A restoration and remaster of a game lost to time for over 25 years, American Hero was originally designed for the Atari Jaguar CD as a “playable movie” with a groundbreaking, more fluid presentation than the FMV games of its time.
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Help! The American Hero has been injected with Nazi! The only cure is Drums Krueger Hoover
Do you have what it takes to take on AI-Blurred Breasts, Carrot Juice, and Clint Howard? Do you have what it takes to be an... American Hero?
Do you have what it takes to take on AI-Blurred Breasts, Carrot Juice, and Clint Howard? Do you have what it takes to be an... American Hero?
Ashes to Ashes...Dust to dust...A lost 27 year old Atari Jaguar FMV CD game remastered and preserved!
A game where it starts at a Strip Club and your first choice is to get more information about your mission or a strip-tease has the contender to be one of the best 'So Bad It's Good' kind of games and American Hero is up there with the best bad games. The fact this could have been a 90's direct-to-video action movie with all the mega cheese is such a loss to cinema but I am grateful to sit here and play this game from start to finish. I am so glad that the main actor Timothy Bottoms came in a recorded the missing internal dialogue this FMV game had. Make the cheese even more cheesier to say the least. I love the FMV charm this game offers. Choices are hilarious and sometimes I was wondering if when they were making this game it was intentionally comedic or serious.
Overall its a bad game don't get me wrong. This serves as a compelling reminder that the classification of 'bad' is incredibly wide in its spectrum, encompassing surprisingly fun elements that are even interesting to today standards. I would recommend watching a Youtube video if you just wanna see the FMVs or certainly buy it on sale in the digital shop of your choice, I think 14.99 is pretty steep for a game like this but I appreciate Empty Clip Studios and Ziggurat Interactive for officially releasing the game and preserving it the best that they could.
A game where it starts at a Strip Club and your first choice is to get more information about your mission or a strip-tease has the contender to be one of the best 'So Bad It's Good' kind of games and American Hero is up there with the best bad games. The fact this could have been a 90's direct-to-video action movie with all the mega cheese is such a loss to cinema but I am grateful to sit here and play this game from start to finish. I am so glad that the main actor Timothy Bottoms came in a recorded the missing internal dialogue this FMV game had. Make the cheese even more cheesier to say the least. I love the FMV charm this game offers. Choices are hilarious and sometimes I was wondering if when they were making this game it was intentionally comedic or serious.
Overall its a bad game don't get me wrong. This serves as a compelling reminder that the classification of 'bad' is incredibly wide in its spectrum, encompassing surprisingly fun elements that are even interesting to today standards. I would recommend watching a Youtube video if you just wanna see the FMVs or certainly buy it on sale in the digital shop of your choice, I think 14.99 is pretty steep for a game like this but I appreciate Empty Clip Studios and Ziggurat Interactive for officially releasing the game and preserving it the best that they could.
FMV Failure at its finest! Pretty mediocre film and gameplay but the cheese factor is something to behold 😂
A slog to get through.
Is that my lover in the shower? Maybe. Or maybe it's a large Swedish woman waiting to snap my back in half, sending me to an early grave. Better choose right!
American Hero is completely ridiculous, but it's also pretty fun. Feels like a send-up of classic MacGyver-level TV action shows. Not nearly enough checkpoints, which can get pretty annoying if you have to re-watch sections for minutes at a time and re-make the same decisions to 'choose your own adventure' your way through it. That said, there are SO few games like this, and it is legitimately fun to watch in all its absurd glory.
American Hero is completely ridiculous, but it's also pretty fun. Feels like a send-up of classic MacGyver-level TV action shows. Not nearly enough checkpoints, which can get pretty annoying if you have to re-watch sections for minutes at a time and re-make the same decisions to 'choose your own adventure' your way through it. That said, there are SO few games like this, and it is legitimately fun to watch in all its absurd glory.
Early adult oriented FMV. Rough around the edges by today’s standards but would have left a dent back in the day. Watch the show and make your choices. The game shines with repeated plays, as it was meant to be experienced by trying to unlock all paths, be they successes, failures or just how many ways can you get killed.
Despite it getting shelved back in the day, it remains a significant game historically speaking. Thankful for the powers that salvaged and granted a proper release all these years later.
Despite it getting shelved back in the day, it remains a significant game historically speaking. Thankful for the powers that salvaged and granted a proper release all these years later.