
Mike Thorton was from a time before cutscene and mission cosmetics were put in different buckets, but his safehouses have some amazing bathrooms. That’s because somehow I suffered a file corruption bug that donked me back to the beginning of the Russia hub multiple times, and at some point, we had to run this piece. You may notice that most of the art for this piece is from Saudi Arabia and Russia. Usually these don’t wipe all your progress! …Usually. Alpha Protocol was the greatest FPS RPG franchise that never was.Įven today it remains a pretty divisive game for those who remember it at the time, the Obsidian Entertainment-developed, SEGA-published title was released in 2010 on PC/PS3/Xbox 360 to stridently mixed reviews - whether you felt like the game was worth the time of day pretty much came down to whether you could tolerate playing it for the 10-15 hours it took to complete a campaign, and whether you could tolerate a good 2-3 of those 10-15 hours being reloads from checkpoints, or, if you’re particularly unlucky…a save-corrupting error that forces you to restart from a previous file.
