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 |
GRID: Legends | 2022 | PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series | Electronic Arts, Inc. | ... |
Journey to the Savage Planet | 2020 | Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Windows, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Xbox One | 505 Games (U.S.), Inc. | ... |
Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection | 2020 | Windows | Electronic Arts, Inc. | ... |
At Dead of Night | 2020 | Windows | Baggy Cat Ltd. | ... |
Telling L!es | 2019 | iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One | Annapurna Interactive | ... |
The Grand Tour Game | 2019 | PlayStation 4, Xbox One | Amazon Corporate LLC | ... |
Spark and the Digital Daydream | 2019 | Macintosh, Windows | Luminescence Interactive | ... |
#WarGames | 2018 | Macintosh, Windows, Xbox One | Eko | ... |
The Quiet Man | 2018 | PlayStation 4, Windows | Square Enix Co., Ltd. | ... |
The Quiet Man (Limited Edition) | 2018 | PlayStation 4, Windows | Square Enix Co., Ltd. | ... |
Starship Commander: Arcade | 2018 | Windows | Human Interact | ... |
How to Shoot a Criminal | 2017 | Macintosh, Windows | Pandorica | ... |
Raid: World War II | 2017 | PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One | Starbreeze Publishing AB | ... |
Quantum Break | 2016 | Windows, Windows Apps | Microsoft Studios | 3.53 |
The Bunker | 2016 | iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One | Wales Interactive Ltd. | ... |
Rhem IV: The Golden Fragments - SE | 2016 | Macintosh, Windows | Runesoft GmbH | ... |
Damn Virgins | 2015 | Windows | | ... |
Need for Speed | 2015 | PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One | Electronic Arts, Inc. | ... |
Cibele | 2015 | Macintosh, Windows | Star Maid Games | ... |
Contradiction | 2015 | iPad, Macintosh, Windows | Baggy Cat Ltd. | ... |
Her Story | 2015 | Android, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Windows | | 3.71 |
Casualty: First Day | 2015 | Browser | BBC | ... |
Guitar Hero Live | 2015 | iPad, iPhone, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, tvOS, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One | Activision Publishing, Inc. | ... |
ALFA-ARKIV | 2014 | iPad | Third Roman Intelligence Directorate | ... |
Roundabout | 2014 | Linux, Macintosh, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Windows, Xbox One | No Goblin LLC | ... |
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