A couple of games will be announced for the first time at Spike TV's Video Game Awards show. That's a given. But what game are we almost certain we'll see unveiled at the show? A follow-up to Radical Entertainment's open-world title Prototype seems like a really safe bet.

Viral website Murder Your Maker has been connected with the VGAs for some time, with many viewers of it theorizing that the bald man on the page is Alex Mercer, the bald, jacket-wearing protagonist of the original Prototype. Now, the site has a video teaser that features footage from Prototype, all but confirming that a Murder Your Maker is a Prototype 2 hype site and that follow-up will be announced at the VGAs.
 
  

A couple of games will be announced for the first time at Spike TV's Video Game Awards show. That's a given. But what game are we almost certain we'll see unveiled at the show? A follow-up to Radical Entertainment's open-world title Prototype seems like a really safe bet.

Viral website Murder Your Maker has been connected with the VGAs for some time, with many viewers of it theorizing that the bald man on the page is Alex Mercer, the bald, jacket-wearing protagonist of the original Prototype. Now, the site has a video teaser that features footage from Prototype, all but confirming that a Murder Your Maker is a Prototype 2 hype site and that follow-up will be announced at the VGAs.
 
  

" Yuck. Prototype is a terrible game. "

Damn so close yet so far!!!

Prototype was like the first Assassins Creed. Lots of potential and some fun moments, but poor execution.
 
The first one was fun, but I think this one will be a massive improvement.

...VIRAL? GET IT? 
 
I'm with LlamaLlama - I'm not too excited. Maybe they'll do something radically different, but chances are it's just a sequel.

Wow, I could actually HEAR the entire internet collectively say "Meh."

This is the funniest headline ever. 

Massive Meh.

I'm excited, first Prototype was fantastic.

Wow, so much hate for  Prototype. I remember playing the BALLS off of it when it came out.  
 
 
MY ARM IS A WHIP AND YOU ARE DEAD, HELICOPTER.

Prototype is one of the worst games I played last year.

Fuck all the haters. Prototype had plenty of faults, no denying that, but at its core that game was hell of fun. The powers and the sense of being a badass were great. I am actually pretty excited about this.

...Why?

Fuck Prototype.

I thought it was pretty funny the twitter url had HAHAHA in it. prototype was pretty terrible, could care less about the half assed sequel 

Why oh why does a game like Prototype need a sequel?

Well, if they can improve upon the first game, I'm all for it. I thought that Prototype had some great ideas, but the gameplay was just very... Lacking.

The first game was garbage so I have little interest and faith in a sequel.

Wow, a lot of Prototype hate. Sure it had a lot of faults but for me the power trip it gave was well worth it. Never felt as powerful in a video game. Why it needs a sequel? Can't anyone remember Assassins's Creed? Mediocre game made a fucking awesome sequel. Let's just hope Prototype can do the same.

I'm not ready to write this off just yet... but it needs serious work to make it worthy of existing, Prototype was seriously flawed.

lotta haaaters.
 
Prototype was fun.  I remember all the Infamous vs Prototype debate.  Infamous 2 looks really good but I preferred the brainless fun of Prototype more. 

ugh, the first game was so horribly repetitive, and the storyline was just uninteresting

Played a bit of the first one, it was fun and alright, nothing I thought was really deserving of a sequel though.

I really hated the first game, and I hated its main character even more.

So, zombies are still a thing?

Mercer's dead man..Mercer's dead.

First off, an article speculating on the probability of an announcement? Nice, but why bother commenting on such a thing? 
 
Because it's Prototype, and I am a self-proclaimed Prototype Apologist. Prototype had its problems (boss battles, I'm look at you), but it was also a power trip with excellent controls. Granted, I played it on a PC with a USB gamepad, so console players' experience probably varied. Even with that in mind, I think there's a large enough audience waiting to stealth-eat entire bases, elbow drop tanks, and jump from copter to copter all over again.

People may hate it, but I played the crap out of the 1st game. Theres something about running up the side of a building that I still find fun.

If Prototype 2 is a thing, I'll play it.

If Yahtzee says that Infamous and Prototype are equally good I believe him :) Hehehe so he will be doing Infamous 2 vs Prototype 2 video :)

Great, had a lot of fun with Prototype.

I was not expecting this to get another game. It was mindless fun for a few hours, but I will not be paying $60 for this game like I did for the first one. I was pissed when I beat the first one in one sitting.

Oh great because just this morning I thought, "I really wish they would put out more sequels to games no one cared about!"

Unless they revitalize this franchise in a big way (something like AC2) I dont see how a Prototype sequel would work.  Prototype was "ok", nothing to get overly excited about.

Prototype was 2 of the most boring hours of my life. 
 
Why does this badly made game need a sequel? 
 
And, hello? you can only have one Prototype, a second one means the item/thing is no longer a prototype. 
At least that was always my thinking.

Off topic but fuck VGA. What happened to Super Mario Galaxy 2 as a GotY-nominee?

I can't get over how terrible the first game looked. It would have been cool transforming into other people if the characters models weren't repetitive and blocky-looking to begin with.  Between NYC looking featureless and barren, the cookie cutter superhero side missions all over the map, and the choppy combat that while varied, felt like a step backwards from Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, I really don't get how so many people got that "player empowerment" feeling from being a supposed badass. The game was just too damn disappointing. 
 
That being said, I was really pumped for the first Prototype, so if they significantly redesign the franchise and it works I'm in.

It was ok, nothing great 

" So, zombies are still a thing? "

" @JustTheDoctor: I found it not be fun at all when I play it at a friend's house. There's also my inability to care for the character as he whines about his plight as he emotionless cuts down innocent people so he can heal. Not the best way to try and get sympathy for the protagonist. "

This is really exciting to me. Prototype is terribly underrated. It was so much more fun to play than Infamous, yet it got upstaged almost immediately. Also, it is a worthwhile (but somewhat inferior) sequel to the best licensed superhero game ever made: Hulk Ultimate Destruction. 
 
Yep, if this is P2, I'm officially hyped.

Prototype wasn't a bad game.

I really enjoyed the first. This is a good thing. Go away

If the first game was called "Prototype", they should have called the second game: "Final Product". Missed opportunity.

Prototypical!