Weapon-based combat is just dire and gets only marginally better once you gain access to better weapons and improve in certain areas. Furthermore, the targeting system is flawed and inaccurate and the cover system – where you hide behind random objects that enemies can shoot through anyway – is an...

It's a good game with a lot to do. There are some areas that it could have used some improvements to get rid of that linear on-rails feel. Many should like it.

It could have been a lot worse, but for all its worth, the game simply doesn't deliver enough of an experience to keep the player wanting more. A dull experience rife with technical flaws and badly-combined mechanics.

The legendary agent whose presence looms over Alpha Protocol's Michael Thornton isn't Bauer, Bourne or Bond - although the game is eager to invite all these comparisons. It's Shepard.

Age Rating: 15+ Other console/handheld formats: PS3 With Alpha Protocol, Obsidian Entertainment must have been delighted to finally knock together a game that's completely of their own envisioning as opposed to once again working on an existing licence as they had so often done in the past.

Attack of the Clones At Hooked Gamers, I am not the resident Indie game freak – We all know who that is don't we (It's Priestman, isn't it – Ed.) Sure, I have played a few Indie games in my day and I enjoy the fact that they are done on a small budget by one person or a small group of friends.

Heaps of levels with a range of goals

Multiplayer isn't very populated at this stage