The X-Files video games

kimmy
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By kimmy on Friday April 6, 2018 12:02 pm

There's the all-new Deep State game on Android, which is really about finding items in a limited time.
There was the Resident Evil-like Resist or Serve PS2 game in 2004, which was really about shooting and kicking things.

And then there was the 1998 PC/PS1 game which had real footage with videos and photos, with actors, directing, and real cinematography that made it look like it's straight from the series in its Vancouver years! Although some parts of it have aged badly and the acting is not great, I still have very fond memories of this game. Plus, it fits in the mythology of the show quite nicely, with alien autopsies in train cars and ships carrying alien material and the Black Oil (all like in Nisei/731/Piper Maru/Apocrypha).

It's still possible to install and play but it's not that easy 20 years later. You can find many videos online with the entire game - a lost episode from the series!



Anyone remember playing this?

Pike
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By Pike on Friday April 6, 2018 04:42 pm

Of course I remember! What a game. And how many CD-Roms was there in the box? I clearly remember the brilliant packaging and design. The big box with the transparent film in the middle, showing a smaller package with all the CD's. I loved it.
Still today the design looks totally fresh and relevant.

As for the game itself, I totally agree with you that some parts of it did age badly. But indeed, at the same time, one can only applaud the level of care of shooting an entire episode. Sure, the actors play badly and Mulder and Scully are rarely there, but still, I remember liking it very much as a kid.
I also remember the frustration of spending hours in a warehouse looking for clues. That was definitely not Call of Duty, but at the same time, that was the brilliance of it all. Because we all criticize the latest seasons of having almost no investigation whatsoever. Here, we had to do a real investigation and I'm sure that all of us loved it. A piece of paper here, leading to a phone number, etc.