The X-Files Game

              Reviewed by The Survivor on a PC

Minimum requirements:  Windows 95, 120MHz Pentium, 16Mb Ram, 4x
CD-ROM Drive, 250Mb hard drive space.  Requires Video and Sound
Card compatible with DirectX 5. Video Card supporting High Colour
(16 Bit) at 640x480 resolution, Quick Time 3 (included).

Mac version requirements: Mac OS 7.1 or later, Power Macintosh
120MHz, 12Mb Ram with Virtual Memory enabled, or 18Mb with Virtual
Memory disabled, 250Mb hard drive space, 4x CD-ROM drive, Video
Card supporting Thousands of Colours at 640x480 resolution, Quick
Time 3 (included).

Also supported:  Windows NT with service pack level 3.

Now all that's out of the way, I would like to point out right from
the start that I am not an adventure player, just an ardent X-Files
fan, and this is my first (and probably last) review.  If you are
an X-Files fan, or just a bit of an investigative nut, then this
game is a must.

You play the entire game as Agent Craig Willmore.  You start with a
spotless record within the FBI and it's your job to keep it that
way.  The game revolves around video sequences, and the game
progresses around your actions and reactions to them.  In the first
part of the game you need to find your office, and all the
equipment you need as an FBI agent.  I will advise you, at this
point, to make sure you locate your Badge and gun, and don't assume
(as I did), that because you are an FBI Agent, you automatically
have them (boy, did I look a prat when asked to identify myself!)
At some point during this first section, you will be summoned to a
meeting with your boss, Shanks, and Assistant Director Skinner,
where you will be told of your mission to find missing agents
Scully and Mulder.

During your mission you will visit such places as a warehouse, a
motel, your flat, a crime lab, a mortuary etc, and if you get stuck
at any point in the game, you have the option of travelling back to
the Field Office, to get Shanks to look at your notes.  You have to
ask lots of questions, but make sure you ask the right questions in
the right places, or you could end up very dead, or sacked, as I
found out on several occasions.  Eventually you will locate agents
Scully and Mulder, but it doesn't end there.....  I don't want to
say too much about the actual game play, as it would give too much
away, but I have to say this is the best game I've played, ever!

You have the option at the beginning, to play the action scenes in
easy, standard or difficult mode, and I would suggest that on your
first play, you select easy.  It's the sort of game you can play
more than once, as things vary throughout the game, depending on
your responses at certain points.

Having been shot and dumped in the river, killed by an alien, and
sacked several times, I recommend it highly.  If you do get stuck
(or should that read when?), feel free to contact me, c/o Karen
Tyers (telephone number 01347 838667 6pm-11pm). I'm off to play it
again Sam (sorry - now)
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