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You may be stuck behind a PC terminal, but The Operator is my dream FBI fantasy


Eurogamer plays the Steam Next Fest demo for The Operator, and this 1992 computer detective game has us glued to our screens.

Your computer's calling system is ringing with both your co-worker and supervisor on the line wanting to talk about your first case, but instead of easing you in, you find out it's a homicide, and there's CCTV footage to review. It's all the stuff you might imagine from FBI dramas over the years: homicides, alien sightings, potential internal corruption and cover-ups... and there's definitely a sense something bigger is going on, as strange things keep happening. But even when you're just doing the routine CCTV footage tasks, The Operator still does that brilliant thing from films and TV where agents enhance a grainy image of someone's face, and it magically gains 10 times the detail.

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