I believe that this was also one of the first cinematic action games too. A lot of games sort of spawned off this new genre; Flashback (same publishers) and Odd World (series) to name a couple.

I got my hands on this game first as an SNES game then I went and found it for DOS. Would love to play it on my Mac, but don't think it's been ported yet. I'm happy it's coming to my iPad though!