Her Story review – a new breed of narrative video game

In this fresh take on the interactive movie genre, players must analyse clips to solve a crime - it's a fascinating new way to tell stories through games

Raise your hands and scream if you remember "interactive movies". The games industry has foisted some awful fads upon us over the last 40 years, but the full motion video (FMV) games of the early 1990s are among the worst. From the stodgy teen horror of Sega's Night Trap to the blink-and-you'll-complete-it brevity of Critical Path, it turned out that non-interactivity and Z-list B-movie footage was a bad combination.

Two decades later, Her Story is a new breed of narrative game that does looks suspiciously like an interactive movie. You play an anonymous protagonist looking at an internal police computer. The terminal has been unlocked by a friend, you've been left alone, and it contains several hundred interview clips concerning a fictional 1994 murder case.