Reminder: Alpha Protocol is The Espionage RPG

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Jul 2nd 2009 at 3:45PM }

So, in case it wasn't made absolutely clear by the box art, here's what Obsidian Entertainment's head-slammin' Alpha Protocol isn't:

The Overwrought Fantasy RPG
The Contemplative Neo-Classical RPG
The Effervescent Dating RPG
The Number One Best Selling RPG
An Espionage RPG
That Other Game About The Secret Agent and Stuff

Joking aside, it's quite likely that we're simply oblivious to the subtitle's significance to the plot -- the one involving a sneaky rocket-propelled grenade that taps your phone and then blows off your ear. See if you can spot it in the developer diary embedded after the break.

Gallery: Alpha Protocol

Tags: alpha-protocol, guy-with-two-guns, obsidian-entertainment, pc, rpg, sega, the-espionage-rpg

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

The Dark Wang(Ohyeahcola in disguise) @ Jul 2nd 2009 3:53PM

I've been waiting forever for this game, I hope it comes out this year.

Damian @ Jul 2nd 2009 3:55PM

Getting a huge Mass Effect vibe from this, thats not a bad thing.

The Dark Wang(Ohyeahcola in disguise) @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:05PM

Except its not Sci-Fi and it probably won't be as good as Mass Effect.

David @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:53PM

Mass Effect was good?

Chin-Paaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! @ Jul 2nd 2009 5:09PM

Yes.

Kdiggy @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:02PM

Not so sure about this one. I know a lot of people seem to like it, but it's just not clicking with me.

WREturns @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:03PM

I'll get it.

Girugamuk (Moptimus Slimed) @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:05PM

MySims Agent will be better

The Dark Wang(Ohyeahcola in disguise) @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:13PM

I call BULLSHIT!!!!!!!

samik @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:08PM

The original espionage RPG will be back soon - Deus Ex 3. Hope its as good and deep as 1.

Doctor Doom @ Jul 2nd 2009 5:31PM

Deus Ex was amazing, but I've never played 2. Was it any good?

Pimliconite @ Jul 2nd 2009 7:46PM

No.

Saihna @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:12PM

So is that new rating for US too, or is it for that other country?
(sorry can't remember.)

Shmil @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:14PM

By other country you mean Europe yes that is the Pegi system. The US and canada still use the ESRB which uses the ratings E, T, M, AO etc.

Saihna @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:37PM

Thanks. n__n

Bradwart @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:44PM

@shmil
You forgot the rating of 'P'. You know, for Pachter? That's where Duke Nukem Forever went, after all.

Shmil @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:47PM

Duke Nukem forever became an analyst? or it just predicted a bunch of easy stuff? I'm confused

Mazrael @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:35AM

Europe isn't a country...

Neither is England in Birmingham, or Birmingham the capital of London...

Angel Mass @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:12PM

Just another game?

Jrinswand @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:16PM

"The Espionage RPG?"

Wow, that is kind of disappointing. When a game needs to explain itself on it's cover, you just know it is going to be plagued with mediocrity. Then again, I'm not really all that sure why I thought this game would be good in the first place. To this day I have yet to finish KOTOR II or NWN 2.

The Dark Wayne @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:47PM

you bit your tongue. KOTOR 2 was every bit as good as the original if not better. Saying it's the Espionage RPG doesnt indicate mediocrity, it just says that people are stupid and if they didnt have that there they might buy it thinking it's an action game

Shmil @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:49PM

Because there aren't enough game covers featuring a dude holding a gun. Lord knows what type of game it could be, FPS, TPS, RTS, he looks like a spy maybe its like Splinter Cell or MGS?
No its a genre melding that should be explained before someone picks up an in depth RPG and expect to play splinter cell.

Einhanderkiller @ Jul 2nd 2009 4:50PM

Tactical espionage action.
http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/02/mgs4_box_up.jpg

Jrinswand @ Jul 2nd 2009 5:03PM

The Dark Wayne and Shmil, you both make very good points. Perhaps it is necessary that the game clarifies that it is an RPG on the cover. After all, I work at a video game store and I am all too familiar with the way in which uninformed consumers purchase video games.

But perhaps the image on the front cover speaks more of the unoriginality of the game's content than the cover's text speaks of people's idiocy. Now don't get me wrong. I don't know much about the game other than what was in Game Informer when it was the cover story. How many times have you played a bald white guy wielding a gun though? Surely Obsidian could have come up with something better.

Shmil @ Jul 2nd 2009 5:46PM

Yes but from what I've read in that same game informer is that this game isn't like a shooter. That the RPG elements of the far outway everything else. It is like mass effect but in the CIA. All of the dialogue options are there, the weapons specializations.

So a spy based RPG set in modern times, is unoriginal? I may not know of many games but I've never heard of anything like this before. I'm thinking something along the lines of Splinter Cell meets Oblivion.