Alpha Protocol

Alpha Protocol is an excellent game. I can't believe I missed out on this when this first came out

Used play this when i was younger. fell in love with it. just remembered about it recently and tbh its still one of my favourite games. its pretty short compared to most games now a days, but honestly its amazing. buggy, messy but still amazing. i wish we could get a sequal, even a remake. but unfortunately thats not likely. The story is amazing tho, every action has its consiquences, every choice a different response. if you havent played it i definetly recommend

Nice to be able to play a stable version running at a decent framerate with controller support. A few stutters here and there, nothing a thousand other games havent got issues with.

This game WANTS to be Human Revolution combined with an Obsidian RPG. It’s not that, but it's a decent effort. The result is more like Mass Effect 1 with stealth elements. It has similarly janky 3rd person cover shooting with decent action RPG progression and (unfortunately) the same needlessly vague dialogue options, made worse by adding a timer to choose your response. It’s also not a very good port with menus being quite clunky (and sometimes buggy) with the mouse. This sounds pretty negative but I actually had a lot of fun for 2 reasons. 1) The mechanics may be jank but they do a good job of letting you feel like your character, whether that's a sneaky guy doing pistol headshots, a juggernaut with a rifle or a karate master. 2) The actual story is an average dime-store thriller with a side of camp, but the PACING is great: snacky missions that feel substantial without dragging, a good pace of new clues and events and a fun grab bag of spy cliches. "Snacky" is a good word for Alpha Protocol: it's a snacky stealth-action game, a snacky spy story and a snacky Obsidian RPG. If you're expecting Bloodlines or Deus Ex or Splinter Cell, you'll be disappointed. But if you're up for a snacky spy RPG, it's pretty unique.

Game is good, but it has some trouble spots that can be pretty bad. Overall I liked it but I lso get why it can get bad scores.