This Xbox 360 gameplay walkthrough for the upcoming Obsidian RPG, Alpha Protocol, recently popped up over at IGN and is worth watching if this game is on your radar. According to an April 27th interview just posted over at Gry.o2.pl (there is an English version on the right side of the screen), Obsidian is in the process of bug fixing and polishing and is still on track for a late 2009 release. I’m not exactly hyper-ventilating over the graphics for this though if the gameplay delivers, I’ll give Obsidian a pass. I also have my fingers crossed that player choices will indeed be in the realm of gray and not boring old black and white.
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I paid a little more attention to Obsidian on the new Fallout game news and got interested in this. A sneaky spy RPG seems like just the right thing at the moment.
Going back to when you originally broke the news, here, that EASEUS Server Partition Mangler sounds like one taut product.
I’m getting more and more intrigued by this title. Good writing, good genre, and a lot of originality. I hope it’s a winner.
Those graphics look primitive enough that I’m willing to say they’re placeholders, but sometimes internet quality can be a factor. Of course, Obsidian has never been famous for being high-tech; like Troika, this has been a thorn in its side in the past. Focusing on design over technology is fine with me, but you can’t ship a broken game and say “at least it’s well-written.”
“Those graphics look primitive”
This is especially odd considering that it’s supposed to be running in the Unreal Engine 3.
This is probably just a low-res low-poly build for the purposes of the demo. It’s not uncommon for such things to be used internally to cut down on build time between iterations of the software.
That thought had crossed my mind too but then why aren’t there at least a few screenshots showing more eye candy?
Here’s a thread over at the official forum but no one seems to know much one way or the other.
http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showtopic=51957&st=0