping it up this generation (Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Zipper), and we still haven't heard from a quarter of them yet on what they're working alone, let alone half, or all of them.A
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