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March 11th, 2008 @ 09:38
According to this, Sega and Neverwinter Nights 2 developer Obsidian are working on an RPG titled Alpha Protocol for PS3, 360 and PC. It’s got a spy-theme, apparently, with Mass Effect-style play and “deadly ladies across the globe ready and available for conquest”. It’s like we’re 12 years old again. Spring 2009, says Game Informer.
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March 11th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I’m interested. There aren’t enough dungeons-n’-dragons-free RPGs in the world. It’d better have gadgets.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:02 am
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.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:04 am
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?
March 11th, 2008 at 10:11 am
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.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
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.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
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.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
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.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
As you said