All sales of Alpha Protocol were halted in June 2019 due to expired music licenses.

Despite Obsidian's desire to develop a sequel, intellectual property owner Sega was not satisfied with the game's financial performance and no sequel is planned. Retrospectively, the game's reputation improved and it gained a cult following. Critics praised the game's setting, customization and reactivity, but criticized its gameplay, story, graphics and presentation it was generally considered to be ambitious but executed many concepts poorly. The game received polarized reviews upon release. Sega also participated in the game's development, supporting the plot rewrite by Chris Avellone, and sending quality assurance and cohesion strike teams to ensure there were no plot holes.Īlpha Protocol was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in May 2010. The project was mostly inspired by iconic spy characters such as Jason Bourne, James Bond and Jack Bauer, and by films including Syriana, Ronin and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. While Obsidian co-founders Feargus Urquhart and Chris Jones came up with the concept of an 'espionage RPG', no one was assigned to lead the project until early 2008. The game's development began in March 2006 after publisher Sega approached Obsidian for a new intellectual property role-playing game. The game features extensive customization and a dialogue stance system that allows players to select dialogues based on three different tones. Played from a third-person perspective, players can confront enemies using firearms, gadgets, martial arts and stealth. Throughout the game, players must make many choices that affect the narrative. Thorton becomes a rogue agent and must unravel an international conspiracy to stop a war. The player assumes control of agent Michael Thorton, a new recruit at a clandestine United States agency called Alpha Protocol, which is given unlimited resources to conduct covert operations on behalf of the government. Alpha Protocol is a 2010 action role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Sega.

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