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• 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.
• 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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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.

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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. 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. Mahabharat serial cast. 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.

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.

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• 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.

• 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.

Description of Black Dahlia Windows

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. Rosemary Young summarizes it well in her review of the game: “Black Dahlia takes its name and its inspiration both from the murder of [aspiring actress] Elizabeth Short (known as the Black Dahlia) in Los Angeles in 1947 and from the equally infamous Cleveland Torso Murders that were investigated by Eliot Ness and ceased just prior to the Second World War. Of course, both cases remain unsolved and it has been speculated that they may have been perpetrated by the same killer.

Black Dahlia builds on this speculation and weaves in notions of occult rituals based on Norse mythology and of Nazi involvement via a shadowy fifth column at work in the USA. Hence the story more or less spans the 1940's and in it you'll briefly run into Mr Ness as well as the unfortunate Elizabeth Short as you follow a murderous trail. You are cast as Jim Pearson, newly employed by the COI (Office of the Coordinator of Information), a covert organisation akin to the CIA just before the outbreak of World War II. Your first assignment is to investigate a 'crackpot' complaint about subversive activities, but very soon you'll learn about the mysterious dismissal of your predecessor and begin sniffing out a trail of clues that link your investigation with a string of grizzly murders and, ultimately, with a fiendish supernatural plot hatched by a sadistic megalomaniac.”

When you have the Cleveland Torso Murderer, the Nazi fascination with the occult, the history of the Teutonic Knights, the ancient death cults of the Norse god Wotan, and the Black Dahlia murder all in one story, you know the game is going to be something special. And special it is indeed. Take 2 Interactive has brought us eight full CD-ROM's worth of dark adventure and one of the best plots ever devised. Suspense, murder, madness, corruption, psychic warfare, World War II, human sacrifice--the plot of this game has as many facets as the ancient gem which is the center of all the action.

The puzzles are more similar to Myst than traditional point-and-click games: there are many stand-alone puzzles to figure out, although a few inventory-based puzzles are present. And the puzzles are tough-- if you consider yourself expert at these games, you’re in for a long, gruelling challenge. There are over 60 hours worth of playing time here (I spent closer to 80 hours to finish it), including some of the most brutal and frustrating spatial-relations puzzles I've ever seen. The problems to be solved come thick and fast, and the real joy of the game is that almost all of them are well-integrated into the plot, as opposed to the puzzles-for-sake-of-puzzles feel of Ripper, Take 2’s earlier murder mystery. There are endless secret doors, encoded messages, locked boxes, and vaults. The plot gets more and more interesting as you progress, and the quality of acting is much better than your average full-motion video games.

Overall, Black Dahlia is without a doubt the best adventure game from Take 2 before they abandoned the genre. Building on strong bases of earlier releases (BloodNet, Bureau 13, Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller), the Take 2 team has finally pulled off a great murder mystery that will capture everyone’s attention to the end. One word of advice, though: have the walkthrough handy beside you, because chances are you WILL get stuck and frustrated at some very obscure puzzles. Just look at a hint or two to move on—the story is well worth cheating for [EG].

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Highly recommended, especially for fans of murder mystery games. And be sure to visit related links below for further information on the fascinating unsolved murder of the Black Dahlia, as well as the novel of the same name by James Ellroy – my most favorite crime writer ever :)

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Classic Champion2019-06-070 point

@EVA
Wait-this is a Brazilian game and it installs in French? That's weird.
Because people in Brazil speak Portuguese, not French!

Eva2018-07-24-7 points

game crashes
Each time I am getting the very same error:
SetEntries generic failure.
And game installs in French.
Can you please advise.

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