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American Hero

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American Hero
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Buy American Hero and receive 60% loyalty discount for American Hero Unrated! Jack is Back A restoration and remaster of a game lost to time for over 25 years, American Hero is an outrageous and unforgettable FMV game that lets you play as the star in an over-the-top 1990s Hollywood action movie....
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Product details
2021, Empty Clip Studios, ...
Time to beat
1.5 hMain
2.5 h Main + Sides
5 h Completionist
2 h All Styles
Description

Buy American Hero and receive 60% loyalty discount for American Hero Unrated!


Jack is Back

A restoration and remaster of a game lost to time for over 25 years, American Hero is an outrageous and unforgettable FMV game that lets you play as the star in an over-the-top 1990s Hollywood action movie.

Take on the role of Jack, a former intelligence officer brought out of retirement for one last mission to stop the villainous virologist Krueger, who plans to unleash a mind-controlling virus on the citizens of Los Angeles. Your spur-of-the-moment decisions will help or hinder Jack as he tries to find and protect the only scientist who has the cure for this deadly pathogen.

Originally designed for the Atari Jaguar CD as a “playable movie” with a more fluid presentation than the FMV games of its time, American Hero features the talents of professional actors, including Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show, Johnny Got His Gun), Daniel Roebuck (The Fugitive , Final Destination), and Musetta Vander (O Brother, Where Art Thou , Wild Wild West). For this restoration, Timothy Bottoms reprises his role in newly recorded voiceover of Jack’s inner thoughts heard throughout the game.

American Hero features:
  • An explosive and adult-oriented Hollywood production with intense action and gut-busting laughs
  • A winding player-directed plot with multiple paths and endings
  • A unique FMV format that plays smoothly like watching a film
  • The return of Hollywood actor Timothy Bottoms as Jack with newly recorded voiceover

American Hero is a trademark of Ziggurat Interactive, Inc. 2021 © Ziggurat Interactive, Inc.

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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
1.5 hMain
2.5 h Main + Sides
5 h Completionist
2 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
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Size:
2.9 GB

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Posted on: November 12, 2021

alekc2

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Games: 487 Reviews: 7

You have to very careful

You have to very careful when thinking about purchasing this game. It has its age. It is very into 90's. The only reason I've bought American Hero was that I have been waiting for it on Atari Jaguar for more than 20 years. However if you never heard about Atari Jaguar, never had Atari Jaguar CD and this is the first time you see American Hero, you should probably stay away from this game unless... you are fan of FMV based games from middle of 90's. Overall the plot is thick, dialogs are often dump, you die due to single wrong decision (like turning right instead of left). There were so many great games with wonderful plot in the 90's. American Hero is not one of them. The only reason I gave it 3 starts is to encourage other developers to preserve some old games. Technically the devs did their job to make this game playable but let me repeat my self: if you are not Atari Jaguar fan you should probably stay away from American Hero. It can be disappointing for you.


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Posted on: October 16, 2022

fahbs

Games: 353 Reviews: 88

Worth half off for an hour of bad movie

Honestly I would buy this at half price ONLY if you had a bad movie night group of friends. You would then get one hour's of cheesy entertainment out of it. Anything else, nope. It's obvious that it's stitched together from an unfinished product. The choices are non-sensical. The dying and restarting gets VERY annoying at the end. You are thrown into a looping maze with zero clues or logical direction. You just try "left" or "right" randomly until you stop dying. You can stumble across a random person who breaks the 4th wall to flat out tell you the directions, except they're wrong so there's still no solution! Finally, at the end, every time you die, you're forced to sit through an entire 3-5 minute long sequence to get back to the choice. The upside is the plot is crazy. You have Nazi Clint Howard as a villain. There's a good fake dummy death.


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Posted on: November 13, 2021

MrEyeChese

Verified owner

Games: 11 Reviews: 1

A Real American Hero

Absolutely love this game, very entertaining, just having one slight issue towards the end of the game regarding choices missing, hopefully this isn't a bug, but appart from that, this has all my cheesy fmv needs catered for, 10/10


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Posted on: January 23, 2023

Gabumon

Verified owner

Games: 2505 Reviews: 4

Good Remaster, but not a Good Game

Its a typical 90s FMV Game, bad script, the acting varies between aweful and "well he tried his best" low Budget Effects and not much choices and super short. If you know what to do its finished in 30 Minutes. Unfortunatly there is no logic in the Game and your decisions. You can't know if "Right" is the correct answer, or "Left" you typical have to play it over and over to find that out, that was even bad design in the 90s. The Remaster is quite nice, the Videoquality is suprisly good, the few missing Scenes are handled good with some effects. But is the game worth the $15? If you love terrible Movies maybe, for all others, no. Even if it would have been released in 1995, it would be a terrible game.


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Posted on: July 3, 2025

pistolsteph

Verified owner

Games: 39 Reviews: 1

it's terrible

its so bad it goes all the way around to amazing. 11/10


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