qaz123

That is true. However, if the consumer has a choice of four decent/very good products(in theory) and the cash to only buy one..... Edit: I would assume that most people on this forum would drop the cash for AP bendu.

Uh, ok. I'm pretty sure you are in the minority.

I don't know, it is still in a bad spot. Red Dead, Alan Wake, and PoP all came out on the 18th. A May 1st release date would have been better overall. Now, I feel that a lot more people will either rent or buy used. However, I do agree that Sega is doing a good bit of promo.

I wouldn't worry too much. Like someone mentioned, game length is relative. Ultimately, it depends on your own tastes. If your someone who doesn't like to replay games (and it seems AP gives more incentive to do this than most) then it might not be worth it and you should wait for a price drop. Just remember it may not take you only 7-9 hours to finish.

Well, even if it is true, AP should be better than a two year old game not have its faults comparable to it. I'd stack it up against ME2, a 2010 rpg, but I guess will have enough of those comparsions soon. Meh, the only thing in which Alpha Protocol should be superior to a 2008 game are technical aspects. I mean, most of RPG, especially hybrids, are still inferior to games like Arcanum, Fallout and Deus Ex, by your reasoning, they don't deserve so much praise... Uh, ok. I was referring to technical aspects. The rest is just opinion.

Well, even if it is true, AP should be better than a two year old game not have its faults comparable to it. I'd stack it up against ME2, a 2010 rpg, but I guess will have enough of those comparsions soon.

Ok, I must of got confused. AP definitly looks great. (I'm not meaning graphically j/k) Although, FO3 and AP are very different. FO3 is more of a sandbox game. It did have a karma system but that could be greatly abused. One minute you're nuking a town and in your next breath giving water to wastelanders so you're an angel again. They even added perks for insta karma make-overs. While AP is a game with the tag-line "your weapon is choice" with little second chances in dialog/missions from what I've seen. It just seems odd that it is getting compared to FO3 and even more odd that zkylon said FO3 failed at everything. Also, even if AP looks awesome we have yet to play it.

Yeah, sorry for not making that clear. 93 is way of the charts for Fallout 3. At least, it looks worse and has worse AI than AP, has no multiplayer and at the same time fails at everything AP is awesome (choices, good writing, well thought characters). But well, goes to show how much marketing influences a review. Anyways, better not enter a Fallout 3 debate here. I'm just rooting for AP and feeling happy. Really don't understand all the FO hate. In fact, I was playing it recently to pass time until Red Dead Redemption and its still a lot of fun imo. It is definitely not a FO:BoS. Why would fallout 3 need to have multiplayer? Actually, I don't think AP looks better than FO3 and even if it does, AP should look better than FO3 since its releasing almost 2 years after the fact. Also, the AI comparison is debatable. FO3's AI was far from the industry's best, but the same can be said about AP. I don't see a huge gap of difference between them. You can say it was good marketing with a little wine and dining, but truth is FO3 was going to get good scores regardless. (except from NMA ) On the consoles, games like morrowind, oblivion, and bioware's offerings are king. However, I don't think all the marketing in the world is going to help AP not get slammed in the graphics department. Also, if I was a betting man, I'd wager that every other review will compare AP to ME2 with ME2 being perceived as the better. I'm not saying this is fair or not, but its likely to happen. Anyways, I really hope AP does well and Obsidian makes bank. Definitely hyped for this and New Vegas. 2010 is Obsidian's year.

Does anyone have any information on how stealth builds work in AP? Such as: taking human shields/hostages, dragging bodies, light and dark gameplay (splinter cell), pickpocketing/stealing (can we place items on npcs?), interrogation, distractions, ghost the majority of the game, nonlethal combat, etc. I'm also intrested in how sniper builds can be played. I wonder if certain missions can be acheived by finding a good vantage point and taking that one shot. Thanks in advance.