Red versus Blue

An example of a Machinima series (from Wikipedia encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Versus_Blue) :-

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Red vs Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, also known as RvB, is a machinima science fiction comedy series created by Rooster Teeth Productions, and is primarily produced using Bungie Studios' first-person shooter (FPS) video games Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2. Chronicling the story of two opposing teams of soldiers fighting a civil war in the middle of a desolate box canyon, the series is an absurdist parody of FPS games, military life, and other science fiction movies. Begun in 2003 and currently in its fourth season, Red vs Blue has won four awards from the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences. The series is generally praised for its originality, and has been credited with bringing new popularity to machinima, helping it to gain more mainstream exposure, and attracting more people to the art form. Lincoln Center's film society director of communications Graham Leggat has called the series "truly as sophisticated as Samuel Beckett".

Red vs Blue tells the story of the Red Team and the Blue Team, two groups of soldiers belonging to two opposing armies, who occupy two small bases in a box canyon known as Blood Gulch. Each team's base seems only to exist in response to the other team's base. While both teams generally dislike the other and have standing orders to defeat them and capture their flag, neither team's soldiers are particularly motivated to fight each other. Teammates have a wide array of eccentric personalities and often create more problems for each other than for their enemies.

Although the animation is done primarily with the Halo and Halo 2 games, Red vs Blue has little connection with the Halo universe. The only reference in the main series is a brief, throw-away line in the first episode, in which Grif mentions that there were no aliens to fight because Master Chief had destroyed the Covenant armada. No other references to the Halo storyline have been made in the regular episodes, though Master Chief was again briefly mentioned as a showboating member of the Army in a video made for E3 2003. A separate reference to the Halo universe appears in the trailer, where it is told that, between the events of Halo and Halo 2, there was "a brief but violent period of civil war", in allusion to the events of the series proper. But the Blue Team's failure to recognize the alien that joined the cast in season 4 as a Covenant Elite indicates that the creators of the show either plan on making a universe parallel to that of Halo, or that they simply ignore the events of the games.

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What I wish to do is use a 3D graphics space or game engine or Web interface to creatively and visually tell stories and in addition give the user freedom to explore and move around (effectively a movie-game allowing real time interaction. This is not exactly the same as a machinima which is using a game engine to create a linear story). There are ways of doing this without scripting but the easiest remains a Web interface whether 2D or 3D.