Morphs: Flashback 2

Fade to Black is a 3D action-adventure game with a third-person view from behind the character's back. It features gun combat with a number of platforming sequences.

Intelligence agent Conrad Hart has been lying adrift in space in suspended animation for 50 years after he destroyed the home planet of a hostile alien race called Morphs. In 2190, he is found by a Morph patrol and imprisoned in the Lunar prison of New Alcatraz. There, Conrad is freed by a man named John O'Conner, who remotely guides him through the complex. Conrad escapes New Alcatraz and meets John, whereupon he learns that John is a member of Mandragore, an organized resistance movement that opposes the occupation of Earth by the surviving Morphs years before.

Conrad and John teleport to Shadow, the Mandragore homebase, moments before Morph pursuers destroy their ship. There, Conrad meets resistance leader Sarah Smith and Commander Hank. Sarah enlists Conrad's help to rescue an eminent Earth scientist, Professor Bergstein, who is being held prisoner in Morph asteroid base D321. Conrad eventually finds Bergstein, who tells him that the base contains the Morph's new mind-manipulating weapon.

Shortly after the release of Flashback in 1992, the development team started work on a similar sequel titled Morphs: Flashback 2 for the Sega CD. Work on the game spanned 3–4 months, however, the project was put on hold while they focused on finishing Shaq Fu (1994). By the time they returned to the project, the Sega CD was no longer seen as a viable platform, so it was scrapped in favor of restarting on PC, which turned into the 3D shooter Fade to Black The idea of doing a 3D sequel to Flashback started in 1993. The game was originally announced under the title "Crossfire". Conrad's animations were created using motion capture.

A Sega Saturn version was also projected and tasked to developer Virtual Studio to be converted from the PlayStation version, but the deal fell through when they were reallocated to do the Sega Saturn version of Time Commando instead, a game by Delphine Software International's sister company Adeline Software International. Estimated to have been released in December 1996, since no workaround plan was devised to cover up the shift of development and take the game to Sega's console after, this decision effectively cancelled it altogether.

The PlayStation version was a best-seller in the United Kingdom, where it was among the nineteen best-selling PlayStation games of 1996 according to HMV. It sold enough copies to go Platinum.

Fade to Black received a moderately positive critical response. Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the PlayStation version their "Game of the Month" award. Rating it two out of four stars, PC Magazine praised the storyline, level design, and combination of adventure and action gaming, but disliked the "incredibly disorienting" automatic camera-view changes and complex controls.