Alpha Protocol Review
Short Version: Alpha Protocol is a Mess! The combat is a chore, the AI is laughable and the game is clearly unfinished with the SLOWEST loading textures I have ever come across! Only the intriguing story, shifting character allegiances and unmatched dialogue system manage to redeem the entire experience for fans of RPG’s & Spy Stories, but only just.
What you’ll Like:
• The Dialogue system is the best of its kind right now. Your choices have actual consequences not superficial ones – completely different responses from NPC’s, bonus missions, and new equipment and favors can all be gained through masterful manipulation.
• The Story was Involving & characters were flavorful – I felt like a Jason Bourne, romancing ladies, hacking computers, and uncovering evil plots.
• Fun reading and replying to spy emails, gathering intel and customizing Weapon & Armor while planning your approach.
• Not all missions involve shooting, some are solely to establish relationships and gather more intel for the future.
What you’ll Hate:
• The AI is EXTREMELY Inconsistent effectively breaking the combat portions of the game. Going from walking targets to hyper sensitive one-hit killers that spam grenades every 3 seconds.
• Pistols and SMGs are so laughably inaccurate even with mods that they are useless.
• Broken Stealth play, and some useless skill trees break the Illusion that you can approach a mission anyway you want. You cant.
• Numerous Bugs & Glitches can break checkpoints and refuse to load the next level.
• Are you serious? At one point it took the game 30+ seconds to load a texture on a simple pistol! And whats with all the blur effects?
Final Verdict:
Slightly Below Average
4/10
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203 thoughts on “Alpha Protocol Review”
also stealth playthroughs require no alarms to be set off along with the hacking minigame being WAAAAAYYYY to difficult but after those glitches leave you alone for a while and you’ve gotten past the texture pop in……it’s a deus ex ripoff but set in modern day with a WAAAYYYYYYY better dialogue option mechanic so unless you love the choice and stealth and overall great thing of the game you’ll hate it to pieces
joe you’re suppost to wait for a target reticle to turn red then thorton will zero in on the target and you can pop them off
and yes that makes pistols useless for anything other than stealth
Seems like they finished the game for the PS3.
I have it and have never had any of your problems so far.
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funny enough my first play through was recruit on hard though i chose a stealth build with pistol as my combat ability which when upgraded enough absolutely rapes bosses when you uses the stronger pistol rounds
Belive me or not, but at least in patched computer version of this game on maximum difficulty – melee is the most efficient way to deal both with enemies and boses.
Stealh – up to silent running
Weapons – pistols and melee (pistols good against most bosses)
Just hide and run fast. Even on the hardest difficulty main charachter could overcome any boss he could reach in melee (Russian girl with revolvers in one exeption). And – there is only few missions where stealh system is realy broken.