Along with Singularity, imho.

No, it's not.

Alpha Protocol is a fun game! It is a bad game, but it is fun. 
The people who think its combat is broken are the kind of people who try and play it like a 3rd Person Shooter.  Everything else is completely broken though.

I've seen this thread before... 
 
Is it actually worth playing? It is hard for me to believe.

God, quite being such a streamer 

I've only played a bit of Alpha Protocol but I like what I've seen so far. The stand-out feature to me is the voice acting, it's actually really, really good. 

"No, it's not. "

I watched the Quicklook and nothing about it looked good to me.

Singularity was definitely underrated. Alpha Protocol could've used some more time in development, but I do agree that it wasn't as well received as it could've been.

yes you are right 
 
@benjaebe:  Singularity was good too, but I'll go Alpha

I'll agree with Singularity most definitely, but Alpha Protocol? Nope.

" @Geno: Good old Nolan North is the voice of Stephen Heck. "

Well, thanks to it's extremely bad optimization (pretty much unplayable at 640x480 with worst settings possible, 30 fps+ in source games on high graphics at 1360x768 on this PC) I haven't been able to check it out seeing as my real PC has been broken for almost 2 months now and when I did get it back the case was broken. 
   

"I'm tired of all of this mainstream bullshit you're posting. "

" @Geno: Really? I'm fps stuttering so fucking harshly when playing it even when I put the settings to the lowest of the low. I know you're probably not supposed to use an onboard GPU but well, it works with most games and yeah, can't shell out for a new PC atm. "

I enjoyed it during my playthrough with it.  It is definitely broken in spots though.  I'm reminded off the boss battle against the 80's Eastern Euro Mobster.  I couldn't beat him to save my life.  Finally, I ran in circles until he got stuck on the wall.  
 
However, once I beat it, I did not have any interest to go through it again.

I actually enjoyed Alpha Protocol quite a bit. It wasn't nearly as good as it could've been, but I wouldn't call it bad either. Maybe I'm just very patient with shitty games. 

Yeah, no. Alpha Protocol is a game brimming with promise that is continually squandered throughout the game in both the gameplay and story departments.

Amazing RPG, middling shooting/stealth/Brayko/SMGs yeah really everything else besides the dialog.  Although that is good enough to play through it a few times.

Yes it is! People are playing it the wrong way, and when that's not working for them, they just call it a broken game. 

" @Jack268: The game runs on UE3, there is no better optimized engine at the moment.  "

Agreed.
 
It's a superb RPG.
The amount of decisions you can make and how they all affect the game in a huge network like fashion is insane. Other games don't even come close.
After Alpha Protocol, choices and consequences in games like ME2 make you laugh.

Just like  Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines this will be remembered fondly as one of the RPG classics in the following years.  
 
@Meltac said:

" Yes it is! People are playing it the wrong way, and when that's not working for them, they just call it a broken game.  "

" @pretender15: You mean the most underated "broken" game of the year. "

" @Meltac: If you're able to play a game "the wrong way", generally that's considered the developers fault, not the players  "

i just spent about an hour thinking about where alpha protocol belongs on my list. I wanna give it a space so bad but i just don't know where.

" God, quite being such a streamer "

" @Meltac: If you're able to play a game "the wrong way", generally that's considered the developers fault, not the players  "

Alpha Protocol is a mishmash of genres, and it doesn't do any of them particularly well. To me, it feels like an RPG that tries to be an action game, but doesn't know how to make the two genres match. In my opinion, the whole dice role system is what hurts this game. It hurt the combat in Fallout 3 as well, but in that game, at least, the horrible shooting mechanics were saved by the VATS system.  
 
I bought this game during the Christmas sale, for 7.50, and even that was too much money. It isn't a matter of understanding the mechanics--I understand them perfectly fine--but a matter of them simply being poorly implemented. 

I'm all for free speech and I understand that everyone has different opinions but Alpha Protocol is an exception, anyone who thinks that game is anything other than a steaming pile of shit should be rounded up and shot through the back of the head, it's the humane thing to do. 

I'm getting sick of seeing "underrated/overrated" threads. Categorizing games as underrated is overrated :/ 
 
However, I've heard some good things about this game, and that the people who love it, really love it. I'm sure I'll give it a look-see sometime down the line. Might have to pick it up on Steam when it's practically free.

 @zombie2011 said:

" I watched the Quicklook and nothing about it looked good to me. "

I feel like I've posted this same answer 2 other times but, I liked it. It was cool how the choices you made effected all characters you've met or meet. The gameplay is a little silly if you master stealth and turn invisible all the time, but if you can get it cheap I say get it. I originally beat it off a rental but more recently picked it up for $5 and am going to play it again.

Alpha Protocol is the best game Obsidian put out this year. Awww yeaaaah.

Alpha Protocol is great fun! However almost every gameplay aspect is horribly broken so I'm not sure you can call it a underrated game.

I played it through. It's thoroughly average.

I stayed away from this game based on bad reviews and freinds owning it,  just a bad experience.
 
Shoud I a waste rental?

" I stayed away from this game based on bad reviews and freinds owning it,  just a bad experience.  Shoud I a waste rental? "

I'm going with Chime.

How well did Darksiders do? I mean saleswise and review wise? Just bought it on Steam and it's goung on my top ten list of 2010

I agree, I think this game is absolutely fantastic, its attention to story and decision making make this game worthwhile, there are literally dozens of variables at play that really impressed me; such as characters responding to passed actions, difficult split-second decision making and a dynamic story that's entire plot can seemingly change depending on how you played that game.

I just bought it for €15. I'm hoping I'll love the game despite its faults. Many games are great despite being kind of broken like Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines which had problems, but I still consider it to be one of the best games I've played. It's not like the market is full of RPG's to choose from. I can't think of anyone doing story driven WRPG's except for Bioware and Obsidian. Borderlands or Fallout are good games, but I prefer the type of RPGs that Bioware makes, too bad no one else does it like Bioware.