Alpha Protocol has been receiving mixed reviews from game reviewers, mainly from mainstream game websites. However, I found them to be pretty biased overall. They criticize Alpha Protocol's aiming and shooting mechanics to be imprecise and too reliant on a dice roll. they even criticize it for being buggy and filled with glitches. However, they praise Fallout 3 like it was God's gift from Heaven (I'm only a fan of the first two Fallout games) when that game was extremely buggy and had random aiming shooting mechanics. It seems that game reviewers rely on polish instead of actual game design, not that polish isn't important but game design is what makes the game. They even give high scores to any AAA hyped game, which explains why they've overlooked the flaws of Modern Warfare 2.

I haven't played Alpha Protocol yet, but I'm sure it will be a pretty good game that isn't as flawed as critics make it out to be, I enjoyed Obsidians past games before too and they were buggy but well designed.

Obsidian didn't pay them off for high reviews

I stopped listening to reviews after Sonic Unleased got like 4/10 on IGN and I honestly enjoyed it more than Gears of war 2...

I am also picking up ALpha protocol so I'll see if the aiming is broken first hand. It can't be any more broken than in MAss Effect 1 :)

Ya sometimes they overrate those big title games even with all those issues or bugs and bash small title games for all these imperfection. It is how it is i don't like it sometime you gotta trust yourself in taste of games then rather listen to some critic and their opinion.

You enjoyed Sonic Unleashed more than Gears of War 2?! I can understand how you feel about the multi-player (Believe me, I feel the same too), but the single-player defined the word "Epic" and horde mode was the shiznit! 

The daytime Sonic levels for Unleash were fantastic, but they were few and far between. Most of the time, you were playing a shitty God of War clone. As for Mass Effect, the game did have great polish and great game design, but the shooting for the game was also clumsy and imprecise (But not random). I don't think Alpha Protocol will be as enjoyable as the Mass Effect series, but I believe that it will be a good distraction. Seems to have a better dialogue system than Mass Effect.

Not quite.... sometimes the game is soo good its easy to to forgive it, but if the game itself isnt good and its buggy then yea it has a higher chance of being fried

The thing is, they've criticized Alpha Protocol not for it's game design or it's gameplay, but because of it's bugs and glitches. They don't even seem how to grasp how the game mechanics are actually supposed to worked. It's not a over the top and fluid shooter like Mass Effect 2, the combat is more in line with Deus Ex. A game that they've herald back then.

I just hope that you are not one of those people who cannot realize the greatness that Bethesda brought to the Fallout franchise and that are still crying because Interplay didn't get to make Fallout 3.

They shouldn't have made a Fallout sequel to begin with, it should've remained the way it is. Sometimes, some game series don't need a comeback, the results are usually quite bad.

I didn't read any reviews or previews before Fallout 3 came out. I played it like 8 months after it came out and the game blew me away. One of my favorites.