About Hardline

- Hardline is an FMV game (Full Motion Video) published in 1996 during early time of gaming on PC.

- [Synopsis: 
Sometime in the near future (assumed to be Detroit in the year 1998 according to the game's story[3]), a strange cult known as The Sect rises to power. Its members are called "sectoids" and believe in an entity of steel called the Deck. The sectoids are presented as a quasi-terrorist organisation, determined to destroy the present status quo of society moving against schools, hospitals and civilians. Their number is constantly rising and by the start of the game, the government, the police and the military are inadequate to stop them.
The player character is the helicopter pilot named Ted Irvin (David Gregg) who at the start of the game flies to rescue victims who were engaged by sectoids in a warehouse]

- A big part of the challenge speedrunning the game comes from ammo management, menuing, skipping cutscenes as fast as possible, a good knowledge of the map, choosing the quickest route and overall preshoting mouse position for the next clic.

- As you can't go faster during shoot phases, you 'only' have to survive, manage your ammo and think about your next moves.

- As an abandonware the game is now legally available for free on :
https://www.abandonware-france.org/ltf_abandon/ltf_jeu.php?id=916&fic=liens (French version)