Alive

released on Aug 06, 1998

Alive is a FMV adventure game for the PlayStation developed by General Entertainment.


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Surprisingly decent FMV game. It's a neat little dystopian cyberpunk story, like a Japanese Johnny Mnemonic.

There are shootouts, explosions, TWO car chases, a flamethrower, and a rocket launcher, all in FMV. The action mostly takes place on actual sets and real locations rather than a greenscreen. The controls are easy to understand and although some of the QTEs can be frustrating, it's not too bad.

In between the FMV sequences, you interact with your PDA quite a bit to read news articles, hack ID cards, and uncover the backstory.

I really wasn't expecting to have so much fun with it. It's an interesting case where, instead of people in the game industry trying to do something cinematic, it was a group of people in the Japanese movie industry who decided to make a game.