Darkeus

Are you sure??? How do you know? It doesn't say medical bills caused to enemies. It just says "Medical Bills". Lol, why don't you check it out first before you say something. Little experimentation never hurt anybody....

Where you damaged when you ended the mission? If you look at your service record and check your stats; you will see a little stat towards the bottom that says, "Medical Bills". Oh yeah, you lose money if you complete the mission with health gone.

I personally just think that the reviewers should quit being lazy and play the game right. How hard is it to grasp that it uses RPG elements for combat. Just amazing.... You know, the American reviewers remind me of this guy on the Gamefaqs boards. The kid complains about the game being crap because he says the tutorial does not show him how to use proximity mines and Shock traps. Beyond the fact that it does show you how to use gadgets as traps quite clearly, the child refuses to pick up a manual to read on what he should do. So basically, the kid will not play a game that doesn't show him exactly how to play the game. Is this the kind of gamers we are making now? Do most gamers need to have their hand held every step of the way? Do they really hate for a game to be hard and challenging? No wonder all we get is these cookie cutter games that have no soul. No wonder original games are far and few between. Fallout 3 had the same type of combat. They didn't give it bad reviews because it looked like a First Person Shooter. Fallout 3 had plenty of bugs in the game and possibly THE WORST ENDING IN ALL OF VIDEO GAMES! No one panned it and gave it bad reviews. Hell, I love Fallout 3! Point is, I see some serious bias and reviewer laziness. It is a shame, these damn game sites panned Resonance of Fate too and it was a much better JRPG than Final Fantasy 13 (What a craptastic game FF13 was).

I must say to the OP: Buy this game. I am also in the same boat that I may never trust another US review site again (Except for 1up, they gave the game a B- or B +). Can't remember which.... Most of the American reviews were either coming from somebody that tried to play the game like a TPS or they over exaggerated the bugs. I have had no major crashes, no game-breaking bugs or things not working. The only problem I had was the mouse stuttering problem and I fixed that real quick (BTW, I don't know if is consistent for everybody but I did not need to switch the UseBackgroundLevelStreaming for my PC. Just changed the OneFrameThreadLag and presto). I have Red Dead Redemption, ****ing love that game! You know what I have been addicted to? Alpha Protocol. If this game can make me drop a game that I absolutely love to play it instead; it must be doing something right!

The concept of the minigames are pretty easy to get my head around, but I'm going to disagree with your statement that none of them are hard. There seems to be a fairly large split on the issue in this thread. I'd be curious to know just what the division is in terms of console/PC users. A fastest hack time of 5 seconds tells me nothing though. My current fastest hack is nearly 3 seconds. I just managed to get extremely lucky in code placement. Both codes were in the top three rows and didn't require crossing the grid. EDIT: Thorton: Oddly enough, I had no problem hacking all those systems in the CIA safehouse. I bought the intel to help with that and the reset timer was pretty quick, but I think I still had at least 6 letter combos so it wasn't nearly as bad as the 4 letter bomb combos. I mean that is fine. I just don't find them difficult. I have never really failed at them and I have never failed lockpicking. ' I don't know, my personal experience is that I have found them pretty easy. Yeah, five seconds does say nothing. I think it is pretty fast for a hack that the sequences were not at the top of the box....

With my first post I am gonna have to jump in here and say that the hacking minigame, or any minigame for that fact, is not hard at all. I have never had a problem with it, Hell I have a fastest hack time hovering around five seconds flat. I guess I can understand if you are bad at pattern recognition or all those moving numbers bother you. I have found the minigames pretty easy.