Full OmniScriptum SRL Full Motion Video Based Game: Video Game, Music Video Game, Shoot 'em Up, Tomcat Alley, Surgical Strike (Video Game), Sewer Shark, Interactive Movie, Gabriel Knight

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Full motion video (FMV) based games are video games that rely upon pre-recorded TV-quality movie or animation rather than sprites, vectors or 3D models to display action in the game. In the early '90s a diverse set of games utilized this format. Most games' mechanics resemble those of modern music/dance games, where the player timely presses buttons according to a screen instruction. Other games were early rail shooters such as Tomcat Alley, Surgical Strike and Sewer Shark. Full motion video also allowed the creation of several interactive movie adventure games, such as Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within, and Phantasmagoria. FMV-based games were popular during the early 1990s as CD-ROMs and Laserdiscs made their way into the living rooms, providing an alternative to the low-capacity cartridges of most consoles. Although most games did manage to look better than most sprite-based games, they were a niche market-a vast majority of FMV games were panned at the time of their release, and most gamers dislike the lack of interaction inherent of these games. This format became a well-known failure in video gaming.