Alpha Protocol issues license to NOT kill

by Richard Mitchell on Aug 12th 2009 10:00PM

According to a Twitter update from Obsidian regarding its upcoming stealth-em-up RPG, Alpha Protocol, it's possible to complete the game without killing anyone. The tweet failed to elaborate on why someone would choose to play through a spy-action game without killing anyone (but you can bet there's some kinda reward in store for the apprehensive player) and also whether or not it's possible to clear the game without maiming, disfiguring or severely bruising anyone. Frankly, given the nature of the action-spy business, we don't see how that would be possible.

The "no kill" challenge has been posed before, appearing in other stealth titles like Metal Gear Solid and even the straight action-oriented Mirror's Edge. In fact, it would be kinda strange if Alpha Protocol didn't allow players to finish the game without killing -- it's become a requisite for the genre, after all.

Well, however you decide to tackle Alpha Protocol, at least there's some sex in it for you, right?

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Tags: alpha-protocol, Microsoft, obsidian, sega, Xbox-360

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Twitter: So Much Easier Than a Press Release

Twitter: Making unimportant people feel like they have a duty to alert everyone that they're doing something every five minutes.

twitter should only be for news, PR etc people. I dont give a fuck if my friend is eating a sandwich

And cheaper! $100-$360 plus writer time for a good press release.

Yeah, but not killing someone the whole game in Mirror's Edge was easy because they gimped the shooting apsect so bad that there was no point in trying.

If there's an achievement for not killing someone the entire game I'll go for it, otherwise why in the hell would I be a spy and NOT do it?

Trust me, on my first play-through on the hard difficulty and second overall of Mirrors Edge, picking up guns was a GODSEND. I actually had an easier time beating it on Hard than I did on Normal.

I went for the highest difficulty available for my first run, and never shooting anyone (you could still kick them off buildings) was difficult at certain parts of the game. Going through the game on the hardest settings & being able to use guns was a breeze.. as the game just became a shooter towards the end stages..

I would like the unlock for doing this to be mind powers so you can just stare someone to death.

Most stealth veterans know the non-lethal route is usually the easiest. Also, Alpha Protocol is 360/PC only? I was actually interested in this title.

I think they have got it wrong its coming to ps3 as well

Yeah, it's coming to the PS3.

Yeah, there was a problem with the tagging. Fixed.

I'm pretty sure you can complete Splinter Cell DA without killing anybody too can't you? But I do know you have to either kill or knockout the main enemy at the end though....

In Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, you were scored on each mission. Any fatality that wasn't a mission objective (i.e. assassinate some guy) counted against you, as did alerting anyone to your presence. It was a real challenge (but a lot of fun) to get a perfect 100% score on a level.

Well I like that because its something different rather then what splinter cell did with the whole here is gun shoot people, In reality how many real spys have you heard of killing everyone?

never hear of a spy doing it. usually plane crashes and car crashes and the like

It's not different at all, to be honest. Splinter Cell allowed players to play any way they wanted, but due to the scoring system implemented in the later games, if you wanted 100% (like another poster said) you couldn't kill anyone. The Xbox version of Double Agent even gave you a certain amount of ammunition each mission depending on how you played (More lethal weapons for the JBA and more non-lethal tech for NSA).

how many real spys have you heard of at all?

Mr. Mitchell that picture makes me want to hug you, Hard

Wtf, that comment was obviously supposed to go to sleepy... I got joystiq'd :(

yeah i replied to sleepy too, third times this has happened today

HAHAHAHA LMFAO !!! Im gonna hug this guy SO HARD! XD

Well way back with Thief 2, with the exception of the main bad guy, it's not only possible not to kill anyone, but NEVER GET SEEN. To truly beat it, you had to "ghost" the whole thing. Crazy hard but possible. That was the late nighties. If anything, we've gone backwards.

yeah stealth action games that force you to kill is a step down from where they started.
one of my favorite game series is the ninja game tenchu where the whole point of each stage was to get through without being seen or killing anyone (or stealth killing everyone)
of course i tend to play other games in the same manner, like halo 3 for example, i have actually stealthed my way into the enemy base and sat there for like 3 minutes before waiting for everyone to stop respwaning for a moment and run off before jumping forward grabing the flag and hightailing it back to base

yeah i like stealth games way too much

You might like Battlefeild Heroes then. It's still a buggy beta with only four maps, but the commando is a hell of a lot of fun to play. Most set their commandos up like a sniper, but I got for their stealth abilities. You can get points for capping flags alone and never have to engage anyone. I main as a gunner, as I like the ability to head butt tanks to death too much.

ugh, this is obviously going to be a laborious achievement

Really? It should be a walk in a park for you, Batman...

it's hard to fight the urge you know?

The urge to purge (the world of evil)?

the urge to kill some motherfuckers

What kind of spy lets people live? I'll be head slamming everyone to death in interrogations, let alone normal combat.

Sorry. No go. I'm gonna murder fools.

WWKRD?

"I'm gonna murder fools."

Fo shizzle.

This should be a cakewalk. I always liked performing No Kill runs on stealth games. Did it on the MGS series, so, there won't be much different here.

At "The Dark Wayne"

I am still laughing my ass off ....."I dont give a fuck if my friend is eating a sandwich"

Fuckin funny as hell!

lol...and now i want a sandwhich...

That is the funniest picture I have ever seen. Kudos, Joystiq. Kudos.

Really?

aren't there upgrades you could use after you beat the game once considering that those weapons/upgrades transfer to future playthroughs?
if so stealth/speed/defense augments may make that more in the realm of possibility

As far as its difficulty is concern it is more adventurous and tough in normal version rather than hard version but i think it is more comfortable for the gamers in Xbox as compare to PS version i dont know why but Microsoft really wants to beat Ps b a great margin............
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Which genre are you talking about? I was under the impression Alpha Protocol is breaking ground as the first ESPIONAGE RPG! I mean, it says it right there on the box!

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You know what would be "a great news"? You not posting here.

i'm going try not killing anyone, but not on my first playthrough maybe my second or third

We all knows what happens when Spies try to resist harming someone, they end up killing them in some over-the-top awesome fashion.

Just look at Jason Bourne. He doesn't want to hurt anyone. But every time he gets in a fight, he goes apeshit!

Awesome. This game will suck my life away*, and I will be happy about it.

*But obviously, it won't KILL me.

My buddy at Obsidian is the one who proved it could be done, and he was pretty proud of himself. Yay Paul!

no ps3 tag?

Splinter Cell 1 could be done firing only 1 bullet... if you were good enough..

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Alpha Protocol issues license to NOT kill

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