The X-Files: Resist or Serve
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| Series: | TXF |
| American release date: | 3/16/04 |
| European release date: | 5/21/04 |
The X-Files: Resist or Serve was a spin-off video game released in 2004 on the PlayStation 2. The game was set during The X-Files' seventh season.
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[edit] Story
The story is comprised of 3 seperate episodes, each from the point of view of either agent, and all connect to the main storyline, at the end of each arc, Bonus material, Character interviews, and Field Reports are unlocked. The Stories proceed as such.
Fox Mulder's Arc Episode 7x97 - Renascence The game opens up in the remote location of Tunguska, Russia, a man, his wife, and their baby are traveling to see a huge shooting star, the wife gets worried when she says that it's getting closer, they both run from the star as it crashes, killing the man and woman, but their child survives, as a black substance approaches the child and its eyes suddenly cloud with black.
We now open on a conversation between Mulder and Scully as they are traveling to the remote town of Red Falls, Colorado where they are inspecting a strange murder case involving two twin sisters, Mandy and Kaitlyn Winslow, both of whom are suspected of being witches. The two argue over the validity of Witchcraft, when suddenly Scully tells Mulder to stop the car. They get out as Scully inspects the body of the deputy in the road.
[edit] Cast
- David Duchovny as Fox Mulder
- Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully
- William B. Davis as the Cigarette-Smoking Man
- Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner
- Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike
- Dean Haglund as Richard Langly
- Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers
- James Pickens, Jr. as Alvin Kersh
- Bill Dow as Charles Burks
- Laurie Holden as Marita Covarrubias
- Nicholas Lea as Alex Krycek
- Arlene Pileggi as Arlene (Skinner's assistant)
- Paul Rabwin as additional voices
- Brad Follmer as additional voices
- Mary Astadourian as additional voices
- Gabe Rotter as additional voices
[edit] Allusions
Throughout the game you can find various allusions. A few are listed below.
- In the Red Falls,shares a similar name to Skyland Mountain, where Scully was abducted in the Season 2 X-Files episode "Ascension".
- John Gillnitz is a combination of the names of series writers John Shiban, Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz.
- An important P.O. box number is 1013, as 10/13/56 was the date that Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files, was born.
- Several sections of levels set in Tunguska are shown in Season 4, when Mulder is in Tunguska invetstigating a case and meets Krychek.
[edit] Game In-Jokes and References
- Wetwired Video is full of jokes and puns, starting with the name, Wetwired is the name of an episode (3x23)
- Movie Posters - There are several movie posters related to episode titles - Field Trip, The Host, The Sixth Extinction 2, Chinga, and Quagmire
- Alien Autopsy Video - On the Counter in Wetwired video is a tape called "The Stupendous Yappi's "Dead Alien! Truth
or Humbug?" This was featured in the episode Jose Chung's From Outer Space
- Adult Video Collection - Walk into this area as Scully and she'll comment that its "smaller" than Mulder's collection
- J.J.'s Diner - This is the name of the diner in season 5's episode Post-Modern Prometheus
- Vinalright - this is the company who sponsered the telemarketing company in Follie a Duex
- Holly's Gas Station - Holly is the name of Vince Gilligan's girlfriend, he uses her name in every episode he makes
- All Street´s on Red Falls have names of Episodes from the Tv series.
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