Spycraft: The Great Game
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| Developer(s) | Activision |
| Publisher(s) | Activision |
| Director(s) | Ken Berris |
| Designer(s) | Juan Carlos Coto Larry Galka Bruce Ondor Jeff Sullivan |
| Composer(s) | Jeehun Hwang |
| Platform(s) | Windows 95, Mac OS, MS-DOS |
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| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Spycraft (also known by its full title, Spycraft: The Great Game) is an adventure CD-ROM game published by Activision in 1996. It details the attempted assassination of the President of the United States and the CIA and SVR attempts to save him. Although the game was not approved by either organization, it tends to favour realism due to its coordination with former CIA director William Colby and former KGB Major-General Oleg Kalugin, who also appear in the game as themselves. The game also stars James Karen, Dennis Lipscomb, Joseph Ruskin, Tim De Zarn, Kirk B.R. Woller, Allan Kolman and Charles Napier in prominent roles.
Spycraft was promoted in part by an official website with information and daily updates about the game's development and release schedule, which was highly unusual at the time. Parts of the game were coded in HTML to enable it to update elements like news reports and character dossiers in real time via the internet.
The game's script was written by James Adams, a noted author of non-fiction books on espionage.
While Spycraft was still in development it was announced that there would be a home conversion for the Sega Saturn, but a Saturn version was never released and possibly never even entered development.
The player plays Thorn, a rookie CIA agent. During training, Thorn receives word that the Russian presidential candidate has been assassinated, and during a live-fire exercise, Thorn's instructor is killed. Thorn learns that a former CIA agent (codenamed "Harmonica") is behind both hits.
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