

The game’s development began in March 2006 after publisher Sega approached Obsidian for a new intellectual property role-playing game. The game features extensive customization and a dialogue stance system that allows players to select dialogues based on three different tones. Played from a third-person perspective, players can confront enemies using firearms, gadgets, martial arts and stealth. Throughout the game, players must make many choices that affect the narrative. Thorton becomes a rogue agent and must unravel an international conspiracy to stop a war. The player assumes control of agent Michael Thorton, a new recruit at a clandestine United States agency called Alpha Protocol, which is given unlimited resources to conduct covert operations on behalf of the government. Alpha Protocol is a 2010 action role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Sega.
