Alpha Protocol™ on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
Loyalty carries a price and no one knows this more than agent Michael Thorton. A talented young agent cast out by his government, Thorton is the only one with the information needed to stop an impending international catastrophe.
Alpha Protocol™ is a rpg, stealth and choices matter game
developed by Obsidian Entertainment
and published by SEGA.
Released on May 27th 2010 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Polish and Russian.
It has received 4,892 reviews of which 3,972 were positive and 920 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Alpha Protocol™ into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 2.4+ GHZ Intel® or 2.0+ GHZ AMD™
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce 6 series (6800GT or better,) ATI™ 1300XT series or greater (X1550, X1600 Pro and HD2400 are below minimum system requirements)
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 12 GB available space
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This game is like if Mass Effect and Splinter Cell met at an island resort on vacation. They'd seen each other before, one's boss was a client of another's boss or some such. One invited the other to the bar, and the other cracked a joke about dialogue trees that made them smile. It reminded them of the way their ex did, and it made them laugh even harder, albiet bitterly. One thing led to another and they were doing it raw, doggystyle, then proceeded to drop all their plans and go on a two month long binge drinking kombucha instead of water. This lovechild was the result, and was dumped in front of an alley where it was adopted by a homeless camp of old CRPG devs.
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Alpha Protocol, a flawed classic This review contains spoilers. Tl;dr: Espionage role-playing game from Obsidian. You assume the role of Mike Thorton, a member of Alpha Protocol. Choices and deep story make for a fun game, if you can look through its numerous flaws and bugs. Recommended Platforms tested Windows desktop Steam Deck Pros Story Choices are more than changing the colour of the ending. The Story Setting Cons Doesn’t have all the latest improvements on Steam Still quite buggy Checkpoint system can make you lose progress if you don’t pay attention to it. Things to know? Doesn’t have all the latest improvements on Steam This is an old version, which has broken gamepad support. What is Alpha Protocol? Alpha Protocol was originally released in 2010 for the PS3, X360 and PC. Developed by Obsidian Entertainment, the game is a third-person shooter where the players control Mike Thorton, an agent for the titular Alpha Protocol. Released in a quite broken state, it has since gathered a following, where many fans claim that it is one of the best Obsidian RPGs around. It was briefly delisted from Steam in 2019 but returned in 2024. Overview of the Story and Gameplay In Alpha Protocol, you take the role of Michael “Mike” Thorton who serves as an operative in the titular Alpha Protocol. After Thorton is abandoned by his government, he sets out to find the people responsible and to save the world. Alpha Protocol is a third-person Role Playing game and a cover shooter. The game is divided into different hubs where you set out on different type of missions. The missions usually are combat missions where you infiltrate a set location to steal data, assassinate or do other things. How you approach these missions is up to you. You can either go guns blazing or take the stealthier approach or a mix of both. Your approach to your missions can affect greatly both follow up missions as well as how other characters view you. Sometimes you have more compact missions, where the only objective is to talk. Speaking of talking, your choices matter and can change the story and affect other missions quite a lot. During dialogue, you can take one of three approaches with your choices. You can be aggressive, suave or professional. Different characters prefer different type of approaches, and you can gain or lose reputation points based on your answers, which in turn affects your future interactions with said characters and even with other characters. In between missions you can find yourself in one of the safe houses, replying to emails, checking intel and trading and equipping equipment. You can also change your character appearance freely from set options, such as beard or glasses. As Mike gains more experience, your character will level up and can gain new skills and further specialize in different aspects of operative life. The skill tree offers both passive and active skills. The Tech Alpha Protocol is from 2010, and it’s made by Obsidian. As such, one should expect plenty of bugs in the game such as mechanics not working correctly, characters getting stuck or enemies not spawning at all. There are also few glitches on modern computers where the graphic effects are not working correctly, and one will notice those effects having issues immediately. The game runs on Unreal Engine 3 and thus offers possibilities for modding and extending support for some features, like ultra-wide support. The game caps the frame rate to 60 or to 62 without modifying configuration files. The graphical options are okay, allowing players to customize settings such as SpeedTree quality (controls detail levels of trees) and motion blur. The game supports variety of resolutions and allows players to choose windowed mode if preferred. The motion blur is horrible, and I highly recommend disabling it. In control options, you can enable or disable control options. If controller is not enabled here, it won’t work. As many games of this era, you may need to restart the game if you turned on your controller after launching the game or if you need to reconnect your controller. The game supports other than XInput controllers only on GOG version. The audio is 2.0 and you need to use a workaround to get surround sound working. The game sound settings offer customization, and dialogue can usually be heard just fine. The game offers subtitle settings but subtitles do not work for all cutscenes, namely for the introduction movie and the ending. Few typos are still present after all these years. Miscellaneous DLC: The game has no DLC on PC, it had preorder DLC on consoles. Achievements: The game has no Achievements on Steam, it does have them on consoles and on GOG. My opinions Alpha Protocol isn’t the easiest game to review. On one hand, the story, setting and writing really are at outstanding level. On the other hand, the numerous technical issues and bugs can make playing the game at times a very frustrating experience. To give some context, you can try to be stealthy and suddenly the alarm rings because enemy saw you through the walls or spawned right on top of you. These frustrations can become even more issue with how the game saves using a checkpoint system. There are no ways to save between checkpoints. If you make a mistake in some of the missions, you may have to replay quite a long part of the game or if you make a mistake you want to remedy and the checkpoint saves, you’re stuck with your choice or mistake if you didn’t make a manual save of the checkpoint earlier. However, the story and setting really stand out. The writers offer no ways to save everyone and everything and make you think about your choices. The game does not offer options to pause during the dialogues so sometimes you may impulsively condemn a group of people to death, even without meaning to. The story has multiple endings, which means you can play it again and again to check different approaches and story elements. Apart from its technical issues and outdated design choices and technical constraints, Alpha Protocol is truly a great game and refreshing experience. I highly recommend giving it a try.
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What i like about the game is the decision making which leads to many various cutscenes and playing stealthy through the missions. I may be wrong, but it plays a little bit like a Mass Effect title. You have to like it. For a game of 2010 the price is undoubtfuly too high.
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Broken, bugged, unfinished. And still it's one of the best RPGs I've ever played, with a compelling narrative, actual branching dialoguem consequences for your actions; actual role playing as a spy. I'm glad they brought this game back to stores: A remake, sequel or even remaster will never happen, but it deserved any of those three, for it deserved another chance given this development. Regardless, it's an experience not found anywhere 14 years later, for the good, and for the bad.
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Unironically my favorite Obsidian game behind New Vegas. One of the jankest games I've ever played but with a HUGE amount of meaningful choice and consequence in your actions and story decisions. It's been 14 years, why the hell did nobody else make a spy RPG as cool as this?
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Developer
Obsidian Entertainment
Publisher
SEGA
Release
27 May 2010
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