Game Groups > Live action cut-scenes

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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Title (Year ) Platforms Genres Moby Score
box cover thumbnail #WarGames (2018) Windows, Xbox One (+1 more) Adventure
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box cover thumbnail 911 Paramedic (2002) Windows, Macintosh Simulation, Educational
6.1
box cover thumbnail A Fork in the Tale (1997) Windows Adventure
5.2
box cover thumbnail Abaron (1995) DOS Action
n/a
box cover thumbnail Act of War: Direct Action (2005) Windows Strategy / tactics
8.1
box cover thumbnail Akte Europa (1997) Windows Strategy
7.2
box cover thumbnail Alan Wake (2012) Windows, Windows Apps Action
8.1
box cover thumbnail Alan Wake (2010) Xbox 360, Xbox One Action
8.4
box cover thumbnail Alan Wake's American Nightmare (2012) Xbox 360, Windows Action
7.4
Album Club: Mune Kyun Saint Paulia Jogakuin (1997) SEGA Saturn Adventure
n/a
box cover thumbnail ALFA-ARKIV (2014) iPad Adventure
n/a
box cover thumbnail Aliens Versus Predator (1999) Windows Action
8.1
box cover thumbnail Aliens Versus Predator: Gold Edition (2000) Windows, Macintosh (+1 more) Action, Compilation
7.6
box cover thumbnail All Star Strip Poker (2006) Windows Strategy
5.1
box cover thumbnail All Star Strip Poker: Girls at Work (2006) Windows Strategy
4.6
box cover thumbnail All Star Strip Poker: Girls next Door (2008) Windows Strategy
n/a
box cover thumbnail American Hero (2021) Xbox One, Windows (+3 more) Action
n/a
box cover thumbnail Angel Devoid: Face of the Enemy (1996) DOS, Macintosh (+2 more) Adventure
5.8
box cover thumbnail Anime Freak FX: Vol.1 (1995) PC-FX Strategy, Compilation
n/a
box cover thumbnail Anime Freak FX: Vol.2 (1995) PC-FX Strategy, Compilation
n/a
box cover thumbnail Anime Freak FX: Vol.3 (1996) PC-FX Strategy, Compilation
n/a
box cover thumbnail Anime Freak FX: Vol.6 (1998) PC-FX Strategy, Compilation
n/a
box cover thumbnail Another Mind (1998) PlayStation Adventure
n/a
box cover thumbnail Archie Barrel: Delo - Otel' Imperial (2000) Windows Adventure
n/a
box cover thumbnail Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Tale of... (1994) DOS, Macintosh Adventure
7.2
box cover thumbnail Area D (1997) Windows, Windows 3.x Adventure
n/a
box cover thumbnail Ass Troids (1996) Windows 3.x Action
n/a
box cover thumbnail Astronomica: The Quest for the Edge of... (1994) Windows 3.x, Macintosh Adventure, Educational
n/a
box cover thumbnail At Dead of Night (2020) Windows Action
n/a
box cover thumbnail Bad Mojo (1996) Windows 3.x, Macintosh Adventure
7.3
box cover thumbnail Battle Isle 2220: Shadow of the Emperor (1995) Windows, Windows 3.x Strategy
7.4
box cover thumbnail Between Earth and the End of Time: The... (1996) Macintosh, Windows 3.x Puzzle
n/a
box cover thumbnail Beyond Time (1997) Windows, Windows 3.x Adventure
5.5
box cover thumbnail Bill Nye: The Science Guy - Stop the Rock! (1996) Windows, Windows 3.x (+1 more) Adventure, Educational
n/a
Biohazard: Director's Cut - Dual SHOCK Ver. (1998) PlayStation Action
n/a
box cover thumbnail Black Dahlia (1998) Windows Adventure
7.3
box cover thumbnail Blown Away (1994) Windows 3.x, Macintosh Puzzle
6.1
box cover thumbnail Blue Heat (1997) Windows, Windows 3.x Adventure
6.7
box cover thumbnail Body Special 264: Girls in Motion Puzzle - Vol.2 (1996) SEGA Saturn Puzzle
n/a
box cover thumbnail Breakout 13 (2023) Windows, Linux (+1 more) Adventure
n/a
Bridge Deluxe 2 with Omar Sharif (1996) DOS, Windows Strategy
n/a
box cover thumbnail Burn:Cycle (1994) CD-i, Windows 3.x (+1 more) Action, Adventure
7.3
box cover thumbnail Byzantine: The Betrayal (1997) Windows Adventure, Educational
7.2
box cover thumbnail C.I.T.Y. 2000 (1993) DOS Adventure, Educational
n/a
box cover thumbnail Carol Vorderman's Sudoku (2005) Windows, PlayStation 2 (+1 more) Puzzle
n/a
box cover thumbnail Casebook Trilogy: Special Edition (2010) Windows Adventure, Compilation
n/a
box cover thumbnail Casebook: Episode 0 - The Missing Urn (2009) Windows Adventure
n/a
box cover thumbnail Casebook: Episode I - Kidnapped (2008) Windows Adventure
7.2
box cover thumbnail Casebook: Episode II - The Watcher (2009) Windows Adventure
7.5
box cover thumbnail Casebook: Episode III - Snake in the Grass (2009) Windows Adventure
7.4

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