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PLAY Mag Preview: Alpha Protocol

PLAY Mag reports:

''With one look at the screens for Alpha Protocol, you'd be forgiven for pegging its appearance as generic, before ignoring the game for the rest of eternity. In visual form, it ticks too many boxes under the 'average' category, but its blend of genres should make it stand out as a substantial offering among the masses of third-person action games. We revealed the game back in Play 165, but just in case you missed the skinny on Alpha Protocol, here's what we know.

Alpha Protocol is developed by famed RPG developer Obsidian, creator of Neverwinter Nights 2 and Knights Of The Old Republic II on the PC and Xbox. This spy-centric game is actually an action RPG, rather than an RPG in the traditional sense, so the entire experience will be in real-time, with peripheral role-playing elements enhancing the abilities of your character. There's no behind-thescenes, 20-sided dice deciding if you hit and miss your target. It's a genuinely action-based game, but it uses some of the RPG genre's staples to add depth and tension to the experience. Spy games have always warranted depth beyond firing sleeper darts, and swinging between buildings using a grappling hook; Alpha Protocol gives the premise a rare, worthy treatment.''

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20 Amazing Games That Have Completely Disappeared From Storefronts

Cultured Vultures: In the spirit of preserving some kind of history of this industry, we’ve decided to list some of the best games that you just simply can’t get hold of digitally at the minute.

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TheEnigma31379d ago

I just started playing Spec op. I've had it for years on steam and forgot about it. Such a good game.

EvertonFC79d ago (Edited 79d ago )

Fantastic game,.so underated

Cacabunga79d ago

Yes great game spec ops! Since the time we’ve been asking sony to make one:/

Auto Modelista.. a PS2 capcom racer!! A blast to play and great graphics!
Maximo!
Rival Schools!

LordoftheCritics79d ago

Spec Ops: The Line was super dark.

Incredible story.

SheenuTheLegend79d ago

all the games in the above list are bang on. this is the only reason we need backwards compatibility and physical presense of games for the upcoming future, no matter what.

Yi-Long79d ago

Honorable mention to the excellent Driveclub, one of the best racing games of all-time and one of my favourite games ever.

melons79d ago

yes! incredible rain effects; so good to drive along in rain with your Spotify playlist blaring

Skuletor79d ago

I really wanted a MotorStorm using the same engine, Driveclub is easily one of the best looking games on PS4 and I'm surprised they didn't even give it a PS4 Pro patch.

ravens5279d ago

Yes indeed. May just install it on my PS5. You know, physical copy and all.

monkey60279d ago

I adored Driveclub and the Bike expansion. I also loved Motorstorm. Evolution shutting down was a crime

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darthv7279d ago

Outrun Online Arcade, Sega Rally Online Arcade, After Burner Climax... all good stuff. I keep my 360 hooked up to play these as well as the TMNT games that were also delisted.

Skuletor79d ago

I have quite a few of these. Timed licenses suck.

Terry_B79d ago (Edited 79d ago )

wow...I have all of them except the Nintendo ones either in physical or digital version.

Also..Deadpool the Game is missing on that list.

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10 Most Overlooked RPGs That You Should Play Now

Many overlooked RPGs lie dormant in the catalogues of gaming, but players can pick up their swords and shields with these amazing JRPG hidden gems!

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Top 10 Xbox 360 Games That Need to be Backward Compatible

Kevin F. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "Many of the best Xbox 360 games are playable on the Xbox One and Series X|S consoles. Some even with some enhanced visuals and performance. Unfortunately, not every game from the Xbox 360 library has received this glorious feat of being able to be played on more modern Microsoft consoles."

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Orchard1048d ago

Max Payne 3 needs to be on that list.

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autobotdan1048d ago

The Spider-man games will never happen. The xbox 360 Marvel Ultimate Alliance games have a better chance of happening than Spider-man titles but won't happen. The Xbox One Ultimate Alliance games delisted years ago

Vits1048d ago

Yeah... you can totally forget about those entries that got delisted because of licensing issues. Those are not happening.

MetalProxy1048d ago

Wait everything isn’t BC? You guys act like it is lol

porkChop1048d ago

Almost all of the games people want to play are BC, and that's a hell of a lot better than having none available.

ApocalypseShadow1047d ago (Edited 1047d ago )

Almost all the games people want to play? Not true. Majority picks screw over the minority who have games collecting dust. Metal is right. Fans make it seem that it's all. 39/997 games from OG Xbox is NOT all. 568/2154 from 360 is NOT all. But you guys play it up like it is.

And from my count, there are 4,000+ PS4 BC games on PS5 that I see. And almost every VR game. Series X has no Kinect games or Kinect 2. But you played that up too. No more dancing.

As for the article, some of the BC games make sense. The others with Spider-Man aren't happening.

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