Prototype 2

The second game in the Prototype series, which is definately better than the first. In the first Prototype you are playing in New York City as a guy named Alex Mercer. You start off seeing him laying on a hospital bed about to be operated on; before the surgeon can get the knife to his chest, Alex wakes up and kills both doctors and runs out of the base while being chased by soldiers. While running, he gets to a dead end and thinks it's the end but decides to try and get over the wall and with one inhuman jump he's over it without a scratch. We later find out that he's infected with a virus called "Blacklight", this is giving him super human strength, speed, endurance, and the ability to change his body into the people he consumes, and change his limbs or whole body into many different weapons and shields to take out his enemies.

Throughout the whole game you are trying to take down Blackwatch, an elite military force assembled to get rid of the infection and all the people infected by the Blacklight virus. Alex doesn't remember anything, how he got the virus, where his family is, or any part of his life for that matter so you're trying to help him find out. At the end of the game Alex finds out that he died before the events in the game and that he himself IS the Blacklight virus in the form of his old body.

Now Alex isn't all bad, he kills in order to save his sister who's being hunted because she interacted with him. Plus he wants to destroy the virus, even though he knows as long as he's around, it's going to be around as well. This is where the main character and hero of Prototype 2 comes in, James Heller, an ex-soldier who's after every infected person, creature, and mostly Alex Mercer for killing his wife. At the beginning of the game you see James in a military vehicle on his way to the "Red Zone" which is an area with fierce military presence and a lot of infected. On his way there the tank he's in gets hit by a car that was hurled through the air and James ends up laying in the street looking up at all the infected birds flying around. After gaining consciousness James looks around to see Alex falling from the sky, landing on the ground in front of him then explodes with some kind of wave. Alex then walks around searching the dead bodies and hurls a tank through the air like a little rock; James gets mad and runs up behind him, cuts Alex's throat and Alex, still alive, sends James back into a wall with a movement of his arm.

Alex then walks away, only to be followed by James, and at the end of the chasing game, Alex infects James. James takes the virus the same way Alex did, and can use it to his advantage, but Alex planned this because he wanted James as a soldier. The whole game involves James trying to destroy the Blacklight virus and stop Alex from releasing his own Whitelight virus which is designed to "stop" the Blacklight. The Whitelight virus is still designed to infect people but not in the primal bloodthirsty way the Blacklight virus did to everyone, it made people immune but also gave them superhuman abilities; in other words Alex's plan was to drown out a virus with another virus that he'd be in control of.

James finds this out and can't handle it because he learns that his daughter Miya is alive, but Alex plans to use her genetics to help "mother" the virus throughout the new world. In a blind rage he finds Alex, beats him to death and cleans the entire city of all infection.