Knights of the Old Republic II developer Obsidian has lifted the curtain on its next "James Bond-style" RPG Alpha Protocol, which is being published by Sega.
According to US mag Game Informer (via Kotaku), Alpha Protocol is a PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 action-RPG starring a 007-type spy, Michael Thorton.
The game kicks off when a mission goes wrong and inexperienced agent Thorton's world is turned upside down.
"A modern day espionage focused action/RPG that takes you on a suspenseful ride in the vein of James Bond, Jack Bauer, and Jason Bourne. Take a wet-behind-the-ears greenhorn agent up through the ranks to become a bona-fide super spy," says the official blurb.
As you'd expect from the developer of KOTOR and Never Winter Nights follow-ups, Alpha Protocol has also taken plenty of influence from BioWare's latest, Mass Effect. Apparently both the combat and dialogue systems in Obsidian's game are similar to the sci-fi epic (shooting is real-time), though there's the important addition of fem-fatales to romance and well... pull.
The game's dialogue system apparently puts even more weight on your conversations, only letting you speak to NPCs once. Before chatting you can set the tone of your character by selecting a corresponding face icon, to make Michael for example speak impatiently, furiously or charmingly.
While there are no character classes in game, there are ten skills for you to advance in and ten ranks in each. Obsidian promises they won't be simple things like accuracy, either.
Obsidian is also working on the Aliens Role Playing Game for Sega, which will compliment the upcoming Gearbox FPS. It's nice to see them working on something original for a change.
Alpha Protocol is dated for Spring 2009. We'll let you know when Sega wants to tell the internet about it.
I noticed long ago that every great super-agent has JB as their initials (no idea whatever made me start thinking about it but anyway...) I'm starting to wonder whether thers a conspiracy going on LOL
Anyway, this game might turn out quite good I have a lot of faith in Obsidian, KOTOR2 was a fantastic game ignoring the fact it was a rushed mess which I blame LucasArts for anyway, and NWN2 & Mask of the Betrayer was fantastic too. In fact NWN2 was in alot of ways superior to NWN by Bioware.
It's nice to see Obsidian spreading out from continously doing sequels of Bioware's games, which is probably hard to do now that Bioware have been taking over by EA (feckin, bas*****, pieces of s***)
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Well he is a self proclaimed 'super rock hero'..
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