History Main / FullMotionVideo

* ''The Masked Rider: Film/KamenRiderZO'', a game similar to the ''Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers'' Sega CD game, where a Dragon's Lair style game is played over scenes from the film, dubbed in English. [[NamesTheSame Surprisingly not related to]] ''Series/MaskedRider''.

While pretty much a dead genre now, as the video game industry has moved onto other ways of making money from nice graphics combined with crappy gameplay and mind-numbing tedium (see {{Freemium}}, DownloadableContent, AllegedlyFreeGame, {{Microtransactions}}...), some newer titles have taken on to using this medium as part of their marketing campaign, perhaps giving it a niche to hold on to.

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!!Regular games with "FMV cutscenes"

* The ''Franchise/SlyCooper'' series uses 2D comic book-style cutscenes.

* ''Anime/{{Albegas}}'' (Sega, cancelled)

* ''VideoGame/DoubleSwitch'', another FMV game similar to Night Trap, only instead of monsters, you're trapping mobsters and SecretSociety members after a treasure in a huge mansion. Notable for starring Corey Haim, and [[Music/{{Blondie}} Debbie Harry]].

* ''VideoGame/LateShift'' (2017)

* ''VideoGame/{{Shivers}}'' begins and ends with [=FMVs=] of your "friends" locking you on the museum grounds and arriving to find you, respectively.

* ''VideoGame/AstronBelt'' (Sega, 1983[[note]]Uses footage from Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan, along with Message from Space, a science fiction movie released by Toei in the 1970s.[[/note]])

* ''VideoGame/CobraCommand'' (Data East, 1984[[note]]Released as Thunder Storm in Japan. Has no relation with a later side-scrolling shooter also called Cobra Command, and released by the same company.[[/note]])

* ''VideoGame/EVRRace'' (Nintendo, 1975[[labelnote:*]]UrExample. Used '''E'''lectronic '''V'''ideo '''R'''ecording reels, an experimental precursor to Betamax (1975) and VHS (1976 in Japan; 1977 in the U.S.).[[/labelnote]])

* ''Road Blaster'' (aka ''Road Avenger'' for the [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Sega CD]], and ''Road Prosecutor'' for the Pioneer [=LaserActive=][[note]]These renamings likely happened in order to avoid confusion with Atari Games' (non-laserdisc) 1987 battle racing game [=RoadBlasters=][[/note]])

* ''VideoGame/ThayersQuest'' (RDI Video Systems, 1984)

* ''Cliff Hanger'' (Stern, 1983)

* ''VideoGame/EVRRace'' (Nintendo, 1975[[labelnote:*]]UrExample. Used '''E'''lectronic '''V'''ideo '''R'''ecord reels, an experimental precursor to the VHS tape.[[/labelnote]]

* ''RoadBlaster'' (aka ''Road Avenger'' for the [[UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis Sega CD]])

* ''VideoGame/DoubleSwitch'', another FMV game similar to Night Trap, only instead of monsters, you're trapping mobsters and crooks after a treasure in a huge mansion. Notable for starring Corey Haim, and [[Music/{{Blondie}} Debbie Harry]].

Today, however, the term is mainly remembered as lending its name to a particular type of video games (also called "interactive movies") which are entirely based around video clips. Gameplay consisted mostly of pressing buttons at the right time, choosing correct sequences of clips, or playing other games that just used the video as a backdrop. Nowadays these games are best remembered for a lack of interactivity.

Part of the logical reason the games were so poorly received, was that in addition to their lack of interactivity, they were also badly written and poorly acted -- the task of programming a whole new genre of a game had to be balanced with hiring scriptwriters and actors. Naturally quality suffered, with camp movies, hammy actors, bad plots or just a lousy game.

Full motion video games really became popular on home computers with the introduction of CD-ROM drives in TheNineties, and CD-equipped console systems like the UsefulNotes/SegaCD, UsefulNotes/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer and UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi rushed to exploit the trend. Gameplay on home systems was no better than in the arcade, with the extra problem that early CD-based home systems, especially the Sega CD, weren't powerful enough to produce good quality video.

Not every FMV game was bad, though. Some, especially the VideoGame/TexMurphy series, are considered classics of the adventure genre. It's just that for every ''Tex Murphy'', ''Phantasmagoria'', or ''Gabriel Knight'', there were [[SturgeonsLaw 10 ''Double Switch'' or ''Johnny Mnemonic''-level]] games, and at $60+ a pop, the audience quickly became bored. Of course, many people still enjoy the lesser-quality games for the [[SoBadItsGood camp value]].

While pretty much a dead genre, as the video game industry has moved onto other ways of making money from nice graphics combined with crappy gameplay and mind-numbing tedium (see tropes like {{Freemium}}, DownloadableContent, AllegedlyFreeGame...), some newer titles have taken on to using this medium as part of their marketing campaign, perhaps giving it a niche to hold on to.

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Today, however, the term is mainly remembered as lending its name to a particular type of video games (also called "interactive movies") which are entirely based around video clips. Gameplay consisted mostly of pressing buttons at the right time, choosing correct sequences of clips, or playing other games that just used the video as a backdrop. Nowadays these games are best remembered for a lack of interactivity -- as ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' once put it, "It doesn't even feel like you're playing a game. It feels like you're watching a movie. A ''bad'' movie."

** The first ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5'' did a trick just like this. All areas in the game were pre-recorded video footage, and the characters are 3D models put in front of the video. [[SpecialEffectFailure This would sometimes result in Ulala and the others looking as if they were floating, because sometimes their character models would not be properly aligned with the background]].

** On the other hand, ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'' has the only two [=FMVs=] -- the intro and the ending.

** The spinoff game ''VideoGame/Privateer2TheDarkening'' is also widely praised for the FMV cutscenes. While the game itself is [[ObviousBeta notoriously glitchy]], the FMV is often considered its saving grace, thanks to its outstanding production value and acting. [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] even called it "the modern Dr. Who series ten years ahead of its time."

** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' also uses FMV during the game itself multiple times, though this is mostly to get around the ageing id Tech 3's inability to load multiple levels at a time.

[[caption-width-right:350:Hey, this game has lifelike graphics! Too bad it barely qualifies as a video game.]]

** ''VideoGame/{{Lunicus}}