Hopkins FBI
Encyclopedia
Hopkins FBI is a 1998 point-and-click
adventure game
from MP Entertainment, most famous for very large (at the time) amounts of gore.
Players assume the role of FBI agent Hopkins, who is on the trail of a criminal mastermind named Bernie Berckson. The pursuit takes the player through a variety of locations, including the FBI headquarters in a modern fictional city, a tropical island, and a submarine base.
The game's highly stylized artwork was created by cartoonist
s, among them French artist Thierry Ségur.
PolyEx Software, Inc. first released it for OS/2 Warp. The OS/2 beta release was in French. The small OS/2 market share necessitated cross platform development.
The game is known to be one of the first commercial games to be available for Linux
, alongside the ports of Doom, Quake and Quake II
by id Software
, Abuse by Crack dot com
, Inner Worlds
, and Loki Software
's first port, Civilization: Call to Power
, which was released in 1999.
The soundtrack of the game included licensed songs from the 60's rock band The Troggs
("I can't control myself" and "Lost girl"), Rare Earth ("Feelin' alright") and an original game score.
Point-and-click
Point-and-click is the action of a computer user moving a cursor to a certain location on a screen and then pressing a mouse button, usually the left button , or other pointing device...
adventure game
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...
from MP Entertainment, most famous for very large (at the time) amounts of gore.
Players assume the role of FBI agent Hopkins, who is on the trail of a criminal mastermind named Bernie Berckson. The pursuit takes the player through a variety of locations, including the FBI headquarters in a modern fictional city, a tropical island, and a submarine base.
The game's highly stylized artwork was created by cartoonist
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
s, among them French artist Thierry Ségur.
PolyEx Software, Inc. first released it for OS/2 Warp. The OS/2 beta release was in French. The small OS/2 market share necessitated cross platform development.
The game is known to be one of the first commercial games to be available for Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
, alongside the ports of Doom, Quake and Quake II
Quake II
Quake II, released on December 9, 1997, is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Id Software and distributed by Activision. It is not a sequel to Quake; it merely uses the name of the former game due to Id's difficulties in coming up with alternative names.The soundtrack for Quake II...
by id Software
Id Software
Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...
, Abuse by Crack dot com
Crack dot Com
Crack dot Com was a computer game development company. The company was co-founded by ex-id Software programmer Dave Taylor, and Jonathan Clark....
, Inner Worlds
Inner Worlds
Inner Worlds is an album by the Mahavishnu Orchestra. It was the group's sixth album release.In 1975, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and keyboardist Gayle Moran left the band. Also, all string and horn accompaniments the group used on its previous album, Visions of the Emerald Beyond, were dismissed...
, and Loki Software
Loki Software
Loki Software, Inc. was a software firm based in Tustin, California, United States, that ported several video games from Microsoft Windows to Linux...
's first port, Civilization: Call to Power
Civilization: Call to Power
Civilization: Call to Power is a PC turn-based strategy game developed by Activision as a successor to the extremely successful Civilization computer game by Sid Meier. It was ported to Linux by Loki Software....
, which was released in 1999.
The soundtrack of the game included licensed songs from the 60's rock band The Troggs
The Troggs
The Troggs are an English rock band from the 1960s that had a number of hits in UK and the US. Their most famous songs include, "Wild Thing", "With a Girl Like You", and "Love Is All Around"...
("I can't control myself" and "Lost girl"), Rare Earth ("Feelin' alright") and an original game score.