A good proper mystery game but also chock full of humor and wit.
Tex Murphy series - Easily one of the BEST FMV game series of all time. Widely considered one of best classic adventures let alone an fmv game. If you like horror/mystery games and FMV (even if some of the acting isn't amazing) then this is definitely a game you should check out. If you enjoy some cheesy b-movie acting and some good mystery/suspense this one would be enjoyable.ħth guest - probably one of the better FMV horror games.
Phantasmagoria 1 and 2 - A classic horror/campy adventure game. One of the higher critically acclaimed fmv games to ever come out. If you can stand the old school fps style I highly recommend it. Has an excellent atmosphere and a story that will keep you on the edge of your seat. This is an FMV game with one of the best storylines and it's also an fps/adventure game. Realms of the Haunting - One of my personal favorites. I'd recommend at least watching a gabriel knight 1 playthrough or something to catch up on the story and characters as it will help set up the game and the backstory of Gabriel and a few other characters. Gabriel Knight 2 (Part of one of the best adventure game series, the first Gabriel Knight is a classic 2d adventure game, the second one was an FMV adventure game, and the third one was a 3d adventure game). But just go in with proper expectations that you're mostly just there to read and listen to a linear story.įMV games (usually adventure games) are some of my favorite, however I really enjoy both the good ones and the cheesy b-movie style ones that have some laugh out loud acting or are simply campy as heck. I think it's worth checking out if you want to experience a somewhat different type of story, one that's very personal to the creator, and you champion games pushing themselves into other directions as a medium. Most the story is told through reading simple messages and voiced dialogue imitating voice chat. What you do is just the means to give background to the events surrounding the story and provide a setting. You can't take damage so it's just mindless for ten minutes).īut the point isn't to make an exciting, fun game. You then log into the online game to play the absolute most basic Diablo style game (from what I recall you click once on an enemy and then wait for the auto attacks to kill it before moving onto the next.
The two gameplay elements are clicking over fake Windows to look in folders and e-mails to get some background and ancillary details of the lead. To be blunt: It's extremely boring to play. I've typed and erased responses a couple times. Watching a YouTube let's play is all that it really takes to "get it," but man, what a bizarre little universe that game made for itself.
As a bonus, once you've played through Wirehead, you will start to spot the actor who played Wirehead/Ned Hubbard also popping up in TV commercials, AT MINIMUM twice a year.Īnd it's one of the rare Sega CD FMV games that actually play video full screen instead of in a tiny window, so that's worth some credit too.Īnd on the topic of just batshit crazy bad-good FMV, some credit has to go as well to the TurboGrafx-CD version of It Came From the Desert, which is totally different from other versions of the game.
I mean, it's like a C or D-movie at best, and the gameplay is just another Dragon's Lair retread, but it's just a fun, ridiculous interactive bad movie with your '90s cliche Alex Mack-esque, here is a human protagonist with a unique thing/ability, so generic '90s besuited sunglasses toughs are obviously after him to experiment on him or whatever it is that generic '90s besuited sunglasses toughs are always after.īasically, you will just sit with a Sega controller in hand, mouth agape, at all of the crazy real-life stunts that they filmed (often that don't even lead to progress in the game) in order to make this footage into a game. It was definitely the most fun that I ever had with an FMV game on the Sega CD, their natural habitat. I got Wirehead new on Sega CD for cheap in the mid-'90s. Of Historical Importance, but not really good games: Tex Murphy Series from 3 onwards (Under a Killing Moon) Star Wars: Jedi Knight (GOG version is better) Myst and especially Riven (GOG versions are better) Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within (on GOG) "Pure" FMV (adventure or interactive movie): My personal recommendations (warning: a lot of these are older games, so YMMV):