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Until you consider that it is an espionage rpg which has little to do with espionage and much more field work (which doesn't degrade the game, but it's still a fact) You can be a spy in the field and do espionage? At least in my opinion you can. It's espionage in the vein of James Bond ... It's cinematic espionage. Gather intel, figure out what the bad guy is up to, stop the bad guy from getting the girl.. or wait.. something along those lines

The A-Team.. was actually much more entertaining then I thought it would be. Some very nice moments, and a few in-jokes. During one sequence where a film smuggled into a psychiatric ward as part of a ploy to break Murdock out..the "film" has the A-team music play, and the introductory credits in the background include "Reginald Barclay".. - Which for those less geeky, was the name of Dwight Schultz (the original Murdock) character in ST:NG... Some very over the top moments, although the whole Tank parachute was a nice standout.. "What's he trying to do, shoot down the drone?" "No, he's trying to fly the tank..."

There's a wonderful counterbalance of things here.. Obama orders the BP chairman to visit the White House.. and uh, excuse me, "orders" a foreign businessman? Add in such things as the failure of America over the whole Exon Valdez oil spill.. and the fines related to that still haven't been payed.. and for slightly more current things, the Bhopal Trial.. The pesticide leaked from the factory, over 15,000 people have died due to it, (although campaigners have put the death toll closer to 25,000) .. and the American Chairman of that company skipped bail, fled the country, and now lives quite happily in America where he gets protected by the government from trial in India... Ain't it a joy?

The tough one is the 3 missions with less then 5 kills and no enemy becoming aware of you... The investigate the warehouse in Taipei is a fun stealth one...

The tux is in the game.. it's just hard to actually see... The fun trip to the party where you identify people through the rifle scope, Mike is automatically wearing a tux. You just don't really see much of it apart from the back of his collar (well, unless you look at the picture under service record).

Omen Deng comments about the "good fieldcraft" for trying to blend in by wearing civilian clothing in the subway station...

Hm, well I had high pistol and martial arts skills for one playthrough, when you meet Championichik and there's that whole Mike: Is that gold medal real? Sukov: He won it for boxing Mike: Cool, I got a couple for shooting and martial arts... I'm guessing that's a moment of reactivity due to skills..

Well.. it might add some interesting twists to the pro-fox hunting lobby here... I blame it on the childhood image of the sneaky/comedy fox that turns up in so many kids cartoons ...All these people who see them as "noble animals" or at least, cute and harmless...

Entrance into Marburg's Villa... and the portrait on the stairs. Mike : "Narcissist much?"

You can build up a fairly decent relationship with Heck without casually offing civilians and going too mad...

It's an interesting choice of art direction.. but until there's more to see I'm not going to make up my mind on whether its bad or good. At least there's a known reasoning behind it... rather then just something thrown in for no reason in particular..

Also get the "Poisoned Cocaine" Intel from Heck if you've done Tapai before Moscow.. that's always useful.

Hm, all the interviews and such have just been ps3 and xbox 360...

I would like to say Tron Evolutions.. since I happen to love the old Tron film, and really enjoyed Tron 2.0 for the inherent fun geekness in it... but.. meh.. Tron Evolutions.. Not coming to a pc. Is it just me or is that a wtf moment? A big Tron game.. and it's not going to be for the pc....

.. Damn it.. now we're going to have to start trying out various combinations of hats, bears, glasses and wear civilian gear just to see what lines actually turn up...

Stick a few gadgets around as you move.. I found a few shock traps placed to be quite useful...

It changes, sometimes its a random women, sometimes it looks like a Deus Vult guy...

That and the new version of D&D totally sucks (although the art is rather damn good). Also, if you give it a squinty eyed view, it almost looks like they've made it similar to WoW for pen n paper time.. so I guess that would both make it simpler, and cause some issues if they try to put it back into a computer game these days....

The arcade in Brayko's mansion.. I swear that's music from Deus Ex playing on a loop... throw in Mina's comment about recognising the music playing over the earpiece...

I'm half wondering when someones going to jump on here and start dancing on the "AP2! AP2!" wagon..

Worked the first playthrough of Alpha Protocol... Now giving it a try from the Rookie perspective.. A few flaws, some glitches, but not a bad gem.

Rifles have the "subsonic rounds" which basically works as a silencer... But to keep using them you have to spend money regularly to keep your supplies topped up.. I'm guessing that was meant to balance things out against you running around "sniping" constantly without any alarms being raised..

It depends what you call mini-bosses.. I mean depending on how you go at it.. Hm, There's Brayko in Moscow.. but then you don't have to fight him.. Then Sie, again, you don' thave to fight her (although she rather enjoys it if you do...the whole email of "im standing naked at the mirror touching all those bruises you gave me dahling"..). Rome, there's Marburg to deal with.. and Taipai has Omen Deng.. All of these people are meant to be superior to the regular mooks and henchmen you can take down with ease.. So I guess it makes some sense that people of their calibre aren't simple one shot kills.... I think one of the things people are forgetting is that depending on just how you approach things, you might not have to actually fight these people... Then again I can't be totally sure of that since I haven't played those routes yet..

Brayko is a major pain to get past if you attempt it early in the game. The best thing to do is to try another one of the hubs. (Remember, you can shift between them as much as you like as long as missions are available...). Then build up your character a bit more before trying to deal with Brayko. That's what I ended up doing. I tried Moscow straight after Saudi and nada I could do worked on him. He killed me in a few seconds. Went off to Rome and Tapai..then came back and fairly handed him his head... the difference between level 7 or so and being level 16 I guess

and take that literally in game.. There's a hidden elevator in the shower...