The X-Files Game

Summary

The X-Files Game is an interactive movie-style point-and-click adventure created by HyperBole Studios and initially released by Fox Interactive. It launched on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and PlayStation in 1998, and is inspired by the TV series The X-Files.

Storyline

Set within the timeline of the third season of *The X-Files* television series, the game follows Craig Willmore, a young FBI agent stationed in Seattle, who is tasked by Assistant Director Walter Skinner with uncovering the fate of missing agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, last spotted in the Everett, Washington area. Equipped with advanced spy gear—night vision goggles, a digital camera, a PDA (Apple Newton), lock picks, an evidence kit, a standard-issue sidearm, a pair of handcuffs, and a badge—Agent Willmore traces their trail. Along the way, he is joined by Seattle Police Department detective Mary Astadourian (played by Paige Witte), and a minor subplot explores the budding relationship between the two. Several actors from the TV series return to their roles in the game, including David Duchovny as Mulder, Gillian Anderson as Scully, Mitch Pileggi as Skinner, Steven Williams as X, Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, and Dean Haglund as The Lone Gunmen, and—depending on the player's choices—William B. Davis as The Smoking Man. The game is set in Seattle and was filmed there. The TV actors recorded their short appearances just before beginning work on the feature film. The story centers on aliens taking over human bodies and includes numerous references to the show's alien mythology. As the game progresses, the current date of April 1996 is shown at various locations, placing the events after the third-season episode "Avatar" and before "Wetwired," which air on March 7 and April 27, respectively. It also occurs after the initial alien black oil incident in the third-season episode "Piper Maru." The screenplay for *X-Files: The Game* was written by Richard Dowdy, Greg Roach, and Frank Spotnitz, based on a story by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz.

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