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[Llyranor]

(Game Informer April Issue)

Alpha Protocol

(1 player action/RPG)

Developer: Obsidian Entertainment
Platform: PS3/360/PC
Publisher: Sega
Release: Spring 2009

"A modern day espionage focused action/RPG that takes you on a suspenseful ride in the vein of James Bond, Jack Bauer, and Jason Bourne. Take a wet-behind-the-ears greenhorn agent up through the ranks to become a bona-fide super spy."

-Main character is Michael Thorton, a fully trained but inexperienced young operative who has the world turned upside down when a mission goes wrong.

-Title "Alpha Protocol" is a phrase that is used when operatives go underground to work off the grid. Usually reserved for senior agents.

-Battle system is similar to Mass Effect but have more in common with Uncharted. It revolves around real time combat with an emphasis on gun play and high tech gadgets.

-Third person perspective, action orientated gameplay

-Close quarters combat can be a last resort or primary method of fighting depending on how you spend skill points you have earned.

-Skill system is based most closely on Fallout. It's classless, you have 10 skills and 10 ranks in each skill. Skills don't simply improve things like accuracy, they improve the way your character will perceive situations.

-The game will suit all play styles from the run and gunner to the stealth assassin.

-Extremely in depth dialog system that is a mix of Mass Effect and Indigo Prophecy. Once conversations happen, that's it, no revisiting the NPC to try to talk again and again. System is named the Dialog Stance System. You dictate your characters tone in a conversation by pressing a corresponding face button. Options can be cool and suave others can be brash/impatient.

-You can have multiple active missions in different countries and travel freely between them.

-Lots of girls and romance subplots. You'll meet tons of different girls on missions and yes you can bag them all.

-Current control scheme for selecting powers and weapons is similar to Bioshock.

Edited by Llyranor, 10 March 2008 - 04:39 PM.

[Dark_Raven]

That is just like WoW!

[Nick_i_am]

Spambot.

[Tale]

Is it a 1 player action RPG or an MMORPG?

Edited by Tale, 10 March 2008 - 04:55 PM.

[funcroc]

Project Georgia revealed.

[Moatilliatta]

Title says console-exclusive and article says platform PS3/360/PC, am I missing something?

I also echo Tale's question!

[Tale]

-Current control scheme for selecting powers and weapons is similar to Bioshock.

Something iffy here. Bioshock's control scheme for selecting powers and weapons is the classic control scheme involved in every FPS ever. What was with all the obscene amounts of name dropping? The game itself sounds good.

I'd call it April Fool's shenanigans, but Obsidian doesn't have the mainstream exposure to warrant that.

Edited by Tale, 10 March 2008 - 05:44 PM.

[Moatilliatta]

I'd call it April Fool's shenanigans, but Obsidian doesn't have the mainstream exposure to warrant that.

Also last I checked we're still in March.

First find on google.
Edit: Should have looked further down, it's just a forum.

Edit2: Also, what's with this? "-Lots of girls and romance subplots. You'll meet tons of different girls on missions and yes you can bag them all." Did The Witcher do that well?

Edited by Moatilliatta, 10 March 2008 - 05:49 PM.

[Tale]

Also last I checked we're still in March.

Last I checked, the OP said it was an April issue of a magazine. April issues usually hit the stands in March.

[Kor Qel Droma]

Will there be crates?

[Moatilliatta]

Will there be crates?

And can we smash them?

[Volourn]

L0L Hype by name dropping... if it's even legit. That said, it sound slike it could be a fun game. Not that i expect anything less than fun with an Obsidian game. The article/news is untrustowrthy since it can't even be clear on whether or not the game is console only multi cross paltform and/or between SP only/MMORPG.

L0L0L0L0L0L0L0L0LLIP0P

[Zoma]

Two questions I need to know the answers:

1. MMO or Single player game?

2. Will there be PC version too?

If it is neither SP, nor a PC version, I can't inflate myself with excitement. :\

[~Di]

No options for a female PC? *sniff*

Not that it matters, since it's a console release.

Edited by ~Di, 10 March 2008 - 06:09 PM.

[Nick_i_am]

haha, this thread is like a forum intelligence test.

Guess who loses.

[Zoma]

i da winnah!!!11

Me da l337sauce!!11

Seriously, I'm as uncertain as Volourn due to the contridicting info provided by the op.

SP or MMO?

Console exclusive or is there PC version?

Bah. I WIN!!11!

[Tale]

If you are going to believe it, just ignore the thread title. The rest is other places on the web, the title just seems to be Llyranor having fun.

[Nick_i_am]

Tale wins!

[Krookie]

No options for a female PC? *sniff*

Not that it matters, since it's a console release.

Don't worry, no one expected you to read the article anyway.

[Spider]

Seeing as how the bites in Llyranor's post are probably from an actual article, that'd explain the name-dropping. It is typically much easier to explain how something works by using examples if possible.

If it's taken from Obsidian's fact sheet, then it would be kinda sucky though (but I seriously doubt that).

All in all, seems like it could be a fun game.