Alpha Protocol Announced

Keeping its blockbuster relationships with studios going, Sega today announced that it is partnering with Obsidian Entertainment to create a nnew espionage role-playing game set in the modern world - Alpha Protocol. The studio is best known for its phenomenal work on Star Wars KOTOR II and Neverwinter Nights 2.

In development for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 for release in 2009, the game is described as such:

Loyalty carries a price and no one knows this more than agent Michael Thorton. A talented young agent cast out by his government, Thorton is the only one with the information needed to stop an impending international catastrophe. To do so means he must cut himself off from the very people he is sworn to protect. As players determine how to accomplish different objectives, the decisions made and actions taken in each mission will ultimately transform the type of secret agent Michael Thorton will become. Every choice the player makes as Michael Thorton will carry consequences for his future and the fate of the world.

A forum for the game is already up, though no media is available.