The game's highly stylized artwork was created by
cartoonists, among them French artist Thierry Ségur. The artists drew each scene frame by frame, then they were scanned into the computer and retouched to produce the finished scenes. Quandary felt that the game was specifically designed for the male teen/pre-teen demographic due to being populated by "available/naked women and mostly bloody, grotesque men". The soundtrack of the game included licensed songs from the 60's rock band
The Troggs ("
I Can't Control Myself" and "
Lost Girl"),
Blue Magoos ("
Tobacco Road"),
Rare Earth ("
Feelin' Alright") and an original game score. The game features a short
first-person shooter segment reminiscent of
Wolfenstein 3D.
Hopkins FBI was originally released on July 16, 1998. PolyEx Software, Inc. released it for BeOS and OS/2 Warp. The OS/2 beta release was in French. The small OS/2 market share necessitated cross platform development. Ports to
Mac OS and
Rhapsody were planned but never released. The game is known to be one of the first commercial games to be
available for
Linux, alongside the ports of
Doom,
Quake and
Quake II by
id Software,
Abuse by
Crack dot com,
Inner Worlds, and
Loki Software's first port,
Civilization: Call to Power, which was released in 1999. The Spanish version was distributed by Friendware, the French version by
Cryo Interactive, and the Polish version by
CD Projekt. Just Adventure described it as a "very strange" little game from England that was virtually unknown in North America. ==Reception==