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It seems that Prototype 2 didn't sell well enough, clocking fewer than 250k copies since it launched.

Result? Radical Entertainment got scuttled by Activision.

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http://www.shacknews.com/article/74570/radical-entertainment-shut-down
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Re: Prototype 2 Apparently flops - Radical Entertainment shut down.
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2012, 08:49:08 PM »
It seems that Prototype 2 didn't sell well enough, clocking fewer than 250k copies since it launched.

Result? Radical Entertainment got scuttled by Activision.

Relevant link:
http://www.shacknews.com/article/74570/radical-entertainment-shut-down

Didn't even play it, but it either wasn't that noticeable or a excrementty game. Either way, its a shame.
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Re: Prototype 2 Apparently flops - Radical Entertainment shut down.
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2012, 10:26:47 PM »
The PC release will still happen but, eh. Lots of people were waiting for it after Prototype 1...
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Re: Prototype 2 Apparently flops - Radical Entertainment shut down.
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2012, 10:39:17 PM »
The PC release will still happen but, eh. Lots of people were waiting for it after Prototype 1...
Prototype was a fun game, it however is not the typical superhero game and their are some things they didn't make possible in the new one that I wish were possible in the old one.

It is still a fun, open world, destroy everything game, so its got that going, the story is ok, but not the greatest. Also stereotypical main character.

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Re: Prototype 2 Apparently flops - Radical Entertainment shut down.
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2012, 01:51:48 AM »
Prototype was a fun game, it however is not the typical superhero game and their are some things they didn't make possible in the new one that I wish were possible in the old one.

It is still a fun, open world, destroy everything game, so its got that going, the story is ok, but not the greatest. Also stereotypical main character.
I guess that's why it didn't sell well.
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Re: Prototype 2 Apparently flops - Radical Entertainment shut down.
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2012, 02:20:19 AM »
I guess that's why it didn't sell well.

It didn't sell well because it was too similair to the first Prototype, and didn't introduce that many new concepts. The you could say, was very vanilla, nothing new or to write home about.
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Re: Prototype 2 Apparently flops - Radical Entertainment shut down.
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2012, 02:40:27 AM »
They must have lost some serious cash on this one to just pull the plug on the studio like that
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Re: Prototype 2 Apparently flops - Radical Entertainment shut down.
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2012, 10:48:50 AM »
Nothing surprising there, that's what happens when you make a sequel to a excrementty game
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