PC games with a record replay feature:

[Pendrokar]

Old Post:

What games out there on the PC, freeware or otherwise, are some that support some manner of self contained  "record your replay/playthroughs" option and/or mode?  I'm positive there's at least a couple out there, and emulators have managed this for awhile now, but I'm drawing blanks on concrete examples.

I ask this in order to perhaps convince an indy RPG nearing final developments that such a feature would be very handy somewhere down the line for people archiving their best playthroughs while keeping file sizes down, sharing adventures with the community, Let's Play thread fodder, and so on.

I appreciate any and all help.

www.heroicfantasygames.com    the game in question along with awesome trailer.

Here is the list of games that have demo recording capability.

Games that have demo recording for single player games(also their mods):
--Game--(--Engine--)
{ <startingdemorecord> | <stoppingdemorecord> | <watchingdemo> | <exitingplayback> }

• --Games that used previously noted game engine--

* - Unconfirmed (Make a post if you know that a game with "*" has demo recording (Starting demo recording would be also helpful))

Half-Life(GoldSrc)

• *James Bond 007: Nightfire

Half-Life 2(Source)

• Left 4 Dead
• Portal
• *Alien Swarm: Infested
• *The Crossing
• Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
• *Mabinogi Heroes
• *Postal III
• *Salvation
• *SiN Episodes
• The Ship { record <demoname>.dem | stop | Timedemo <demoname>.dem }
• *Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
• *Zeno Clash

Doom(Doom Engine/Id Tech 1)

• Doom II
• Final Doom
• Heretic
• Hexen: Beyond Heretic
•   Hexen Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
• Strife

Quake(Quake Engine/id Tech 2)

• Hexen II(GLQuake) //record need to be started before starting a game

Quake II(Quake II Engine/id Tech 2)

• *Daikatana
• Soldier Of Fortune

Quake III Arena(Quake III Engine/id Tech 3)

• Quake III Team Arena
• Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
• Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
• Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force
• Star Trek: Elite Force II
• Return To Castle Wolfenstein -- Unable to playback single player demos
• Call Of Duty { /record | /stop | /demo <demoname> }
• *American McGee's Alice
• *Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²
• *Iron Grip: Warlord
• *James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire
• *James Bond 007: Everything Or Nothing

Doom 3(Doom 3 Engine/id Tech 4) -- Graphical glitches in demos

• Doom 3: Ressurection Of Evil
• *Quake 4
• Prey { recorddemo <demoname> | <stoprecording> | timedemo <demoname> ]
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

*Doom 4(Doom 4 Engine/id Tech 5) -- Graphical glitches in demos

• *Rage

Mageslayer(Vampire) //Needs to start new game+When playing demo if player uses Invisibility character will be totally invisible.

• *Take No Prisoners

Unreal(Unreal Engine 1)

• Unreal Tournament
• *The Wheel Of Time
• *Rune
• *X-COM: Enforcer
• *Mobile Forces
• Deus Ex -- Bad for speedrunning
• *Clive Barker's Undying
• *Nerf Arena Blast
• *Rune
• *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen
• *Star Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard
• *Dr. Brain's Thinking Games: Action/Reaction
• *Adventure Pinball: Forgotten Island
• *TNN Outdoors Pro Hunter

Unreal Tournament 2003(Unreal Engine 2)

• Unreal Tournament 2004(UE 2.5)
• Unreal II: The Awakening <-- demo playback heavily glitched
• *Advent Rising
• *Brothers In Arms
• *Dead Man's Hand
• *Deus Ex: Invisible War
• *Devastation
• *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• *Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green
• *Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
• *Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds
• *Men of Valor
• *Open Season
• *Pariah
• Postal 2
• *Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
• *Surf's Up
• *Thief: Deadly Shadows
• *Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3
• *Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
• *Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
• *Tribes: Vengeance
• *World War II Combat
• *WarPath
• *XIII/Thirteen

OK! Roboblitz was the first Unreal Engine 3 game but I still go with unreals...
Unreal Tournament 3 (Unreal Engine 3)

• *Aliens: Colonial Marines
• *Alpha Protocol
• *American McGee's Grimm
• *Batman: Arkham Asylum
• *Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
• *Bioshock
• *BlackSite: Area 51
• *Borderlands
• *Damnation
• *Earth No More
• *Frontlines: Fuel of War
• *Gears of War
• *Highlander: The Game
• *Heist
• *Hour of Victory
• *I Am Alive
• *Legendary
• *Mass Effect
• *Medal of Honor: Airborne
• *Mirror's Edge
• *Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia
• *Rise of the Argonauts
• *RoboBlitz
• *Rogue Warrior: Black Razor
• *Saw: The Videogame
• *Section 8
• *Singularity
• *Stranglehold
• *The Last Remnant
• *The Scourge Project
• *Tom Clancy's EndWar
• *Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas
•    *Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
• *Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
• *Turok
• *The Wheelman
• *Mass Effect 2
• *X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Ghost Recon

• Ghost Recon: Desert Siege
• Ghost Recon: Island Thunder

Command & Conquer: Generals

• Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

• Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath

Far Cry(CryEngine 1) {DevMode Only: \RECORD <demoname> | \STOPRECORDING | \DEMO <demoname>| \STOPDEMO}

Crysis(CryEngine 2) {record <demoname> | stoprecording | demo <demoname> | stopdemo} <-- Reported issues of which I have no idea.

