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How the game works: "The X-Files Game" is a live-action adventure that opens after agents Mulder and Scully have disappeared. The player takes on the identity of FBI Field Agent Craig Willmore, assigned to find them or complete their investigation. You'll sift through evidence at crime scenes, conduct interviews, make critical case decisions and try to stay ahead of the cover-up.
How the game works: "The X-Files Game" is a live-action adventure that opens after agents Mulder and Scully have disappeared. The player takes on the identity of FBI Field Agent Craig Willmore, assigned to find them or complete their investigation. You'll sift through evidence at crime scenes, conduct interviews, make critical case decisions and try to stay ahead of the cover-up.
You'll be issued a variety of gear, including a cellular phone with a menu of speed-dial "numbers" for key sources and a Newton 2000 personal digital assistant to navigate and access field notes. When you're at your desk, you can log into the Intelligence Network Gateway, a computer system that provides still more information if you can figure out the sign-on and password. (Hint: Try variations on agent Willmore's name and search his room for possible clues.)
Good points, bad points: "The X-Files" contains a full four hours of footage, more than any computer game to date. It was edited down from 40 hours of footage shot in Seattle last fall. (Trivia note: To tape these video game scenes, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson had to skip a week which is why they didn't appear in last season's Cigarette Smoking Man episode).
Brace yourself: It takes 30 to 40 hours of play to complete the game.
Tips: If you're an "X-Files" fan and new to video gaming, use the artificial-intuition helper it will give you clues about how you're doing. Hard-core gamers, however, will probably turn that function off: Figuring things out is part of the fun.
Where to get it: The game is available locally at The Electronics Boutique in the York Galleria. It retails for $49.99. For more information, visit Fox's Web site at (www.foxinteractive.com).
System Requirements: Pentium 133 or faster, 32MB RAM, 250-350 MB hard-drive space, CD-ROM drive, sound card, PCI local bus video card, Windows 95, Voodoo II 3D graphics card (optional). Power Macintosh CD-ROM.
Players: One.
Recommended ages: Rated M for Mature, 17 and up, by the
The verdict: X marks the spot for the best-ever interactive game using live-action video.
Caption: DAILY RECORD / FILES Gillian Anderson, shown in a 1994 photo, is a self-described computer novice. She counts herself among the fans of the new game in which she stars.
Copyright York Daily Record Jun 19, 1998