9 Terrible Video Games With AWESOME Stories

8. Alpha Protocol

Speaking of Switch ports, God I wish Alpha Protocol would get another day in the sun.

The product of Obsidian applying spy thriller tropes to a Mass Effect structure (yes, it really is as awesome as that sounds... sometimes), the final product was littered with bugs, animation glitches and gunplay that put actually hitting your target down to a dice roll.

Everything outside of going on missions, though? Pretty damn exemplary.

You've got Nolan North playing a twisted version of Nathan Drake in Steven Heck, a dialogue system that results in multiple characters living or dying, plus different endings depending on which kind of spy you want to be. Jason Bourne brutality, James Bond suave? A total shadow-clinging Sam Fisher or a hybrid of all three? The choice was yours.

Hidden compounds, going undercover, romancing anyone in your way or blagging yourself into a high-rolling casino - name something from a spy film you wish you could do, and it's all here.

You just have to slog through the gameplay, to get to the good stuff.