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Activision redirects MurderYourMaker.com to Prototype website, after confirming rumors
Recently, we wrote about Activision using the MurderYourMaker.com website as a teaser of an upcoming game that game critics speculated was for Prototype 2. Well, the rumors were confirmed at the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards, as the company announced the sequel and released a preview trailer.
This week, Activision began re-directing MurderYourMaker.com to PrototypeGame.com which has more details about the game which is scheduled to be released in 2012.
Activision also sent out a press release today with all the details.
Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) confirmed today that PROTOTYPE® 2, the sequel to Radical Entertainment’s original best-selling game of 2009 — PROTOTYPE — is currently in development for 2012. PROTOTYPE 2’s first official trailer was revealed as a world premiere during this past weekend’s Spike TV Video Game Awards 2010 show, where fans of the shape-shifting open-world action franchise got their first glimpse into Sgt. James Heller, and why he is going to destroy PROTOTYPE’s original anti-hero, Alex Mercer. For those that missed it, head over to www.facebook.com/prototype to check out the trailer and be sure to become a fan. Gamers should also be on the lookout for the exclusive, in-depth first look preview of PROTOTYPE 2 in EGM magazine’s April 2011 issue.
“When PROTOTYPE surpassed 2MM units we knew gamers would want a sequel to find out what happens next with Alex Mercer,” said Ken Rosman, Studio Head, Radical Entertainment. “The team here at Radical is sincerely grateful to the fans and we are laser focused on delivering an even bigger and better experience with PROTOTYPE 2!”
For all the details, go to the Prototype website.
Prototype 2 video game confirmed at Spike VGAs
It is now confirmed: The “Murder Your Maker” teaser images, video, and web site are for a Prototype 2 video game.
Chriss Raven over at TGN Times, who had been speculating early on that one of the options to “Murder Your Maker” was a sequel to Prototype, was correct. The game is scheduled to be released in 2012.
Murder Your Maker: Military tries to contain virulent plague in Prototype 2
Although it can’t be officially confirmed until the Spike Video Game Awards being held on Dec. 11, a number of vidoegame blogs and news sites are reporting that the “Murder Your Maker” teaser images, video, and web site are for a Prototype 2 video game.
Chriss Raven over at TGN Times was speculating early on that one of the options was a sequel to Prototype, the Activision game that was released in June 2009 and takes place in New York City, where a virulent plague has spread throughout Manhattan.
Those infected are mutated into hideous monsters. The United States Marine Corps, under the command of the black ops organization Blackwatch, is dispatched to contain it. At the center of it is the protagonist, Alex Mercer, a shapeshifter with no memory of his past. Alex has the ability to absorb other individuals, taking on their biomass, memories, experiences, and physical forms. Parallel to the game’s storyline is the ability to play the game as a sandbox-style video game giving the player freedom to roam Manhattan. [Wikipedia]
Yesterday, Chriss Ravven wrote another article pointing to the proof that “Murder Your Maker” is for the new Prototype 2 videogame – which comes from the YouTube trailer on the murderyourmaker.com web site.
I won’t be one to say I told you so, but I kind of did. The whole MURDER YOUR MAKER deal was Prototype 2, and the proof comes via the murderyourmaker.com website, no less. For those of you not following the story, that site was created rather recently, and it only had the large background image and some ominous music. It seems that it will be a much more story driven experience this time, focusing on the plot more than the previous entry in the franchise. And the piece of proof itself is a five second long teaser, that shows imagery from the original Prototype and pieces of teaser artwork from the MURDER YOUR MAKER teasing campaign.
Visit the Murder Your Maker web site.
