8 Failed Video Game Consoles That Had One Incredible Game
5. Philips CD-i: Burn Cycle
To say the Philips CD-i wasn't a popular console is the understatement of the year, but the 32-bit machine did excel at one thing: full-motion video, and one game in particular used that to its full advantage, the cyberpunk adventure Burn Cycle.
Burn Cycle was a point-and-click adventure that skilfully played to the system's strengths, whisking players away to a Blade Runner-esque world with fully digitised action sequences and sweeping 3D environments to explore.
The storyline was gripping and there was tonnes of variety on offer. One minute you'd be solving a puzzle, the next you'd be caught up in a high-octane shooting sequence, the like of which was rarely seen in '90s adventure titles.
Moreover, Burn Cycle had a soundtrack so mind-blowing that Philips bundled it with the European release on a separate CD, housed in an embossed, lime green case.
Burn Cycle was exactly the sort of title the Philips CD-i needed more of, but since full-motion video was literally the only thing the machine did well, even a vast library of similarly good games couldn't have saved the console.