Blackwatch Extra: Prototype 2 hits stores April 24, 2012

April 23, 2012 by Hannibal Tabu Leave a Comment

In the world of video games, a player can envision themselves as just about anything. Whether it be a gangster, a sword wielding amazon, an angry Spartan determined to take down the gods themselves, or a street baller, anyone around the world can walk many miles in other shoes.

That is, as along as those shoes belong to essentially white feet.

Sure, there are games where the protagonist on the TV screen is an alien or some other creature out of myth and imagination. But the number of games where players can see a black hero on the screen are few and far between.

Tomorrow, the ranks of black video game heroes and heroines grows by one more.

ActiVision releases the anticipated sequel to Prototype, the widely popular action game.

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Prototype 2 follows James Heller (voiced by Cornell Womack) as he hunts down the truth from the man whose infection gave him his powers and killed his family: Alex Mercer, the hero from the first game.

More information can be found here.

Or there is the live action trailer below. [Contains mature content. Viewers may need to sign into YouTube to watch it.]

Prototype 2 hits stores April 24.

Thanks to Akil Henry for his contributions to this report.

[Source: ActiVision]

About Hannibal Tabu

Born in Rockford, Illinois; raised in Memphis, Tennessee; matriculated in
Tacoma, Washington and broadcasting live from Los Angeles, Hannibal Tabu is
a writer, a brother, a husband, a misanthrope, a son, an emcee, an uncle, a
poet, a father, a designer, a nephew, a romantic, a storyteller, and by
god, a fan. He spent more than ten years doing the journalist thing for
Vibe, Slave Trade, MTV Online, Rap Pages, America Online, the Los Angeles
Sentinel, Spinnerrack.com, Speak and The Source. Hannibal has worked as a
web designer/producer and graphic artist for American Honda, eHobbies.com,
Quicken.com, Express.com, the California Association of REALTORS, Disney
Channel, NextPlanetOver.com, Toyota Motor Sales, Kaiser Permanente,
California Bank & Trust and many more. As a poet, Hannibal has been
published in The Drumming Between Us, (sic) Vice Verse, Drumvoices Review,
Voices From Leimert Park and other anthologies, as well as being author of
the collection BORN BENEATH AN ANGRY STAR and co-author of FLIGHT MANUAL.
As a novelist, he's written THE CROWN: ASCENSION and FARAWAY (both
available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble & Smashwords) and the upcoming sci fi
political thriller ROGUE NATION. He's the winner of the 2012 Top Cow Talent Hunt, writer of Waso: Will To Power for Stranger Comics, Project: Wildfire for Legends Press, and co-writer of an issue of Watson & Holmes (alongside 2 Guns writer Steven Grant) for New Paradigm Studios. For six years he was the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch group of newspapers, is currently the co-owner and editor-in-chief of Black geek website Komplicated at the Good
Men Project, and uses his Operative Network website (www.operative.net) to
publish his poetry, market what he's doing, rant at the world and emit
strangled cries for help. In addition to all that, Hannibal collects comic
books, has scores of action figures, DJs private parties, is a Mac OS
zealot, sings and sometimes even hosts karaoke, practices a form of
spirituality based on ancient Egyptian belief, and goes to bed every day,
secretly hoping that half the world will commit suicide in his honor.