Alpha Protocol

The game is clunky. It responds to mouse movements like it's 1999. You sometimes can't even see where your character is or is going. The awareness skill does nothing, and the hacking puzzles are bloody annoying. And when you fail, you have to do a whole bunch of things over again. The whole thing is not inspiring to pursue all that hassle. It's way, way, way too expensive for what it is.

While the story and amount of freedom in dialogue may create intrigue, the awful frankly, baffling gameplay drags this game down into being not worth playing. This is a stealth game where the meer act of sneaking around barely works, where guards can insta-detect you from 20 meters away and sometimes miss you mere centimeters from them, where trying to shoot someone takes upwards of 6 seconds for your accuracy to recover, where the AI seems to forget you exist or will ignore alarms if they feel like it. It is simply not an enjoyable experience to play and i'm shocked this made it past QA testing.

Writing and concepts aside this game is utterly borked in execution. Aiming does not work. Stealth does not work. The way you level up and gain 'cool powers' is boring. Functually nothing in this game is working as they are supposed to. Yes, taking the espionage genre mixed with RPG elements with multiple choices that impact or change the story is a highly entertaining IDEA. But it fails to be entertaining. I'm playing on the normal difficult and I'm struggling with stealth, you cannot, I'll say again, YOU CANNOT STEALTH. It is impossible. When you end up shooting (basically 90% of the game) you will find it clunky, slow, unresponsive. For some reason, they thought that a secret agent wouldn't have the capability to shoot more than a single bullet in an accurate manner. Obsidian's catalogue has always been busted. I do appreciate the restoration of dead games. But, having restored a game that is essentially a failed execution which does not play as intended is a waste of money. Waste of money IMO

The games crashes upon choosing background, about three or four seconds into the first cutscene. Have yet to find a fix.

The mini games are just horrid. If the game was free it would be overpriced.