It is struck by enemy fire, causing massive damage and leaving you with nowt but minimal brain function. Ari and Zach make it out, but your pod is not so fortunate. Your own ship gets hit during a dogfight resulting in your withdrawal to the escape pods.

We begin in the middle of a space war, with Ari, Zach and yourself (named Casey O’Bannon) fighting off some evil alien craft. It also stars Christian Bocher as Zach Smith, but you'd be hard pushed to have seen him anything, let alone anything memorable.īoth are decent actors (at least in the sphere of video games) and do well in a genre not known for Oscar-worthy performances. Ariel Matheson who was then best known for Wayne's World and True Lies, but has since earned a starring role in the Relic Hunter TV series and voiced big sister Nani in Disney's Lilo & Stitch. It stars Tia Carrer as the cocky space scavenger Lt. This big-budget 1995 game was notable at the time for featuring some known names. There's a huge amount of video footage here, but there's also an attempt to provide some amount of interaction and puzzling. The Daedalus Encounter fits somewhere between the two. This is what separates games such as Gabriel Knight 2 and The Pandora Directive with the likes of Johnny Mnemonic. Some developers choose to use the video technology as more of an aesthetic choice while others would rely on it as its core mechanic.

I've since picked up this sci-fi adventure only to find how good a decision I'd actually made.įMV games are something of an acquired taste. Being a snot-nosed 12-year-old and too young for such an 'extreme' game, I instead went for Bullfrog's fantastic Magic Carpet. I saw it sitting on the shelves of my local PC World looking very much like a movie complete with the ever-enticing circle of red that is the BBFC 15-certificate. The Daedalus Encounter was always a game that interested me.

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