• Crysis:Warhead

Call Of Duty 2(Proprietary)   { Record <demoname> | StopRecord | Demo <demoname>}

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare   { /record <demoname> | /stoprecord | /demo <demoname> | /disconnect}

*Chrome(Chrome)

• Call of Juarez {Check post}

Tribes: Vengeance(Vengeance) {demorec <demoname> | demoplay <demoname> ("-console" to shortcut to enable)}

• *SWAT 4

Touhou Bunkachou ~ Shoot the Bullet
X2: The Threat {AFAIK Alt+R} <- does not record main menu and audio
*X3: The Reunion

• *X3: Terran Conflict

Marathon 2: Durandal
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
Marble Blast Gold
Descent 1
Descent 2
Descent 3 {Check end of Post}
Painkiller
Sins Of The Solar Empire
Serious Sam
Serious Sam 2
Starcraft
Warcraft 3
IL-2 Sturmovik
*Duke Nukem 3D
*Shadow Warrior


Games that have demo recording only for multi player games(also their mods):
*Return to castle Wolfenstein[/list]

[Idkbutlike2]

You mean games that automatically record demos? In that case I only know one series, Bungie's Marathon series. "Film" files are automatically recorded each time you play and can be saved at your own will. The bad thing about Marathon is that the only one of the original games is out for PC, Marathon 2: Durandal. The games are freeware and can be download at your own will.

[Kibbo]

Good demo/replay recorders are too rare these days. Last time I saw one was in HL2.

[Ewil]

Doom
Quake
Half-Life
Return to castle Wolfenstein (doesn't work for single-player)
Daikatana (I think)
Serious Sam
Driver
Call of Duty
Counter-Strike
City of Heroes
Starcraft
Warcraft 3
Unreal Tournament
Portal

Can't think of more.

[lag]

Descent

[Sid]

- Soldier of Fortune
as I remember it was:
/record x
and
/demomap x

- most of games using id Tech 4 engine have record (but it's bugged )
- Hexen 2 (record need to be started before starting a game)
- probably all games using Source Engine (Half-Life 2 [+EP1, +EP2, +Lost Coast], Portal, Left 4 Dead)

[IsraeliRD]

Marble Blast Gold , needs to be done before the level is started.

[Nihilus]

Sins of a Solar Empire as well. I experimented with speedrunning the smallest map against the easiest computer, and it's like watching paint dry. It autosaves demos of all games though.

[grndino]

Sins of a Solar Empire as well. I experimented with speedrunning the smallest map against the easiest computer, and it's like watching paint dry. It autosaves demos of all games though.

You can speed up the game, dunno what the hotkey is off the top of my head.  I'd hope that it doesn't speed up any in-game timer as well, but then that would probably be wanting my pie and eating it too.

[Nihilus]

The settings I had it on made it far too simple for a legitimate submission. As I had it, it was just build capital ship factory, build military research base, build planet killer cap ship, research planet killer ships, build planet killer ships, kill enemy planet. Maybe the smallest map against the hardest computer will be more interesting, I'll play around with that.

[Thinkshooter]

Star Wars X-Wing Alliance has a film room if you install the latest update.

Trackmania Nations and TN Forever can record your driving as well. The other games in the series can surely do the same.

IIRC, Test Drive Unlimited replays your last lap(s) -- it should have a "Save replay" feature as well.

[ExplodingCabbage]

Gish

[Ewil]

Star Wars X-Wing Alliance has a film room if you install the latest update.

Trackmania Nations and TN Forever can record your driving as well. The other games in the series can surely do the same.

IIRC, Test Drive Unlimited replays your last lap(s) -- it should have a "Save replay" feature as well.

Then you can count most of the racing games including Need for Speed.

[mikwuyma]

This is a cool topic, I'm not sure why no one thought of the idea sooner. I'll sticky this topic if someone is willing to maintain a list in the first post.

[djcj]

All games and game mods based on Half-Life.

And isn't there a record function in Halo 3 (I know, it's not PC)?