As Agent Craig Willmore, you'll examine evidence, interview witnesses, and interact with familiar X-Files characters such as Mulder, Scully, the Lone Gunmen, X and others. The X-Files incorporates VirtualCinema technology, a cutting-edge software engine that allows the player to become the main character in the story. Players are able to respond to, and affect, other character's attitudes and behavior, which change as the game progresses, depending on the course of previous events. An intuitive user interface facilitates complete immersion of the player into The X-Files world.

Explore more than 30 locations to search for clues and solve the case. The investigation employs both first and third-person points of view to bring a truly cinematic feel to the game.