American Hero

American Hero is an adult-oriented interactive movie video game that was in development by Inter-Active Productions and planned to be published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Jaguar CD and PC. The game was soon canceled in 1996 due to the commercial failure and discontinuation of the Atari Jaguar. The game was pretty much lost for 25 years, until Ziggurat Interactive remastered the game and released it in 2021.

Why It Isn't An American Hero

 * 1) Very poor acting, even from various actors. Resulting in some terrible dialogue.
 * 2) *Jack's "Nooooooooooo!" when he fails to shoot Kruger in time, to save Laura.
 * 3) *Kruger's "Nooooooooooooo!" when he dies from hanging off the bomb while it falls down, resulting it to explode.
 * 4) Unlike other FMV game s where the FMVs were mainly used for cutscenes and the like, there is barely any gameplay. All you do is pick from two to three options, and choose which choice is right.
 * 5) * And also, the game can get pretty annoying at times. Due to the dialogue for the options get repeated over and over again.
 * 6) There is no checkpoints in this game, once you die. You have to restart from the beginning again. Even worse, you can't skip the cutscenes. Meaning you watching the same ones over and over again.
 * 7) Bugs and glitches, such as video footage suddenly freezing up or stuttering making the game unplayable. In which results in the player to restart the game.
 * 8) At one point in the game Jack and Laura have to find their way out of some tunnels and you have two choices: left or right. No matter where you go it seems as if you can't get out since it just replays the same cutscene of Jack beating up the same guard until a cutscene finally plays of Jack and Laura both being gunned down after the third time around. It turns out, that you're supposed to go left and right in a specific pattern: left, left, right.
 * 9) *The only time the game tells you this is by using a hidden third option which involves you not pressing anything and letting the time run out. When this happens, a random woman will appear to which she will just tell the player where to go.
 * 10) The game's plot is completely strange, and is filled with plot-holes.
 * 11) *Why did Kruger not use the Mind Control virus on Jack and Laura when they were first captured?
 * 12) *How did the Mind Control virus get spread? By water bottles or a syringe?
 * 13) *How did the boombox manage to explode the disco ball?
 * 14) *When you die in the beginning of the game, Laura is there at Jack's funeral. When she is supposed to be kidnapped.
 * 15) The game while remastered for the new consoles done by Ziggurat Interactive, the video cutscenes suffer from glitchy artifacts as a result of upscaling the old footage via a program to make it look better.
 * 16) All the retro mode really does is, shrink the game down to a small CRT TV border. Complete with some objects you can find in the game (in which can be unlocked via achievements, and exploring new areas)

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Ziggurat Interactive did a alright job at bringing this lost game back to gamer's hands after being lost for 25 years.
 * 2) The game can be considered "so bad, it's good" given how absurd the plot is since it plays out more like a B-movie from the 90's.

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