X-Files: The Game

X-Files: The Game
Developer(s):	HyperBole Studios
Publisher(s):	Fox Interactive
Platform:	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation
Genre:	Interactive movie, point-and-click adventure
Release:	May 31, 1998
Mode:	Single-player

The X-Files Game is an interactive movie point-and-click adventure video game developed by HyperBole Studios and published by Fox Interactive. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and PlayStation in 1998, and is based on the television series The X-Files.

Gameplay

The game uses a point-and-click interface, uses full motion video technology called Virtual Cinema, and includes a large number of cut scenes. Included in the gameplay are numerous occasions in which the player can alter other character's attitudes and reactions depending upon responses and actions (or inactions). Dubbed "UberVariables", certain decisions made by the player can set them along one of three tracks: Paranoia (Willmore will start seeing things like twitching corpses and shadowy figures), Loss (messages from his ex-wife are kinder), and "The X-Track" (more details are revealed about mytharc-related conspiracies). The player can also affect Willmore's relationship with Astadourian positively and negatively based upon how he responds to her suggestions and ideas.

X-Files: The Game
Video(s) on Channel:	4
Video Views:	E1: 42, E2: 110, E3: 24, E4: 37, Total: 213
Playlist Link:	Playlist
Source: Somerset Gaming, 1 October 2018

Macworld wrote that The X-Files Game's "excellent use of QuickTime video is offset by tediously slow sections."

The X-Files Game was a finalist for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' 1999 "Adventure Game of the Year" and "Outstanding Achievement in Character or Story Development" awards, although it lost these prizes to Grim Fandango and Pokémon Red and Blue, respectively.

Video Links

• X-Files: The Game - Episode 1 - The Search Begins (Released: 5 February 2018)
• X-Files: The Game - Episode 2 - Talking To James Wong (Released: 5 February 2018)
• X-Files: The Game - Episode 3 - Suspicious Activity At The Docks (Released: 5 February 2018)
• X-Files: The Game - Episode 4 - Is Wong Dead? (Released: 10 February 2018)

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Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

External links

• X-Files: The Game Playlist