For those who picked up Alpha Protocol for $2...

[Summerstorm]

WAIT... you can finish the game?

I got it too... but the game just crashes on a particular part {First Mission in the east}.
No way to get past that for me. {Fumbling with core-affinity, drivers, etc}.

Game looked fun... but alas i think i can never play it {Maybe when i buy another computer in a few years}

 

[Something Amyss]

I picked it up, but spent a week in the hospital and am yet to try it.

 

[DasDestroyer]

I picked it up and still haven't tried it. I will, eventually, just not yet.

 

[orangeban]

Well, the whole time I played the game one question echoed in my mind. "Would my £1.50 have been better spent on, say, 3 packets of Doritos?" The answer is no, not at all. I think it's an excellent game, really, a lot of fun, though I fully appreciate why some people thought it was shit.

 

[Undead Dragon King]

I'm pretty surprised by all these stories of the game remaining buggy, even after the patches. It ran fine for me, no problems- there were a couple times when I set off an alarm and reloaded from the last checkpoint only to have all the guards in the area be alerted to my presence, even though they weren't at the checkpoint. Relatively minor, though

 

[krazykidd]

Pistol profinency was ridiculous, the chainshot 1 or atleast 2 shotted every boss in the game. My strategy was to shoot 1 normal criticalhit and then when he notices me i do chainshot into his head.

Right you are , never have i seen a game with such overpowered pistoles . I beat the game using only a pistoles ... When you get it maxed , you'll be using it everytime to headshot everyone and makes the game piss easy.

OT: loved the game very fun and very underated .

 

[RatRace123]

I picked it up at launch for a full 60 bucks and I love it. It's one of my favorite games of this generation, totally worth the full price in my opinion.
Those of you who got it for 2 dollars, got an excellent deal on a great game, again in my opinion.

Wish it was a better critical success, could've used a little more polish and bug ironing, but still really solid overall. Shame it won't get a sequel, because we don't often see RPGs set in the modern era.

 

[A Weakgeek]

Pistol profinency was ridiculous, the chainshot 1 or atleast 2 shotted every boss in the game. My strategy was to shoot 1 normal criticalhit and then when he notices me i do chainshot into his head.

Right you are , never have i seen a game with such overpowered pistoles . I beat the game using only a pistoles ... When you get it maxed , you'll be using it everytime to headshot everyone and makes the game piss easy.

OT: loved the game very fun and very underated .

There weren't many encounters with more than 6 guys in the room

 

[Hookman]

I honestly have to say its one of my favourite games of the last few years despite the many many many faults. Although from what you guys have said I'm glad I got it on 360 because it seems the PC version is near unplayable. The characters were interesting, the plot was fantastic and its one of the few games that takes into account so many choices. I realised this on 3rd playthrough (I've completed it 4 times now) on the russian mansion level. On the 1st and 2nd playthrough I had sneakily infiltrated the mansion but on my 3rd, due to 1 or 2 different dialouge choices, I smashed through the front gate with a frigging tank!

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

I bought Alpha Protocol ages ago for £15, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I did plenty of playthroughs; I think it was about six but it was a t least four. It had some of the best characters of any game I've played, Sis, Steven Heck, SIE, Conrad Marburg... And it was just generally brilliant fun. I mean, how many other games have a bit where a support character helps you by strapping a minigun to the side of a subway train and then firing it as it passes through the station?

 

[Wuffykins]

Just started it myself actually, and though I'm still tweaking the engine and configuration files to get it running like silky smoothness and really not that far in, I'm liking what I see so far... except for the mouse control in the hacking mini-game, but I'm getting the hang of it (had a couple of times where the mouse was hovering over 'abort' when I had the code lined up *grumblely grumbles*).

I got it and it was pretty cool at first but then I started getting this really weird mouse stuttering in it and its just unplayable till that is fixed.

Yeah, I was having that trouble too myself at first. Changing a few settings to "false" in the APEngine.ini file should do the trick (and at the very least everyone should turn the mouse smoothing off). A quick google will get you to the info on that, or if you need I can try to remember the specific entries myself, though you'll have to specify if it's the mouse slowing itself down, or if turning the camera stutters the game.

 

[Worgen]

Just started it myself actually, and though I'm still tweaking the engine and configuration files to get it running like silky smoothness and really not that far in, I'm liking what I see so far... except for the mouse control in the hacking mini-game, but I'm getting the hang of it (had a couple of times where the mouse was hovering over 'abort' when I had the code lined up *grumblely grumbles*).

I got it and it was pretty cool at first but then I started getting this really weird mouse stuttering in it and its just unplayable till that is fixed.

Yeah, I was having that trouble too myself at first. Changing a few settings to "false" in the APEngine.ini file should do the trick (and at the very least everyone should turn the mouse smoothing off). A quick google will get you to the info on that, or if you need I can try to remember the specific entries myself, though you'll have to specify if it's the mouse slowing itself down, or if turning the camera stutters the game.

