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Tender Loving Care was an experiment in interactive cinema while Privateer 2:
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In 1996, two years prior to its release, Entertainment Weekly referred to Tender Loving Care as a 窶徑ive action game.窶? It was one in a number of Hollywood chasing projects, like Capcom窶冱 Fox Hunter, that attempted to fuse full-motion video (FMV) with some semblance of traditional gaming mechanics like interactive puzzles or narrative agency.
Based on a book by Andrew Neiderman, the game followed a husband and wife whose daughter had died in a car accident. The couple窶冱 psychiatrist, played by John Hurt, suggests they hire a live-in nurse to help them during the period of grieving, but which actually only makes tensions in the household worse. At the end of each of the game窶冱 窶彳pisodes,窶? players interact with Hurt窶冱 character directly, answering his questions about what窶冱 transpired, resulting in different scores which ultimately lead to different endings. The game was re-released on iOS a few years ago.
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Unlike the 7th Guest which had preceded it, a horror game based around an amnesiac protagonist, Tender Loving Care played more like a series of loosely connected and overly campy employee training videos. The interactions between the characters were stilted, and Hurt窶冱 voice seemed to be calling out for help in-between each question as if trapped in the phantom zone waiting for some unsuspecting player to take pity and release him from the mediocrity of the project by hitting the power button.
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At the opposite end of the spectrum was Privateer