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Review: Prototype 2  8:00 AM on 04.23.2012 // Jim Sterling
Prototype 2 (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 [reviewed]) Developer:
Radical Entertainment Publisher: Activision Release: April 24,
2012 MSRP: $59.99  Alex Mercer was the epitome of an anti-hero
in Prototype, but this time, he's crossed the line into
undisputed villain territory. The Mercer Virus, a mutagen that
once turned half of New York into crazed monsters, has been
unleashed again, and Alex is the source ... or is he? Or isn't
he? In Prototype 2, we play one of the victims, Sergeant James
Heller, who lost his family thanks to the virus and now bears a
burning hatred of Alex.  Things only get worse when, upon
meeting with his enemy, Alex infects James with a strain of the
disease that grants him deadly powers and earns the attention of
the sinister Blackwatch group -- a private military organization
that is using an infested New York like a private laboratory.
Quite what Alex is up to,