“Do you believe in extraterrestrial life?”, an electronically distorted voice bellows at me from somewhere in the blackness beyond the lights shining into my face. “Yes, probably, I mean, statistically,” I think to myself, while my character on screen answers “No.”
This is a non-interactive cutscene that sets the stage for The Operator, which is another one of those games where you are a faceless operative of a clandestine government organisation, whose only interaction with the crime and conspiracy laden world beyond is via a bespoke operating system designed to sift data points out of scraps of evidence that are sent to you from the field.
So you aren’t Dana Scully, you’re the guy Dana Scully calls when she wants some telephone records analysed. Which is fine, I hate going outside.
