History VideoGame / TheXFilesGame

* BadEnd: Dozens of them. Some are related to making bad decisions in the story, most of which just end in Willmore's demise. However, the player can also see Willmore arrested or fired from the FBI if the player tries shooting NPCs or handcuffing them (usually with the NPC warning "Don't do that!"). The player can even go for the DrivenToSuicide ending by shooting Willmore himself.

* BigFirstChoice: Depending on the way you choose to answer Cook at the very beginning of the game, the gaming experience will be slightly different. If you answer Cook in a neutral way, see AmicableExes above. If you use the paranoid answer, see SanityMeter below. The funny answer's consequences have yet to be studied.

* MultipleGameOpenings: Depending on the way you choose to answer Cook at the very beginning of the game, the gaming experience will be slightly different. If you answer Cook in a neutral way, see AmicableExes above. If you use the paranoid answer, see SanityMeter below. The funny answer's consequences have yet to be studied.

* NonStandardGameOver: Killing or handcuffing random people can get you jailed or fired respectively.

* AgentMulder: Believer into the paranormal

* DialogueTree: The game offers many dialogue possibilities, often with different outcomes. The most representative example could be the conversation with Cook in Willmore's office at the beginning of the second day.

* BrownEyes: Willmore.

* Diary: Willmore's diary can be found on his nightstand and can be read if you click on it. It is even updated with Willmore's insights into the case as days go by.

* TurnInYourBadge: It happens if you fail to perform your FBI agent duties/the case due to various reasons such as handcuffing someone/being way too much of a jerk to Astadourian and so on.

* ConsummateLiar: [[spoiler: Cook. He claims that a witness saw Wong's murder, that Smolnikoff may be behind Wong's death and Mulder and Scully's disappearance, that he was attacked and that somebody stole Scully's laptop, and so on. Cook is, of course, behind all this.]]

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: At one point, Cook mentions Wong to you while he should not have known about him. You call him out on it, but still [[IdiotHero continue to trust him completely]].

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Willmore's reaction when he learns [[spoiler: that he indirectly caused his friend Jon Amis (the bloke from the crime lab) to get radiation poisoning.]]

* WhoShotJFK?: The onsite doctor examining [[spoiler: Wong]] thinks that aliens did.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The PC port is slightly toned down if you make Wilmore more paranoid.

Our story begins with Agent Willmore arriving late to work and bumping into his best friend and partner, Mark Cook, who explains that a "Big Gun from DC is [there]". Following this, you are given a choice of what to say before you are called to face your boss [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Shanks]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The PC port is slightly toned down if you make Wilmore being paranoid.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After Willmore rescues Mulder, NSA agents arrive and Willmore says that now that he's found Mulder and Scully, he says, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere "I'm outta here!"]] Mulder responds, "What kind of attitude is that? The game's not over yet. Don't you want to wait around for the payoff?"

* MysteriousInformant: [[spoiler: X, who helps Willmore get his investigation back on track.]] Lampsahded by Willmore: "So... it's the mystery man. I was expecting someone a little more Creator/SeanConnery.

* MysteriousInformant: [[spoiler: X, who helps Willmore get his investigation back on track.]]

* UselessItem: The handcuffs have no use at all. You can use it on people to arrest them, but it results in you being fired for wrongful arrest.

* BadEnd: If you do the wrong thing at stake out or don't react quickly enough, but also if you shoot people or act irresponsibly.

* SequelHook: The good ending suggested that there will be a sequel because X orders Agent Willmore to hold on to the stilleto because he will need to use it again soon.

* ProductPlacement: The [=MessagePad=] 2000 sports the [[AppleMacintosh Apple]] logo.

* OptionalCharacterScene: Choosing the "paranoid" mood response throughout the game results in seeing Wong's body move at the morgue as well a his arm falling out of the body bag. It also triggers a special game over screen where if Willmore is killed in the hauling yard explosion you see a small secret cameo from the Cigarette Smoking Man who stands over the wreckage.

* ProductPlacement: The MessagePad 2000 sports the [[AppleMacintosh Apple]] logo.

* FiveManBand: A strange one using the two FBI partners and Astadourian:
** TheHero: Craig Willmore
** TheLancer: Mark Cook
** TheChick: Mary Astadourian
** TheBigGuy: Fox Mulder
** TheSmartGuy: Dana Scully

* DoggedNiceGuy: [[spoiler: Willmore's best buddy Cook isn't the nicest guy on Earth.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Why else would Willmore need the [[spoiler: Stilleto again "soon"?]]

''The X-Files Game'' is a video game SpinOff to ''Series/TheXFiles''. It is notable for not featuring Agent Mulder and Agent Scully as the protagonists. They were working on ''Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture'' at the time. The protagonist of the story is DeadpanSnarker Seattle FBI agent named Craig Willmore.

* AgentScully: Willmore, judging by his sceptical reaction to the whole [[spoiler: alien]] thing.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Many scenes with Willmore and Astadourian end in this. Especially after the [[spoiler: explosion where they share their FirstKiss.]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler: This is one way to describe Cook, since he apparently went rogue for "money".]]

* FallGuy : [[spoiler: Cook, willing to slow down Willmore's investigation, tells him Smolnikoff could be behind the disappearance of Mulder and Scully along with Wong's death. Of course he doesn't have anything to do with any of these events.]]

* ForeShadowing: Plenty, [[spoiler: we first see Rauch quite early on, Cook's dialogue is full of it and X gives us a little too. Not to mention the book on aliens in Mulder's room.]]

* IdiotHero: You can turn Willmore into this by handcuffing random people (and then get fired for it), by asking a character the same question twice, who ends up wondering out loud what's the matter with you. Taking pictures of the person you are talking to is also a good means of looking like an idiot to their mind. Besides, [[spoiler: why doesn't Willmore understand that Cook is TheMole ?]]

* KillerCop: [[spoiler: Cook, who killed Wong and who won't hesitate to kill you at the end of the game if you don't put an end to his EvilGloating.]]

* MultipleEndings: [[spoiler: Willmore can die while Mulder and Scully survive, Mulder can die while Willmore and Scully survive, everybody can survive, not to mention every game over this game has to offer.]]

* SmallReferencePools: When Willmore asks [[spoiler: Cook]] if he has a warrant to [[spoiler: attack Smolnikoff's warehouse]], the latter replies by saying "Who do I look like ? Mark Fuhrman ? I have a federal warrant from a federal judge."

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: There are ''tons'' of ways that Willmore can die and most of them have their own unique bad ending in how you met your demise.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Subverted in the FullMotionVideo. During your investigation, you find Scully's laptop. It's password-protected, and you can ask Skinner for suggestions on what the password might be. None of his guesses (such as "faith") are correct, and after three incorrect tries the laptop locks you out. [[spoiler:In fact, it's impossible to gain access to the laptop. You have to send it to the FBI's IT division to get it hacked, so that it can later be stolen just before you get the information inside.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Cook.]]

'''John Amis''' No thanks, I'm trying to quit.\\
'''Craig Willmore''' That's very funny.

-->'''Willmore:''' Cover me!
-->'''Cook:''' (Enthusiastically) You got it!

->'''Craig Willmore:''' ''"So what happened ?"''
->'''Arley:''' ''"Well Agent Willmore, barring some unexpected revelation it looks like someone shot this man in the back of the head."''

->'''John Amis''' (Willmore hands him a cigarette butt in an evidence bag for him to analyze it)''"No thanks I'm trying to quit."''
->'''Craig Willmore''' ''"That's very funny."''