Like the previous two installments, the season 7 game is centered around a single episode. If I were to rank the season 7 episodes, First Person Shooter would be in about the middle. However, it's the most obvious episode for a video game tie-in.
When the game starts it opens the Printers control panel. I am not making this up. I'm sure they intended something else to happen and maybe didn't test it on every version of Windows in support at the time. In the developers' defense, in 2000-2004 there were a comical number of Windows versions floating around.
Like the previous games, this starts with an email explaining your assignment.
The registration page now has a weird limit on the state name field.
Then there's a tip-off from the Lone Gunmen.
This leads to a trivia round. There's a script error right away but it still works if you click "Yes".
It's again helpful to find the transcript for this episode.
Um.. I don't think any of these are right. I'll just pick one.
The third trivia question can also be found in the episode transcript.
Yes, that's the complete question.
Alright, wrong answers I guess.
OK, so it turns out the first answer is "'me' meaning 'you'".
Now an email from the Lone Gunmen.
A little more dialog before the next mini-game.
This is a simpler version of the game in the 6th installment. There are only 3 sliders this time. It's still confusing to figure out what they want. There were many times I thought the picture was good enough.
This is the solution.
Now we get to the main event. It's an actual first person shooter.
OK, so good effort but... this is not fun. It seems like an example from a book called "Build 3D games in Shockwave". I didn't check if that is a real book but I'm positive it is. The controls on this are nauseating. Unless you keep the mouse perfectly still the screen is flying around constantly. You have to move the mouse to aim though so it's impossible. I think look and aim needed to be different controls. They'd be better off building a Doom .wad and assuming everyone had it installed.
I did not last long. I took about 3 enemies with me along the way.
This is the same ad as the last game.
This has the fewest things to do of any game in this series but one of those things was high effort so it balances out. I don't want to bash it because it was a lot of effort for an effectively free game.
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