The X-Files: Resist or Serve | |
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Developer(s) | Black Ops Entertainment |
Publisher(s) |
Sierra Entertainment Vivendi Universal Games |
Distributor(s) | Fox Interactive |
Producer(s) | Kirk Lambert |
Designer(s) | Kirk Lambert |
Programmer(s) | Heather Barclay |
Writer(s) | Tom Schnauz |
Composer(s) | Tommy Tallarico |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
Release date(s) | |
Genre(s) | Survival horror |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Aggregate scores | |
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Aggregator | Score |
GameRankings | 66.29% |
Metacritic | 67/100 |
Review scores | |
Publication | Score |
Game Informer | 6.5/10 |
GameSpot | 7.6/10 |
GameSpy | |
GameZone | 5/10 |
IGN | 6.7/10 |
OPM (US) | |
X-Play | |
The Times |
The X-Files: Resist or Serve is a survival horror game for the PlayStation 2 video game console, based on the television series The X-Files and released in 2004. This is the second game based on The X-Files, after The X-Files Game. It was also supposed to be released for the Xbox console, but that version was cancelled.
Intended as three new episodes set during the show's seventh season, the game follows FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (voiced by David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (voiced by Gillian Anderson) as they travel to a small town in the Rocky Mountains to dig into the source of some strange and unexplained murders. Sightings of ghostly apparitions, zombies and hints of alien presence lead them on a chase for an "inhuman" killer. During the course of the story, Mulder and Scully follow leads to a remote location in Siberia and then discover, and search, a mysterious half-buried alien space ship. Players can play as Mulder or Scully as they attempt to prevent alien colonization of Earth.
The game follows The X-Files series' established canon, including the elements of alien colonization and the "black oil" (also known as Purity or the Black Cancer). Players also investigate various sets from the series, including the FBI office, Mulder's apartment building, and the Russian camp where Mulder and Alex Krycek were subjected to the black oil. Many of the major and minor characters from the show make appearances, including Skinner, Kersh, The Lone Gunmen, Krycek, Marita Covarrubias and the Cigarette Smoking Man.