well. not much to say. best game for sega megadrive.
somesay "half-life was the first movie-like game with great scenario and player-world interraction". BullSh*t! Flashback was the first movie-like game.
Just imagine: you wake up somewhere in jungle and dont remember sh*t about your past. Then u start to recover your memories. U find some holocube with your own record, ur hologramm tells ya to find some dude in underground (he will recover ur memories).U hafta find the way out of this abandoned base in jungle to find this guy. first u have to collect enough money to buy a gravity belt and jump in deep pit. U find urself in a town sewers then u find that dude and he says u gotta get back to earth. U can ride in subway, talk to people, kill cops and so on.
The only way to get home is to participate in deadly tv-show where main prize is ticket to earth. But u dont have enough money for ticket. so u should get a job and start working as a private dick, mail man, hitman, engineer etc.
Man.. there's too much to tell bout this game! It's perfect!!! On a last mission (on alien planet) u find diaries and can read dead's people posts (just like in Doom3).

The best game indeed (and very difficult to complete). I was impressed.

Indeed. But nobody who didn't see the game back when it was released can possibly know how good it was. The plot was good (especially the beginning--and the ending), but it wasn't the only thing. I mean, back in those days this game was technically astounding, the animations were just :w00t: , and it had the best action around. And there was more to the history than the plot itself: the world, a world that included the best elements of several sci-fi books and movies.

One of the things that I remember having desired most when I was a kid is a Megadrive, and I desired it because of this very game. I remember bitching all day long because I didn't have the 16-bits Megadrive just the 8-bits Master System, and so I couldn't play it.

Yeah, it was very movie-like. I'd really love to see an actual movie based upon it.

I played this game on the mega drive, and i got afew hints on how to get some where cool, like i completed it.

Now, this actually goes back to an idea I've had for a while. Not a movie based on Flashback, a Flashback movie. See, certian games are so cinematic that they are as much fun to watch as to play. There's quite a range, actually. Lucas Arts adventures, fighting games, Prince of Persia and Flashback.

If someone recorded the games, edited it to just be the cool bits and story highlights, and add player or producer commentary, I'll be you could find an audience for this sort of thing.

The only problem is getting past the legalities.

Though it's a bit :ot:

Didn't you see how they did a lousy job on mortal combat and resident evil? It's really :sick:

I'm always afraid that they ruin the original story... :ph34r:

But I absolutely agree: :ok:

Do you remember that the way this game ended, it was clearly intended to have a sequel? Such a pity it was never made, wish it were *properly* done.

:cheers:

I think that with making a film of a game theres not much information for the script writer unless the story has some development. The Tomb Raider films were all about Lara and searching for treasure not character and plot lines. So if Flashback were made it probably would not be very interesting. :ranting:

Wait if the person or company that made these games were asked to write the script then a story could shine. Thats a strange thing for they would not know where to start with action seqences.
:Titan:

That may be ture for other games, but Flashback does have a good story, and it could be developed even further becase the game includes an implied description of the world where everything's set. But still I'd rather see a videogame sequel.

It HAD a sequel. Fade to Black is the name.