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I actually just beat this game for the first time a couple days ago and really enjoyed it. I was playing the PC version off steam, so it was fully patched but as far as I know there aren't any special editions of this one.
I really had a blast with this game, the story did a great job of always making you wonder what was next and you could feel the changes that were caused by your decisions much more than even Bioware games(which I love). The skills were well done and as you leveled you could really feel yourself getting better at the different disciplines you put points into and the ability to actually stealth rather that simply run and gun was well implemented.
I think my only real gripe about the game is the same one I have with a lot of these type of combat oriented games with RPG elements(I'm looking at you Bloodlines!), is that while they allow you to use other skills to progress through the game they like to throw you into occasional boss battles where you have to be able to fight. On my playthrough I was a stealthy-gagiteer and while I could get through entire levels without being seen at all or only doing stealth takedowns suddenly I would find a boss and step out in the open for a chat before deciding the best way to handle the situation was a gunfight with my complete and utter lack of weapon skills.
As far as bugs go I noticed very few of them and those I saw were relatively minor, no exorcist heads or flying people or save losses or the like, instead I just had a couple instances were I got shunted from cover even though I wasn't pressing anything while waiting for a guard to turn around, or soldiers who would spot me through a wall(this only happened twice in the playthrough). I believe I a glitch where I started one of the minigames and it almost immediately kicked me out as if I had failed it, but that game required a steady hand and I might have been too twitchy.
All in all I thought alpha protocol was a great game and didn't have any problems with the bugs at all. I really wish that it had been a bigger seller(and I had known about it earlier so I could have helped in that fact) so we could have looked for a sequel on the horizon.
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I really had a blast with this game, the story did a great job of always making you wonder what was next and you could feel the changes that were caused by your decisions much more than even Bioware games(which I love). The skills were well done and as you leveled you could really feel yourself getting better at the different disciplines you put points into and the ability to actually stealth rather that simply run and gun was well implemented.
I think my only real gripe about the game is the same one I have with a lot of these type of combat oriented games with RPG elements(I'm looking at you Bloodlines!), is that while they allow you to use other skills to progress through the game they like to throw you into occasional boss battles where you have to be able to fight. On my playthrough I was a stealthy-gagiteer and while I could get through entire levels without being seen at all or only doing stealth takedowns suddenly I would find a boss and step out in the open for a chat before deciding the best way to handle the situation was a gunfight with my complete and utter lack of weapon skills.
Pretty much this. Except I played a stealthy weapons guy, so when I was forced into combat I wasn't totally hosed. I really had a blast with the game (PS3) and recommend it as a solid hold-over if you're waiting for the new Deus Ex to come out.
Also, I experienced no real bugs that come to mind and I played through it twice with slightly different builds. I was working on a rookie character to unlock veteran when New Vegas came out and totally distracted me.
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Also, I experienced no real bugs that come to mind and I played through it twice with slightly different builds. I was working on a rookie character to unlock veteran when New Vegas came out and totally distracted me.
Thats actually next plan, a rookie who focuses on two weapons to unlock a veteran who will use stealth and martial arts. On my initial playthrough, my character was generally very professional and I think that seeing the story from the perspective of a rookie who thinks he's smooth and a ladies man and a veteran who has seen too much and is slightly sociopathic will really totally change the story.
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Ah, you are just a little too late and I spaced out and didn't think to post it here yesterday. Steam is doing a series of 1-day sales this week and had Alpha Protocol on it yesterday for $7.50 which was a great deal.
Arkham Asylum seems like the AAA title big deal today for $11 if you haven't played it, its a great game as well.
Apologies for the thread necromancy, been searching around and figure -- hey some folks here played this game, maybe they can help (before I try registering for a different forum and asking there).
I'm on my 2nd playthrough of Alpha Protocol. While I'm not exactly trying for 100% completion I'm trying to be sure I manage to unlock some stuff I didn't the first time and something is not working out in Rome, with regards to Madison... HUGE SPOILERS follow so do NOT read, I mean seriously, do NOT read unless you're thoroughly familiar with the game...
I'm trying to unlock Madison's "Secret Fact" that Parker is her dad, so in turn I can have a different experience playing through the end game.
I keep playing through Rome over and over and while I have her dossier to 100% completion, I can't seem to trigger the romance scene that's required to get the secret fact. What's especially weird is on my first playthrough I really didn't try to do anything special with Madison and triggered the bedroom scene no problem (but I didn't have the dossier complete to get the information and didn't know at the time what the consequences were), but now that I actually want to do it won't happen.
Details of note:
- Madison likes me (like literally reputation is "Liked" and somewhere around +5)
- I've largely been professional in demeanor (which normally I think is a safe way to go), occasionally flirting.
- I did NOT use Madison as my handler in Marburg's house, I used SIE. (On the playthrough I did get to trigger the bedroom scene, I did use Madison as my handler so maybe that's the problem. I didn't see anything in the walkthroughs about using SIE as your handler as causing problems with Madison--it pisses Mina off, but it pisses Mina off if you so much as breathe in the general direction of another woman (world's most irritating trait ever)--but maybe it does.
- Despite having a Liked reputation, she gets b!~!!y with me when I get back from either the warehouse or the ruins, something about my enjoying getting into firefights. I don't remember if she did that the first time.
- I DO let her bandage me up. That conversation ends with "go to sleep" but she never does, she's always just sitting by the TV reading the book.
- I've tried doing the warehouse first and then the ruins and then vice versa but she still won't go to sleep.
I don't care about the damned romance itself this time around, I just want to get to the conversation so I can finish her dossier! Because this is one case where fully completing the dossier apparently does have a great impact on the course of the game, I want to play through what happens and I can't figure out what the heck I'm doing wrong. As far as most walkthroughs say, as long as I have at least +3 reputation with her and let her treat me, the scene will trigger, but it never does. I think one of the scenes in fact about her being b@~%&y about firefights triggers instead and I don't know why that is since she likes me.
Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.