Like most ALG games, absolutely unplayable, with the corniest FMV dialogue ever written-and that includes Space Pirates!
Well, I think Rock got smoked by the game's developers.
No, really, I think they were smokin' rock..
The story makes no sense, it's just one random shooting sequence after another (if that sounds familiar, it's because it's a pretty accurate description of almost every title by American Laser Games)
The acting is straight out of the Corn Flakes box (Ground Zero Texas was more believeable- and in it you were shooting aliens-that looked like humans-with a security camera) and the worst part is, 99.5% of the time you can open fire on a target and it won't take him down- in fact, since the FMV only changes upon the target's death, it's impossible to know if you've even wounded them (at least in Ground Zero Texas the FMV-shoot'em-up worked)
Which means only one thing- when you replay the scene you gotta watch the awful '30s stereotype-dressed mobster that killed you (more than likely with a Tommy Gun) visibly having way too much fun being in an FMV game, over and over again....
There have been some good Full Motion Video first-person-shooting games (provided you define "good" as being "unique and playable") Corpse Killer, Ground Zero: Texas (the gameplay anyways) but this isn't one of them by far.
In fact, the game plays like they forgot to clear the bugs before its release, possibly ALG realizing that the market for shoot-em-up FMV games with '30s mobsters had died out (in reality, though this was beyond ALG's comprehension at the time, FMV shooters were never popular to begin with) and the game was just pushed out like the turd it is.
Who shot Johnny Rock?
My money's on the fat guy from "Sewer Shark"....
Blessed Be