Black Dahlia is a suspense thriller based loosely on the unsolved California. The game is a point-and-click puzzle-solving adventure with live action cutscenes. Black Dahlia is a PC adventure game released on February 28th, 1998 by Take-Two Interactive. The Story, while fictional, was inspired by the real life Cleveland Torso Murderer and the infamous murder Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles.The game is a puzzle based FMV adventure game that ties Elizabeth Short's murder to Nazi's and occult rituals, which the player has to investigate.
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Developer(s) | Take-Two Interactive |
Publisher(s) | Interplay |
Designer(s) | Steve Glasstetter |
Programmer(s) | Greg Brown |
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Writer(s) | Patrick Freeman |
Composer(s) | Michael Bross |
Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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Genre(s) | Interactive movie, Point-and-click adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Black Dahlia is an interactive moviepoint-and-click adventure game that was released on February 28, 1998 by Take-Two Interactive.
The story, while fictional, is inspired by the real life Cleveland Torso Murderer and the infamous murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles.
This interactive moviepoint-and-click adventure game ties Elizabeth Short's murder to Nazis and occult rituals which the player has to investigate. The game features 2 big Hollywood star named actors, Dennis Hopper and Teri Garr.
Plot[edit]
Agent Pearson is the newest member of the COI, and is somewhat dejected to find the job not as glamorous as he was initially told. After being given a case where a local munitions manufacturer was invited to join the Brotherhood of Thule, an American branch of the Thule society, Pearson is puzzled by the apparent connections with Nazi occultism. Along the way he encounters Agent Winslow, apparently a bumbling Federal agent who is more concerned with his press appearance than solving cases.
After making a connection between the Brotherhood of Thule and the Cleveland torso murders, Pearson leads a local detective to the butchers lair after finding bizarre Gaelic documents left by his predecessor regarding a ritual involving Odin and a gemstone called the Black Dahlia, which is a key instrument that can render a ritual user the ability to control dreams.
Years later, Pearson is a member of the OSI, and recovers the Dahlia from a Nazi bunker, but it is quickly snatched away and then sold on the black market by a corrupt quartermaster. Following the Dahlia, Pearson again encounters Winslow, a Nazi SS operative following the final orders of Hitler to perform the Dahlia ritual.
Pearson pursues Winslow across the USA, finally cornering him in a California home, where Winslow has just completed the final ritual murders regarding the Dahlia. After tearing out his own eye and performing the remainder of the ritual, the player has one choice with his pistol. If he shoots Winslow or hesitates, Winslow stabs himself, and possesses Pearson, becoming an American version of Hitler, and able to control large portions of the populace through their dreams. If Pearson destroys the Dahlia, Winslow dies and Pearson is blamed for the locals spree of killings, though he is overjoyed and content with having stopped the Nazi plot to take over the world.
Reception[edit]
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Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that 'The game seems as if it were made to sell hint books, and those who play without one are likely to end up bashing the computer in frustration.'[3]
The game received an average score of 72.00% at GameRankings, based on an aggregate of 9 reviews.[1]
Black Dahlia was a nominee for CNET Gamecenter's 1998 'Adventure Game of the Year' award, which ultimately went to Grim Fandango. The editors wrote, 'With its endless secret doors, encoded messages, locked boxes, and a little gunplay, Black Dahlia did not disappoint.'[9]
In 2011, Adventure Gamers named Black Dahlia the 63rd-best adventure game ever released.[10]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ ab'Black Dahlia'. GameRankings. Archived from the original on 2012-10-10. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
- ^Scorpia (July 1998). 'Black and Blue'. Computer Gaming World (168): 154, 157.
- ^ ab'Finals'. Next Generation. No. 44. Imagine Media. August 1998. p. 98.
- ^Poole, Stephen (July 1998). 'Black Dahlia'. PC Gamer US. Archived from the original on March 8, 2000. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
- ^Rose, Paul (May 1998). 'Reviews; Black Dahlia'. PC Zone (63): 86.
- ^Royal, Tim (April 2, 1998). 'Black Dahlia'. Computer Games Strategy Plus. Archived from the original on March 24, 2005. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
- ^Wildgoose, David (May 1998). 'Review; Black Dahlia'. PC PowerPlay (24): 86, 87.
- ^Morris, Daniel (August 3, 1998). 'Black Dahlia Review'. PC Games. Archived from the original on September 1, 1999. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
- ^The Gamecenter Editors (January 29, 1999). 'The CNET Gamecenter.com Awards for 1998'. CNET Gamecenter. Archived from the original on December 16, 2000. Retrieved June 10, 2019.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- ^AG Staff (December 30, 2011). 'Top 100 All-Time Adventure Games'. Adventure Gamers. Archived from the original on June 4, 2012. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
External links[edit]
- Official website via Internet Archive
- Black Dahlia at MobyGames
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Black Dahlia is a PC adventure game that was released on February 28, 1998 by Take-Two Interactive.[1]
The story, while fictional, is inspired by the real life Cleveland Torso Murderer and the infamous murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles.[2]
This puzzle-based FMV adventure game ties Elizabeth Short's murder to Nazis and occult rituals which the player has to investigate. The game, being an interactive movie, features Dennis Hopper and Teri Garr.[3]
Reception[edit | edit source]
The game scored 72.80% at GameRankings.com[4]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑Black Dahlia for PC - Black Dahlia PC Game - Black Dahlia Computer Game
- ↑Black Dahlia
- ↑Black Dahlia (1998) (VG)
- ↑Black Dahlia for PC - GameRankings
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