Black Dahlia
Black Dahlia is a suspense thriller based loosely on the unsolved California murder of Elizabeth Short, nicknamed "Black Dahlia" for her favoritism towards black clothing.
The game is a point-and-click puzzle-solving adventure with live action cutscenes. Full 360 degree horizontal and limited vertical panning allow the player to scan each scene with the mouse. Jim's in-game notebook acts as a journal as it records everything of importance that he has examined.
Black Dahlia has over sixty puzzles dispersed over nearly as many locations. They range in difficulty, style and type including jigsaw, manipulation, code breaking, mazes and object based. Well publicized bypass codes can be used to "auto-solve" them without compromising the game, since no score is kept.
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DeveloperTake-Two Interactive
PublisherInterplay
ReleasedFebruary 28, 1998
StatusReleased
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Highly Recommended88/100
About This Game
1940s America. Rookie government agent Jim Pearson is assigned to what looks like a straightforward Nazi propaganda case. It isn't. The deeper he digs, the stranger it gets: occult rituals, bizarre murders, and evidence that the Nazis have found a connection to genuine supernatural power. He meets Elizabeth Short, who carries an engraved stone artifact called the Black Dahlia — something the Nazis want badly enough to kill for. When Short is murdered and the stone vanishes, Pearson's case becomes a descent into a world of dark power and intrigue that could corrupt as easily as it kills.