Alpha Protocol

This game rocks. It's like a nice, solid season of television. The plot had me really hooked. Thorton is the man. Much has been said about how much the story can change based on your decisions. Even as someone who doesn't replay many games, I look forward to giving Alpha Protocol a second or even third run. I will happily recommend this game based on the sole playthrough though. I already got my money's worth. MAIN POINTS - I really enjoyed the rhythm between gameplay and reading dossiers. Admittedly, my eyes glaze over when games throw a whole bunch of reading material at me, but Alpha Protocol's parses out its reading in the correct doses and the information contributes heavily to roleplay and decision-making. - Stellar voice acting across the board. - I've never been much for shooters, but the field agent template was fun. I couldn't help but want to be James Bond. - The game is not TOO long. I finished my first playthrough in about 22.5 hours. I'm cursed to enjoy million-hour RPGs with too many things to do, but Alpha Protocols is more managable. I don't feel like this review is doing the game much justice, but I can heartily recommend it. It's as good, if not better than anything else I've played from Obsidian (Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, Fallout: NV, Pentiment, Outer Worlds). In particular, it scratches the game itch as stuff like Cyberpunk 2077 and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, though maybe that's just me. I happily purchased this as the full price of $19.99. It would be a steal if you got this on sale.

This game sucks in a lot of ways, the gameplay, constant glitches and mid story, but I'd be lying if I didn't love how stiff, awkward or batshit everything was

It's not bad. But it's not very good. I went into the game under the impression that it's going to be some elaborate plot and that I'll be wowed by the quality of it. It's fine. My expectations were a bit higher than they should've been.

Love me some Obisidian stuff and picked this up cause of that Obsidian RPG sauce but my goodness is it janky as hell. Definitely cannot recommend to any new players thinking of playing this. Maybe for those who've finished it before and enjoyed the game, but its not a very good game even for 2010 standards

this game is amazing its stupidly funny, but if you play it TWICE you will see basically you can play 3 completely different games by sheer number of options and choices game is not great, you have to endure early 2010 shooting mechanics and obsidian is known for their amazing shooting games like fallout new pegaz or kotor 2 blaster build if someone play it wrong... anyway what shine are choices and RPG and romances Minigames are literally so bad that i had to go trainer on my 1st run but sadly i played more and get good enough at them minigames skills don't translate to anything i do in live so i literally trained my brain to get minigame better in single game where it exist ... i hate you obsidian...stop adding minigames to good RPGes!