While yes, system requirements are a lot less sexy than the trailers and announcements flying around this week but by God, it's important. Today Activision revealed how muscular your computer will have to be in order to run their sandbox super hero game Prototype.

Minimum System Requirements

• Windows® XP (with Service Pack 3) and DirectX® 9.0c or (Windows Vista® with Service Pack 2)
• Video Card: 256 MB 3D hardware accelerator card required - 100% DirectX® 9.0c with Shader Model 3 support*
• Processor: Pentium(R) Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ or better
• RAM: 1 GB of RAM for Windows ® XP / 2 GB Windows ® Vista systems
• Hard Drive Space: 8 GB of uncompressed hard disk space (Plus 500MB for swap file.)
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 –compliant sound card
• DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM

Peripheral

• 100% Windows(R) XP/Vista - compatible mouse, keyboard and drivers
• 100% Windows(R) XP/Vista - compatible 4X DVD-ROM drive or better (600 K/sec sustained transfer rate) and drivers

Supported Chipsets for Windows(R) XP and Vista

• All NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7800 256 MB and better chipsets
• All ATI® Radeon™ X1800 256 MB and better chipsets

Prototype will arrive on the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on June 9th in North America and on June 12th in Europe.