A full motion video (FMV) is a video game narration technique that relies upon pre-recorded video files (rather than sprites, vectors, or 3D models) to display action in the game. While many games feature FMVs as a way to present information during cutscenes, games that are primarily presented through FMVs are referred to as full-motion video games or interactive movies.
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... were favorably received Greg Kasavin of Gamespot said that the series' use of real actors and full-motion video endeared the characters to the player, giving the games a distinctively personal touch ... The change from full motion video to computer generated characters in End of Ages was well received ... IGN's Juan Castro said that the characters felt more real than the full motion video actors of previous games one reason, the reviewer stated, was because the actors spoke their lines with ...
... Early FMV titles used game-specific proprietary video renderers optimized for the content of the video (e.g ... Video quality steadily increased as CPUs became more powerful to support higher quality video compression and decompression ... Other examples of this would be Sierra's VMD (Video and Music Data) format, used in games like Gabriel Knight 2 and Phantasmagoria, or Westwood Studios' VQA format ...
... Saturn, Windows 95 and Macintosh computers that features full motion video in a format similar to other games developed by Digital Pictures ... The quality of the full motion video on the Mega-CD version is less than that of the others ... the Mega-CD version, Digital Pictures created an option to have English subtitles during the full motion video as critics had complained that it was difficult to understand what the driver was ...
... A laserdisc video game is an video game that uses pre-recorded video (either live-action or animation) played from a laserdisc, either as the entirety of the graphics, or as part of the ... an early third-person space combat rail shooter featuring live-action full-motion video footage (largely borrowed from a Japanese science fiction ... Despite the high cost of the animation, a deluge of similar laserdisc video games followed Dragon's Lair because of its immense popularity ...
Famous quotes containing the words video, full and/or motion:
“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past—the portrayals of family life on such television programs as “Leave it to Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” and all the rest.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.”
—Janet Malcolm (b. 1934)
“There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls,
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)