Interactive Movie Games – A RETROspective

For this month’s RETROspective, I thought I’d focus on another subject dear to my heart – interactive movie games. Ask any gamer what springs to mind when mentioning the genre, and you’ll generally hear a laundry list of negatives – grainy footage, quick-time events and linearity. These criticisms are actually the things I enjoy most about interactive movie games; I love getting caught up in the storylines and having clear objects, as I have the attention span of a hummingbird with open world games – obsessing over side missions rather than the main story, and forgetting the plot.