Wing Commander called; It's stealing your FMV idea and using real actors. :P Today on Ancient DOS Games, Gemini's taking a look at XF5700 Mantis Experimental Fighter, a combat space simulation with cinematic sequences developed by Paragon Software and published through MicroProse (through their MicroPlay label) in 1992, designed to have "realistic", Newtonian physics, combined with FMVs to help tell its story. ------------------------------------------ Additional Information and Corrections: * The game's now available on GOG! :D https://www.gog.com/game/xf5700_mantis_experimental_fighter/?pp=91dfde1d6e005e422f64a59776234f1f4c80b5e4 * This game is technically related to another game made a couple years prior called "Warhead", though when I took a brief look at that game I was having trouble figuring out HOW they were related. * I think I accidentally referred to the Sirian incubation process as "gestation", which, quite frankly, is almost the same thing anyways, just one involves eggs, the other involves a womb. Language is tricky sometimes. :P * Here's a link to Allegiance over on Steam if you wanna give that game a go. Again, completely free! https://store.steampowered.com/app/700480/Microsoft_Allegiance/ * There's a couple features I didn't mention because I never really used them. One is a zoom feature so you can zoom in your view, which... yeah, isn't too useful given how everything works here. The other is a VCR feature which lets you play back your mission and watch it from various camera angles which is a neat feature for sure, but given how far away everything is from everything it's hard to really tell what's going on. :P ------------------------------------------ Pixelmusement Website: http://www.pixelships.com ADG on Pixelmusement: http://www.pixelships.com/adg Alphabetical Index of ADG Episodes: http://www.pixelships.com/adg/index2.html Kris' Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/kasick @Pixelmusement on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pixelmusement