American Hero (video game)
American Hero | |
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interactive movie | |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
American Hero is an
.In the game, players take the role of former military intelligence operative Jack Devon, tasked by his ex-partner Hoover with finding a missing biologist (and former crush), Laura, who developed an antidote to a deadly virus created by germ warfare specialist Karl Von Kruger. Kruger had already begun spreading the virus through Los Angeles' water supply network in order to take control of the United States, and Jack was assigned to stop Kruger before his chemical weapon managed to be spread nationwide.
Despite the
Playable prototype builds for both the Jaguar CD and PC, as well as the
Gameplay
As with Atari's Caves of Fear, American Hero is an interactive movie game that uses
History
American Hero was produced and designed by David M. Schwartz, creator of the then-newly developed in-house interactive movie format GameFilm. Schwartz was also previously involved with the aforementioned Caves of Fear. GameFilm allowed for data to be arranged in clips with multiple segments, enabling them to be spliced together seamlessly when played in series.[3][5][6][7] The soundtrack was composed by Mark Holden.[4] Although the filming process for the project was complete, it was never turned into a full-fledged game. Due to the commercial failure of the Jaguar platform, the game was cancelled. Jeff Burr shot new scenes a year later in hopes of remaking it into a feature film, but since the film negatives were damaged during the cutting phase it was deemed a loss for the producers at Showcase Entertainment, and the project remained unfinished.[5][8][9]
Release
Sometime in the
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