Black Dahlia Video Game
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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.' Black Dahlia is a highly underrated murder mystery adventure that features excellent full-motion video and storyline that outshine some very unfair puzzles. The star of the game is the plot, which is an ingenious combination of facts, myths, and pure fiction. Secondly, while the game is very interactive during the limited times you get to interact, Black Dahlia has a little too much great video, making the game a little weak in actual gameplay. The game will also require you to do a lot of reading, which, depending on your preference, may be a good or bad point.
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Black Dahlia is an Adventure Game released by Take 2 in 1998. The story begins in Cleveland in 1941, where a brutal serial-killer known as 'The Torso Killer' terrorises the population. The main character of the game, Jim Pearson has recently been assigned to the COI - 'Co-ordinator Of Information'- unit.
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Nov 27, 2010 Black Dahlia - PC by Interplay. The game itself is a terrific, one of the better titles that made use of full motion video. Sadly the game is not compatible with Windows XP, after much effort and an unofficial patch it was still a no go. I can only guess it would also not work in Windows 7 as the compatibility mode in XP had no luck either. Directed by Eric Trow, Lance Laspina. With Dennis Hopper, Teri Garr, Darren Eliker, Michael Battista. As WWII approaches, special agent Jim Pearson is assigned to investigate US industrialist's ties to the occult German pro-Nazi Thule Society. This leads to Jim's perilous decades-long search for the apocalyptic Black Dahlia gemstone.
Black Dahlia is an Adventure Game released by Take 2 in 1998. The story begins in Cleveland in 1941, where a brutal serial-killer known as 'The Torso Killer' terrorises the population. The main character of the game, Jim Pearson has recently been assigned to the COI - 'Co-ordinator Of Information'- unit. Jim's first mission is to investigate a complaint from a businessman who claims that one of his former employees left subversive propaganda at his factory. During the investigation Jim learns about The Black Dahlia; a mysterious artifact that according to legend will grant whoever possesses it the power to rule the world. It soon becomes evident that The Dahlia is somehow linked to 'The Torso Killer'.
Black Dahlia is easily, in terms of scope, one of the greatest adventure games ever made; featuring a huge cast of characters and a complex, epic plot that spans over several years. A comparatively more believable storyline than Ripper, Take 2's other noted Full Motion VideoAdventure Game, although it doesn't boast as illustrious a cast list, with 'just' Dennis Hopper and Close Encounters of the Third Kind's Teri Garr.
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This game should not be confused with the novel by James Ellroy, or with the latter's film adaptation. It is also not related to the 1946 Film NoirThe Blue Dahlia.
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The Game provides examples of:
- Affably Evil: Dick Winslow who continues to act chummy and cheerful towards the main character even after being revealed as a monster.
- Alternate History: Did you know The Cleveland Torso Murders and the murder of Elizabeth Short were really the fault of Those Wacky Nazis trying to unseal some Sealed Evil in a Can?
- CIA Evil, FBI Good: Averted. Winslow's an arrogant glory hound, whereas you're just trying to do the right thing.
- Downer Ending Both of them, although if you do the right thing, you at least get the satisfaction that you saved the world.
- Dreaming of Things to Come: At one point, Jim gets a vision of himself wearing an SS-uniform. This foreshadows the really bad ending to the game, where Jim Actually, Winslow in Jim's body has turned America into a fascist dictatorship.
- Grand Theft Me: At the end, if you choose to shoot Dick Winslow instead of the dahlia, the ceremony will be completed and Winslow will use the dahlia's power to transfer his soul into Jim's body.
- Historical Domain Character: Real-life historical figures Eliot Ness and Elizabeth Short (the historical 'Black Dahlia') both appear in the game, with their names kept intact. Their roles however, are pretty minor.
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- Nice Hat: Jim sports a fedora for the majority of the game.
- Shapeshifter: Winslow near the end of the game. Although, whether he always had this ability or if he gained it by possessing the dahlia is left unexplained.
- Wolverine Publicity: Dennis Hopper and Terri Garr are both labeled as the stars on the box, despite the fact that they only appear in minor roles.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Happens to Al King, who is killed by Winslow in a particularly brutal fashion.
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| Black Dahlia | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Take-Two Interactive |
| Publisher(s) | Interplay |
| Designer(s) | Steve Glasstetter |
| Programmer(s) | Greg Brown |
| Artist(s) | |
| Writer(s) | Patrick Freeman |
| Composer(s) | Michael Bross |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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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]
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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]
Black Dahlia Game Patch
- Official website via Internet Archive
- Black Dahlia at MobyGames