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List of games with chroma-keyed actors addressing the player

Rob Beschizza
Feb 12, 2026
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Games Where a Person in Front of a Greenscreen Talks Directly to You is a directory of games where chroma-keyed actors address the player. A trope of the CD-ROM era of “full-motion” video, early standouts include Myst and Westwood realtime strategy games. If it never quite went away, it evolved into the more sophisticated modern cut-scene, rendered or i…

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