You’ve probably played games like Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones or F.E.A.R. The thing that I look out the most in the game is the in-game cut scenes. The highly entertaining and wonderfully animated videos just light me up. But how to view them when not playing the game? Well search for the files in the directory (or folder) where you have installed your game. Some of the games have such videos with the ‘.bik’ extension. So how to play them?
Well for a little bit of general knowledge, .bik files are used as intro or cutscene videos in games. Their used specially as they help reduce overall size of the video (as compared to other common formats like .avi etc.) while leaving a maximum resolution of 800×600.
So how to play them? Well just head-over to the radgametools.com website and download ‘The RAD Video Tools’, which is just a 1.2MB free download. Once downloaded and installed, just head-over to the game directory and double-click on the .bik file. You can also access this tool via the Start menu => BINK and Smacker => RAD Video Tools
RAD video tools & BINK player
The player also allows the files to be converted to other popular formats like .avi and .wmv. However while playing .bik files, you cannot view them in full-screen mode.
