Fox Hunt Retrospective

Over on the Capcom-Unity Blog, PR kingpin Chris Kramer has unearthed a YouTube video featuring the opening movie from Capcom's FMV tour-de-force, Fox Hunt, prompting him to reflect on what was a strange time for Capcom and for video games in general. For those too young to remember, there was a time in the mid-to-late-'90s when people thought that the future of electronic entertainment lay in digitized video of bad actors in front of green screens. Which, after typing that, I realize is pretty much what Giant Bomb does. Anyway.

Perhaps the weirdest thing about watching the Fox Hunt intro movie is that, I dunno, it doesn't really look that terrible. Last year Jeff and I spent several afternoons playing through Night Trap repeatedly, and that game makes Fox Hunt look like Citizen Frickin' Kane, so I've got some perspective here. What's a little disconcerting is the realization that 12 years after Fox Hunt, I'm not so sure that the average video game narratives are any less corny or stilted than this.