They tried to find Prototype's hero hiding in GTA IV — but the timeline itself exposes the lie.
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They tried to find Prototype's hero hiding in GTA IV — but the timeline itself exposes the lie.

The Alex Mercer myth was entirely fabricated by modders who inserted the Prototype protagonist into GTA IV and faked YouTube videos. The hoax collapses on a simple detail: Prototype released in 2009, a full year after GTA IV came out in 2008, making any intentional Easter egg chronologically impossible. A single pedestrian with a vague resemblance exists, but Rockstar had zero incentive to risk copyright infringement for a rival game that didn't even exist yet.

Verdict:Busted

Source: Alex Mercer — CC BY-SA

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