Alpha Protocol Previews

With less than three weeks to go until Alpha Protocol has solidified its place on our hard drives, the stream of online previews seems to be picking up pace. First in line today is Game Revolution:

Alpha Protocol’s RPG scheme allows players to buy/upgrade weapons and equipment with money found in the world and to flesh out Thornton with nine different skill-sets. This includes stealth, martial arts, breaking and entering, and of course, numerous skills related to shotguns, pistols, machine guns, EMP grenades, and other weapons.

Alpha Protocol is a third-person game, with a hefty stealth element that will let players sneak up on some enemies and take them out quiet-like, without needing alarm-raising gunfire to enter the picture. Perks are rewarded based on whatever method players use to dispatch their foes, so much so that Obsidian claims it is possible to complete the game without killing so much as a single foe… but all the practical evidence so far points toward players racking up a lot of dead bodies before the final credits roll. The game is based on a hub structure (hub city locales include Moscow, Taipei, Rome, and at least one unidentified city in Saudi Arabia) and is dotted with ‘safe houses’ in which Thornton can call up contacts, accept missions, organize weapons, change clothing, and/or just generally keep out of sight between missions.

And then there’s a three-minute video preview on GameTrailers that features quite a bit of never-before-seen in-game footage.