Alpha Protocol

Flawed, but perfectly playable game with somewhat outdated menu navigation. Not the hardest, but kep interesting due to the dialogue / paths. Glad this is back and I hope it inspires a few more.

A very rare blend of genres : Spy and RPG. Clunky sometimes but very engaging and with dynamic choices and consequences.

I hate chris avelone so much. although it is funny that with a voiced protagonist and character animators breathing down his neck Chris finally learned to be concise. That or there was simply nothing in the setting that lent itself to a 20min socratic dialog on the nature of the Force and ethic between Mike and his handler. I am being facetious for the most part. The game still is a fascinating oddity: Chris Avelone and Obsidian at the time the standard bearers of C-RPG, taking a bite out of the forbiden fruit that ended up destroying Bioware. Dialog wheels, action oriented third person shooter and a pre-set and voiced protagonist. And yet you can still feel Mr Avelone grasping through this cursed canvas with his maximalist understanding of choices & consequences. Minor choices made hours ago and worlds across come back either to haunt or grace your playthrough. miriads of storyline grow or die by your hand. if only I knew what my hands were doing I would feel like a God but as it stands my fantasies regarding a giant chainsmoking former stasis officer will remain fantasies. I'm grasping in the dark to try and utter the right words but I do not now what I'll say and Mike is a psychopath that I only partly control and the seasoned government operative spend most of the game shooting a gun as well as I imagine I would considering I've never touched a firearm in my life. It is simply the worst of both worlds in a lot of regards but even after all of this I come back to it and I wrote this review in some kind of fuge state because the window popped-up and after navigating the soulcrushingly ugly and bare levels of KotoR 2 I suddenly realized I had some grievances to air if only to the void.

I was really impressed by how much depth and reach my choices had on the story. I would recommend this game for the story alone. However, it's an old game with outdated controls. I'm a bit hesitant to play a new game because of that. Still, everyone should experience this at least once.

I had this originally on Xbox 360 back when it first came out, Glad to see it make it to GoG. One of the few games that let you approach missions differenty, and the game changes depending on what choices you made, go guns blazing or go stealthy. still has some odd moments, but the story in my opinion was written well