Sega and Obsidian confirm Alpha Protocol

I’m interested. There aren’t enough dungeons-n’-dragons-free RPGs in the world. It’d better have gadgets.

I just wish someone would make a proper, big budget, genuinely adult game. I hope this doesn’t disappoint. Obsidian’s a good developer, so there’s hope.

Bioshock? Mass Effect? They’re not perfect, but I’d argue that both are big-budget and both pretty adult.

Or are you after something with a more realistic setting?

It’s in that “comic book” adult area though, in my opinion. Bits of Bioshock were definitely nerve-wracking, but it’s still very much late teen/20-something. I was walking around corridors with a steam-punk shotgun shooting zombie things and following a big arrow in Bioshock. I refuse to believe it’s impossible for games to get away from that and make something that would appeal to the same audience, say, as adult films like No Country for Old Men or Lives of Others.

You could make a No Country For Old Men game, actually. Just re-skin Resident Evil 3 and replace Nemesis with Chigurh. That’d be bloody scary.

I joke of course, but I think Bioshock is on the right lines. It’s bound to happen in the next three or four years, I reckon.

As a side note: Fahrenheit appeared to be on the right track at the outset, but gradually got worse and worse and sillier and is she really having sex with a corpse now.

I think Bioshock got the right idea with the story, but the wrong idea with the game itself. I’d much rather they’d tried to do something a bit more than the same old run n’ gun.

That was my big problem with it. The “game” was the same old thing. I lost the will to keep going with it at about the point where I got the chemical thrower thing. I just wish someone would do something new, as opposed to tried and tested conventions overlaid with “edgy” content.

As you said