Well, I read the reviews (good and bad) but since this game looked so intriguing I had to check it out for myself. Good thing, then, that it was on sale from Steam for less than the cost of a six-pack. Although this utter piece of crap COULD have been a decent (if not great) game, it is completely ruined by a plethora of poor design decisions, psychotic camera, and general lack of polish. In fact I just spent the last hour or so trying in vain just to get past the intro section due to the craptastic camera and general gameplay issues. Dealing with the guards was easy, dealing with the game mechanics was maddening. Lets talk about the dialogue system; cool idea but WTF are those buttons?? No indication of what they do or what they're for (ie: no description). You can find out the hard way like I did. I missed an important section just because the damn button wouldn't respond to my mouse press, and once gone it's gone, baby. I'm not going to get into a detailed description of the numerous technical failures since other reviewers have done so at length. Here is the bottom line; it has the POTENTIAL to be a great game, but instead it is a chore just to play. That translates to 'NO FUN AT ALL'. I realize the fan boys won't like this, but broken is broken. If another developer were to re-do this monstrosity and re-issue a properly coded and optimized version, I might be inclined to give it another chance. As it stands now, Alpha Protocol should never have been released. Pity those poor gamers who paid the full retail price. AVOID AT ALL COSTS
I passed up on this back when it came out, largely because of the reviews. I'm glad I did, too, because if I paid 50 bucks for this game back then, I may have been a little upset. But I got it from Steam for $7.50 a few ... Read Full Review
I really cannot say anything bad about this game so I do not understand low ratings it got both from critics and gamespot. I very rarely play same game twice and I have just started this game again (the other games are M... Read Full Review
