Poll: Alpha Protocol, is it worth it?

[JonnoStrife]

Really? I haven't seen it at all, or I at least have a shitty memory. Probably the latter.

Love the Manly Guys Doing Manly Things DP.

OT: The Game looks pretty damn Decent. Funny too.

 

[Starke]

Didn't you see the news story from the dev who said the game should have been canned during development? Don't even think about getting it. Comparing this to Mass Effect is a joke.

you actually BELIEVE the guy is legit? sir, get off the internet before you get an email from a nigerian prince claiming he'll give you money. the guy doesn't even have sources. fox NEWS does better reporting than the escapist did on that story.

When the game has an average review score of 65%, you're damn right I think he's legit. Glad that a dev finally admitted to a game's shittiness.

What makes you think he's NOT legit? The fact that you wasted $60 on that POS masquerading as a game? Lol...

Yeah. I realize that was a typo. It's 74% not 65%, but that's okay, I get that, it's an easy typo to make. (The Median is 80%).

BTW, it's actually got a higher average than the last Mass Effect 2 DLC.

 

[Starke]

its all about WHO you kill. the CIA and the marines at the embassy (regardless of WHO killed them, meaning you get blamed even if they were gunned down by VCI) means your screwed because the US wont take you back.

Without getting too spoilery, you can dodge blame at the embassy by bluffing your way in. Security then has you logged as a CIA officer on site, and you're in the clear for the Marines who die.

 

[jackanderson]

So, I've been seeing this game advertised EVERYWHERE, but I just can't decide if I want to get it. It looks pretty cool, but it also seems like they just copied a lot from Mass Effect. I wanted to know how people who actually played the game felt, so please express your opinions.

Edit: By the way, I LOVED Mass Effect 1 and 2. I really love those rpg/action stuff.

Allow me to come to your aid, good sir! I got the game second day out and, as such, feel qualified to give you my personal verdict.

"Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmm... kinda?"

Here, I'll list the good and the bad and you can figure out yourself.

The Good:
Great and interesting story well told,
Choices make a difference as soon as you start playing the game which is a nice touch,
Not too heavy on the RPG side of things (good or bad depending on your preference),
Dialogue system is very well done,
Mini-games are alright.

The Bad:
Actual gameplay is quite poor,
Dreadful AI,
No mini-map,
Graphically looks very dated,
Full of bugs (sometimes freezes too).

So there you go. Weigh them up and decide yourself. I've mostly enjoyed it. And I'm still playing it. Which means I'm blowing off Split/Second to keep going, so it must be doing something right.

 

[veloper]

Best to do thing if you really need to play a new RPS, is to WAIT for a price drop and patches to fix the worst bugs.

If cheap and patched I´d get this game.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

the choices given are not what they seem. even if you make bad choices the outcome is WAY different than what you would expect on a far more detailed level.

Westbridge himself says so during orientation - there are no good or bad choices, only results.

 

[Chipperz]

it's like ME1 except the story isn't shit and the combat's a bit shoddy. Definitely worth a buy, support Obsidian they do mostly good work

did you say me1s story is shit!? heresy!!! its a witch! burn him!

Well, aside from the parts that suck, which would be all of them, Mass Effect's story is pretty shit.

Mmmkay, I'll bite.

How would YOU have written it so it wasn't crap?

Either never give Shepherd Spectre status, or have the Council believe him about something, anything. They give him a massive position of trust and then never trust him, despite proof that he's right more often than the Council - nonsense.
Remove a large chunk of Noveria. Everything between the offices and the hot labs destroys the pacing.
Remove Saren's mega- jumpy Husk form. Either make him a slow, tough boss (to complement the previous fast boss fight) or have a final horde of Geth. Removing the entire "the final boss isn't dead!" shtick is a positive step forward for games in general.
Pace out the character deaths. Wrex was well handled, but the Aidan/Ashley an hour later was arbitrary and added nothing to the plot. A death on the last level would have highlighted the danger of the mission, and the Normandy clearly has time to pick up both in Saren's lab.
I know they were shooting for mind control, but Matriarch Benezia's sudden 'break' from Sovreign's Indoctrination would have been more believable if she'd shown signs of it slipping instead of leaving the revelations until after she's been shot. Even just a change in tone as you fight her would work.

That's a few off the top of my head. Mass Effecr was good, but it wasn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination...

EDIT - It's massively, massively flawd, but worth a play. I'd say Alpha Protocol was a solid rental.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Most people I know who have actually played it not just read reviews say that it is, and that the reviewers were possibly not very clever (can't recognise conefire despite every shooter ever using it, etc.)

Personally, I'm waiting for a price drop.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

why is a mini map needed?

Mini maps aren't needed in a game like Alpha Protocol.

Like almost every game ever, if you get lost you just need to follow the old maxim of "Seek the Path of Most Resistance"... which is to say, where ever your enemies are is where you want to go because they exist to stand between you and your objective. It's when you can't find your enemies that you pull up your map screen.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

So there you go. Weigh them up and decide yourself. I've mostly enjoyed it. And I'm still playing it. Which means I'm blowing off Split/Second to keep going, so it must be doing something right.

You should probably state what platform you're playing on.

If someone was looking to buy this for the PC I would recommend that they do so. If they were looking to buy it for a console I'd tell them to stop bothering their betters and go eat some tasty lead paint (I kid, I kid)... or possibly, while not being an arsehole, tell them I have no idea because there seems to be quite a difference between PC and console versions and they should go eat some tasty lead paint.

 

[NickCaligo42]

Watch a friggin' Let's Play. See the game actually in action and then decide if it looks like something you'd enjoy.

 

[Oktanas]

It's a good game but creators made same mistakes as Troyka when they where creating Vampires masquerade bloodlines.

 

[bam13302]

freakin indecisive poll results

 

[Furioso]

So, I've been seeing this game advertised EVERYWHERE, but I just can't decide if I want to get it. It looks pretty cool, but it also seems like they just copied a lot from Mass Effect. I wanted to know how people who actually played the game felt, so please express your opinions.

Edit: By the way, I LOVED Mass Effect 1 and 2. I really love those rpg/action stuff.

The game is terrible... don't buy it, at least rent it first, every positive aspect of the game is overshadowed by at least 6 negitive things like horrid combat and more bugs than I thought possible.