http://www.ripten.com/2010/05/29/supposed-alpha-protocol-dev-says-game-should-have-been-scrapped/

"I worked on this game (a fact of which I am not proud). I’m not here to defend it; I agree with all these reviews.
There was a ton of work put into this game. The problem is that is was a ton of undirected work, or work on things that were just stupid. The Executive Producer for the game, Chris Parker (also an owner of the company), seemed to think he was the world’s greatest designer ever, and created all these absolutely shitty systems and wouldn’t listen to any of the real designers or devs about things that just didn’t work. And you can’t exactly argue with one of the owners of the company when he doesn’t want to listen. He basically took over the game and dictated exactly how everything would work (or not work, as the case may be). The other producers realized this early on and just gave up, leaving Parker to micromanage all the designers and programmers directly.

Sega also was a factor, because they kept changing the design requirements (yes they had heavy influence there), which never gave the producers and designers time to actually decide on one set of features to make and polish. The blame is still mostly Obsidian’s because the execution was absolutely terrible, and it was obvious 2 years ago that this game should have been scrapped. Instead, though, they focused on adding still more features and never fixed the ones they already had. That is a recipe for tons of bugs and no polish… as is obvious.

This game was just an absolute failure of production, and it’s no wonder that so many of the developers left the company, even after the 40% staff layoffs. I am still happy about some of Obsidian’s other current projects, New Vegas included, because they are going pretty well. Their big unannounced project is looking great and is already much better than AP ever was, and that may end up being the game that everyone was looking for with AP.

Sega should have canceled AP instead of Aliens…"

 

Im glad I didnt buy this game

 

(original link taken from www.destructoid.com website)

Atleast their other games are going well.

funny to hear

wow!!!!! A game that has that much mis-management never turns out that good.

This is listed as a rumor... If you ask me this is a story meant to fish for clicks.

If you look at the games faults, you see that it fails at most basic things. (shooting, stealth gameplay and visuals)

The concept is actually quite brilliant. So no, it should not have been scrapped, but devs should have been better to implement better gameplay elements.

Also, these guys gave 2.10 to this game which is by far the most harshest review. They are probably getting a lot of flack for this as it clearly wasn't justified.

They could be making shit up to justify their game review...

get the game when it comes out and post your impressions on this site. I might get this game when it hits the bargin bins.

I am getting it tomorrow. I traded Metro2033 and Deadly premonition for this at gamestop as they had that whole..."Trade 2 get 1 free deal" so whatever...

I'll write a small review after I get some good gameplay under my belt.

But people need to understand that I am much less critical on gameplay glitches than most. I found Alone in the Dark to be quite enjoyable despite the broken driving controls and somewhat glitchy gameplay. That is until the game became sandbox when I lost all interest.