- Shooter, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Protocol is a sci-fi comedy with a hint of horror, action and a twisted love story.
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Contemporary, unpretentious, raw and epic.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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GamePittRob PittMay 20217.5/10Protocol is frustrating, annoying, and anger-inducing – I loved it! Despite the brutal and unforgiving insane A.I., who constantly kills you if you so much as look at her funny, I thought the story was interesting, the dialogue was ‘colourful’, and the combination of many different gameplay mechanics was very creative. My only negative, besides the difficulty spike in the final chapter, has to be the ‘long’ loading times – these wouldn’t usually be an issue, but in a game where you’re bound to die over and over, I would have liked a faster reload. I personally preferred the first half of the game over the second, due to how the focus shifted more onto combat over exploration and puzzles, but it didn’t stop me from wanting to unlock all seven endings – which I will do, someday…
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PlayStation UniverseFilipe MesquitaApr 20213/10Protocol is an unfocused, directionless mess of a game that tries to give too much without grasping the basics. The gameplay is frustrating, the dialogue is terrible, and the number of technical problems renders it almost unbearable to play. There are a few positives here, but they are so few and far between that they don't even come close to being worth going through this experience. Stay away from Protocol, and you will indeed have a nice day.
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New Game NetworkEric HallMay 202128/100Protocol is a tortuous experience that combines clumsy, awful gameplay with an abysmal script. I would much rather fail the protocol, and be nuked, then have to play through this again.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
- Developer
- Fair Games Studio
- Publisher
- Fair Games Studio, Samustai
- Released
- February 1, 2018
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
IGDB rating 5.0/10 from 2 ratings.
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