This week I've beeen playing Activision's Prototype and thought I'd give you my thoughts on it.

It always looked interesting, and well read after the break to find out exactly what I think.

Like cinema, video game history is littered with defining and memorable moments that will live in our memories for the rest of our lives. Special moments that wow audiences, evoke powerful emotional responses, sometimes leaving us in shock and awe.

Everyone who played Final Fantasy VII will remember the scene where Aeris died or the first time they realized that the FMV for the Supernova summon gave you enough time to make a cup of tea before doing its damage. Everyone who played GTA from the beginning will remember that glorious day when the series went 3D for the ground breaking third game. Left 4 Dead players will remember that day they got the Zombie Genocidist achievement with much joy and happiness and gamers will remember the first time that Resident Evil made them nearly jump out of their skin.

For me, one gaming memory will be that of elbow dropping a tank. Yes, you read that right. Elbow dropping a tank, from the top of a skyscraper, and making it explode while I giggled like Beavis and Butthead on crack.

Now this is something you can do in Activision title, Prototype, and this game has many more memories just like this. Want to play at King Kong, running up a skyscraper holding a poor unfortunate damsel by the throat? You can do that. Want to beat up a helicopter? Then this could well be the game for you.

Gimmicks aside, Prototype is a game not unlike Crackdown or Infamous but turned up to 11. It is reminiscent of the Jason Statham movie Crank but with shape shifting super powers and a healthy dollop of amnesia.

In the game you play as Alex Mercer, a man with no recollection of who or even what he is or was and has some rather extraordinary powers. He can change his form, pick up memories and piece together his mind by consuming people, he can transform his hands into weapons and has the potential to take down anyone and everything that gets in his way. Did I also mention he can run up skyscrapers and elbow drop tanks?

The game is set in New York and there's something fishy going on, a conspiracy that invoves contaminated water, a disease outbreak, zombie like monsters and of course our favourite tools of conspiracy, the military. And the military and the monsters are out to get you and stop you getting to the bottom of what is going on.

As Alex Mercer you're charged with the task of saving the day and not necessarily in the nicest of ways, you'll have to fight anyone and anything that gets in your way by using your super powers and also by stealing military vehicles. The powers themselves are earned via experience points which you can spend on upgrading them, RPG style.  Access to vehicles is interestingly learned by consuming the relevant driver and taking on board his memory and abilities.

Not only this, you'll need to get to the bottom of things by consuming various targets throughout the sprawling city and piecing together your memory the same way you learn to drive the military vehicles.

The game is a sandbox with 31 missions that sometimes seem longer than they should do and also many different challenges which involve getting from point A to point B within a time limit, kill a set amount of enemies within a time limit or jump off a skyscraper onto a target. The game offers a sizeable chunk of gaming fun and with some imaginative achievements could have you coming back for more. It certainly has a lot of longevity and replayability and is certainly a very enjoyable romp. It's a lot like PS3's Infamous in a lot of ways but is the superior of the 2 games just because it feels more finished and has that little bit more imagination put into it.

Add an almost living breathing and reacting city and this really could be the best game you might play this month, especially as this time of year is usually bereft of AAA titles as Christmas isn't really that far off.

Like I said, there are a lot of memories worth playing this game for and it does take the sandbox genre into a new and fun direction.

Certainly worth at least a rental, but if you want to get all of the achievements out of it then it's worth considering a purchase.