Browsing all articles tagged with FMV.
Prize Fighter
Full Motion Video strikes again, this time letting you jump in the ring and try your hand at boxing. If your timing is right and your reflexes are fast, you might walk away with the grainy prize.
Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
Roberta Williams’ Phantasmagoria walked a delicate line between camp and hardcore horror. Personally, I didn’t feel it pulled this trick off terribly well. While the carnival atmosphere allowed for some truly gruesome Saw-like kills, the plot lacked serious tension and quickly fell into stale haunted house/possessed lover routines. Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh is a [...]
Flash Traffic: City of Angels
You’re the Special Agent in Charge for the FBI offices in Los Angeles, roused from bed at three in the morning to the worst kind of news. A DEA raid on a suspected meth ring uncovered something far more sinister – a makeshift lab where a nuclear bomb has been assembled. All signs point to [...]
Dracula Unleashed
I remember being interested in Dracula Unleashed when it was released, despite not really knowing anything about it, or chasing down information in the gaming rags. An FMV adventure in the world of Dracula sounded like something I’d dig. It turned out to be one that I never got around to picking up (damn constant [...]
The X-Files
March, 1996. FBI agents Mulder and Scully pull up to a ramshackle warehouse along Seattle, Washington’s waterfront. Mulder defeats a suspiciously new lock on the rusty front door and the agents enter what is essentially an open, barren storage area. They spot a stain on the ground and discover a pool of fine black powder [...]
Reelect JFK
FAIR WARNING: There’s a bit of a story involved with this one, and not just my usual nostalgic musings and sarcastic screeds. Buckle in and try to keep up. Actually, don’t buckle in, you’ll never be able to keep up that way. As something of a geek, and a relatively young one at that, I [...]