It seems even a dev said the game should have been cancelled:

http://www.vg247.com/2010/05/29/apparent-alpha-protocol-dev-goes-mental-says-game-should-have-been-cancelled/

Because a dev would post in the comments on Joystiq, right? It was probably just someone trolling. Or better yet, someone from the site trying to improve traffic.

Doesn't seem so far-fetched to me. If I'd been working on a game for a long time and felt seriously disgruntled over the way it was made resulting in poor reviews I'd probably let off some steam too.

Well that's probably why you don't work for a major game company. It seems unprofessional and childish to me, and I doubt anyone serious about their job would do something silly like that.

Also, I'm actually Gabe Newell, Episode 3 has been cancelled.

Oh, well by hubs I meant Rome, Taipai, Saudi Arabia, and Moscow.

I'm actually rather surprised by the amount of choices available. There are choices affecting characters midway through a mission when you've met them a few missions before, etc. Apparently, the game designers had designed it so that the best way to play the game was to do a mission in a hub, switch hub, do a mission in another hub, switch hub again, do mission - etc. According to some people, there's a choice in a mission that is only given out when you're halfway through another hub. I didn't get any specifics though.

So are all the hubs available from the start? So if I start in Taipai, can I shoot over to Moscow or wherever right after finishing just one mission in Taipai, or do I have to unlock them?

Started my second playthrough today.
Going for explosives and assault rifle.

Went to Moscow first this time since I find that's where the best equipment is added to the shop, and I want to get it early.
Rome was quite useless in terms of equipment and Taipei was ok. Will go Taipei after Moscow for the special shotgun you can get there.

Does anyone know where I could get a great assault rifle? I'm thinking the 3 stars one you buy in Saudi might be the best actually.

From Joystiq's review:


I think they were looking more for an action shooter rather than an rpg...

I dislike the idea of that gameplay but your right, they expected it to be like most shooters, its annoying that a game has to have shooting like MW" or whatever just to get a decent grade, look what it did to masee effect, its dumbed down like hell.

So it has Deus Ex-like shooting, where accuracy increases with skill? I'm okay with that.

Dunno, it could have been up to choices I made in other missions.

I'm gonna go rent this game in a bit, since it's my day off!! :celebration: Hope it's worth my little excitement.

Stealth (Shadow Operative) + Pistols (Chain Shot) make this game easy mode.

It starts slow, in true Obisidian fashion, but after Saudi Arabia the game becomes really excellent. Love it.

This thread has really brought my hopes back up for this game. Think ill pick it up sometime in the next few weeks.

I was going to get it today but it costs like an extra ￡5 off Steam. I may as well go and get it from the shop and save a few quid. Well, just one after the cost of Diesel probably...

Cleared off 14Gb for the game probably play it later tonight.

Alright, so I got it today (EB games had it in stock ) and it was not as glitchy as I expected (granted I'm still only in Saudi). All I got was some glitch where it lagged when I moved my mouse around, but there was a fix for that by editing the ini, so no biggie. The combat is better than I expected as well (my expectation were very low). It's less about cover-based shooting than most games with a cover system, and I found myself using the pistol more than I thought I would (silenced pistol is OP). The minigames are kind of hard, but that give me a sort of.. thrill, or something. I'm playing as the tech specialist, so I don't know if that's why it's easier.

I haven't seen any effect of my choices at all yet, and the story is kind of just "you are on a mission" with a side of "It's kind of a spoiler involving some guy named Leland". I can see why a lot of people would dislike the combat. If you really liked Gears of War/Mass Effect 2/Uncharted 2 combat, you probably wont like this very much.

Sounds like it is winner then.

40 bucks for AP here. http://www.gogamer.com/Alpha-Protocol--The-Espionage-RPG--I--for-PC-48-Hour-Madness-_stcVVproductId106637732VVcatId551271VVviewprod.htm
IIRC they only ship to NA though.
I wish I had some money to get it but sadly no.

So it has shooting like Deus Ex?

I love DX. And I wish they'd make that new one they were talking about a while back, but sadly, I doubt it.

I'd be okay with shooting/targeting like DX.

Can you put a scope on your pistol, that is all I ask.