I've tried changing a few settings but I was also having that trouble when my comp was acting weird after I updated some drivers but now its evened out so I need to test the game out again and see how it runs since my other games that were going weird are better now.

 

[the.gill123]

I think it's a really good, I'm only about 3 missions into it, not had much time to game the past couple of weeks, but so far I've been having a blast. It was only £1.50 in Britain, so I just thought well, I've spent more on less, so far I haven't found anything to hate about the game, but that might change a bit later on, but if it stays this good, I will be kicking myself for not buying it sooner.

 

[Sgt. Dante]

I had it on the PS3, but there was a really good trade-in deal at my local independant (basically a swap system, you give them £5 and a game and you get a similarly valued game back, I got Alpha Protocol for £10 and swapped it for a (then) brand new title) so only had a couple of hours with it before that.

But I enjoyed my time with it and for the sake of £1.50 I figured it would be worth picking up to play next spring when there is next to bugger all out after the xmas releases.

 

[Lizardon]

It took a bit for me to get in to it, but it seems like a fairly solid game so far. I have to wrestle with the cover mechanics sometimes and the vagueness of the conversation prompts is annoying. Overall I'm enjoying.

 

[mrblakemiller]

I'm on my second playthrough. The story is weak (and I HATE having to talk to the Halbech CEO at random intervals) and getting the camera to stop having conniptions was a huge pain at first. Trying to get through with stealth is almost impossible (a twitch of the mouse will give you away), but this time I'm dumping all my points in Stealth and it's much easier. In fact, the most satistfying gaming experience I've had in a while is turning on Shadow Operative and throat-checking around eight guys in a row (which of course makes no sense, but was still fun). Overall, it cost me 1/5th the price of a movie ticket, and I've gotten over two hours of enjoyment out of it. It was well worth the price.

 

[Korolev]

I bought it for 3 dollars (it's three dollars here in Australia for some reason) and from what I've played, it's okay, I guess. The story is somewhat interesting, but as Yahtzee also pointed out, everyone, EVERYONE in the game is INSUFFERABLY smug or smarmy or sarcastic or dismissive. Especially the main character - even if you try to play him as straight and professional as possible, he still has this irritating, cocky half-smile on his face. Maybe he stops being like that later on in the game - I sure hope so. I'm also enjoying the fact that so far I haven't run into any bugs. I do remember that the game was (in true Obsidian Fashion) incredibly buggy and poorly optimized when it first came out. I'm glad to see that, like with New Vegas, the bugs have been fixed.

So far I'm having an okay time with it. There are still a few quirks - I don't like the cover mechanic, and the guards still have this.... bizarre tendency to run up to you and punch you when they first see you, and then only start firing as they back away. It's really weird. They have guns.... yet they will run all the way over from a considerable distance just to.... punch you ONCE in the face... then slowly back away firing their weapons? Buh? Wuh? Why?

The Hacking mini-games are nice and challenging and as long as you put a lot of points into assault rifles, the shooting ain't too bad. The graphics are decent for a game of its size and it has a story worth telling, even if the voice actors all sound like they are trying to be a little bit too James-bondy. It was CERTAINLY worth what I paid for it, but I don't think I would have been too happy buying it for 89 Australian Dollars, which was the price here when it first came out.

 

[SpaceBat]

The story is strong from a technical viewpoint, but not very compelling. The characters are way above average for this generation, but quite a few of them are somewhat one-dimensional and are not very compelling either. I couldn't get myself to care very much about most of the characters. They're not necessarily one-dimensional, but the game only gives you enough time to learn just that little about them. You don't really get into nice, long, deep conversations with them and it's like most of the character development occurs when you're not looking. I wouldn't call them complex though.

Voice acting is generally good, so no complaints about that.

Gameplay is fine if you're playing Stealth and ONLY stealth, albeit it does get a bit broken after a while. Also pistol > Everything else. The conversation system is excellent by the way.

My biggest grip with the game is Obsidian Gaming being an asshole again and not finishing the game before releasing it. Seriously, what the hell guys? Why the fuck would you add an interesting character like Sis for a cutscene or two together with Albatross (Probably THE most interesting character, due to her strange upbringing, her relationship with her "father" and her disability) and then just completely ignore her for the rest of the game? I hate it when sub-plots are left unfinished.


Still, Overall a pretty good game.

 

[Dendio]

I really had fun playing this game. The cast was interesting and the story was great. I didn't run into many bugs on the PC version. I'm hungry for a sequel now...

For the record Deus ex HR played its crap-sack world card a little too well. I prefer alpha protocol and hope for a sequel

The game was a pure robbery at $2.00

I played it fine using a mouse and keyboard. Go stealth and pistol before anything else.