PastramiX

Low fantasy, in a non-Medievalist way. The classical Maya era (With appropriate magic and mythos, of course) would work perfectly, particularly the competitive city-state oriented world, ancient rumored civilizations, and a plethora of culture clashes would fit the genre perfectly. Other than that, I can imagine a stat-based, non-linear platformer that's not Japanese. Being set in a bizarre, cartoon-ish world like The Neverhood would definitely help. A sandbox-y sort of decaying dystopia setting would be perfect, especially if it's paired up with lots of transgressionalist themes, particularly if it's inspired by Fight Club. Having a Tyler Durden-esque NPC as your mentor would be surrealistic beyond belief.

Will there be a martini-mixing minigame, a la hacking in System Shock 2, but with alcohol? Can I wear a fedora and a zoot suit... at the same time? Can I have Mike wear FABULOUS clothing?

Poor, but you get the idea.

It's great to see that Mitsoda and Carlson have finally merged into one entity, a FEV-enhanced grizzly. Hopefully we'll get some bizarre, fantastic characters and dialogue a la VtM:B, coupled with a powergaming tour de force like in SoZ. I wish for more of Jeanette's "kitten" talk.

Did anyone else burst out in spontaneous laughter after hearing "The captain's dead!"

The 1.0b patch always puts 3 files into the override folder; can't recall what they were named, but I'm guessing that you'll probably have to either reinstall the patch, or the entire game itself.

To be frank, will Alpha Protocol see any support for a modding community? Since AP uses Unreal Engine 3, I'm sure it wouldn't be quite difficult for Obsidian to bundle UnrealEd in an SDK, similar to what Ion Storm did with Deus Ex.