The Daedalus Encounter

The Daedalus Encounter was always a game that interested me. I saw it sitting on the shelves of my local PC World looking very much like a movie complete with the ever-enticing 15 certificate. 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've since picked up this sci-fi adventure only to find how good a decision I'd actually made. FMV games are something of an acquired taste. Some developers choose to to use the video technology as more of an aesthetic choice while others would rely on it as its core mechanic. This is what separates games such as Gabriel Knight 2 and The Pandora Directive with the likes of Johnny Mnemonic. The Daedalus Encounter fits somewhere between the two. There's a huge amount of video footage here, but there's also an attempt at to provide some amount of interaction and puzzling.