Developer FMV Interactive release the well cast 'Vegas Tales' on PlayStation and XBox. A full motion video game, you are an unknown (unknown), who has been recruited - for naturally unknown reasons - by a casino owner with terminal cancer (played by the fantastic Tim Russ) to help him decide who he wants to leave his business to when he dies. After a suitably brief introduction, you're informed that four guests to the Casino & Hotel have been chosen by the owner at random (for a variety of bizarre reasons) and that he intends to leave at least one of them his fortune. As he has no family or friends to speak of, and is obviously incapable of making such an important decision himself, he tasks you with it.
It's at this point you discover that in order to assist fully, you're going to have to speak to each of the individual guests and gain insight into what type of people they are, as well as their motivations for staying at the casino. The guests are being paid a healthy stipend for their time, and it's all under the guise that you're meant to be a novelist writing some kind of expose on the history of the building; so they're unlikely to - ever - have a reason to deny your requests for information.
Actors such as Katie Baker and Kimberly J Brown portray the larger than life characters, which include an employee, a down on their luck unemployed homeless woman and a pair of newlyweds.
If you've ever played games like 'The X Files' or 'Late Shift' then you'll be right at home here; and know that there's an element of choosing your own adventure and seeing where the path takes you. The difference in Vegas Tales, however, is that the path rarely diviates from a series of questions and answers; and is absurdly bland and uneventful. In fact, it appears that all the action takes place in the same room, in front of the same couch, and despite being in Las Vegas you don't actually leave the one room that could have been filmed in a Sheffield warehouse.
More incredible still is the stock roll footage you get of Vegas at the start of the game, which adds a little flavour but does nothing except to remind you that at some point the developers paid for a Getty Pictures license. The sole redeeming factor of this game is actually it's pretty decent cast, which is something to be appreciated once again, as having anybody else other than genuinely talented actors performing these roles would make this a title to be missed.
There is, of course, a great oppurtunity for collecting trophies and within miminal interaction and fuss you should recieve a full platinum in just a few hours. But it's no X-Files; and to think they complained when you found out you weren't playing as Mulder or Scully....
Rating: 4/10
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