Black Dahlia (PC)

Year of release: 1997 Publisher: Take 2 Starring: Dennis Hopper as Walter Pensky Teri Carr as Madame Cassandra Darren Eliker as Jim Pearson David Whalen as Dick Winslow Hilary Morris as Elizabeth Short This is a bit of an obscure item, but well worth seeking out if you like unusual mid-1990s FMV games for the PC. I've been intrigued with the unsolved mystery of the Black Dahlia since I was a kiddie and first heard of this tragic story. As you may know, the 'Black Dahlia' was a beautiful young aspiring 1940s actress named Elizabeth Short, nicknamed Black Dahlia for her black hair and preference for black ...  Read the complete review

The Black Dahlia...is one teriffic game, not for the fainthearted though, I consider myself not too bad at games, yet this one took me 3 months to complete, yet I gotta say it was well worth the effort...The main character the one you play is a guy called Jim Pearson, and you really start to think you are him, and he's kinda cool and real funny and pretty dumb at times too....it's a point and click game, with some real hard puzzles that keep you going for ages, the graphics are brilliant, and the game is full of atmosphere,like your taking part in a movie,Dennis Hopper even puts in an appearance....The game gets quite scary at parts too....it's about ...  Read the complete review

...and a plotline too. That's the main reason I buy these so called "Interactive Movies", they do tend to have good plotlines to hold the game together. In this case a very good game. The year is 1941, November in fact, and America is readying itself for World War. That means that anything Nazi, or any group that exhibts Nazi-like activity, is being hunted down using all means possible. In this game it means the American Government has formed a unit called the C.O.I (Office of the Coordinatior of Information, technically that should be OCI but I guess soeone made a boob). You play detective Jim Pearson, Rookie at the COI, replacing an agent whose ...  Read the complete review

Set in Pre-War America (1941...it was pre-war for them, remember), Black Dahlia ia about both a serial killer and a secet, occult, Nazi-sympathizing club. From the very beginning it is hard to know what exactly is fact and what is slightly embellished fact. It all blends together so seamlessly that you find yourself transported into the story immediately. It is very much like the Pandora Directive in movement and control, with many cool cut scenes. They really harped on about Dennis Hopper being in this one, but really the other actors are just as good in this. Watch out, though-- the puzzles are extremely difficult. ...  Read the complete review

You don’t see art of this quality in adventure games everyday. The game is set in November 1941, as America braces herself for the World War, and a vicious serial killer stalks the nation’s industrial heartland. Known as the “Torso Killer,” this cunning psychopath ritualistically dismembers his victims with chilling precision. Could it be these brutal murders are but one thread in a vast and ancient tapestry of supernatural intrigue? From the streets of Cleveland to war-torn Europe to a Los Angeles flush with victory, Black Dahlia leads the player through an eerie landscape of death, deceit and occult destiny to unravel a time-lost mystery. ...  Read the complete review