The 10 Best Powers On Xbox
Official Xbox Magazine|September 2019

So many of our favourite games are power fantasies, so this month let’s take a moment to celebrate the powers that make them so… fantastical

Robin Valentine
The 10 Best Powers On Xbox

10 SHAPESHIFTING (PROTOTYPE)

Thanks to a mutated symbiotic virus, antihero Alex Mercer has the ability to turn into a perfect imitation of anyone he can ‘consume’, functionally every human character in the city. Out in the open world, it adds a wonderful touch of absurdity – forget Watch Dogs Legion, Prototype let you run around as a granny seven years ago, and you can still elbow drop off a skyscraper onto a tank in little old biddy form. But it also makes for some fantastically monstrous stealth sequences where, in grim tribute to John Carpenter’s The Thing, you can eat and replace the entire staff of a military base one-by-one before anyone notices. The last guy always seems a bit confused.

09 INSECT SWARM (BIOSHOCK)

There’s something so brilliantly ridiculous about one of Rapture’s many over-the-counter genetic modifications being just turning your arm into a beehive. We struggle to imagine what civilian uses it had prior to the city’s collapse into chaos, but it’s mighty handy in the aftermath, allowing you to unleash angry swarms on the city’s mutated Splicers and scout out unexplored rooms safely. It wasn’t even originally intended to be in the game – it was invented initially just as something cool to put in an early CG teaser trailer, but fan reaction was so overwhelmingly positive that the developer felt compelled to include it in the final release. See? Positive feedback works.

08 MEMORY HACKING (REMEMBER ME)

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