Group Description
The technological advancements of CD-ROM media and real-time decompression allowed games in the late 1980s and early 1990s to use full motion video, primarily for cutscenes. In an attempt to make games more film-like, these cutscenes soon went beyond traditional animation or CGI rendering techniques and used
traditional live-action film making, with real actors, props and sets. Widespread throughout the 1990s, this style of cinematics has now been all but abandoned, with a few notable exceptions like entries in Electronic Arts'
Command & Conquer series.
This group collects games with such live-action elements for the static
cut-scenes only. Games that use live action for the interactive gameplay use the game genre
Art Style: Live action instead.
Limitations:
- The live-action footage must have been acquired through traditional film making techniques, using video or film cameras shooting at common frame rates like 24, 25 or 30 frames a second. The footage must also be shown within the game at similar film-like frame rates. Thus, games that feature digitized images of actors that are later animated are not to be included (example: Mortal Kombat);
- The games must feature original footage. Sometimes, movie-based games contain scenes from the movie they are licensed from. These games are not to be included unless the footage, while shot during a motion picture shoot, was specifically intended for game usage (example: Enter the Matrix).
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| Game Title |  Year | Platform | Publisher | User Score |
| The Grand Tour Game | 2019 | PlayStation 4, Xbox One | Amazon Corporate LLC | ... |
| How to Shoot a Criminal | 2017 | Macintosh, Windows | Pandorica | ... |
| Raid: World War II | 2017 | PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One | Starbreeze Publishing AB | ... |
| Rhem IV: The Golden Fragments - SE | 2016 | Macintosh, Windows | Runesoft GmbH | ... |
| The Bunker | 2016 | Macintosh, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One | Wales Interactive Ltd. | ... |
| Quantum Break | 2016 | Windows, Windows Apps | Microsoft Studios | ... |
| Casualty: First Day | 2015 | Browser | BBC | ... |
| Contradiction: Spot the Liar! | 2015 | iPad, Macintosh, Windows | Baggy Cat Ltd. | ... |
| Her Story | 2015 | Android, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Windows | | 4.14 |
| Guitar Hero Live | 2015 | iPad, iPhone, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, tvOS, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One | Activision Publishing, Inc. | ... |
| Need for Speed | 2015 | PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One | Electronic Arts, Inc. | ... |
| Damn Virgins | 2015 | Windows | | ... |
| Cibele | 2015 | Macintosh, Windows | Star Maid Games | ... |
| ALFA-ARKIV | 2014 | iPad | Hexagram Systems | ... |
| Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure | 2014 | Macintosh, Windows | Atlus U.S.A., Inc. | 3.71 |
| Roundabout | 2014 | Linux, Macintosh, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Windows, Xbox One | No Goblin LLC | ... |
| Missing: An Interactive Thriller - Episode 1 | 2014 | Android, iPad, iPhone, Windows | Zandel Media, Inc. | ... |
| Saints Row IV: Enter the Dominatrix | 2013 | Linux, PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360 | Deep Silver | 3.98 |
| LocoCycle | 2013 | Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One | Microsoft Studios | ... |
| Who's the Daddy? 2 | 2012 | Xbox 360 | Silver Dollar Games Inc. | ... |
| Dark Heritage: Guardians of Hope (Collector's Edition) | 2012 | Android, iPad, iPhone, Linux, Macintosh, Windows | Artifex Mundi sp. z o.o. | ... |
| Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective 3 - The Case of the Mystified Murderess | 2012 | iPad, Macintosh, Windows | Reverb Triple XP | ... |
| Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective 2 - The Case of the Tin Soldier | 2012 | iPad, Macintosh, Windows | Reverb Triple XP | ... |
| Dark Heritage: Guardians of Hope | 2012 | Macintosh, Windows | Big Fish Games, Inc | ... |
| Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective 1 - The Case of the Mummy's Curse | 2012 | iPad, Macintosh, Windows | Reverb Triple XP | ... |
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